FNB Connect Uncapped ADSL Feedback

Tinuva said:
My router schedules my internet for me.

Monday to Friday 6am to 6pm it uses FNB Connect 4Mbps.
Monday to Friday 6pm to 6am it uses VOX gig4gig with Bolt-on uncappped
Saturday and Sunday it uses VOX gig4gig with Bolt-on uncappped

That way, my data costs me R59 a month.
I also have a WA account for when I want to game or such, mostly because VOX has latency issues every single night in the South.
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So VOX don't charge you the R15 per gig unless you use more than your "free gig" per month ?
 
Tinuva said:
My router schedules my internet for me.

Monday to Friday 6am to 6pm it uses FNB Connect 4Mbps.
Monday to Friday 6pm to 6am it uses VOX gig4gig with Bolt-on uncappped
Saturday and Sunday it uses VOX gig4gig with Bolt-on uncappped

That way, my data costs me R59 a month.
I also have a WA account for when I want to game or such, mostly because VOX has latency issues every single night in the South.
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I'm also interested in doing this. I looked ta your explanation but cannot figure out, what you are "adding" your Bolt-on uncapped to? I see on Vox site that this bolt-on is R59 per month, but don't you need a "base" package to bolt-on to?

I also qualify for 100% discount at FNB Connect Uncapped, so want to make use of your solution as well.

Looking at buying this: http://www.scoopdistribution.co.za/product_info.php/ros-650mhz-32mb-4xfe-1x24ghz-p-1773

Hope you can help or advise?
 
MightyQuin said:
I'm also interested in doing this. I looked ta your explanation but cannot figure out, what you are "adding" your Bolt-on uncapped to? I see on Vox site that this bolt-on is R59 per month, but don't you need a "base" package to bolt-on to?

I also qualify for 100% discount at FNB Connect Uncapped, so want to make use of your solution as well.

Looking at buying this: http://www.scoopdistribution.co.za/product_info.php/ros-650mhz-32mb-4xfe-1x24ghz-p-1773

Hope you can help or advise?
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VOX
1) sign up for gig4gig account:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/gig-4-gig
R50 set up fee once off. You get a free 1 gb every month. I then set my account to be capped after that, otherwise it goes up to 10GB before cutting you off, and you pay for that.

2) sign up for bolt-on uncapped:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/uncapped-bolton
You need to send email message and this is a manual sign-up
R50 set up fee, then R59 per month after that

3) get you free uncapped from fnb

4) find a way to automate the scheduling of routing between the 2 accounts
 
Tinuva said:
VOX
1) sign up for gig4gig account:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/gig-4-gig
R50 set up fee once off. You get a free 1 gb every month. I then set my account to be capped after that, otherwise it goes up to 10GB before cutting you off, and you pay for that.

2) sign up for bolt-on uncapped:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/uncapped-bolton
You need to send email message and this is a manual sign-up
R50 set up fee, then R59 per month after that

3) get you free uncapped from fnb

4) find a way to automate the scheduling of routing between the 2 accounts
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What mikrotik router would you recommend. The one MightyQuin recommended seams a little too cheap, am sure there are limitations that will bite me in the ass if i buy that
 
That one is fine. It is known as the HAP Lite.

It has 4x 100Mbps ports. 1 of them is used to connect to your DSL router, so you left with 3.
It has 2.4Ghz wireless N

I am waiting for the HAP AC to be released in 3rd quarter, which will have:
5x 1Gbpz ports. 1 used for DSL router.
2.4GHz wireless N and 5Ghz wireless AC.
 
Tinuva said:
That one is fine. It is known as the HAP Lite.

It has 4x 100Mbps ports. 1 of them is used to connect to your DSL router, so you left with 3.
It has 2.4Ghz wireless N

I am waiting for the HAP AC to be released in 3rd quarter, which will have:
5x 1Gbpz ports. 1 used for DSL router.
2.4GHz wireless N and 5Ghz wireless AC.
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Thank you very much. One more question: If I use my current router in bridge mode, do I put all the different dialups into the Mikrotik router? How does my current router then connect to the internet?
Only help or explain if you don't mind though, don't wanna be a pain. Can always ask the guys at Scoop for help as well.
 
You current router, if it is in bridge mode, will lose access to the internet in the above scenario.
That said, why would you want it to be on the internet, move all your pcs and devices to the mikrotik to get internet access. The current router is only used for it's built-in ADSL modem, and not it's routing capabilities.
 
Tinuva said:
You current router, if it is in bridge mode, will lose access to the internet in the above scenario.
That said, why would you want it to be on the internet, move all your pcs and devices to the mikrotik to get internet access. The current router is only used for it's built-in ADSL modem, and not it's routing capabilities.
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I am using my current router for internet access. If the Mikrotik router does not have built in ADSL, which it doesn't. I will still need to use my current router for internet access, don't I?

So what I meant to ask is HOW to do that? You mentioned that you us your router in bridge mode and the Mikrotik for routing and switching between dialups automatically.
 
MightyQuin said:
I am using my current router for internet access. If the Mikrotik router does not have built in ADSL, which it doesn't. I will still need to use my current router for internet access, don't I?

So what I meant to ask is HOW to do that? You mentioned that you us your router in bridge mode and the Mikrotik for routing and switching between dialups automatically.
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Correct. Because the mikrotik router doesn't have an adsl modem built in like your adsl router, the mikrotik router need to access the adsl modem in the adsl router via bridge mode.

As to how to do that:
1) Put ADSL router in bridge mode. On the adsl router, depending on make and model, there is so many, but usually where you configure the account details, you can choose router mode or bridge mode. Change it over to bridge mode over here.

2) On the mikrotik, you create a new PPPoE client interface, where you then add the ISP account details, and tell it to dial over the port that is connected to the bridge adsl modem.

It gets quite a bit more complicated from here, but it is very doable. I showed someone at the office how to do similar things, on exactly the HAP Lite.
 
Tinuva said:
Correct. Because the mikrotik router doesn't have an adsl modem built in like your adsl router, the mikrotik router need to access the adsl modem in the adsl router via bridge mode.

As to how to do that:
1) Put ADSL router in bridge mode. On the adsl router, depending on make and model, there is so many, but usually where you configure the account details, you can choose router mode or bridge mode. Change it over to bridge mode over here.

2) On the mikrotik, you create a new PPPoE client interface, where you then add the ISP account details, and tell it to dial over the port that is connected to the bridge adsl modem.

It gets quite a bit more complicated from here, but it is very doable. I showed someone at the office how to do similar things, on exactly the HAP Lite.
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Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it. Will ask one of my techies at work to set it up.

Just for interest sake: I set up my FNB 4Mb uncapped dialup this afternoon and tested my sabnzbd with it. Cannot connect to IS Newserver (not allowed) only my nextgennews block account worked. Didn't know that.

Will do the VOX gig4gig and uncapped bolt on thing.
 
Yeah IS news server only work with IS based ISPs (connection, web africa, crystal web ect)

I use tweaknews for all my news. Considering I pay R59 a month for my uncapped internet data, adding a good paid news server on that just made sense to me. Having very little issues with my downloads makes me a very happy camper.
 
Some thoughts on my recent experience with this account. News server downloads and torrents not too bad (sometimes full line speed [on a 2mbps line] but other times not; I have a 4mbps FNB uncapped account).

Runs great towards midnight and early hours of the morning. I'm not sure of exact times where it runs best though as I havent been keeping strict tabs on it. Streaming always sucks though (Youtube and Soundcloud).
 
Account has been performing really well of late, even streaming has been doing well. Haven't tried torrents this month though.
 
Odd, torrents didn't download at all for me on my FNB uncapped 4mb, streaming even from the simplest of links was also shoddy, it's just there for the occasional PS4 Update download. Time to relook at this...
 
There are times when torrents dont work at all, other times i get full line speed. I didn't get round to figuring out the pattern as my life has been a bit haphazard the last few months.
 
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