FTTB options other than Afrihost, Neotel, Vodaom, MWeb, Telkom, MTN

[MagicDude4Eva]

Cutting out all the garbage providers - does this leave me with any options other than Seacom and possibly Metrofibre.

Not really interested in resellers. Looking for dual-path, 50Mbps uncapped (average monthly usage is about 1-2Tb - mostly local). We will add VoIP on top of it. Current Internet Solutions fibre (20Mbps) is just too expensive (18k / pm) for what they offer.

 

[PBCool]

Drop me a mail on paul at cisp.co.za and I will see what options I can give you, can do dual path etc no problem.

 

[TedLasso]

We use EOH for 50Mbps - 5.5TB fair usage. 6 IPs , etc. Cost around 11K per month. Certain when we renegotiate- it will be cheaper. It's been rock solid reliable for 3 years now.

 

[PBCool]

We use EOH for 50Mbps - 5.5TB fair usage. 6 IPs , etc. Cost around 11K per month. Certain when we renegotiate- it will be cheaper. It's been rock solid reliable for 3 years now.

EOH uses DFA's network, it's very reliable, not sure why they would have a fair usage policy.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

We use EOH for 50Mbps - 5.5TB fair usage. 6 IPs , etc. Cost around 11K per month. Certain when we renegotiate- it will be cheaper. It's been rock solid reliable for 3 years now.

Could you drop me a contact - cto@bidorbuy.co.za - tks....

 

[Valerion]

We use a 50Mbps Seacom link as primary, and a secondary 20Mbps with IS Ignite for failover. The Ignite link is really cheap, but doesn't perform quite as well to South-East Asia. Never had a simultaneous outage on both, even though both terminate via DFA Conduct.

We used to have a 30Mbps Neotel link as primary, but glad I got rid of that one. Seacom is much better.

 

[Chevron]

Cutting out all the garbage providers - does this leave me with any options other than Seacom and possibly Metrofibre.

Not really interested in resellers. Looking for dual-path, 50Mbps uncapped (average monthly usage is about 1-2Tb - mostly local). We will add VoIP on top of it. Current Internet Solutions fibre (20Mbps) is just too expensive (18k / pm) for what they offer.

Check my signature.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

FWIW - EOH is shockingly bad - never seen something like this in my 20 year history in IT, considering that the project is as trivial as pulling fibre into an already serviced office park. More to follow next week.

 

[TedLasso]

FWIW - EOH is shockingly bad - never seen something like this in my 20 year history in IT, considering that the project is as trivial as pulling fibre into an already serviced office park. More to follow next week.

**** - sorry to hear. Considering I recommended them. Problem with fibre is that they don't pull it - DFA or someone else do - and they can be full of ****. Once that's sorted however, you should get great service from them

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

**** - sorry to hear. Considering I recommended them. Problem with fibre is that they don't pull it - DFA or someone else do - and they can be full of ****. Once that's sorted however, you should get great service from them

No problem. Their project management and communication turned into a sh#t-sandwich. In our case they could not manage to come up with a site-survey date in 2 weeks and the project plan they delivered was riddled with errors (VOIP services where planned to be signed off and tested 2 weeks before the CPE was supposed to be installed). Blame would fall squarely onto EOH in failing to properly manage this. A truly simple project (in comparison I managed consumer fibre installations into estates which had fibre light up in 4 weeks - they could not get a site-visit arranged in 6 weeks).

 

[TedLasso]

No problem. Their project management and communication turned into a sh#t-sandwich. In our case they could not manage to come up with a site-survey date in 2 weeks and the project plan they delivered was riddled with errors (VOIP services where planned to be signed off and tested 2 weeks before the CPE was supposed to be installed). Blame would fall squarely onto EOH in failing to properly manage this. A truly simple project (in comparison I managed consumer fibre installations into estates which had fibre light up in 4 weeks - they could not get a site-visit arranged in 6 weeks).

Hopefully , your contract allows you to hold them accountable and they will have to reimburse you for lack of service. Good luck!