Hello 100Mbps

[Kevin Lancaster]

Hello 100Mbps

For years, I had to look with envy at international broadband subscribers enjoying great fibre speeds – but this changed today.

 

[Jan]

You lucky donder.

 

[MickeyD]

Late adopter...

 

[Geoff.D]

Power line GE? Why? You must have excellent power distribution to get that to work!

I have the exact opposite, I have had a fibre LAN in my home for more than 5 years already, patiently waiting for a solution to the last mile issue ... Still waiting .....

So Openserve gave you special treatment did they? And AH ensured that your service works optimally as well?


Good luck on it staying like that!

 

[Dan C]

 

[klipdrifter]

I am jealous!!!!!!!

 

[rubber_otter]

I really do not understand why Openserve dont offer sync FTTH connections

 

[mister]

Mine is faster than yours all the way from Durban

 

[Muttley]

My complex has Fibrehoods yet I'm still working through whats left of my 1.5 years of my Telkom LTE uncapped contract before I make any decisions to move.

The TM LTE deal @R599 is far cheaper from a value for money point of view when compared to Fibre.
I've also stopped chasing the fastest speedtests as we're managing perfectly(mainly streaming) with ave dl speeds of 20-30 mbps.

It may not be ultra stable but I can live with this.

#firstworldproblems

 

[rpm]

Mine is faster than yours all the way from Durban

Great performance indeed. Using an Ethernet cable I assume?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

IMO 100 Mbps is a bit overkill as a consumer product unless you're constantly downloading large files that you need absolutely immediately.

40-50 Mbps is probably in a sweeter spot in terms of price and performance at the moment. I'm just not sure if the additional cost of 100 Mbps makes it more worthwhile over 50 Mbps...

 

[mister]

Great performance indeed. Using an Ethernet cable I assume?

OpenServe / Afrihost... I can't get an ethernet cable working all the way to jhb?

Edit: Oh... I see Kevin was using powerline.. so yeah... ethernet

 

[mister]

IMO 100 Mbps is a bit overkill as a consumer product unless you're constantly downloading large files that you need absolutely immediately. 40-50 Mbps is probably in a sweeter spot in terms of price and performance at the moment. I'm just not sure if the additional cost of 100 Mbps makes it more worthwhile over 50 Mbps...

I needed the 50Mbps upload speed more than 100Mbps down.

Axxess:

40 down, 20 up: R699
100 down 50 up: R799

Difference of R100 is worth it for me

 

[Muttley]

OpenServe / Afrihost... I can't get an ethernet cable working all the way to jhb?

Edit: Oh... I see Kevin was using powerline.. so yeah... ethernet

:crylaugh:

 

[Glordit]

Look at all those salty people in the Disqus comments.

 

[falcon786]

Rub it in man,rub it in for us Plebs crawling along with 20mb's ADSL giving us 10mb/s actual speeds and 1985 upload speeds.

 

[Chris.Geerdts]

Welcome to the club, RBM

I've enjoyed my 50/50 from Vox.

Download Upload
48.73 Mbps 48.28 Mbps

I've kept my adsl for that occasional day (or 36 hours) when the service goes down, but that's very infrequent and LTE would be good for that too

 

[Alacrity]

I could get 100Mb/s using LTE but lately even with the load balancer and 3 LTE routers I'm lucky to get 50Mb/s.

 

[greg0205]

IMO 100 Mbps is a bit overkill as a consumer product unless you're constantly downloading large files that you need absolutely immediately.

40-50 Mbps is probably in a sweeter spot in terms of price and performance at the moment. I'm just not sure if the additional cost of 100 Mbps makes it more worthwhile over 50 Mbps...

^ What Mike said. Just ordered a 50/25 fibre line at home and I'm struggling to imagine a situation where that's inadequate. A 100meg line would be nearly twice the price for what I figure is saving seconds for a TV show and a couple of minutes for a movie.

 

[Thor]

Adopt me. I make good toe broodjies