Moving from Openserve to Frogfoot

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Gandalf the Gray

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How does the two compare in terms of quality?

I live in a complex (5 units), see attached pic. We only have Openserve. (Red area). The house next to the complex has Openserve and Frogfoot (Blue Area). Apparently our complex is scheduled to get Frogfoot. The Openserve Box is right between the two areas.

Is it really that difficult to do Frogfoot at my complex? Or are there a lot of "politics" involved
 

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Gandalf the Gray said:
How does the two compare in terms of quality?

I live in a complex (5 units), see attached pic. We only have Openserve. (Red area). The house next to the complex has Openserve and Frogfoot (Blue Area). Apparently our complex is scheduled to get Frogfoot. The Openserve Box is right between the two areas.

Is it really that difficult to do Frogfoot at my complex? Or are there a lot of "politics" involved
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Where are you located OP?

FF in the South Coast and Cape area (CPT, George, PE, EL) has had some issues - FF in Gauteng is better so you'd benefit from higher speeds (up to 1Gbps). Had FF for 3 months and had no issues in PTA - am on Openserve now for the last 4 months and its been flawless - only wish for more speed
 
powermzii said:
Where are you located OP?

FF in the South Coast and Cape area (CPT, George, PE, EL) has had some issues - FF in Gauteng is better so you'd benefit from higher speeds (up to 1Gbps). Had FF for 3 months and had no issues in PTA - am on Openserve now for the last 4 months and its been flawless - only wish for more speed
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With Openserve stability I would be happy with a 500/250Mbps line for around R1500 or so a month :)

Can only hope...
 
cavedog said:
With Openserve stability I would be happy with a 500/250Mbps line for around R1500 or so a month :)

Can only hope...
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What are you guys doing with these lines seriously?
Am I missing something fun out there?
How do you max these lines beyond the 100mbps?
 
Gandalf the Gray said:
I am in PTA, increase in speed is why I am asking. Wish OS had 500 or 1000. I am on 200, and at least we paying less now (With Afrihost)
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Okay that means R1117 is the 500/500 and R1567 is the 1000/1000 line because of the double speed promo. Decent value for money there especially on the R1117 which is the same price what you are paying now but you get 300Mbps more on the download and 400Mbps more on the upload.
 
chakniks said:
What are you guys doing with these lines seriously?
Am I missing something fun out there?
How do you max these lines beyond the 100mbps?
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Once you start mounting an unlimited Google drive and a 5TB One Drive you will see even 1Gbps is too slow. :ROFL:

Why buy harddrives when you can save everything on the mounted cloud drive. It does eat a lot of bandwidth hence the faster the line the better.

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cavedog said:
Once you start mounting an unlimited Google drive and a 5TB One Drive you will see even 1Gbps is too slow. :ROFL:

Why buy harddrives when you can save everything on the mounted cloud drive. It does eat a lot of bandwidth hence the faster the line the better.

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if i may ask, what software do u use to mount your google drive?
 
cavedog said:
Once you start mounting an unlimited Google drive and a 5TB One Drive you will see even 1Gbps is too slow. :ROFL:

Why buy harddrives when you can save everything on the mounted cloud drive. It does eat a lot of bandwidth hence the faster the line the better.

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i've also wondered why people need such speeds, this actually makes sense now - i get it
 
cobusv said:
if i may ask, what software do u use to mount your google drive?
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Not sure if he uses the same thing, but I know google drive for teams will mount the drive onto your machine without consuming your local storage
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cobusv said:
pretty much exactly what i would like to do
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Let's not derail this thread but here is what you are looking for.

Google drive mounted in Windows/Linux

Anyone using google drive mounted as a drive in windows or linux? I actually set it up today and it's pretty decent. The fact that google has a JHB node makes it so much better especially for the 1Gbps fibre line users. I tested some 80GB .mkv files playing from the mount and it's pretty...
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Rclone + Google Api's and then Winsfp + nssm to get the mount going and running in the background and at startup. ;)
 
My frogfoot connection has been down since last Friday. Fortunately I have an Openserve connection but my perception of Frogfoot has taken a big dip over this experience. I'm sure a lot of people are working from home these days and can't afford 5 days of fibre downtime
 
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