Hi guys. I know people that use vodacom's fibre line find the line quality terrrible (speed drops, outages etc) but can anyone say whether using them as an ISP is the same case? im looking at using them as an ISP on a zoomfibre linee.
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STORMERSFAN
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Stay away..my friend has endless probs with vodacom fibre..which other options do you have?
I use them on Openserve (but business line) and they have been the strongest in terms of international performance. They don't seem to rely on local caching (cheap watery tomato sauce other local ISPs use to bring their margins up) nearly as much.
Afrihost is probably the worst in this respect, CISP is still okay. I can't comment on anything else besides international performance.
Afrihost is probably the worst in this respect, CISP is still okay. I can't comment on anything else besides international performance.
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Vodacom have some of the largest caching clusters in the country, though?
It's typically not even an option from said networks that provide the caching.
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Where I stay I had to use Vodacom as an ISP. This changed a year back, but I have not switched to another ISP because I have not had an issue in 2.5 years.
Touch all the wood. Yea, I'm as surprised as you are!
Touch all the wood. Yea, I'm as surprised as you are!
Yeah they do have a lot of caching kit, and massive pipes to fill those kits with the latest game updates (and other heavily requested drops like Apple content) faster than most (this is where having caching can actually cause more issues than they solve. stale caches are a nightmare, and I’m glad you finally moved to bare metal instead of running VMs, tho heads up smtp.cisp.co.za over https/443 shows a rather random customer site [or is that intentional?])
What I was specifically referring to (and in the context of my use of their business oriented service) was international only (dynamic data. not caching the latest Netflix top 10 movies of the month to save some transit costs)
I believe Google is also struggling with this at the moment? You’d probably know more about that -situation- than I, given that I work for the company with a green dot counting beans, and I’m not involved in the telcos space.
My post about transit/peering that caught Carl’s attention a few years back would be very relevant to this discussion. Too bad it was nuked.
I've had Vodacom fibre for over 2 years and never had issues with the quality.
The line only goes down when the municipality cuts line when they repair pipes and cables. Maximum waiting time is 1 day for the line to be fixed.
The only 1 major issue I've had directly with Vodacom is when they couldn't find the fault so it resulted in a 1 week outage.
Ah. The ol’ backhoe. Love those beasts and their ability to rip an entire area offline with a simple oopsie.
I think specifying the FNO along with the ISP would be a bit more verbose (useful) to OP.
Let’s be real here and call them out. Akamai is the problem. (unless youre a small timer like Pretoria-WISP.co.za that has to bullshit their customers to stay cashflow positive, let alone convince Apple to give them a cache)
Steering via eDNS helps though… at least in the cases where it’s feasible.
When the network you need to talk to is in Japan or West Coast, USA and there is simply no caching, Vodacom trumps the mom&pop Afrihost Group.
Well, Vodacom is leveraging its partnership with Vodafone which is a Tier 1 ISP so their network is vast.
We are the biggest Fibre ISP after the mobile networks of course and backed up by Cloudflare stats.
We have the biggest Akamai caches in CPT and JHB with Durban soon. The most Netflix machines and the biggest Google cache clusters with more upgrades pending. We want to get cache servers for as much as we can because getting content as close to end users just works best.
The fibre line and ISP are both through Vodacom.
Ok
And?
After Telkom, MTN, Rain, Vodacom
, you guys are listed. Not much of an achievement, especially since you & this forum are as cozy as me right now watching anime.Anyway, you guys still suck at anything off-net & chose to buy your competitor out because your bosses' bosses' bosses' accountants saw them eating your marketshare like piranhas.
Want proof? I didn't sign the NDA :--)