fibre supplier for holiday flat

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dacritts

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Hi all, any suggestions gratefully appreciated.

We have a family holiday flat in Green Point Cape Town which is occupied on/off for 5 or 6 months per year. There is a LTE router there at the moment and we just load it with some data when anyone uses the flat. That works OK but the signal is not great and the service struggles with multiple connections.

We thought fibre would be an improvement don't want a long-term commitment or have to pay when the flat is empty for half the year. The building is already wired by Octotel. Is the there a fibre ISP which one can turn on and off at 6 month intervals? Or is it a better idea to wait for 5G and then upgrade the wireless service?

Thanks in advance for your comments.
 
No on/off option from Fibre providers as yet, so LTE would be a more cost affective solution.
 
ld13 said:
Accelerit claims to allow one to pause your fibre account for 2 months of the year.
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I didn't say ISPs I said fibre providers :), hence why they only allow 2 months of suspend. They still pay for your line in the interim.
 
dacritts said:
Hi all, any suggestions gratefully appreciated.

We have a family holiday flat in Green Point Cape Town which is occupied on/off for 5 or 6 months per year. There is a LTE router there at the moment and we just load it with some data when anyone uses the flat. That works OK but the signal is not great and the service struggles with multiple connections.

We thought fibre would be an improvement don't want a long-term commitment or have to pay when the flat is empty for half the year. The building is already wired by Octotel. Is the there a fibre ISP which one can turn on and off at 6 month intervals? Or is it a better idea to wait for 5G and then upgrade the wireless service?

Thanks in advance for your comments.
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Frankly, if you can afford to have a holiday flat that stands empty for 6 months of the year, ( rates taxes etc, and capital investment taken into account), the added cost of providing a fibre connection is peanuts to worry about.
If it is such a big deal for you, then stick to a mobile connection of your choice.
 
PBCool said:
I didn't say ISPs I said fibre providers :), hence why they only allow 2 months of suspend. They still pay for your line in the interim.
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Ah. Surely the margins on these are not enough to make a 2 month break profitable? Probably betting that <1% of their client base will ever make use of it...
 
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