pedruid
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Any users of Metro Fibre in Port Elizabeth. Currently being laid alongside Frogfoot in Greenshields Park and interested in using them?
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CrypticZA
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I got a friend who used them (she just moved to CT) and never heard anything bad from her, her ISP was more of an issue with their questionable routing
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Was she using them before her move, or, since moving to CT?
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She was on Axxess while there had Metro + Axxess for like a year and a half i think and only had some bad routing occasionally - we compared her pings to a friend of hers on Cool Ideas and her friends ping was always routed corrected it seemed. The friend basically always went PE -> CT where she sometimes went PE -> JHB -> CT
She just got to CT yesterday
With Metro PE traffic is via BFN to CPT which is about a 23ms route.
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So found these on discord the first one was comparing normal internet vs using cloudflare warp
Are these all going via Bloemfontein?
The last trace looks quite low to the gateway actually. Is that also a PE Metro Fibre line?
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All of those are the same PE Metro line, we saw weird inconsistency's thats why i assumed they route directly to CT as well as i thought it was JHB but if its Bloem would make sense too.
She logged multiple tickets with Axxess but her experience was sadly bad, chose them over you guys because at the time they gave free installation and you guys didn't, she regretted her decision quickly...
Via Bloem to either CPT or JHB. We accept traffic from that vlan in CPT. Unfortunately transit routes are few out of that region and if an outage occurs very little or no alternatives.