Openserve increasing fibre line speeds

[Jan]

Openserve free fibre speed upgrades announced

Many of Openserve's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers are getting free speed upgrades in the next few months.

Major Internet service provider (ISP) Afrihost, which resells Openserve FTTH packages, recently notified customers about the line speed increases via email.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Wow... years late to the party..

 

[Speedster]

Nice!

 

[Speedster]

Wow... years late to the party..

How so?

 

[quovadis]

Still no gigabit openserve. That 200/200 package might be attractive to those who are only on 500/250 to benefit from the TX speed.

 

[STORMERSFAN]

Lets hope vumatel follow...

 

[Diabolix]

Still no gigabit openserve. That 200/200 package might be attractive to those who are only on 500/250 to benefit from the TX speed.

Who needs a gigabit service at home? It doesn't make sense for the normal household. Are you planning to start a WISP?

 

[Polymathic]

Who needs a gigabit service at home? It doesn't make sense for the normal household. Are you planning to start a WISP?

If I had an i9 or higher CPU PC I could easily use 500mb myself

 

[Speedster]

If I had an i9 or higher CPU PC I could easily use 500mb myself

For what? Genuine question.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Nice im on 150/75 , call of duty updates will like the increase

 

[quovadis]

Who needs a gigabit service at home? It doesn't make sense for the normal household. Are you planning to start a WISP?

People who don’t want to sit around waiting for the world to pass by waiting for transfers to complete. Each to their own and their own use case.

 

[Polymathic]

For what? Genuine question.

I watch most of the stuff on YT at x2 speed, so watching something at 4k/60 quality at x2 speed will take about 100mb/s , add a couple other streams at full quality like maybe a cricket match and one of those ambience ASMR videos at 8K, uploading full res videos to cloud storage and download/updating modern games all at the same time.

I'm one of these people who naturally like to push things to it's limits.

 

[zulucat]

Got the email … yippie!

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Just don't increase the price, I'm just fine on my 40/20 thank you.

 

[My_King]

People who don’t want to sit around waiting for the world to pass by waiting for transfers to complete. Each to their own and their own use case.

Agree. WFH works for me on higher speed. Not going in to the office to upload a 512GB data disk.

Nor download.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Who needs a gigabit service at home? It doesn't make sense for the normal household. Are you planning to start a WISP?

Are you ex telkom?

 

[Petec]

Not too long ago, all we had was price gouging ADSL.
Now peeps are all like, "Wot this rubbish?!! 100Gb line speeds or GTFO!"

 

[Lupus]

Who needs a gigabit service at home? It doesn't make sense for the normal household. Are you planning to start a WISP?

Everything has updates and they are gigs now, so if they are updated quickly you can play quicker. Streaming for multiple people, gaming. This isn't 2010, a gbs isn't that fast anymore really.

 

[Lupus]

Lets hope vumatel follow...

More then likely not, Vumatel has become the new Telkom

 

[Speedster]

Openserve has been pretty good at upgrades. I started with 10/5 for R399 a couple of years back and will now be on 50/25 for only R449. That's half decent.