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
VDSL in the bloubergrant area goes down with loadshedding

and of course I discovered this after buying a UPS to keep the router running :cautious:
 
I don't know.

I'm still in the process of connecting a 12v battery to my ONT and router. What I do know is that I can only access the internet after about 10 minutes once the electricity returns.

As for my cellphone. After about 10 minutes, I have no access to the TM internet - unless I go outside of the house which leads me to believe my phone then connects to a tower further away.
 
Mobile (MTN) goes down within 15 mins of loadshedding. Fibre ( with backup power supply) stays up running with no problems.
 
We immediately see a degradation in mobile coverage as VC starts to cut some services falling back on lower capacity networks. 4G virtually straight away within about 20 minutes and services degrade down the pile to finally nothing.
Fibre drops because I don't have backup power beyond 30 minutes.
 
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The_Ogre said:
I don't know.

I'm still in the process of connecting a 12v battery to my ONT and router. What I do know is that I can only access the internet after about 10 minutes once the electricity returns.

As for my cellphone. After about 10 minutes, I have no access to the TM internet - unless I go outside of the house which leads me to believe my phone then connects to a tower further away.
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10 minutes is about what I get also. Not sure if that is simply because of the time it takes the ONT and router to startup. I have not done any specific tests.
 
Our wifi provider goes down.
MTN goes down instantly
Vodacom used to go down instantly up until two or three weeks ago where they seem to have put new batteries into the tower here. Praying these ones last as long as possible.
 
Vuma stays up through load shedding. Load shedding does need me to switch to the inverter. Man alive, what a dogshow!
 
I charge the following before load-shedding, and use during load-shedding if needed:
  • Laptop (bottom of the range Celeron type) battery, (lasts about 3.5 hours)
  • Mifi modem loaded with Cell C prepaid 365-day Gb (battery lasts about 3.5 hours).
  • Smartphone, loaded with Cell C 365-day Gb.
I am beginning to find load-shedding really depressing, and am considering get a gas generator. Hugely expensive, but then everything carries on as normal during load-shedding: fridge, lights, computers, vacuum cleaner, microwave, gadget charging, geyser, security system etc. Also, don't have to cart fuel around; a service comes and replaces gas bottles with full ones.
 
Where is the option for "load shedding makes me want to break stuff"?

I stay in probably the most rural part of Midrand, a road of small holdings, plots and farms.
  1. There is no copper
  2. There is no fiber
  3. Cell C connectivity goes does within 10-15 seconds of the power going down
  4. Rain was down more than 16 hours per day with or without power (good riddance)
  5. MTN struggles to get more than around 0.8Mbps on a good day, signal disappears within around 30 minutes of load shedding
  6. Vodacom is way too expensive and also goes almost instantly when the power goes out
  7. Telkom Mobile doesn't get signal at all
How the hell do you cope with that? It completely and utterly ruins my day when it happens during office hours. It's not crippling at this stage, but my mood is crippled.
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
I ask myself that often, apparently Octotel has had many teething problems ... is it decent now?
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About a year ago they did quite a few upgrades that finally sorted out a lot of issues, they're decent now:
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I have a few friends a couple of streets away from you that haven't complained about Octotel in recent memory, so should be fine.
I'm currently using Atomic and getting pretty good service: https://www.atomicaccess.co.za/octotel/
There's a Telegram group for alerts where I picked that image off.

If you sign up with them, please do use AAA-000767 as your referral code, part of the triangulate bit: https://www.atomicaccess.co.za/triangulate/
And they used to run a free install special if you use it, don't think it applies anymore, only 200Mbps and up packages on Octotel get free installation now.
 
Yes. Seems the batteries at the WISP last about 2hrs, so when load shedding exceeds that, off the internet goes at home. It also resets their equipment once Eskom comes back on (from what I can tell).

I don't really have much idea when load shedding happens other than messages in the local neighbourhood whatsapp groups, or at night if the entire area is dark (except for us).
 
ghoti said:
Our wifi provider goes down.
MTN goes down instantly
Vodacom used to go down instantly up until two or three weeks ago where they seem to have put new batteries into the tower here. Praying these ones last as long as possible.
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Today our recently restored Vodacom tower went down after the power came back up. My phone says "no service" even though the power has been restored. I have a strong feeling our brand new batteries have been stolen.

Ill know the next time the tower is on and there is load shedding.
 
Geoff.D said:
We immediately see a degradation in mobile coverage as VC starts to cut some services falling back on lower capacity networks. 4G virtually straight away within about 20 minutes and services degrade down the pile to finally nothing.
Fibre drops because I don't have backup power beyond 30 minutes.
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I am aware of VC and MTN issues in Centurion, have friends that drop to 2G during loadshedding, so in Pta I guess that its no mobile data.
 
All my ONT and internal network distribution is behind a PV powered inverter. Vumatel fibre and Buzybuy ISP. Not one second of downtime, ever
 
[XC] Oj101 said:
Where is the option for "load shedding makes me want to break stuff"?

I stay in probably the most rural part of Midrand, a road of small holdings, plots and farms.
  1. There is no copper
  2. There is no fiber
  3. Cell C connectivity goes does within 10-15 seconds of the power going down
  4. Rain was down more than 16 hours per day with or without power (good riddance)
  5. MTN struggles to get more than around 0.8Mbps on a good day, signal disappears within around 30 minutes of load shedding
  6. Vodacom is way too expensive and also goes almost instantly when the power goes out
  7. Telkom Mobile doesn't get signal at all
How the hell do you cope with that? It completely and utterly ruins my day when it happens during office hours. It's not crippling at this stage, but my mood is crippled.
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Glen Austin perhaps?
Yeah, I guess that there's no copper, all been stolen ('cos no Coppers)
But no fibre too? That's a pity.
Midrand / Kyalami way I have Cool Ideas over Metrofibre, everything is great.
 
Vuma stays up.

Vodacom cell signal goes down like Monica Lewinsky in the presence of power.
 
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