Vuma Reach Phoenix Thread

ADrunkTeddyBear said:
Probably Sastri Park and Terrance Manor
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I wish. Apart from a few millionaire homes these areas are generally desperately poor, and have barely developed from the 2 bedroom homes. I think Stanmore, GroveEnd or maybe Lenham could be next. Possibly Brookdale although there they would need a small army to accompany them.

Shastri Park and Trenance Manor would likely withstand the deployment with the least disruptions though, at around 30 years old having the youngest infrastructure and fewer developed verges and driveways.

I am with WISP Rapidnet Homelite package at R399, antenna pointed towards Terrance Park, Verulam, getting 10Mbs (and on upload speedtest), it does drop at times not too badly though. At work we are with MyVoip 5Mbs pointed to Stanmore and is a major source of frustration at times. Don't know if they are under provisioned on contention ratios and saturated, at times they drop to Rain speeds. Hoping with the uptake of fibre the WISP towers will be less contended.
 
Vis1/0N said:
I wish. Apart from a few millionaire homes these areas are generally desperately poor, and have barely developed from the 2 bedroom homes. I think Stanmore, GroveEnd or maybe Lenham could be next. Possibly Brookdale although there they would need a small army to accompany them.

Shastri Park and Trenance Manor would likely withstand the deployment with the least disruptions though, at around 30 years old having the youngest infrastructure and fewer developed verges and driveways.

I am with WISP Rapidnet Homelite package at R399, antenna pointed towards Terrance Park, Verulam, getting 10Mbs (and on upload speedtest), it does drop at times not too badly though. At work we are with MyVoip 5Mbs pointed to Stanmore and is a major source of frustration at times. Don't know if they are under provisioned on contention ratios and saturated, at times they drop to Rain speeds. Hoping with the uptake of fibre the WISP towers will be less contended.
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its either Stanmore or towards Shastri Park , i recall seeing a message left by the Vuma reach facebook page stating they'll be at Lenham mid year. Gather some fellow people in your area and gains some attention on that facebook page to show some presences and urgency.
 
Currently trenching in my area, Unit20. I have a 10mbps ADSL which Afrihost has been managing for the last 6 years. Very satisfied with the service and quick turn around times. Now when I applied for ADSL Afrihost handled everything for me i.e I didn't have to deal with Telkom. So will the process be the same when applying for fibre or will I have to deal with Vumatel as well, in the sense that I have to call them to install the hardware and then get an ISP to get me online? A week ago I noticed that you could pre order fibre on the Afrihost site, it showed that my area was currently in a rollout phase but now the option to do so has been replaced with "there are no fibre providers in your area, if you're sure you have fibre in your area, click here". It's strange because with Webafrica I am able to pre order but it's something I would prefer Afrihost handling as I am currently using their services.
 
MIKE ADRIANO said:
Currently trenching in my area, Unit20. I have a 10mbps ADSL which Afrihost has been managing for the last 6 years. Very satisfied with the service and quick turn around times. Now when I applied for ADSL Afrihost handled everything for me i.e I didn't have to deal with Telkom. So will the process be the same when applying for fibre or will I have to deal with Vumatel as well, in the sense that I have to call them to install the hardware and then get an ISP to get me online? A week ago I noticed that you could pre order fibre on the Afrihost site, it showed that my area was currently in a rollout phase but now the option to do so has been replaced with "there are no fibre providers in your area, if you're sure you have fibre in your area, click here". It's strange because with Webafrica I am able to pre order but it's something I would prefer Afrihost handling as I am currently using their services.
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When you apply on our website we will do everything for you. You signup we place the order and email you a payfast payment link. Once paid Vumatel does the installation and once that is done you are up and running.

With Vuma Reach the fibre ONT is the router as well where you can make changes to wifi name and password or from your vuma reach portal that we give you access to.
 
So many low-income people in the area are stuck with lousy LTE contracts. I have spoken to them and they're keen to move to Vumatel.
 
ADrunkTeddyBear said:
I think unit 20 will be ready by the middle of March. Actually quite excited now
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What's weird is that they started trenching in my area way before they could start in Sunford but now Sunford has been about 90% completed with cabling and I see those small white boxes as well. On my side they haven't even started to run the cables as yet. So not sure how much more until we go live.
 
MIKE ADRIANO said:
What's weird is that they started trenching in my area way before they could start in Sunford but now Sunford has been about 90% completed with cabling and I see those small white boxes as well. On my side they haven't even started to run the cables as yet. So not sure how much more until we go live.
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Haha don't stress unit 20 will go live before Sunford, Sunford is far from 90% complete as they are tackling all easy routes and have yet to trench on complicated roads which are full concrete, tar or paved entrances.
 
Yeah sorry. I meant Sunford Drive not the entire unit. You're right though, it's a slow work in progress but at least we're getting fibre.
 
MIKE ADRIANO said:
What's weird is that they started trenching in my area way before they could start in Sunford but now Sunford has been about 90% completed with cabling and I see those small white boxes as well. On my side they haven't even started to run the cables as yet. So not sure how much more until we go live.
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They started covering up the trenches on my road. So im hopeful we would be live by the end of March
 
I see that vuma fibre reach is marked as uncapped. Does it mean an uncapped product just for browsing? I see Unshaped(1), Unthrottled(1) and No thresholds(1) has a number"1" after the word implying that there is some sort of FUP? Will a user be penalised say for downloading 2TB of data? I currently clock in around 1.2TB of data a month on my ADSL at home using free data from 00:00am till 08:00am.
 

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MIKE ADRIANO said:
I see that vuma fibre reach is marked as uncapped. Does it mean an uncapped product just for browsing? I see Unshaped(1), Unthrottled(1) and No thresholds(1) has a number"1" after the word implying that there is some sort of FUP? Will a user be penalised say for downloading 2TB of data? I currently clock in around 1.2TB of data a month on my ADSL at home using free data from 00:00am till 08:00am.
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Tag our capetonians friends, they have plenty experience to answer that question.
 
MIKE ADRIANO said:
I see that vuma fibre reach is marked as uncapped. Does it mean an uncapped product just for browsing? I see Unshaped(1), Unthrottled(1) and No thresholds(1) has a number"1" after the word implying that there is some sort of FUP? Will a user be penalised say for downloading 2TB of data? I currently clock in around 1.2TB of data a month on my ADSL at home using free data from 00:00am till 08:00am.
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It means unlimited data anytime. We have reach clients exceeding 5TB a month. :)
 
AfriNatic said:
It means unlimited data anytime. We have reach clients exceeding 5TB a month. :)
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5tb? That's insane! What are they downloading? Usenet must be getting new signups as soon as areas have been marked live for fibre!
 
Cape Town VumaReach user here.... its do as you please uncapped unthrottled 24/7 as @AfriNatic says.

I'd advise you guys to get your own router if you can and run it off the Huawei GPON. The Huawei limits the amount of wifi devices and only has single band wifi. For dual band and freedom of more wifi connected devices there's many cost effective router choices pending budget.
 
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