Sorry I am noob to this forum, and am about to (slightly) violate a rule, but here goes. A year ago I was a Telkom/Afrihost subscriber. The 4 mb/s connection worked well enough considering line loss would have supported 20+. That is except when the copper pair was stolen, and then line attenuation was much much higher. And stolen again. And stolen yet again. Once I went out and replace a segment out outside plant on my own, that is how slow Telkom was to get around to fixing things. They eventually refused to fix it or contact me. Except for monthly invoices. So sad. Telkom could have replaced copper with aluminum or better yet, fibre. But no. So I use a WISP, pay more, but the family that runs it responds to fault notices. FWIW I found the wisp via scanning the spectrum via my Mikrotik and 5.x GHz antenna. IMHO by not having a suitable non copper replacement in high crime areas, by denying service to informal settlements and their neighbors, they are helping to guarantee that the only way smarter kids will get ahead is by cooking drugs and stealing copper. No good for SA. Not good for the world. Not good for Afrihost or Telkom.
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