FTTH Pinelands, Cape Town, WC & some general Fibre 101 tips requested

[brattex]

Hi all

I am moving into a house in Pinelands, Western Cape, and will have a 24 month lease.

I want to initiate the Fibre installation and when I punch in my address on various ISP's, I get different infrastructure results.

A simple snippet of some of the results:

• MWEB @ Pinelands, Western Cape = Telkom or Frogfoot
• WebAfrica @ (my address), Pinelands, Cape Town = Openserve

In other words, from two vendors I can get my Fibre from Telkom or Openserve (which I believe is a subsidiary of Telkom, anyway?) and Frogfoot.

Does this mean I can choose any ISP that has one of those infrastructure providers as one of their options (e.g. Afrihost offers Openserve [and confirms it is an option for Fibre at my address]), and more importantly, does it mean if Afrihost offers it as their ISP solution, that their normal DSL data would work on that Fibre connection?

To restate the above as points:

1. If MWEB says Frogfoot, presumably anyone else that offers Frogfoot solutions will also work for me, right?
2. If Afrihost offers Openserve solutions, then I can presumably use Afrihost ADSL data with Openserve set up by someone else (e.g. WebAfrica) ?

Many thanks - hope this makes sense. I have re-read it a couple of times and it makes sense to me ... ;-)

 

[cenredash]

1. I've been following Pinelands Fibre developments and have ordered from AXXESS but still waiting for the call and to the best of my knowledge it is only available via Openserve currently, although Frogfoot (according to their website) says it is planned. So if you want Fibre soon, then Openserve is the way to go, and yes, you get it from any other ISP.

2. I don't understand the second question. I assume you mean can you change the ISP details on your "router"? I don't know.

 

[sybawoods]

2. If Afrihost offers Openserve solutions, then I can presumably use Afrihost ADSL data with Openserve set up by someone else (e.g. WebAfrica) ?

If I understand your question correctly, then, "yes". I think the same issue is addressed in this thread.

 

[jroux]

Have a look on the Openserve coverage map for Pinelands, and check your address, it looks like most of Pinelands has fibre now. One of my neighbours got theirs installed last month. I'm about to order, maybe consider a month to month contract, so you're not stuck in a contract at the end of your lease if your installation is delayed. Comtel is at the top of my list at the moment.

 

[jroux]

spoke to my neighbour in Pinelands, he ordered from Axxess and they installed within a week

 

[Crabby]

Anyone in the University Drive area got FTTH ?

All the maps I see show a hole around University Drive that's not even at the 'planned' stage. Rest of Pinelands looks lit.

 

[Johnatan56]

OpenServe = Telkom, it's the division that deals with rolling out last mile technology like DSL/Fiber.

On Frogfoot, here is a list: https://www.frogfootfibre.com/frogfoot/myaccount/home/packages/packages.jsp
OpenServe you can pick any current DSL providers on the Telkom network, though I'd avoid WebAfrica.