Vuma Reach Fibre - Mitchell's Plain/Strandfontein

[Nikkel]

Response from my sub-council manager.

Glass half empty or full?

 

[Prim0]

The glass doesn't exist.

 

[Nikkel]

The glass doesn't exist.

I sent your link to all my buddies that side and all of them was glad to receive and send it on... I hope it helps your cause

 

[Prim0]

I sent your link to all my buddies that side and all of them was glad to receive and send it on... I hope it helps your cause

Thanks a ton bud. The google form I made was rather weird since a some replies were from areas already on the rollout map hahaha but I added them nonetheless.

 

[CapoPlays]

@Nikkel - disabling wifi (WLAN) did not do the trick, I am still stuck with the same options...sigh

Quick one, can you confirm that your ONT's model is EG8245H5 with software version V5R019C00S105.

I cannot even download the config from the router nor see any "admin" like setting.

This should be a simple task yet it's proving to be impossible right about now.

As always, Thank you once again for your time.

bru you just need to turn the micthells fibre kak ont wifi off then plug your own router to one of the lan ports on the micthells fibre ont and login to your own router and change your connection to WAN on your router, set to Automatic IP, set IPv to IPv4/IPv6 and hit ok/apply and connect to your wifi, and ifnyou unable to turn off the wifi on the mitchells plain device thats fine just dont use it and use your own router wifi. Also note some devices does not support bridging

 

[CapoPlays]

you basically do nothing 3lse on the mitchells fibre device because your own modem will be managing the network and Mitchell's fibre device will just become your ont connection device

 

[CapoPlays]

Glass half empty or full?

You do realize that Mitchells Fibre is a Private Business , Involving government bodies etc etc wont help in any way , Its up to Mitchells Fibre aka Vumatel to decide when and where they want to rollout Fibre. The only way for you to win is to gather the numbers they want to see provide visual information to them via email and hope for the best that they actually take you seriously , this is just my advice

 

[Prim0]

You do realize that Mitchells Fibre is a Private Business , Involving government bodies etc etc wont help in any way , Its up to Mitchells Fibre aka Vumatel to decide when and where they want to rollout Fibre. The only way for you to win is to gather the numbers they want to see provide visual information to them via email and hope for the best that they actually take you seriously , this is just my advice

I have zero problem with that if gathering the numbers were the truth. Mitchells Fibre Facebook page went live on 5 June, on 3 July @Nikkel posted an image on this thread. If you take a look you can see every area that is currently on the map was already added. Between that 5 June and 3 July have a look at the number of posts they made on Facebook, the amount of comments or shares. Yes I do understand word of mouth has to be taken into account as well but simply it doesn't make sense to me. Every single area was added in that short period of time. I'd understand if say a few areas were added and the rest were added at a slighty later stage but seriously it just doesn't add up. Even you made mention of this, I noticed you commented on one of their earliest Facebook posts and made mention that you only have one other neighbour in your road with ADSL and had a problem in educating people on this fibre malarkey, there are 4 households in my small road alone that's connected to Comtel. Like I said this interest thing is a whole lot of bullcrap, I could get 1000 sign ups from Eastridge and they'd still not come out.

 

[mandana]

We figured MF is notorious for not communicating, maybe reaching out to VumaReach will yield better results for you.

MF might be rolling out a Vumatel network but are they the same company? I don't think so else they would roll out MP as VumaReach and not as MF, the whole set up is weird. We know who Vumatel is and we know that VumaReach is their lower cost product... maybe you will have better responses from them than MF, worth the try?

 

[Icemanbrfc]

You do realize that Mitchells Fibre is a Private Business , Involving government bodies etc etc wont help in any way , Its up to Mitchells Fibre aka Vumatel to decide when and where they want to rollout Fibre. The only way for you to win is to gather the numbers they want to see provide visual information to them via email and hope for the best that they actually take you seriously , this is just my advice

To be fair, MF mentioned that they will only roll out, if there is enough interest from residents. If that was the case, then they have not acted within that, in order to see if it's viable or not. Many areas where they are currently laying Fibre, have not shown interest, that I can guarantee you. They have clearly identified areas not to lay Fibre, either through security concerns, or they believe that the Interest in those areas will not be worth the time.

 

[CapoPlays]

To be fair, MF mentioned that they will only roll out, if there is enough interest from residents. If that was the case, then they have not acted within that, in order to see if it's viable or not. Many areas where they are currently laying Fibre, have not shown interest, that I can guarantee you. They have clearly identified areas not to lay Fibre, either through security concerns, or they believe that the Interest in those areas will not be worth the time.

I don't know anymore but mf have a kak gedagte

 

[Ace_92_sa]

bru you just need to turn the micthells fibre kak ont wifi off then plug your own router to one of the lan ports on the micthells fibre ont and login to your own router and change your connection to WAN on your router, set to Automatic IP, set IPv to IPv4/IPv6 and hit ok/apply and connect to your wifi, and ifnyou unable to turn off the wifi on the mitchells plain device thats fine just dont use it and use your own router wifi. Also note some devices does not support bridging

That does not work pal, Like i said in my previous post - I have disabled wifi but I do not get any other options under the WAN settings besides basic info as per my attached image, so I cannot set the ONT into bridge mode to allow my router to do the dialling.

On your own router, WAN should also be set to DHCP as I've heard.

 

[CapoPlays]

That does not work pal, Like i said in my previous post - I have disabled wifi but I do not get any other options under the WAN settings besides basic info as per my attached image, so I cannot set the ONT into bridge mode to allow my router to do the dialling.

On your own router, WAN should also be set to DHCP as I've heard.

have you tried my solution?

I spoke to my friend he works in Tech Support and thats the advice he gave me hes in zone 5 ill have him on this forum to assist us

 

[Nikkel]

That does not work pal, Like i said in my previous post - I have disabled wifi but I do not get any other options under the WAN settings besides basic info as per my attached image, so I cannot set the ONT into bridge mode to allow my router to do the dialling.

On your own router, WAN should also be set to DHCP as I've heard.

Yep I think my case is a bit different to yours... MF router still does the "dialling" and mine basically used as AP via WAN

 

[Nikkel]

Few pages back there was a user on here that had a Mikrotik router doing load balancing between MF's Gpon and his ADSL modem... will search for the post

 

[Ace_92_sa]

have you tried my solution?

I spoke to my friend he works in Tech Support and thats the advice he gave me hes in zone 5 ill have him on this forum to assist us

Thanks buddy, I am also going through other avenues on my side.

 

[Nikkel]

Thanks buddy, I am also going through other avenues on my side.

So I finally went live this morning, after it took them 2 days to finish the install.

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Zone 2.
That speed test I posted was with my EdgeRouter load balancing between the Fibre and my ADSL.

Here is the speedtest from the Fibre Router itself:
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A bit better, but was hoping for a better ping though?

Seems I got it wrong... He had an Ubiquiti Edgerouter...

 

[CapoPlays]

Wait is VumaReach just Mitchells Fibre because their FAQ page is a 1:1 copy from Mitchells Fibre website including their name but thanks for the info bud I'll try and get in contact with them asap.

Mitchells fibre VumaReach Vumatel same company different initiatives projects there was an old article stating vumatel was going to deliver 100mbps for R89 per month in a low income town called alexandra but nothing happened then all of a sudden boom mitchells plain gets fibre

 

[Prim0]

Was thinking so but just noticed they have no contact details either, they have 3 separate FB pages for Retreat, Soweto and Vosloorus but no number or email to reach out to them directly.

 

[Prim0]

Just got an email from Solomon Philander after having to get in contact with the sub-council manager since he never got back to me.