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I currently have mobile broadband (3G) and spend about R 1 000 a month on data - I run a business from home.

Will FTTH save me a lot on data? How do I go about making a comparison on other criteria, e.g. speed. reliability, etc?
 
Depending on fibre provider - your can get anything from 300Gb @ 100mbps to Uncapped 200mpbs for R1k a month.

Assuming you use about 10Gigs @ R100/Gig a month on 3G.. the equivalent in fibre will be a 40Mbps line with 10Gigs capped data working out to ~R500 - again dependent on provider.

Openserve (Telkom) is the most expensive but the has the biggest footprint.
 
blunomore said:
I currently have mobile broadband (3G) and spend about R 1 000 a month on data - I run a business from home.

Will FTTH save me a lot on data? How do I go about making a comparison on other criteria, e.g. speed. reliability, etc?
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There is no comparison...

I have had FTTH on Openserve (via Web Africa) for just over 2 years

- Resilience - 1 small outage (1 hour) during some load shedding when an upstream box had a better failure
- Consistent..
- I have 100 Mb/s down and 50 Mb/s up and I get very close to that.


I dont need 100 Mb/s... 20 Mb/s would be plenty

I pay R1400 for 1 TB till midnight and another 1 TB after midnight
If speed was a little slower and I bought less data I would be under R1,000 considerably

There is no debate.... FTTH is way better
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
This seems to imply that they're the only ones offering fibre.

You would have to look at all the major providers to see where you area falls under. It's no easy task if you don't know who laid the fibre...
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You 100% correct, I am also for different FNOs and ISPs, currently vumatel completed their fibre installation in our area, only links I have for now...
 
Hmm, I have Fibrehoods/Vox, and I have had a lot of outages or slowdowns.

So it just depends ...

But to be fair, when it works well, it is amazing, and that is most of the time.
 
blunomore said:
I currently have mobile broadband (3G) and spend about R 1 000 a month on data - I run a business from home.

Will FTTH save me a lot on data? How do I go about making a comparison on other criteria, e.g. speed. reliability, etc?
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Depends on your usage. Mobile broadband does not give you consistent speeds, but it's cheaper than fixed (both DSL and FTTH) when you don't use a lot of data.

Some people have demonized copper in general, but in all honesty it depends where you live. I've had DSL with Afrihost for more than a year and only had a 20min outage during that entire time, along with consistently meeting exactly my max bandwidth (10Mbit/s). If you're lucky you live close to an Openserve exchange and should get really good performance over VDSL @ 20/40Mbit/s. There are some exceptions, particularly if you live in an area where the copper is stolen constantly (not the case everywhere), particularly bad quality (i.e. cables with water ingress) or where you have lightning problems (again really geographically specific). Though you need to take this into account, these issues are generally greatly exaggerated in terms of how commonplace they are.

If you need higher speeds (i.e. 50~100Mbit/s), and you have access to FTTH in your area then that is your best bet. At lower speeds your experience will be exactly that of a good quality (i.e. close to the exchange) VDSL line and then you can just compare the price and take the cheapest, which at current prices might actually still be FTTH.

FTTH does provide a SLIGHT decrease in latency compared to VDSL, but unless you have real-time applications for your business (which, if you could manage over mobile is likely not the case), you won't notice the difference.
 
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