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Any one on the Forum connected via Fibrehoods in the JHB area?

Any feedback?
 
Nope, been waiting, original deadline was April.

But the fibre is working (security cameras in street) and there is a rolled up coil of fibre at a pole outside my house.

But nothing is happening.
 
Try an get into contact with people from Craighall. Their fibre should be up and running already
 
Trying to phone Fibrehoods but only getting an answering machine :wtf:
 
Got a friend in Craighall Park. His 100/100 is working perfectly on a 200gb capped package. He has had zero downtime with contrant EU pings of around 170ms. Downloading for him seems server dependant with not many offering him real world speeds of more than 2.5MB/s
 
F1ve_Claw said:
Got a friend in Craighall Park. His 100/100 is working perfectly on a 200gb capped package. He has had zero downtime with contrant EU pings of around 170ms. Downloading for him seems server dependant with not many offering him real world speeds of more than 2.5MB/s
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Do you know what he pays for that ?
 
Got 100/50 line on Vox 300gig @R749. I was offline for about 30min one day a while back, but that was a Vox issue, not fibrehoods. As Five_Claw says, pings are great. Patching games and p2p usually goes full speed, int speed tests though vary from server to server, but they are consistent so I've decided its them, not my line:) Steam for example I can download 30gig in 45-60min on some titles, but others will be 20gig in 60-90min, but again, those are consistent, if switching between the two titles, one will always be max speed and other will always be 50%, so must be something their side(location?). Heres local(ms seems a little high today)

http://netgauge.ookla.com/share/331042125.png
 
ID_10_T said:
Any one on the Forum connected via Fibrehoods in the JHB area?

Any feedback?
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I have the 100mb/s up and down with 1TB of data at work it includes 1gig of mobile data for R1099 and its unlike anything I have experienced.

Downloading 2 gig files in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee is awesome and well worth the money spent. I wish I could have this at home but stuck with ADSL for the unforeseeable future.
 
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Jola said:
Nope, been waiting, original deadline was April.

But the fibre is working (security cameras in street) and there is a rolled up coil of fibre at a pole outside my house.

But nothing is happening.
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Have you signed up on the fibrehoods portal https://portal.fibrehoods.co.za/. You have to do this or ISP's won't push the installation.
Phone the DAC http://dacsecurity.co.za/ and get a Fibre installer out to do sight survey.
Phone the ISP you want, I chose VOX (I think their prices are reasonable) and asked for the Fibre department got the documentations sent to me, signed and sent back.

Didn't take long to get everything up and running but took long to figure out the correct process.

With VOX they give you a free Hauwei router which is pretty bad. 3 meters from the router you lose 50% speed so 50mb/s but buying a new router fixed this problem.
 
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Scary_Turtle said:
Have you signed up on the fibrehoods portal https://portal.fibrehoods.co.za/. You have to do this or ISP's won't push the installation.
Phone the DAC http://dacsecurity.co.za/ and get a Fibre installer out to do sight survey.
Phone the ISP you want, I chose VOX (I think their prices are reasonable) and asked for the Fibre department got the documentations sent to me, signed and sent back.

Didn't take long to get everything up and running but took long to figure out the correct process.

With VOX they give you a free Hauwei router which is pretty bad. 3 meters from the router you lose 50% speed so 50mb/s but buying a new router fixed this problem.
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^^ Yarr, as soon as you've selected an ISP they move very fast. ISP wants money and pushes. From selecting your ISP, you 'should' have people wanting to do site survey and the fibre drop in a matter of days.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
Have you signed up on the fibrehoods portal https://portal.fibrehoods.co.za/. You have to do this or ISP's won't push the installation.
Phone the DAC http://dacsecurity.co.za/ and get a Fibre installer out to do sight survey.
Phone the ISP you want, I chose VOX (I think their prices are reasonable) and asked for the Fibre department got the documentations sent to me, signed and sent back.

Didn't take long to get everything up and running but took long to figure out the correct process.

With VOX they give you a free Hauwei router which is pretty bad. 3 meters from the router you lose 50% speed so 50mb/s but buying a new router fixed this problem.
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Signed up in February or March.

Maybe I should repeat the exercise.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
With VOX they give you a free Hauwei router which is pretty bad. 3 meters from the router you lose 50% speed so 50mb/s but buying a new router fixed this problem.
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Is just the wifi bad or the modem part as well ?

I plan to use an Asus RT-N66U as the wifi router, if I use the Huawei it will be just as a modem.
 
Doesn't look as if the fibrehoods website really works, can't get my e-mail address verified.
 
Jola said:
Is just the wifi bad or the modem part as well ?

I plan to use an Asus RT-N66U as the wifi router, if I use the Huawei it will be just as a modem.
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The wifi part was bad with a direct cable you getting your 90+ up and down
 
Jola said:
Doesn't look as if the fibrehoods website really works, can't get my e-mail address verified.
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They seem to be dead. Enquiry e-mail address bounces back.

Maybe I must just call Vox, and see what they know.
 
Jola said:
That e-mail address bounced back.
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Sent one just after you posted, no bounce back on my side yet.

Update: Over hour now, still nothing so I'm going to assume it went through. Will update if changes

Have you tried sending from a different address? Like maybe create a gmail or something and see it it registers with that?
 
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/Resurrection

Anyone have recent Fibrehoods feedback?
Line speeds, customer service, etc?
 
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