Openserve

[wouter.schoonees]

Hi,
Want to get battery backup for WiFi and OTN routers. Does anyone know if the Openserve fiber network remains available during load shedding?

Thx Wouter

 

[charlieharper]

From the comments I've read in the past, it appears Openserve remains solid during power outages. Not sure if always the case, but yeah.

 

[wouter.schoonees]

From the comments I've read in the past, it appears Openserve remains solid during power outages. Not sure if always the case, but yeah.

 

[Drifter]

All depends if the batteries have been stolen , or not.

 

[jbarker]

From the comments I've read in the past, it appears Openserve remains solid during power outages. Not sure if always the case, but yeah.

Can second that

 

[DapperDanMan]

For as long as their own battery backups last, yes. (Which will probably not be the case with Stage 5 / Stage 6 / Stage 7 / Stage 8 loadshedding, which may or may not start next week.)

 

[cschutte]

Wouter, Yes, Open Serve in my experience is a lot better than Frogfoot wrt stability during loadshedding. I have been with OpenServe for years (Somerset West) and it had always stayed on during Loadshedding. Not so with Frogfoot - their service dies about 20 mins before loadshedding stops. (My router is on a Mecer inverter with deep cycle battery, and I have both Frogfoot and Openserve lines - Openserve a 10 Mbps backup at the moment), so can monitor when any of the services stop working.

 

[Monka]

Openserve runs generators from their Exchanges and those things can run the whole day

 

[cavedog]

On stage 4 I got loadshedding 3 times that one day and Openserve did not go down at all. Full speed ahead even during loadshedding.

 

[wouter.schoonees]

I'm happy/impressed to report that during the last 2 sessions of loadshedding, Openserve were UP and stable.