Octotel or openserve ?

I.am.Sam

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i have both options

im on openserve with afrihost and have the 50/25 line for around R600

ocototel has a similar line for +-R570

but i want to move ISPs as well

been with mweb and mweb had better service than afrihost

but time to look for someone else that i can easily access they customer service departments

afrihost call me back and whatsapp service was decent ....but they people on the other end was useless
 
hi @I.am.Sam
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It pains me to say this, but rather the devil you know. Telkom on openserve all the way. It is not a perfect metric but I am seeing less issues on the openserve endpoints. I would switch over in a heartbeat if I could, no matter the price.

I would only deviate if I had herotel as the option. The amount of times where the isp points to frotfoot and they in turn point to the isp ......... having the fno as your isp kills that move, dead. Unless you somehow screw it up (looking at you vox, probably the only isp that has managed to make such a relationship somehow even more complicated).
 
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Fwiw I've had one outage on openserve in all the time I've had fiber with AH. Can't compare but the uptime has been excellent.
 
Most FNOs will experience some area down time now and again. Generally it is resolved within 1-6 hours
However this has been the longest period of downtime on any of the fibre networks we have experienced in our time
 
i have both options

im on openserve with afrihost and have the 50/25 line for around R600

ocototel has a similar line for +-R570

but i want to move ISPs as well

been with mweb and mweb had better service than afrihost

but time to look for someone else that i can easily access they customer service departments

afrihost call me back and whatsapp service was decent ....but they people on the other end was useless

Hi

If you can get Octotel, I'm guessing you are in the Cape Town area - have a look at our reviews - https://www.atomic.co.za

If you look at this recent ISP survey, Octotel is the better option:
 
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