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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
Sedgefield wireless
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Grouter
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Fibre's going live in Sedgefield in a matter of weeks with Octotel and Herotel.
Hotspot your phone meantime, or get a prepaid MTN dongle. MTN data speeds are awesome in Sedgefield: up to 100Mbps.
A Telkom ADSL install can take a month or more - fibre will be live by then.
You could go Pure ADSL with Afrihost or Vox, but again the install could take a month or more.
TCS wifi will hook you up, but you'll pay a few grand for the equipment (Dish / router, etc), and another couple of grand for installation, which you'll be stuck with once you get fibre. From personal experience, their network is not great. Can be good one minute, and crappy the next. Congestion is a thing in the evenings, and their support can be good or downright 'Keystone Cops' incompetent. I'd personally avoid them.
Herotel (from George) will do you a wireless install for R1500, but that's subsidised and if you cancel before a year's up they'll charge clawback fees on the subsidised installation.
Really, just wait for the fibre.
Hotspot your phone meantime, or get a prepaid MTN dongle. MTN data speeds are awesome in Sedgefield: up to 100Mbps.
A Telkom ADSL install can take a month or more - fibre will be live by then.
You could go Pure ADSL with Afrihost or Vox, but again the install could take a month or more.
TCS wifi will hook you up, but you'll pay a few grand for the equipment (Dish / router, etc), and another couple of grand for installation, which you'll be stuck with once you get fibre. From personal experience, their network is not great. Can be good one minute, and crappy the next. Congestion is a thing in the evenings, and their support can be good or downright 'Keystone Cops' incompetent. I'd personally avoid them.
Herotel (from George) will do you a wireless install for R1500, but that's subsidised and if you cancel before a year's up they'll charge clawback fees on the subsidised installation.
Really, just wait for the fibre.
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Yes - for data. I am a vodacom user, but just for my phone.
I have heard good reports from many people in Sedgefield who use MTN for their data. They seem to have better quality and more variety of packages than Vodacom. And cheaper...