Do fibre carriers price match? If not how do they compete in the same areas?

[image132]

Wait this is interesting, is this what vuma rolls out as standard? Or does it depend on the area? Source?

Its standard as far as I know. Not sure for a direct source but in their leaflet look under FAQ section, they state they run an active ethernet network. As far as I know they are the only ones.

It shows too. In another thread a user named jacof did speedtests from various ISP's and on various networks and plotted them on a graph:



Dark blue line is Vumatel, Green is Octotel and pink is Openserve. All were 100mb lines. You can see how Vuma are clearly on top and give the full 100mb in speed where as other network operators give 97/98mb. Take the dips in speed with a pinch of salt as the users were using their lines over the course of these tests.

All credit goes to jacof for this graph and all his hard work in the thread.

 

[Reaver.ZA]

@image132 lol was just reading that thread and I saw the speed coop was getting, thanks

 

[Syphonx]

Wait this is interesting, is this what vuma rolls out as standard? Or does it depend on the area? Source?

Yes and no, remember they bought out Fibrehoods who use GPON and might still continue to use GPON for their rollouts. So it is possible to have a GPON Vumatel connection, but all their trenched installs are AE AFAIW.

 

[HeftyCrab]

Doesn't it always? Gosh when have you ever heard of one ISP/company having consistent performance everywhere.

On a side note, are vumatel an ISP as well as a fibre provider? Do you know what backbone they use, its not IS is it?

As the others have said they are an infrastructure provider. To be honest they have been rock solid excep for that major outage. IIRC they said something about using City of Cape Town as a backbone for the northern suburbs, but could be wrong. Just unfortunate that they only have a single backbone to here.

At the moment Im playing BF2 on an EU server with a consistent 157-159 ping which is pretty insane.

 

[coop]

@image132 lol was just reading that thread and I saw the speed coop was getting, thanks

Yeah, I've been with Cool Ideas over Vumatel for around 6 months now and apart from when the kids download games (which was the cause of the dips in the blue line) it's consistently over 100Mb/s download. During that time, the biggest cause of outages has been Eskom killing the power. For my money, I can't fault Vumatel.

 

[twaatie]

As the others have said they are an infrastructure provider. To be honest they have been rock solid excep for that major outage. IIRC they said something about using City of Cape Town as a backbone for the northern suburbs, but could be wrong. Just unfortunate that they only have a single backbone to here.

At the moment Im playing BF2 on an EU server with a consistent 157-159 ping which is pretty insane.

That's normal ping to EU, whether you have fibre or adsl

 

[image132]

Yeah, I've been with Cool Ideas over Vumatel for around 6 months now and apart from when the kids download games (which was the cause of the dips in the blue line) it's consistently over 100Mb/s download. During that time, the biggest cause of outages has been Eskom killing the power. For my money, I can't fault Vumatel.

Oh man that sounds so nice, you lucky bugger. I can't wait for octotel to get me!