Hello 100Mbps

[quovadis]

1099 with Vumatel.

Openserve allows you a bit more flexibility as you can have multiple ISPs and route accordingly similar to DSL. So when your ISP of choice has a hiccup you can use another account or set up multiple connections and load balance/use for failover/route specific traffic.

 

[Muttley]

In case anyone that doesn't have it yet, wants to become even more jealous: https://shop.vumatel.co.za/

You'll see the pricing for Vuma ISPs, and Vumatel is known to be more expensive than Openserve.

BUT

Vumatel can go upto 1Gbps, where the other infrastructure providers cannot.

Starting at R2499 PM for 500GB- thanks but ummm no thanks

 

[quovadis]

Vumatel can go upto 1Gbps, where the other infrastructure providers cannot.

The rest will come with time. Metrofibre I think also goes higher than 100mbit.

 

[elvis_presley]

Vumatel can go upto 1Gbps, where the other infrastructure providers cannot.

Don't they all, all being modern installations? I know my provider (LinkAfrica/Mitsol) can do Gbit, but no ISPs offer it yet, because nobody's ever asked for it - it's clear from Vumatel's Gbit pricelist that they're just stabbing in the dark for a price, so they can get a "we have a Gbit offering!" on the pricelist for bragging rights.

 

[Johnatan56]

When comparing that to my R599 PM, it equates to a saving of R6000 per year!
It's definitely not worth it.

Pho3nix's post includes the data portion.
Vodacom's is R2.5k for 100Mbps (line+data) on OpenServe.
Afrihost on OpenServe 100Mbps with 1TB cap is R2.8k
Afrihost on OpenServe 100Mbps is R2000 - R3500. (Use the R3.5k to compare with CoolIdeas/Crystal Web 100Mbps)
Afrihost on Vuma uncapped is between R1.5 and R2k.
Afrihost on Frogfoot 100Mbps uncapped is R1000 (home one where they shape, to compare with Cool Ideas/Crystal Web, rather the R1.5k package).
Cool Ideas on Frogfoot 100Mbps uncapped is R1000.
Crystal Web offers 100 Mbps on Frogfoot for R1100.


OpenServe is a lot more costly than the others.

 

[Park@82]

We have been trialling FTTH with Telkom + Openserve for the past 2 months. Will probably take a 10mbps uncapped account with Telkom (at R799 I think ?) when it ends. We aren't really using more than 200GB per month so, we might look at capped packages as well.

 

[dabouncer]

OpenServe is a lot more costly than the others.

You can thank Openserve IPC costs for that. All the other providers hand over an NNI at port speed.

 

[stefan9]

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...

Difference between a 50mbps connection and 100mbps connection on cool ideas and frogfoot is only R100. Can't see any reason why you wouldn't spend R100 extra to get 50% more.

 

[Johnatan56]

Difference between a 50mbps connection and 100mbps connection on cool ideas and frogfoot is only R100. Can't see any reason why you wouldn't spend R100 extra to get 50% more.

50Mbps to 100Mbps is a doubling of speed, therefore 100% more.

You can thank Openserve IPC costs for that. All the other providers hand over an NNI at port speed.

Yep, I have mentioned this multiple times before. Just stating it for the guy who says OpenServe is cheaper than Vuma.

 

[Creag]

Look at all those salty people in the Disqus comments.

I stopped reading Disqus many moons ago. Most of the comments there have become a waste of data. But yes, I can only imagine their jealousy stooped to new lows.

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.

I'd take 10 Mbps right now. 4 is the best I can sync at.

 

[Swa]

Ok so you got what you wanted for the last 16 years. I guess the site can be closed down now since it served its initial purpose?

 

[NeoAcheron]

Starting at R2499 PM for 500GB- thanks but ummm no thanks

Typical... Did you even look at the site, troll? You can get a 4Mbps package for R400.

I've been running on Telkom's Uncapped LTE since last year September, and my experience with it sucked. Never got more than 20Mbps and my latency always varied between 30ms and 150ms, which is absolutely horrible.

The R599 thing was also just for the first subscribers, after which they upped the price to the R799 I paid for it. These "packages" are also limited per area, so only a certain amount of people can sign up at a time. Unfortunately it was my only option at the time, and I was lucky I got a contract because they haven't reached their cap. It also stops working every second week, for at least a day when it manages to reconnect. Streaming anything on that connection was a hit and miss, and while Netflix's potato mode was possible, you cannot call it watchable.

 

[Vrotappel]

Articles like this

then

 

[semaphore]

They finally laid fibre in our estate, 100/100. greencom , but hopefully it works.

 

[semaphore]

@Kevin - Test that download and upload speed to something international.

 

[Rickster]

Kek, our office is getting 500Mb Uncapped Unshapped, 1:1 contention.

Watch this space.

 

[bigboy529]

Since the complexes all around me are getting their fiber installed and I'm not even on a Telkom map as planned yet, I'm seriously looking at Telkom LTE again. My ADSL line is degrading by the day and it seams they are not very keen to try fix or improve it.

 

[whatwhat]

Pho3nix's post includes the data portion.
Vodacom's is R2.5k for 100Mbps (line+data) on OpenServe.
Afrihost on OpenServe 100Mbps with 1TB cap is R2.8k
Afrihost on OpenServe 100Mbps is R2000 - R3500. (Use the R3.5k to compare with CoolIdeas/Crystal Web 100Mbps)
Afrihost on Vuma uncapped is between R1.5 and R2k.
Afrihost on Frogfoot 100Mbps uncapped is R1000 (home one where they shape, to compare with Cool Ideas/Crystal Web, rather the R1.5k package).
Cool Ideas on Frogfoot 100Mbps uncapped is R1000.
Crystal Web offers 100 Mbps on Frogfoot for R1100.


OpenServe is a lot more costly than the others.

Those prices are high... This is Open serve fibre month to month pricing from Telkom themselves. With my Vox 800GB special account it's just over R1300 a month for 100MB.

 

[adsl2]

What is that active port fee?

 

[Johnatan56]

Those prices are high... This is Open serve fibre month to month pricing from Telkom themselves. With my Vox 800GB special account it's just over R1300 a month for 100MB.

That's without internet. That's why I said compare with an internet package.