Vuma Price to ISP

[DStvNothingOn]

What I'm trying to get at.
Is does vuma just charge the ISP line rental, or is there a Vuma equivalent of a Vuma IPC where ISP buy capacity.
I could be two separate cost to the ISP i don't know that why I'm asking (out of interested)
I can only assume since there is much more capacity on fibre these cost must be lower (since most ISP are offering no shaping no throttling)

These question have nothing to do with my service and experience on the network it purely because I'm interested how this new to South Africa business model technology work

 

[Sinbad]

What I'm trying to get at.
Is does vuma just charge the ISP line rental, or is there a Vuma equivalent of a Vuma IPC where ISP buy capacity.
I could be two separate cost to the ISP i don't know that why I'm asking (out of interested)
I can only assume since there is much more capacity on fibre these cost must be lower (since most ISP are offering no shaping no throttling)

These question have nothing to do with my service and experience on the network it purely because I'm interested how this new to South Africa business model technology work

there's a single charge which is both line rental and interconnect charges.

 

[Looney]

What I'm trying to get at.
Is does vuma just charge the ISP line rental, or is there a Vuma equivalent of a Vuma IPC where ISP buy capacity.
I could be two separate cost to the ISP i don't know that why I'm asking (out of interested)
I can only assume since there is much more capacity on fibre these cost must be lower (since most ISP are offering no shaping no throttling)

These question have nothing to do with my service and experience on the network it purely because I'm interested how this new to South Africa business model technology work

Fair enough, but your OP was asking specifically about the cost that Vuma charge the ISP

 

[Johnatan56]

I didn't see him say that anywhere in this thread.

Every ISP negotiates a different deal with Vuma. Some may even mark up their prices to increase their margins or some may offer a more premium service and as they say, you get what you pay for.

Here:

I noticed a steady decrease in quality of service leading too long wait times on web pages, this become even more noticeable when I moved from cool ideas to home connect web pages loaded almost immediately.
I'm just wondering if any one else has noticed bad quality service on cool ideas?

It's from another thread that I was going through yesterday and he happened to post in it.

What I'm trying to get at.
Is does vuma just charge the ISP line rental, or is there a Vuma equivalent of a Vuma IPC where ISP buy capacity.
I could be two separate cost to the ISP i don't know that why I'm asking (out of interested)
I can only assume since there is much more capacity on fibre these cost must be lower (since most ISP are offering no shaping no throttling)

These question have nothing to do with my service and experience on the network it purely because I'm interested how this new to South Africa business model technology work

there's a single charge which is both line rental and interconnect charges.

And they also buy international capacity on top of that.

 

[Sinbad]

Here:

It's from another thread that I was going through yesterday and he happened to post in it.





And they also buy international capacity on top of that.

ISPs do, yes.
But in terms of getting from your PC to the ISP's network, one charge from Vuma.

 

[Looney]

Here:

It's from another thread that I was going through yesterday and he happened to post in it.





And they also buy international capacity on top of that.

Ah ok, I didn't see that in the other thread. Was simply going on what has been said in this thread

 

[DStvNothingOn]

Here:


And they also buy international capacity on top of that.

but that was my issue there was no problem with the Vuma network it was the cool ideas network
whether it be there network been overloaded or something else i noticed and steady slow down from when i first got cool ideas

 

[Sinbad]

but that was my issue there was no problem with the Vuma network it was the cool ideas network
whether it be there network been overloaded or something else i noticed and steady slow down from when i first got cool ideas

Nope, cool ideas is still doing just fine. I know lots of people using them with no slowdowns at all.

 

[DStvNothingOn]

Fair enough, but your OP was asking specifically about the cost that Vuma charge the ISP

I can understand how you could have read it that way it was mean to be a open ended question about the process
tech model

 

[Looney]

I can understand how you could have read it that way it was mean to be a open ended question about the process
tech model

Hehe no problem

 

[DStvNothingOn]

Nope, cool ideas is still doing just fine. I know lots of people using them with no slowdowns at all.

I can respect your experiences and that of others
I'm just expressing my experience

 

[Looney]

I can respect your experiences and that of others
I'm just expressing my experience

I suppose we all have different experiences, sometimes things can go wrong but perhaps you jumped the gun a little? Perhaps you could have logged a fault with Cool Ideas for them to investigate? I'm confident they would have found the cause of the problem and fixed it.

 

[PBCool]

The page load time we a long term issue for me on Cool Ideas, so i don't think temporary network issue on the Vuma Network are to blame.

The change from Cool Ideas to Home-connect was originally purely due the cost saving, after the change i noticed the much improved service.
So unless people change i think they wouldn't noticed the degraded service on the cool ideas network, this my be the reason.

If this was a general issue we would know about it, tons of our customers have friends on other ISPs and we are being constantly compared, so again if we had slow page loads across the board we would know about it.

Possibly router related as you would have changed that moving to HC I imagine?

 

[DStvNothingOn]

I suppose we all have different experiences, sometimes things can go wrong but perhaps you jumped the gun a little? Perhaps you could have logged a fault with Cool Ideas for them to investigate? I'm confident they would have found the cause of the problem and fixed it.

I spent a few of months (over three months - so wouldn't say i jumped the gun) going back and forth with cool ideas, they did respond however we never seemed to find the root cause (I can't fault them on trying)


However as stated above the chose to move was also in a small part a economic chose as the deal i got with home connect made more sense for me.

 

[Looney]

I spent a few of months (over three months - so wouldn't say i jumped the gun) going back and forth with cool ideas, they did respond however we never seemed to find the root cause (I can't fault them on trying)


However as stated above the chose to move was also in a small part a economic chose as the deal i got with home connect made more sense for me.

Ah ok, fair enough.

 

[Sinbad]

If this was a general issue we would know about it, tons of our customers have friends on other ISPs and we are being constantly compared, so again if we had slow page loads across the board we would know about it.

Possibly router related as you would have changed that moving to HC I imagine?

(changed from wlan channel 5 to channel 8)

 

[Looney]

I also noticed that my UniFi device was not maxing at 100/100, which didn't make sense. Turns out it was the wireless channels. Changed them and bam 100/100.

 

[DStvNothingOn]

the majority of my test were done over a wired connection, so i don't think i could blame the wifi network

But my wifi network is based on two AP
1 HP MSM 430
2 Apple Airport Extreme (ac)
(both dual radio)

which are both well managed (including channels) and feel could be considered pretty good and robust APs

 

[Soprono]

I also noticed that my UniFi device was not maxing at 100/100, which didn't make sense. Turns out it was the wireless channels. Changed them and bam 100/100.

Which Unifi devices do you have? My Pros do auto channel optimization.

 

[Looney]

Which Unifi devices do you have? My Pros do auto channel optimization.

I have 1x UniFi AC Lite and 2x UniFi AC long range