@lantic R59 uncapped 'bolt-on' feedback

Would the Uncapped Bolt-on this work okay on a 2Mb line?

Unfortunately, thanks to Telkom (and my own stupidity), I've burned my bridges with Connection.co.za unless I go for a 4Mb account.
 
Totempole said:
Would the Uncapped Bolt-on this work okay on a 2Mb line?

Unfortunately, thanks to Telkom (and my own stupidity), I've burned my bridges with Connection.co.za unless I go for a 4Mb account.
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Why not take both :D 2mb is going to be 4mb soon anyway so might aswell be prepared ;)

Bolt-on works up to 10mb.
 
wingnut771 said:
Why not take both :D 2mb is going to be 4mb soon anyway so might aswell be prepared ;)

Bolt-on works up to 10mb.
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Yes, I keep hearing that. But has it been confirmed yet? The thing is if 2Mb Becomes 4Mb and 4Mb becomes ~8Mb, I'd go for 8Mb in a heartbeat. :)
 
Totempole said:
Yes, I keep hearing that. But has it been confirmed yet? The thing is if 2Mb Becomes 4Mb and 4Mb becomes ~8Mb, I'd go for 8Mb in a heartbeat. :)
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4 Mbps will probably become 10. I have a 2 Mbps line with the bolt on and its great. Almost never have issues. Stream without buffering, downloads at full speed almost all the time.

If the after hours fit your schedule this is the best account there is.
 
Totempole said:
Yes, I keep hearing that. But has it been confirmed yet? The thing is if 2Mb Becomes 4Mb and 4Mb becomes ~8Mb, I'd go for 8Mb in a heartbeat. :)
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Unfortunately for me, my exchange only supports 4mb, so I'll have to downgrade my line when the upgrades happen to save some money :(

On the bright side, there's fiber hanging on the pole from telkom but am not willing to go for it with what they're offering, so I guess I must learn some patience and hurry up and wait for the product to settle.
 
akescpt said:
So tired of this fsuckn account. If I need to work I need to change accounts. So it's cheap but the performance has deteriorated to such a point I question the viability. If I can't work then it's useless.
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Let me investigate this. Could you send me your account details in a PM.
 
So I took the plunge and signed up. Worth a try given my current circumstances. Granted, Vox hasn't been my favourite company, and their past "because we say so" approach has frustrated me to no end, but maybe this time will be different.
 
Using it right now, and it's actually not terrible so far. Latency is terrible (100ms local), but most things work okay. I'm hoping they'll lift the shaping a bit after midnight.
 
DeathStrike said:
As far as I know they don't shape the bolt on account.
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Feeling pretty well shaped from here. That or something's wrong.

Does this look right? Latency seems very high for local.

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2% Packet Loss on Pingtest. :(
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Afrihost for Comparison
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Something is really wrong for the past week the speed has been terrible for a account which should unshaped from 18h00 in the evening. I have only been getting 1mb on a 4mb line, really pathetic & the full speed only happens round about at 2h00 in the morning. Can you please tell what is going on..........
 
cgfrans said:
Something is really wrong for the past week the speed has been terrible for a account which should unshaped from 18h00 in the evening. I have only been getting 1mb on a 4mb line, really pathetic & the full speed only happens round about at 2h00 in the morning. Can you please tell what is going on..........
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Well, it's my first day trying this out, and it seems weirdly unstable. Browsing is okay, but even downloads via HTTP, seem to timeout. The actual speed of the connection is fine, but it's very unstable.

Edit: With all of its quirks, this account still beats the crap out of Telkom's Night Surfer for me. It would be useless for gaming due to bad latency, but downloads work fairly well.
 
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Voxy said that they had a lot of new signups and are in the process of upgrading the network. We all just hoping it comes soon.
 
Fcon_Vpro said:
Voxy said that they had a lot of new signups and are in the process of upgrading the network. We all just hoping it comes soon.
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And of course no business ever was able to use their sales data to analyse and forecast their network demand and needs to accurately provide in advance before capacity becomes a problem. Thereby saving their paying customers from all the issues related thereto.

Seems to be a regular SA ISP thing.
 
thewusman said:
And of course no business ever was able to use their sales data to analyse and forecast their network demand and needs to accurately provide in advance before capacity becomes a problem. Thereby saving their paying customers from all the issues related thereto.

Seems to be a regular SA ISP thing.
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Lol i agree with you. My post was just to tell the other guys that there is an issue and thats why they arent experiencing good latency, etc
 
thewusman said:
And of course no business ever was able to use their sales data to analyse and forecast their network demand and needs to accurately provide in advance before capacity becomes a problem. Thereby saving their paying customers from all the issues related thereto.

Seems to be a regular SA ISP thing.
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IMHO, I think they let it run out on purpose, as part of their business plan, as I'm sure statistics will prove that the majority are too lazy to change or cancel and just "make do", when things "are slow", at the end of the day, they want to make a profit.
 
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