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A few years ago VOX used to advertise their fishbone which let you join a bunch of connections into a single high speed link. I can't seem to find anything about that still existing.

The problem I'm trying to solve, is to gain some download speed on our office link. We have managed fibre access with 10Mb up and 10Mb down, but with 170 people in the building it get's a little slow a little too often. The budget won't allow us to upgrade the fibre, so I'm looking at a more cost effective way to get more bandwidth. Perhaps getting cheap 40mbps ADSL, and somehow integrating that on our network?

Any other ideas I should consider? I'd love to replace our line with the 100/50 vodacom fibre to the business, but I can't see which ares they cover yet...
 
Avoid VOX and their fishbones if I was you.

We are busy moving 4 clients away from this solution, utterly dismal speeds, service, etc.
 
Just to note that we'll keep our 10/10 five as were currently locked into a contract.
 
EDIT: Didn't read the original post properly :cry:

What type of traffic you moving in the office? Have you got a proper QOS system setup on the 10Mbps fiber ?
 
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patrick said:
A few years ago VOX used to advertise their fishbone which let you join a bunch of connections into a single high speed link. I can't seem to find anything about that still existing.

The problem I'm trying to solve, is to gain some download speed on our office link. We have managed fibre access with 10Mb up and 10Mb down, but with 170 people in the building it get's a little slow a little too often. The budget won't allow us to upgrade the fibre, so I'm looking at a more cost effective way to get more bandwidth. Perhaps getting cheap 40mbps ADSL, and somehow integrating that on our network?

Any other ideas I should consider? I'd love to replace our line with the 100/50 vodacom fibre to the business, but I can't see which ares they cover yet...
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MWEB, Autopage and Openweb all offer line bonding solutions
 
patrick said:
Just to note that we'll keep our 10/10 five as were currently locked into a contract.
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This is a very good thing. you should always keep the fibre line anyway. Get your IT guys to route business critical things like email through the FIBRE line and every thing else goes through whatever you decide to sign up with.

That way if your ADSL goes down, you can still get business done.
 
Hi,

I wonder if you have a firewall where you can see how your traffic is flowing. I have a 10/10 from neotel with half the users than you and is running like a charm. But I can clearly see where my traffic is going...

Issues: Many times, the download speeds do not go as fast as I would like. I usually test from ftp.is.co.za to see how fast I can download. Also any download from microsoft usually reach my top speed (I can download an iso file from microsoft quite fast).

Some other servers give me good speed, but not my full capacity, so I assume the server from where i'm downloading is throttling that specific download.

By the way, I use Kerio Firewall linux. Highly recommended.
 
go with fibre - anyone will be able to offer it. The FTTB article quoting Neotel costs is IMO wrong, as we pay a fraction of that price. If you are in Joburg, PM me and I will forward you Neotel's contacts.

BTW: Internet Solutions is also very eager running fibre and installation is dirt-cheap (less than 8K for dual-links)
 
Who do you get your current fibre service from?

The physical line would be running at 100 or 1000 Mbps already and it might just be a case of finding the right person to provide cheap data on the same line.
 
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