The "I have FTTH installed" Thread

[TheGuy]

Hi Guys

I thought it would be interesting if people that actually have Fiber to the home installed can post some details on their experience.

Provider:
Cost:
Area:
Bandwidth Size:
Cap Size/Uncapped:
Latency Local:
Latency International:
General Experience/Comments:

 

[rubber_otter]

I'd like to see if people are actually getting anything near advertised speeds.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Provider: TENET/SANReN
Cost: R210,000 p/m
Area: NMMU, Port Elizabeth
Bandwidth Size: 10G
Cap Size/Uncapped: Uncapped 170Mbps international
Latency Local: 30ms to IS Cape Town
Latency International: 180ms to London
General Experience/Comments: Had to do it

 

[longboy]

/pats his 56k dialup modem.

 

[Skerminkel]

Provider: TENET/SANReN
Cost: R210,000 p/m
Area: NMMU, Port Elizabeth
Bandwidth Size: 10G
Cap Size/Uncapped: Uncapped 170Mbps international
Latency Local: 30ms to IS Cape Town
Latency International: 180ms to London
General Experience/Comments: Had to do it

D**s

Edit:

 

[Voicy]

Provider: Altibox
Cost: R650 pm
Area: Sortland
Bandwidth Size: 35Mbps down / 40Mbps up
Cap Size/Uncapped:Uncapped
Latency Local: 30ms
Latency International: 80ms
General Experience/Comments: For R120 pm more I could get 75/75Mbps but my external harddrive prolly doesn't copy that fast.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Area: Sortland

:erm: Where the hell's that? Only Sortland I can find, is in Scandinavia...

 

[Voicy]

:erm: Where the hell's that? Only Sortland I can find, is in Scandinavia...

Yup. That's the right one.

EDIT: Didnt post it to come across as a dick (ok maybe a little), but to give some frame of reference what its costing elsewhere.

 

[Johnatan56]

Yup. That's the right one.

EDIT: Didnt post it to come across as a dick (ok maybe a little), but to give some frame of reference what its costing elsewhere.

I think the OP means within South Africa....

At everyone with FTTH, I hate you, I want to be you

 

[buyeye]

Provider: TENET/SANReN
Cost: R210,000 p/m
Area: NMMU, Port Elizabeth
Bandwidth Size: 10G
Cap Size/Uncapped: Uncapped 170Mbps international
Latency Local: 30ms to IS Cape Town
Latency International: 180ms to London
General Experience/Comments: Had to do it

Bruce that's a broadband budget of a medium sized businesses?

 

[Skerminkel]

Bruce that's a broadband budget of a medium sized businesses?

A university is definitely not medium sized.

 

[TheGuy]

Interesting so nobody so far has posted about a South African fiber to the home connection yet.

 

[wez1007]

Well this is a sad thread....

Honestly wouldn't mind fiber for our school. Our 2 ADSL lines are maxed out pretty much all the time.

 

[alanguage]

Provider: Vox through Vumatel
Cost: R999
Area: Parkhurst
Bandwidth Size: 50/5 Mbps
Cap Size/Uncapped: 200gig
Latency Local: 7ms
Latency International: 189
General Experience/Comments:

 

[F1 Fan]

Can we split cost into 2: Set up cost and monthly cost.