Frogfoot or Openserve?

[L-Dog]

Currently living in Lynnwood and having some issues with Open serve.

@Luke7777 how is frogfoot treating you ?

@Kilerhotdog had any issues with open serve lately ?

 

[Conack]

Openserve forsure, if reliable internet is important to you.

Frogfoot is unstable as ****.

 

[Sicarius404]

Currently living in Lynnwood and having some issues with Open serve.

@Luke7777 how is frogfoot treating you ?

@Kilerhotdog had any issues with open serve lately ?

No, my Openserve still going strong. Frogfoot in PTA east area I feel is better managed, I just feel Vodacom as the ISP is bad and that is why our Frogfoot line is so unstable

 

[jackshiels]

How is this even a debate

Frogfoot. Excellent service, cheaper, always 100% speed. Openserve outages are a routine event in my FB community group, and you pay a lot for that privilege.

 

[Luke7777]

Currently living in Lynnwood and having some issues with Open serve.

@Luke7777 how is frogfoot treating you ?

Quick to respond for installation. Afterwards not so sure. Been trying for weeks to get the installer to come back out and re-glue some of the ducting that pulled out (have a perimeter fence installation, my choice) . Ended up doing it myself with PVC glue and secured it with silicon tape, just to be safe. Linespeed itself is awesome, not sorry I made the move from OS. No issues so far . At the previous poster... I've had one outage in all my time with OS , at almost full line speed (200/100) all the time. I guess it differs from area to area (post #22 and #24 )

 

[L-Dog]

Thanks now I have a month to look for the cheapest Frogfoot deal

 

[Mobus]

Ironically, openserve is now less expensive than frogfoot since 1 July. That being said, it looks like frogfoot is extending their double up promotion until covid is over (or the network bursts at the seems?)

 

[Veneficus]

Worry is always that Telkom's sub company Openserve will just revert back to the Telkom way of doing things at some point and not give a flying ... about their clients
The article a few months ago where the ISP's were saying their charges was so high that even with the high prices being charged they were making almost no money is indicative of that.

Personally I would try and avoid Openserve because off the amount of hassles I had to go through to just get my Telkom ADSL line canceled
And they still tried to get more out

Openserve was just rebranded because they knew people hated their Telkom name

 

[VettieOriginal]

Quick to respond for installation. Afterwards not so sure. Been trying for weeks to get the installer to come back out and re-glue some of the ducting that pulled out (have a perimeter fence installation, my choice) . Ended up doing it myself with PVC glue and secured it with silicon tape, just to be safe. Linespeed itself is awesome, not sorry I made the move from OS. No issues so far . At the previous poster... I've had one outage in all my time with OS , at almost full line speed (200/100) all the time. I guess it differs from area to area (post #22 and #24 )

I am in Frogfoot in Doornpoort

I have had not had any issues, twice i called Frogfoot when my IPS said they logged it and i was helped every time

Frog foot installs being cheap us BS, what i understand is that the build a POP that connects to DFA directly from there.

What i can say is my latency is awsome compared to mates on Openserve and other


There prices are also very good and they actually answer the phone lol

 

[Johnatan56]

Openserve was just rebranded because they knew people hated their Telkom name

No, because they had a court order that they needed to separate the business into separate business divisions that may not give any special permissions to anyone else, OpenServe needs to treat Telkom ISP the same as they do e.g. Vox.

 

[Mobus]

Feedback: I went with Openserve in the end, through Afrihost.

Reasons: Openserve was cheaper than Frogfoot, and (since 1 August) also offers symmetrical u/d speeds like frogfoot.
I was also swayed by the fact that a friend here in pretoria (who's with frogfoot) always seem to have break-ups and instabilities on video conference calls (and he's on a 50mbps frogfoot line!). On my mere 10mbps openserve line I got high quality video with 4 or 5 people on the call. (Also thanks to open source Zoom alternative Jitsi).