Octotel vs Openserve

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Syphonx

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Moving into a house in Cape Town southern suburbs mid November. It has both Octotel and Openserve lines installed.

Can one of the Afri guys advise which is the better network to go with?

1. It seems that a 100/100 line will cost the same on either once the Openserve speed upgrades kick in?
2. Is one network better than the other when it comes to a static IP? On Vumatel I have essentially had a static IP since my Mac address never changed. Do any of these work the same?
 
Hello.
Great service from both FNOs. Quick turnaround time in faults.

Unfortunately, we do not offer a static IP for Octotel. Our Openserve static IP works a little bit different, hides behind a NAT IP.

Afrigirl said:
Hello.
I am sorry on your experience with the Sales Team, they should have confirmed with the Fibre Technical Team.

With Openserve we assigned a NAT static IP address.

The IP is static which means the public facing IP will never change. The natted IP address assigned on the WAN port will change and will be in the 10. range. Each time your router dials a pppoe connection this 10. IP will change but the public IP will be static. We forward all traffic from the 169. static public IP to whatever natted 10.
You won't get the static 169. IP on the wan port.
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Afrigirl said:
Hello.
Great service from both FNOs. Quick turnaround time in faults.

Unfortunately, we do not offer a static IP for Octotel. Our Openserve static IP works a little bit different, hides behind a NAT IP.
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Do IPs on Octotel change often or only when the Mac address changes?
Would the Openserve static IP be problematic for hobby self hosting, basically a few docker services with public access?
 
Syphonx said:
Moving into a house in Cape Town southern suburbs mid November. It has both Octotel and Openserve lines installed.

Can one of the Afri guys advise which is the better network to go with?

1. It seems that a 100/100 line will cost the same on either once the Openserve speed upgrades kick in?
2. Is one network better than the other when it comes to a static IP? On Vumatel I have essentially had a static IP since my Mac address never changed. Do any of these work the same?
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Openserve generally is quite a but more stable in my experience, I have a Octotel business line at work in the CBD and it gives us absolute hell we have problems quite often with it
 
not southern suburbs, but table view side I've heard many horror stories about Octotel, sadly it is the only option in quite a few neighbourhoods
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
not southern suburbs, but table view side I've heard many horror stories about Octotel, sadly it is the only option in quite a few neighbourhoods
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Yea in West Beach its quite bad I'm in Table View had Openserve then switched to Vumatel and been with them since but known people in West Beach constantly with problems due to packet loss on their Octotel line in the evenings
 
Syphonx said:
Do IPs on Octotel change often or only when the Mac address changes?
Would the Openserve static IP be problematic for hobby self hosting, basically a few docker services with public access?
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With Octotel or our DHCP, the IP may change when the MAC address is changed or when IP Subnet allocation is changed on that specific VLAN .

With Openserve you can use our built in DDNS.
AfriNatic said:
Hi

With the dynamic IP we have built-in DDNS that you can make use of. fiberusername.ip.afrihost.co.za which will point and update to your current IP. You can find your username in ClientZone and it's the name before @afrihost.co.za

If you have your own domain name hosted with us or anywhere else create a cname record and add fiberusername.ip.afrihost.co.za to the cname record to have a custom DDNS name. If you want to protect it even further you can use Clourflare and proxy it through Cloudflare.
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Afrigirl said:
With Octotel or our DHCP, the IP may change when the MAC address is changed or when IP Subnet allocation is changed on that specific VLAN .

With Openserve you can use our built in DDNS.
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And is there an additional cost for the OpenServe static IP?
 
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