@lantic R59 uncapped 'bolt-on' feedback

Hi
When I signup, how will I be billed?

R50 setup fee for the Gig4Gig capped account
R50 setup + R59 for bolt uncapped

So that will be R159?
Thereafter R59 per month (plus R15 for each gig cap I use after the 1st free 1gb)

For the first bill, will it be also for one month in advanced?

Thanks
 
Well worth it.... You will see the quality and amount of data you will be able to do. Still have the account and my monthly debit order goes off every month.

What I like is that I set the extra gig limit to 0 which means I do not pay extra for gigs cause if I went over it got capped for day time usage but still remains uncapped after hours.... That ensures that the bill stays @ only R59 p/m
 
cavedog said:
Well worth it.... You will see the quality and amount of data you will be able to do. Still have the account and my monthly debit order goes off every month.

What I like is that I set the extra gig limit to 0 which means I do not pay extra for gigs cause if I went over it got capped for day time usage but still remains uncapped after hours.... That ensures that the bill stays @ only R59 p/m
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after vox took them over the 1 gb limit works , when i go over the 1gb i cant browse during the day , and bill stayed at R59 a month.
 
Even the data usage is updating timeously since Vox took over @lantic.
I always found under @lantic's ownership, it would get stuck after the system did the billing on the 20th of each month.
Sometimes even more than once a month. Last month I think was the first since I've had the account that it updated right through to the end - was a pleasure in comparison to before.

@aimbot -
when you want to check data usage & billing, use this link after you've signed up :
https://www.lantic.net/login

.. which is derived from here :
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/customerzones

You can even preview provisional invoices a few weeks before they even send them out to you.

The only negative I'm finding now, is that the invoices & statements they e-mail or the ones you can save, are about 800KB each, compared to the ones @lantic used to do of about 70KB. I think it's the huge blob of lime-luminous-green graphics they have on these pages. [I forward these to a G-mail account I used for archiving, so as to not take up space in my main one - can't stand huge files taking up unnecessary space ;)].
 
@ I O U thanks

Are there any other tips I should know about?
I plan on using my Afrihost cap during the day. Not sure which one will be used on the router
 
aimbot said:
@ I O U thanks

Are there any other tips I should know about?
I plan on using my Afrihost cap during the day. Not sure which one will be used on the router
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If you are planning on doing that let me suggest something that would work great.....

Put your router in Half Bridge mode... In the router you put @lantic uncapped bolt on details. Then you dial on all your pc's to the afrihost account via pppoe. That solution works great. Don't forget to disconnect your afrihost capped account 6pm and over weekends or your cap will be reached quite fast if you download and forget you are connected to the capped account.
 
cavedog said:
Don't forget to disconnect your afrihost capped account 6pm and over weekends or your cap will be reached quite fast if you download and forget you are connected to the capped account.
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This is something that can be scheduled quite easily with a small batch script if one wants a set-and-forget solution.
 
Is there any router that can do this switch automatically? Don't smaak the constant switching.
 
akescpt said:
Is there any router that can do this switch automatically? Don't smaak the constant switching.
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I've yet to work with a router that has a function like this, but I guess one could play around with a DD-WRT capable router and get it done that way - although a preliminary google search did not pop up anything as of yet.
 
aimbot said:
@ I O U thanks
Are there any other tips I should know about?
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Once logged in, to check usage, click on :
My Services - ADSL Data - View Account (on far-right) ;
then scroll down towards bottom of screen & it will show you Up / Download values.
(I switch off my router/modem - partly to reset the usage values - but it will probably update anyway via SAIX every few hours ?).

Also while logged in, you can click on My Account - Billing Details
then click on Invoice no. to call it up, or options at top to View Next Bill, View Statement or Export Statement.
I pay them by Internet Transfer about 2 days before due, so have never bothered trying the Process Card Payment option.

Usage stats using SAIX -
I've not bothered looking at the stats in SAIX (Telkom) in ages, but these were the steps when @lantic ran things ; just checked again, and no longer allows logging in. You might want to check with Vox if you want to check there :

Login to SAIX Via:
http://www.saix.net/
==> Support
==> ADSL User Stats
Enter the ADSL user name & password (used to be user name ending in ..@dsl.lantic.net & internet password, but no longer seems to work - maybe the service was disbanded when Vox took over ?).

Enjoy using it.
 
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JannieBunny said:
I have to agree with this. It works wonders. About 5seconds downtime between accounts switch, but everything is automated through a mikrotik scheduled script
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Do I dare even ask how much one of these will cost me?
 
I quickly signed up for the bolt on this morning. Would someone be as kind, as to sending me the Microtik script? :)
 
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