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xdsluser

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Are you or your company currently using Fibre for internet.

If so could you report who's the supplier and who's the carrier.

Thanks
 
Neotels case they will be provider and carrier.

Where Metrofibre Networks is the carrier your provider could be serveral ISP's, similarly if you have a Telkom Fibre, you could be with other ISP's? Or Conduct, or Bwired etc...
 
The price is not do bad and starts much lower than the R20k these days. The cheaper options however are limited to specific areas. VDSL will however be a great option and threaten a lot of the new Fibre Infrastructure Providers business in the mass marked yes.
 
xdsluser said:
The price is not do bad and starts much lower than the R20k these days. The cheaper options however are limited to specific areas. VDSL will however be a great option and threaten a lot of the new Fibre Infrastructure Providers business in the mass marked yes.
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VDSL will still remain a contended service aimed at residential and micro businesses. Fibre has more stability and flexbility. Pricing will come down in due time, but if you're a business who can afford R10k a month for a 10mb fibre line, go for it, it will pay off in productivity increase and future upgrades at the flick of a switch.
 
CenturyConnect = carrier
Amobia = ISP

Home use. 3mbps line Uncapped
R699 @ month

They throttle torrents to death. Other downloads were full speed in the first year, now it fluxuates (most of the time download and upload is full speed).
 
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thats interesting.. FTTH at R699? is this in a gated community?
 
They are currently installing FTTH in Nelspruit Shandon Estate. Prices will range between 499 and 699 for 4meg and 10meg uncapped. There is an option for 40mps @ R1299 but you only get a 20gig cap. Bridgenet or something like that are installing the lines but that is all I know regarding is.

Will report once the lines go active.
 
We use Neotel 15Mb Fiber at the office, Never had a problem only when they chopped our fiber line while doing plumbing but we had adsl failover
 
So we got our fibre optic installed and have a 10mbps uncapped package at the moment. Service provider is ICTGlobe. Speeds are great, ping even better. Does anyone know what their fair use policy is? Cant get anything on their website.
 
When they installed fibre in our estate, each home owner had to agree to pay a R3000 installation fee for the cables and router. I don't think in a normal residential area everyone will be eager to pay that.
 
Speedtest with our fibre line at home. It is suppose to be a 10meg line... 2573917455.png
 
Using Enetworks fiber in Cape Town.

10mbits down, 5 up. Bandwidth at 1:1 contention and I had them remove the squid proxy they tried to put infront of it.

Good speeds, routes and get the job done.

We have a router that intelligently splits the traffic across our 6mbit DSL based on endpoint. We send dropbox, youtube, facebook, streaming etc.etc. over the DSL but banking, business apps, VPNs, RDP etc. over the Fiber. Works very well. KEY was to have a GOOD DSL provider and after having cycled through them all WA business capped is about the best we have seen based on price/shaping/routing/quality. We do about 300-400GB between the 2.
 
I have the neotel 10mb at my office, it works very well and it doesnt have any annoying proxies etc placed before your premises.
Having the 5 external IP's is also handy.
 
okay so 1st of September our building will hopefully go live with a 100mbps cable shared among 30 users, R400pm per user, no installation costs just a 24 month commitment.

an interesting fact I learned two weeks ago is that the cable can actually support 1gbps, so for every additional 30 users we could get an additional 100mbps at a reducing scale rate.

lightspeed.jpg
 
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