Fibre vs ADSL

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yanandh

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Hi,

We are currently looking at switching from our Telkom ADSL line to fibre. We are a small team - 9 people and have been quoted 1MB for voice and data - is this sufficient. Our current internet usage is about 70GB a month but I've been told that fibre is more efficient.

Thanks.
 
1 megabyte or 1 megabit? For voice you would want fibre, it has a higher upload than adsl.
 
1 megabyte. We've also been advised that its an uncontended service.
 
Must be 10Mb line then, that equals 1 megabyte in download speed. Don't think you get fibre lines in less than 2Mb offerings. Telkom does not want to quote us on less than 2Mb fibre lines, they say that's their minimum speed they offer on fibre. Not sure about other providers.
 
It's odd. I've never heard of people advertising line speeds in megabytes.

Need more info, like what product is it and is this with Telkom?
 
irBosOtter said:
Must be 10Mb line then, that equals 1 megabyte in download speed. Don't think you get fibre lines in less than 2Mb offerings. Telkom does not want to quote us on less than 2Mb fibre lines, they say that's their minimum speed they offer on fibre. Not sure about other providers.
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Telkom has made it that all lines have a minimum of 2mbps, no matter if you can only get 512kbps.
 
yanandh said:
1 megabyte.
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I personally suspect that you are mistaken regarding the bits and bytes. The fibre lines are usually listed in Mbps (Mega bits per second). If it is lower case "b" then it is bits. If it is uppercase "B" then it is bytes.

A 1Mbps (Mega bit per second) line will be painfully slow.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Telkom has made it that all lines have a minimum of 2mbps, no matter if you can only get 512kbps.
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We have 256k lines, 512k lines etc. So just the fibre that you cannot get less than 2Mb from them, but for ADSL/diginet you can still get 64k if you want lol
 
1Mbps fibre is available from providers other than Telkom (e.g. xdsl.co.za).
 
irBosOtter said:
We have 256k lines, 512k lines etc. So just the fibre that you cannot get less than 2Mb from them, but for ADSL/diginet you can still get 64k if you want lol
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What is the price you pay for the 256kbit line, 512kbit line and the 2mbit line, they should all be the same (DSL).
 
Johnatan56 said:
What is the price you pay for the 256kbit line, 512kbit line and the 2mbit line, they should all be the same (DSL).
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All on a Telkom MPLS network, some are diginet, some fibre and some adsl lines. I have no idea about the cost, just know it's more than normal home ADSL, think 384k starts around R800 (adsl) but there are no data limits obviously and no shaping/throttling whatsoever.
 
irBosOtter said:
All on a Telkom MPLS network, some are diginet, some fibre and some adsl lines. I have no idea about the cost, just know it's more than normal home ADSL, think 384k starts around R800 (adsl) but there are no data limits obviously and no shaping/throttling whatsoever.
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Sorry, I am talking about the line itself, not the data costs.
 
irBosOtter said:
We have 256k lines, 512k lines etc. So just the fibre that you cannot get less than 2Mb from them, but for ADSL/diginet you can still get 64k if you want lol
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And a 64kbps diginet could cost just as much as a 2Mbps fiber line. I also think OP is mistaken I have never seen an ISP advertise internet speed as MBps, it's always in Mbps
 
We had a 2mb fibre line in our office for about a year before upgrading it and it worked fine. 25 staff and it was used for VOIP and data
 
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