ISPs on Vumatel

Syphonx said:
When I asked CW support about the usenet server they said it was only for ADSL users, not fibre.
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I assume you're talking about the IS server. If you are, that makes sense, as the IS server was non-functional for me when I was at my previous address with Telkom fibre. Now I have VDSL and both servers work fine.
 
Bryn said:
I assume you're talking about the IS server. If you are, that makes sense, as the IS server was non-functional for me when I was at my previous address with Telkom fibre. Now I have VDSL and both servers work fine.
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You can use the IS news server with us on CISP as well, they are one of our upstreams.
 
Bryn said:
I assume you're talking about the IS server. If you are, that makes sense, as the IS server was non-functional for me when I was at my previous address with Telkom fibre. Now I have VDSL and both servers work fine.
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Nope CW has a proper offering with 2000 day retention or something close to that, I believe NextGenNews is the provider, but seems only for ADSL.
 
Syphonx said:
Nope CW has a proper offering with 2000 day retention or something close to that, I believe NextGenNews is the provider, but seems only for ADSL.
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Never had issues with that server on fibre. Speeds were crap though. I was told by DJ at some point that it wasn't an artificial limitation on higher speeds but a result of the local caching or something like that.

I wasn't impressed, considering Afrihost's server gave me a solid 9+MB/s compared to the 2MB/s from CW's premium server.
 
Bryn said:
Never had issues with that server on fibre. Speeds were crap though. I was told by DJ at some point that it wasn't an artificial limitation on higher speeds but a result of the local caching or something like that.

I wasn't impressed, considering Afrihost's server gave me a solid 9+MB/s compared to the 2MB/s from CW's premium server.
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Which fibre provider are you on? Telkom? When I asked about the server details I was told it wasn't available for fibre, maybe I need to speak to someone more knowledgeable at Crystal.

Caching thing I have seen on IS news server, anything not popular goes really slow as the data is downloaded from overseas at a low priority.
 
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Syphonx said:
Which fibre provider are you on? Telkom? When I asked about the server details I was told it wasn't available for fibre, maybe I need to speak to someone more knowledgeable at Crystal.

Caching thing I have seen on IS news server, anything not popular goes really slow as the data is downloaded from overseas at a low priority.
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I said at my previous address. Currently have VDSL, although my area is hopefully days away from going dark purple on Openserve's FTTH map. They missed their initial deadline of 24 Dec, and start working again on the 9th.

I was with Telkom/Openserve when I had fibre. My first ISP was Afrihost, and their news server almost never dipped below 5MB/s and was usually 9+MB/s. The irony of CW's premium server performance was not lost on me. The additional retention never mattered to me as I only download recent NZBs from NZB-SA. Could never squeeze a byte out of the IS server, and I checked and verified the settings too many times to count.

Can't you just test the servers for yourself? Why the need for all the research?
 
Bryn said:
I said at my previous address. Currently have VDSL, although my area is hopefully days away from going dark purple on Openserve's FTTH map. They missed their initial deadline of 24 Dec, and start working again on the 9th.

I was with Telkom/Openserve when I had fibre. My first ISP was Afrihost, and their news server almost never dipped below 5MB/s and was usually 9+MB/s. The irony of CW's premium server performance was not lost on me. The additional retention never mattered to me as I only download recent NZBs from NZB-SA. Could never squeeze a byte out of the IS server, and I checked and verified the settings too many times to count.

Can't you just test the servers for yourself? Why the need for all the research?
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The CW premium servers require authentication details, the IS servers do not (which I haven't tried but I only want the CW premium due to the high retention). So when I asked for my authentication details I was told it was ADSL only.
 
Syphonx said:
The CW premium servers require authentication details, the IS servers do not (which I haven't tried but I only want the CW premium due to the high retention). So when I asked for my authentication details I was told it was ADSL only.
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Yes so long as you are on an IS reseller, so CW is an IS reseller so you don't need auth for their servers. If you are on another ISP they wouldn't work is what I am saying :).
 
Simple

PBCool said:
Bit confused by this post?
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Whats to be confused about ? :)

The post I linked to is one I started that has a basic unfinished listing of players in the Fibre industry
The OP had a nice listing of some installers that he had researched.

I merely asked him to copy and paste the details of his post from his thread into the other one i mention above

Got it now ?
 
MidnightWizard said:
Whats to be confused about ? :)

The post I linked to is one I started that has a basic unfinished listing of players in the Fibre industry
The OP had a nice listing of some installers that he had researched.

I merely asked him to copy and paste the details of his post from his thread into the other one i mention above

Got it now ?
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Right but that request was more around network operators not ISPs no?
 
Clear

PBCool said:
I did, it must be late for me :).
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I apologise if it is not made expressly clear in my original post.

Some ISP's also seem to have an interest in FTTH ( the actual physical side of things )

The intent of my original post was to try and get ALL of this info together in one place so that researching this stuff would be easier.
 
Does anyone have experience with WebAfrica's fibre? The Vumatel installation fee covering seems quite tempting.

Would like to know if it's worth it. I also see they have a home uncapped and premium uncapped, which is troubling. I would hate for a 100mb fibre line to be throttled unreasonably.
 
SplaT said:
Does anyone have experience with WebAfrica's fibre? The Vumatel installation fee covering seems quite tempting.

Would like to know if it's worth it. I also see they have a home uncapped and premium uncapped, which is troubling. I would hate for a 100mb fibre line to be throttled unreasonably.
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There are multiple threads about WA in the Fibre section. Seems to be hit and miss with some people being extremely satisfied while others are extremely disappointing. Best would be to read through those threads and then decide.
 
AntennaMan said:
There are multiple threads about WA in the Fibre section. Seems to be hit and miss with some people being extremely satisfied while others are extremely disappointing. Best would be to read through those threads and then decide.
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Ja i'm in the miss category ! still waiting.
 
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