Hello 100Mbps

Does anyone know of a Chrome Plugin to just block any Fibre threads?
 
whatwhat said:
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.

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Where's this account? Vox's site only seems to have uncapped packages for Openserve, which starts at R3k/month incl the fibre - that's what you should be comparing to the R1000'ish packages, surely?
 
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elvis_presley said:
Where's this account? Vox's site only seems to have uncapped packages for Openserve, which starts at R3k/month incl the fibre - that's what you should be comparing to the R1000'ish packages, surely?
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You can use a DSL account with OpenServe.
 
I predict in about 3-5 years, that alot of Openserve clients will complain about exchange congestion and oversold capacity.

The BT model Telkom is rolling out today is already 5 years old. They should be running a dedicated fibre pair to each household (like everyone else). Not this daisy chained nonsense.
 
elvis_presley said:
Where's this account? Vox's site only seems to have uncapped packages for Openserve, which starts at R3k/month incl the fibre - that's what you should be comparing to the R1000'ish packages, surely?
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My account is a Vox FatPipe 800GB, at R459 a month. I signed up for a 300GB account but Vox has been bumping the cap size up the last few months while keeping the price the same. https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/adsl/fat-pipe-home-adsl/?prod=HOME
All on month to month too, so I pity the people that signed up for 24 month contracts for silly pricing.

But any capped account from any ISP will be good as you can get around 180GB between 12-6am free hours, unless you are are a streamer.
 
Johnatan56 said:
You can use a DSL account with OpenServe.
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Ah yes OK - not quite a fair comparison, but I guess it's an option for now; I wonder how long this loophole will stay open for.

Still, even using that trick, the capped solution is more expensive than the competitions' unshaped/uncapped 100mbit. That says a lot.
 
marlin178 said:
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.
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I think anyone on the forum would have warned your about contracts.... But you are right. 20-30Mbps is pretty much what the average household requires at peak.

I'ts nice to speedtest that high, but frankly not use that much at the end of the day.
 
elvis_presley said:
Ah yes OK - not quite a fair comparison, but I guess it's an option for now; I wonder how long this loophole will stay open for.

Still, even using that trick, the capped solution is more expensive than the competitions' unshaped/uncapped 100mbit. That says a lot.
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It's not really a loophole. ISPs charge either for usage or speed and some for both. You pay a lot more for the dedicated fibre accounts.
 
NeoAcheron said:
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.
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So you call me a troll and then expect me to engage with you?!
I was making a statement based on my own experience/point of view.

Clearly you haven't spent enough time here to learn forum etiquette.

So lets teach you:
1. Be nice
2. Remember the context- we were discussing the cost of a 1Gbps link...
3. Don't be an idiot

Good luck with your cr@ppy LTE connection and trying to get it sorted- I for one won't be offering any advice
 
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marlin178 said:
So you call me a troll and then expect me to engage with you?!
I was making a statement based on my own experience/point of view.

Clearly you haven't spent enough time here to learn forum etiquette.

So lets teach you:
1. Be nice
2. Remember the context- we were discussing the cost of a 1Gbps link...
3. Don't be an idiot

Good luck with your cr@ppy LTE connection and trying to get it sorted- I for one won't be offering any advice
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I did my research, because I got my fibre connection installed on Monday. Sure, I didn't go for the ultra deluxe 100Mbps package, because quite frankly WHY? The 50Mbps connection I have now is amazing, but even now I'm realizing that I'm never really going to use it, even streaming at 4k isn't getting close to saturating the connection.

My apologies for being a ruck F#$@, its a trigger, probably due to the lack of lag since Monday... No more swearing at the intermittent connection now has taken away my anger outlet.

LTE was not even close. I even had an external Poynting antenna which I purchased myself, after numerous recommendations by Telkom, Poynting, forums, YouTube videos. At least the connection became usable after getting the antenna, but it was still mostly poor. It might be different for those that are closer to the tower, but I have friends with LTE, playing online complaining about the erratic latency.
 
Still happy with my Cybersmart Lightspeed package.
 

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Congratulations. You are one of the 0.000001% of South Africans who have FTTH passing close to your home. The rest of us will never ever see FTTH because all the fibre companies install fibre kilometers from our homes. In my case, and I am in Pretoria, the fibre runs more than 1 km from my house and none of the fibre companies intend to run fibre near enough in the next 100 years. They want to sell you FTTH, until they hear where you live and then put the phone down in your ear.
Even Telkom is not interested. My ADSL line started at 3 MB and is now at 600KB and Telkom is not interested in repairing it.
Well congratulations again being one of the few priveledged South Africans.
 
TheLaggingShaman said:
On the OpenServe map here but struggling to place an order. How did you go about requesting an installation?
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One contacts your ISP of choice for installation of a line. They will check if you are indeed covered by OpenServe fibre and then they will contact OpenServe and arrange for a techie to contact you. The techie will make an appointment and then come and install the fibre line into the building. Our process took 6 weeks between placing order and the techie install visit.
 
meh

Home-Connect 100/100Mbs fibre ... reminds me of Openweb ADSL - crap speeds, crap service...
ADSL was less stressful.

/rantoff
 
Sapphiron said:
I predict in about 3-5 years, that alot of Openserve clients will complain about exchange congestion and oversold capacity.

The BT model Telkom is rolling out today is already 5 years old. They should be running a dedicated fibre pair to each household (like everyone else). Not this daisy chained nonsense.
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If we had to wait for the other providers we'd still be on ADSL (OpenServe just came and installed, uptake is high, no community requests required and pledges and such as with the other fibre guys). If indeed OpenServe sucks that will give other providers a way into a already rolled out OpenServe hood, or else they out of luck and will have only a few customers.
 
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