Vuma Reach Fibre - Mitchell's Plain/Strandfontein

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I'm planning on ma just installing some conduits and draw wires myself as mine has to go through the garden and require some drilling through two walls. I heard stories of the installers catching on a lot of nonsense in peoples places.
I get that they do it for free but I just want them in and out. Pull in the fibre, connect and kla.
 
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Random Citizen said:
I'm planning on ma just installing some conduits and draw wires myself as mine has to go through the garden and require some drilling through two walls. I heard stories of the installers catching on a lot of nonsense in peoples places.
I get that they do it for free but I just want them in and out. Pull in the fibre, connect and kla.
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My neighour has paving and they did a surface mount. I would rather prepare the route myself...
 
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Random Citizen said:
I'm planning on ma just installing some conduits and draw wires myself as mine has to go through the garden and require some drilling through two walls. I heard stories of the installers catching on a lot of nonsense in peoples places.
I get that they do it for free but I just want them in and out. Pull in the fibre, connect and kla.
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They did all you said at my place and I dont have a single complaint. All neat and tidy.

I think some people just really like to overreact.

It really irks the hell out of me when they use the word disgusting when there's a crack in the wall or paving not reinstated properly...

Its called poor workmanship.... Disgusting is when you done in toilet and wipe your **** all over the wall....
 
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Nikkel said:
They did all you said at my place and I dont have a single complaint. All neat and tidy.

I think some people just really like to overreact.

It really irks the hell out of me when they use the word disgusting when there's a crack in the wall or paving not reinstated properly...

Its called poor workmanship.... Disgusting is when you done in toilet and wipe your **** all over the wall....
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Same with me, no issues at all.. okes did what they had to and that was that... But it's more the uneducated who are only now getting internet, that are moaning
 
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I also have nothing bad to say about the guys who installed,friendly and efficient
 
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I've been trying to tell the people on Facebook that the inconvenience of the sand and unpatched pavements is just part and parcel of a fibre trenching and installation. Mitchells Fibre have been doing a great job really and they've been working a very fast pace, we are fortunate!
 
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@AfriMan can you explain the 2 free months to me? My Dec invoice shows R0.. would that mean that my January invoice would also reflect R0, but then my Feb invoice (End January) would then kick in and show R399?
 
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jparker said:
As far as I’m aware they won’t lift and replace paving - I have a 30m length from the fibre point to where i need it so I’ll need to lay the conduit myself. It’s very interesting that they’ll work in the roof cos that may save me from lifting paving.
Did you tell them on the day they installed?
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I asked then on the day they arrived.... it is different teams so I guess its who you get on the day. If they wont go into the roof for you, then lift your paving yourself, have the trench ready but they provide their own pipe... don't spend money where you don't need to.
 
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mandana said:
I asked then on the day they arrived.... it is different teams so I guess its who you get on the day. If they wont go into the roof for you, then lift your paving yourself, have the trench ready but they provide their own pipe... don't spend money where you don't need to.
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I’m with you. But if they can only tell me on the day they won’t go in the roof then I will have to get them to return cos lifting 30 meters of paving will take some time.
Did they run conduit in your roof?
 
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Good Day guys. A couple of weeks back I read about Frankensteins bad experience when switching ISP's on Mitchells Fibre line. Well this really worried me as I was with Mweb my first ISP and switched over to Coolideas. So I went onto the Mweb website, cancelled my service after my voucher expired and received an email from Mweb stating that my cancellation will only take place once a rep phoned me. Got a cancellation email saying it's in process. Anyway I still went ahead with purchasing a Cool ideas voucher and loaded it onto the portal. After 5min the Fibre was active after Mitchells Fibre completed their validation. So yes it seems that Mitchells Fibre does switch your ISP's like they indicate on their website. I still haven't received a phone call from a Mweb rep but this wasn't necessary though as Mitchells Fibre controls the cancellation and switch as it shows everything in the work order page on your portal. Whole process took me less than 10minutes to be up and running again. Just letting you guys know
 
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Good Day guys. A couple of weeks back I read about Frankensteins bad experience when switching ISP's on Mitchells Fibre line. Well this really worried me as I was with Mweb my first ISP and switched over to Coolideas. So I went onto the Mweb website, cancelled my service after my voucher expired and received an email from Mweb stating that my cancellation will only take place once a rep phoned me. Got a cancellation email saying it's in process. Anyway I still went ahead with purchasing a Cool ideas voucher and loaded it onto the portal. After 5min the Fibre was active after Mitchells Fibre completed their validation. So yes it seems that Mitchells Fibre does switch your ISP's like they indicate on their website. I still haven't received a phone call from a Mweb rep but this wasn't necessary though as Mitchells Fibre controls the cancellation and switch as it shows everything in the work order page on your portal. Whole process took me less than 10minutes to be up and running again. Just letting you guys know
 
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Random Citizen said:
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Came home today to a road full of technicians busy splicing and testing the fibre points in my road.

I had a long chat with one of the foreman and he gave a honest lay down of their plans.

They, as in the guys busy working here outside contracted under MF, will only complete testing Strandfontein portion of zone4 by the 24th December. Thereafter they submit the results of the tests in order to declare the Strandfontein area live, seeing as it is on the heels of Christmas this might only reflect at ISPs later.
These guys are only taking off on 25th, 26th and the 1st.. thereafter they will start with splicing and testing of the Pelican Heights section of zone 4. Unfortunately he couldn't give me a proper answer on when Pelican heights will be finished, but based on how fast they are doing the entire Strandfontein I wouldn't say it will take longer than a week. Imo I would most rather believe the guy on the ground instead of FB and whatsapp posts.

He also gave me more info regarding the network. The PoP for strandfonttein is located near the Methodist church in Frigate Road. He also more importantly confirmed that the hardware and the racks in the PoP is capable of higher speeds and allows for future expansion, but for now as we know MF business module will maintain the 20/10.

He also let me take a snapshot of the map in my road for any of you guys that may be interested to see how they typically would plan and partition the zones.

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Double.D said:
Does anyone know if Zone 4 is still going live today?
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Based on what @Random Citizen shared on one of the previous pages, it doesn't look that way :confused:

I've seen a lot of progress in the past week though. When I checked the small box outside my house on Monday, I saw orange cabling where there was nothing on the weekend. Check again yesterday and now the orange cabling has been inserted into some black unit made of plastic, I'm guessing they were splicing yesterday?
 
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