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Disparagus

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Vumatel started installing in our area this week and my block should be up and running by the end of next month. I'd like to ask if anyone can make a recommendation on an ISP or advise on who to avoid. Cool Ideas seems to have the best deals so I'm leaning towards them. Do they have a fair use policy? Do they shape?
 
Disparagus said:
Vumatel started installing in our area this week and my block should be up and running by the end of next month. I'd like to ask if anyone can make a recommendation on an ISP or advise on who to avoid. Cool Ideas seems to have the best deals so I'm leaning towards them. Do they have a fair use policy? Do they shape?
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I will be using cool ideas. They do not have a fair use policy, neither do they do any shaping or throttling.

They are however smaller, but you can take that as a good or a bad thing.
 
Disparagus said:
Vumatel started installing in our area this week and my block should be up and running by the end of next month. I'd like to ask if anyone can make a recommendation on an ISP or advise on who to avoid. Cool Ideas seems to have the best deals so I'm leaning towards them. Do they have a fair use policy? Do they shape?
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I'm jealous. Telkom is installing fibre in my area at the moment, and their line rental is insanely expensive compared to the smaller providers like Fibrehoods and Vumatel.

I'd recommend going through Vox:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/ftth

100Mbps with 600GB cap for R1449pm. That's amazing.

My 425+GB capped account on Crystal Web and Telkom 100Mbps line rental will cost R1798pm. That said, I am grateful someone is at least installing fibre in my area.
 
I'm still in shock that we're getting Vumatel. My area was like 3rd on the list for a long time and kept getting overtaken. I'm trying to stay at R1000 which can get me 50/5 Uncapped on Cool Ideas. Same money will get me 400 GB on Vox, which is still a heck of a lot of data.
 
My top 3 recommendations: 1.Cool Ideas 2.Vox Telecom 3.XDSL
 
It's a tough decision, but I'll probably also go for the 50mb cool ideas account.

Gonna be weird to have such a fast line, not even sure what I'm gonna do with it besides netflix.
 
Don't sign any 12 month contracts ....
 
ISPs and their ISPs on Vumatel. (afaics as of 12/2015)

I did some homework as I'm about to ditch Cool Ideas to see if Vox will give me better international bandwidth.

1. Cool Ideas

- They have 2Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg. (JINX and NAPAfrica)
- Their international bandwidth is via Seacom.

2. MWeb (aka Optinet)

- They have 40Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown. (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco and IS locally.
- Looks like their international bandwidth is via Seacom.
- They peer at one facility in London.

3. Vox Telecom

- They have 15Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown (3Gbit). (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco locally.
- Couldn't determine their international upstream provider. (L3/Telia ??)
- They peer at two facilities in London.

4. Web Africa

- They have 2Gbit total public peering ports in Capetown. (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco in CT.
- Their ISP is Internet Solutions.

5. XDSL

- They have 12Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown (2Gbit). (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco locally.
- Looks like their international connectivity is via WACS. (Neotel?)
- They peer at one facility in London.

Sources:
1. http://bgp.he.net
2. https://beta.peeringdb.com
 
Disparagus said:
Vumatel started installing in our area this week and my block should be up and running by the end of next month. I'd like to ask if anyone can make a recommendation on an ISP or advise on who to avoid. Cool Ideas seems to have the best deals so I'm leaning towards them. Do they have a fair use policy? Do they shape?
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Hi Disparagus

Drop me a DM with your cell number and I'll have a sales consultant contact you and provide the packages we have on offer.
 
MWEBHelp said:
Hi Disparagus

Drop me a DM with your cell number and I'll have a sales consultant contact you and provide the packages we have on offer.
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Please @MWEBHelp the packages offered by Mweb is ridiculously overpriced, and there is not a single one I would recommend to anybody out there. Combined with the crap service you guys have been giving me on my ADSL line. I can honestly say, anybody taking MWEB is out of their minds
 
kuberkoos said:
I did some homework as I'm about to ditch Cool Ideas to see if Vox will give me better international bandwidth.

1. Cool Ideas

- They have 2Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg. (JINX and NAPAfrica)
- Their international bandwidth is via Seacom.

2. MWeb (aka Optinet)

- They have 40Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown. (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco and IS locally.
- Looks like their international bandwidth is via Seacom.
- They peer at one facility in London.

3. Vox Telecom

- They have 15Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown (3Gbit). (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco locally.
- Couldn't determine their international upstream provider. (L3/Telia ??)
- They peer at two facilities in London.

4. Web Africa

- They have 2Gbit total public peering ports in Capetown. (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco in CT.
- Their ISP is Internet Solutions.

5. XDSL

- They have 12Gbit total public peering ports in Joburg and Capetown (2Gbit). (*INX and NAPAfrica).
- They peer at Teraco locally.
- Looks like their international connectivity is via WACS. (Neotel?)
- They peer at one facility in London.

Sources:
1. http://bgp.he.net
2. https://beta.peeringdb.com
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Hi Kuberkoos,
Just as an update from Cool Ideas: we upgraded our peering at NAP to 20G towards the end of last year to cater for the expected Netflix traffic(of which we are seeing an increase in traffic), we are also in the process of upgrading our JINX peer to 10G. We have ordered our CINX and NAP CT XCs in preparation for our CT network. As well as peering at LINX in London directly for more international visibility.
 
I would recommend Cool Ideas a this stage.
Been using them for two weeks now and have been quite happy with the service provided. Have a 20/20 Unlimited and I uploaded a 400MB file this afternoon in 3 minutes :love:
 
How do VOX and Cool Ideas compare ito throttling and shaping?
 
We don't do any throttling at all on any of our packages and don't plan to either :).
 
Does the Vox Fat Pipe Data include unlimited night usage like on ADSL/VDSL?
 
PBCool said:
Hi Kuberkoos,
Just as an update from Cool Ideas: we upgraded our peering at NAP to 20G towards the end of last year to cater for the expected Netflix traffic(of which we are seeing an increase in traffic), we are also in the process of upgrading our JINX peer to 10G. We have ordered our CINX and NAP CT XCs in preparation for our CT network. As well as peering at LINX in London directly for more international visibility.
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I see the numbers have been updated at peeringdb.com - I'm able to get full speed to Cape Town servers. You're in Microsoft, Netflix and Google's league with that port size at JHB NAP. ;) Very impressive.


Chz,
K
 
Yeap most ISPs expecting large traffic take the 20G so you can have a 10G port redundant and still aggregate. Try running the test to softlayer or redraw servers in London, we don't get great results to the Vodafone server.
 
I use Crystalweb and loving it on the 100meg up+down uncapped for R1089 pm. It is a 12 month contract, but used them for ADSL when it still worked and was always happy with their service.
Code: 
Local speedtest
Ping
1 ms
Download
94.78 Mbps
Upload
94.19 Mbps 
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5932734665

Code: 
fast.com multithreaded international

92
Compare on
SPEEDTEST.NET
Mbps
?

Code: 
London speedtest
Ping
180 ms
Download
93.09 Mbps
Upload
22.28 Mbps
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5932741956

That said, friend of mine is on the Cool Ideas 50meg uncapped and loving it too.

So CW or CI really, you can't go wrong.


CW does have a private usenet server though with like 1300 days retention if that makes a difference to your linux distro collection...
 
agentrfr said:
I use Crystalweb and loving it on the 100meg up+down uncapped for R1089 pm. It is a 12 month contract, but used them for ADSL when it still worked and was always happy with their service.
Code: 
Local speedtest
Ping
1 ms
Download
94.78 Mbps
Upload
94.19 Mbps 
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5932734665

Code: 
fast.com multithreaded international

92
Compare on
SPEEDTEST.NET
Mbps
?

Code: 
London speedtest
Ping
180 ms
Download
93.09 Mbps
Upload
22.28 Mbps
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5932741956

That said, friend of mine is on the Cool Ideas 50meg uncapped and loving it too.

So CW or CI really, you can't go wrong.


CW does have a private usenet server though with like 1300 days retention if that makes a difference to your linux distro collection...
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When I asked CW support about the usenet server they said it was only for ADSL users, not fibre.
 
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