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Question of the Day: Will you be subscribing to the new Disney+ R49 streaming package?
FTTH - Gillitts / Winston Park
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Yep, I went to Hillcrest Telkom and asked, but they could not tell me if it includes a fibre modem or what I need my end, what the upload speeds would be, what happens to speed after the cap is reached or how long installation would take. So I will enquire again in 2 weeks time when they are more certain.
In the mean time my 4mb line has gone to hell and syncing only at 0.5mb and getting dial up speeds on international sites. Telkom said I would probably get a month free as the issues relate to the fibre work in the area.
In the mean time my 4mb line has gone to hell and syncing only at 0.5mb and getting dial up speeds on international sites. Telkom said I would probably get a month free as the issues relate to the fibre work in the area.
jcheek
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WA's packages are good, yes; although their "Rands per Gigabyte" values are about the same (even slightly higher) than Telkom's, once you figure in the 2-year contract, monthly service fee and router costs. At the entry level (20Mbps, 40/50GB), the figures are R21.52/GB (WA) versus R19.98/GB (Telkom).
But the flexibility in the WA packages may be a plus, I agree.
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I'm quite keen on a Webafrica package but let me check I'm not missing something.
Webafrica offer a free router as do telkom. So the data cost on Webafrica 60gb package (they don't offer 50gb) would be:
838pm + 72.88pm setup fee (1749/24 months) = 910.88pm. 910.88/60 = 15.18 per gb.
Telkom would be 999pm/50 (no setup fee) = 19.98 per gb.
Is this correct?
As jcheek said the flexible packages are a huge selling point as well as the fact that I can't get any clarity from Telkom about the night surfer (after phoning at least 5 times) whereas webafrica are very clear about it.
Webafrica offer a free router as do telkom. So the data cost on Webafrica 60gb package (they don't offer 50gb) would be:
838pm + 72.88pm setup fee (1749/24 months) = 910.88pm. 910.88/60 = 15.18 per gb.
Telkom would be 999pm/50 (no setup fee) = 19.98 per gb.
Is this correct?
As jcheek said the flexible packages are a huge selling point as well as the fact that I can't get any clarity from Telkom about the night surfer (after phoning at least 5 times) whereas webafrica are very clear about it.
jcheek
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Yip, looks right to me according to this release and the MyBB summary.
I think the R1 749 setup fee is probably about the price of the the Huawei router. There's obviously a big chunk of infrastructure cost which is being recovered through the monthly "rental fee" that WA has made visible (R639/month for 20Mbps).
Interesting that the data cost itself on WA (at 20Mbps) quickly comes down to about R3.32/GB and bottoms out at about R3/GB once you're buying 400GB (R1 838 - R639 = R1 199/400GB = R3/GB).
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Cool thanks!
There is a rumour floating around that other ISP's are also working on leasing lines from Telkom so there should be quite a bit of competition soon. Although as you said the line rental fee from Telkom is quite high so there is only so low the prices can fall until Telkom recoup some of the costs of the infrastructure.
At the moment WA seems like a great option.
There is a rumour floating around that other ISP's are also working on leasing lines from Telkom so there should be quite a bit of competition soon. Although as you said the line rental fee from Telkom is quite high so there is only so low the prices can fall until Telkom recoup some of the costs of the infrastructure.
At the moment WA seems like a great option.
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I have been following up on this as I live in Jan Smuts Ave and so far WA seem to have the best deal. However, that 24 month contract is holding me back. I am willing to pay for any once off fees but I cannot do longer than 12 months, does anyone know of an ISP that's doing a contract of that length?
FTTH installed last Friday (20 March). Everything has been delivered by Telkom incl the Alcatel-Lucent device and router. Only problem is that the connection is not working - they have not been able to get it to connect for some reason.
Frustrating! - it takes them 2 months to plan and then eventually install only to find there is a fault somewhere...
Frustrating! - it takes them 2 months to plan and then eventually install only to find there is a fault somewhere...
jcheek
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Bosvark, sorry to hear about your commissioning troubles, but I hope it will all be sorted out soon!
While you wait
, would you be able to post some photos of what the client-side part of the install looks like ?In other words, everything alluded to in my post (on another thread) here ?
Thanks
Bosvark, sorry to hear about your commissioning troubles, but I hope it will all be sorted out soon!
While you wait
In other words, everything alluded to in my post (on another thread) here ?
Thanks
Will send pic soonest. From the Telkom Manhole outside I had to install my own conduit to the home. The cable is as thin as you can imagine and breaks when you stare at it...
Inside the home is a 10 X 10cm box where the fibre terminates. From there is a pre-spliced 1.5m odd fibre cable that runs to an Alcatel device. This device connects to a WAN port router via regular Cat5 / Cat6 cable. This is also the device that keeps the FTTx connection up (or in my case not).
The cable really breaks easily... beware.
Will post pictures soonest... no hacking into my home please!
jcheek
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Thanks for agreeing to post some pics, I would really like to see what the endpoint kit looks like.
We - or at least I - promise to be gentle with the crib hacks!
Interesting what you say about the fibre from the manhole to the indoor splicing box being so fragile. It sounds like the "in-residence" part of the fibre reticulation in your area is mostly underground ? This is quite different to what is happening in my area where the "last 10 yards" is going to be done in the air. One presumes the aerial fibre cable that goes from the poletop splicing box to the in-house splicing box will have to be a lot more robust.
We have both areal and underground. I live in a complex so we don't really want Telkom poles all over. The homes in the street did not have to provide their own conduit and yes, areal installations.