Royal Ascot Fibre (Milnerton, Cape Town)

[hjlinde]

To all the residents of Royal Ascot in Milnerton Cape Town.

Please head over to http://royalascotfibre.co.za and do your part.

 

[hjlinde]

As a side note, if you have friends or know people in Royal Ascot, please spread the word. The survey will likely only be up till 20 December 2015

 

[paul5186]

Posted to our HOA facebook page

 

[SpiralS]

Will this include Milnerton Ridge?

 

[hjlinde]

Unfortunately not, this is specific to Royal Ascot. Who knows perhaps once the fibre is in it might open the door for extension to Milnerton Ridge. But at this stage its RA only.

 

[FHTheron]

If there's anything I can do to help make this happen as soon as possible, put me to work. Telkom is playing some game with my line speed, changing it every day, so getting fibre would be great.
Another way to hype this is to mention ShowMax and that fibre makes that much more feasible and means you could perhaps even replace Telkom+DSTV with fibre. It's a stretch, but it's probably true for at least a few people.

 

[hjlinde]

If there's anything I can do to help make this happen as soon as possible, put me to work. Telkom is playing some game with my line speed, changing it every day, so getting fibre would be great.
Another way to hype this is to mention ShowMax and that fibre makes that much more feasible and means you could perhaps even replace Telkom+DSTV with fibre. It's a stretch, but it's probably true for at least a few people.

Yes, we are constantly changing the site and adding more info as we go along. Not sure if you've seen the live stats and faq sections. As more people respond on the survey we try our best to answer questions etc etc.

 

[Garson007]

Any updates on this?

 

[FHTheron]

I haven't seen any posters (in Paddocks), so the public awareness of this is hopefully still very low. I asked my body corporate to send an email to residents but got no reply, so I assume they don't do such announcements on request as a policy.

I still think that RAMPOA should send out (or have each complex send out) an email. That will get the survey done as fast as possible. I'm starting to get rather annoyed by my slowly degrading ADSL and have even registered interest for Telkom's LTE promotion (don't want a 24 month commitment, but options are options).

 

[Garson007]

registered interest for Telkom's LTE promotion (don't want a 24 month commitment, but options are options).

LTE in Royal Ascot? Good luck with that. Can barely get GSM in my complex.

 

[MultiTask]

I just want to know if anyone in the area experiences the same issue as I?

I have been through 4 different ISP's in the last 10years staying in Ascot Grove... I've always had the same issue: my speeds fluctuations are mad! I currently have a 10mb line... And its literally all over the place. Pic attached.

Right now my ISP is Afrihost. My exchange is right outside the complex. Im using a D-Link router, not sure the model.

 

[MultiTask]

Must have done a billion port resets. Changed my router a few months ago. Nothing seems to sort this out... Telkom can out after Afrihost logged a call last year, but when they arrived the speedtests where good... Till the next day.

 

[Garson007]

Have had similar issues in Nottingham Square, but it's infrequent enough to not bother me much.

 

[FHTheron]

http://royalascot.co.za/fibre-coming-royal-ascot-july-2016/

Best thing to read first thing in the morning. Thank you for the people who made it happen. Can't wait to sign up.

 

[Garson007]

Amazing news. Extremely happy that they've gone with Telkom.

 

[Garson007]

Getting excited about this. Can't we get this already?

 

[stroebs]

As someone who's worked for a Fibre ISP, not living in Royal Ascot, I'm a bit disappointed in RAMPOA for going with Telkom/Openserve when there are so many others who are way more affordable. I understand where they're coming from WRT using existing infrastructure but there's no way Openserve is competitive when it comes in charging R750-odd for a 100Mbps line alone when people like Vumatel are able to offer that service for way less, with uncapped on some ISPs costing only R250 more than Telkom's pure line rental. This on top of their ridiculous IPC charges makes uncapped 100Mbps on Telkom's network a pipe dream.

 

[Garson007]

I'm happy with the choice of Telkom, as they're the most likely to still be around and connected with ISPs in ten years.

When it comes to infrastructure I want a single competitor.

 

[stroebs]

I'm happy with the choice of Telkom, as they're the most likely to still be around and connected with ISPs in ten years.

When it comes to infrastructure I want a single competitor.

You spelled monopoly weirdly

 

[FHTheron]

Here's my main concern: Is Telkom 100Mbps FTTH symmetrical or not? An ISP chat agent claimed it is, but I vaguely remember reading 100 up and 10 down. I would rather take 50 symmetrical than 100/10 if I have a choice, but I'll take any fibre I can get as soon as I can - using any kind of cloud backup at 700Kbps upload is painful.

As for price, if I take the FTTH pages on webafrica or vox and try to compare 100Mbps Telkom and Vumatel, it seems similar enough to me to not worry about it. I'm still not clear on whether you *must* take data with the line (telkom's site also doesn't make this immediately clear), but with Telkom I can take the smallest data package and use other ISPs. With Vumatel it looks different.