Does your internet get loadshedded too?

Does your internet get loadshedded too?

  • Yes, but I have backup connectivity

    Votes: 31 18.9%

  • Yes, but I can manage without it for a few hours

    Votes: 38 23.2%

  • No, it's all good.

    Votes: 95 57.9%
  • Total voters
    164
My WISP bounces off a few towers to get to me. Load shedding affects it badly is the batteries on the towers go flat. End up with a 10th of normal speed.
 
My AH Mtn LTE stays up through the full 4.5hrs (mini ups on the router)
Rain 5g goes down (no backup power on that router as yet to carry me on 4g)
 
Dairyfarmer said:
My WISP bounces off a few towers to get to me. Load shedding affects it badly is the batteries on the towers go flat. End up with a 10th of normal speed.
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One of the reasons I'm leaving my wisp after only a year. Five wireless hops between me and them. Too many potential points of failure for my liking. Ah, the joys of rural living...
 
Rain 5G goes down. Sucky thing is that our tower is on a different loadshedding schedule so we'll have power but no internet and vice versa.
 
Mine is good. OpenServe Fibre with Web Africa. Used to have a 12v battery system to power it, which worked well, now I have PV and whole-house battery backup.
 
Have solar/batteries etc and my fibre stays up all through load shedding
 
No problem on my openserve fibre connection. Kind of jealous of the guys knocking off early on a Friday due to "load shedding "
 
Fibre stays alive. ONT and Router on backup battery and last the full 4.5 hours. Laptop dies after 3 hours if in constant use.
 
Monster inverter to carry me for 9+hours

RAIN lasts about 4 seconds... then flops over to highly congested 4G with the same throughput as a banana.

Really need to bribe a fiber provider to blow some our way....
 
Yes, for some reason Cell C's whole network goes completely off the grid as well during load shedding in my area. Not only do I not have internet during that time, but I'd probably be screwed if I needed to make an emergency phone call during load shedding.
 
Not on fibre.
Vodacom 3G neither althought it becomes almost unworkable for me.
Certainly can't VPN over it consistently.
 
Vodacom 3G/4G which is spotty at the best of times becomes almost unusable when the power is out (like now).

Telkom 3G/4G seems a bit better. Though, the other day when there were multiple rounds of shedding in the same day, I lost all connectivity until the power came back.

Live in the middle of the burbs. Not in some rural outpost in the sticks, too...
 
Frogfoot goes down after about an hour in our area - apparently they are busy installing a "stronger UPS" today. I have friends in a nearby suburb where everything goes down -Telkom lines, fibre, cell towers - they're pretty much screwed when the power is out.
 
When I was on MTN Fibre it didn't go down, now on Openserve and that also doesn't go down.
Cell C goes to Voda roaming and MTN seems to stay on.

House has an inverter + solar + battery backup (and generator) so load shedding only really kills off our aircons and geyser.
 
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Our fibre setup isn't easily accessible - so we tried to rely on mobile data during loadshedding.

Telkom lasts about 45-60min - but gets progressively worse.
Vodacom lasts about 5min and then nothing except SMS works (and calls if you're lucky).

With stage 4 - I'm now trying to get my fibre operational - short term solution is my camping battery, solar panel out the window, and 150w inverter - almost two hours in and still good.
 
Telkom Internet stays up the duration of load shedding so far - touch wood. I use a little Gizzu UPS to power the ONT, router and AP.

The Telkom sims in the house also have signal for the duration.
 
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