Vumatel installing next to Openserve

R4ziel said:
This is hard to read, Now the guys with Fiber are getting more Fiber, while we without Fiber can't do anything about it sigh.

I hope to see the openserve/Vumatel bakkies in my area soon(ish)
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My thoughts exactly. Really depressing,...
 
Jimmy-Z said:
My thoughts exactly. Really depressing,...
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Yup feel your pain and I have tried for 2 years to live with stolen copper, congested exchanges and finger pointing between service provider and infrastructure provider.
No response from multiple attempts at RSAWEB that has actually provided a connection in the area to a business. we are in a small complex that has 5 people that will take fibre and another 3 possibles after seeing how our install goes (well if it ever happened)

Cancelled CW last night and waiting for an account dispute with telcom to be settled and that will be cancelled too.
 
I see huge battles coming between OpenServe and Vuma in the coming years for market share...

It's astonishing how fast Vuma is expanding - much faster than anyone out there TBH.
 
Yster21 said:
I have read up on it, which is why I ask why it is "crappy".

There are two entirely different things being spoken about here: aerial vs trenched installation, and AE vs GPON technology.

The aerial fibre is incredibly strong. There have been cases of trees falling on the cables, and end up being suspended by the aerial fibre without any fibre cores breaking. I've heard of a taxi knocking a pole over, only with the pole hanging by the fibre and the fibre remaining perfectly in tact. I don't think hail will have any impact on the cables. A couple of weeks ago we had the massive storm in the West Rand that caused devastation in our area, and the fibre was perfectly fine. Mall roofs collapsed and skylights were destroyed by hail and wind, yet I was smashing at 100 Mbps through the storm.

Trenching also has a multitude of cons, if you could be bothered to do a bit of a search on those. Both roll-out strategies have pros and cons. Neither is clearly superior in all aspects. Trenching is really only feasible in high density population areas, for instance where there are a lot of flats and complexes.

Fibre can, on a theoretical level, support up to 1 Pbps (10^15 bps) of throughput per channel. That's millions of years of HD video, per second. The congestion won't sit in the fibre, but in the end-point equipment, which can be upgraded (XGPON, etc). I am not aware that GPON congestion is an issue at the moment, thus no upgrades are required.

GPON is perfectly fine, as is aerial installation.
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Can confirm i am also on vumatel Aerial 100mbps and 99.9% of the time i am getting full speed without any problems, when i do get it a problem with speed like only 80mbps instead of 100mbps it resolves itself within minutes
 
Arno4Jackie said:
Can confirm i am also on vumatel Aerial 100mbps and 99.9% of the time i am getting full speed without any problems, when i do get it a problem with speed like only 80mbps instead of 100mbps it resolves itself within minutes
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Why would you want 100mbps on fibre?
What are you doing with it ?

I'm on 25/25 and have no issues with 4 heavy users at home. This includes Netflix+Gaming+Youtube etc.
 
Nomadman said:
Why would you want 100mbps on fibre?
What are you doing with it ?
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Why wouldn't you?

I download steam games at 12MB per sec. I have a tenant streaming Netflix uhd, while I stream with kodi and my stepdaughter watches YouTube. No contention. No buffering, no irritation.
 
savage said:
I see huge battles coming between OpenServe and Vuma in the coming years for market share...

It's astonishing how fast Vuma is expanding - much faster than anyone out there TBH.
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Agree
 
isie said:
incorrect, my hood Metro and Vuma are rolling out
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Well then I guess they have changed the status quo previously in a media statement they stated they are not into duplicating where other providers have already deployed
 
Sinbad said:
Why wouldn't you?

I download steam games at 12MB per sec. I have a tenant streaming Netflix uhd, while I stream with kodi and my stepdaughter watches YouTube. No contention. No buffering, no irritation.
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I'm on 25/25 and have no issues with 4 heavy users at home. This includes Netflix+Gaming+Youtube etc.
 
Nomadman said:
Why would you want 100mbps on fibre?
What are you doing with it ?

I'm on 25/25 and have no issues with 4 heavy users at home. This includes Netflix+Gaming+Youtube etc.
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I work from home 1 day a week and i can't wait for stuff to download when every minute is costing me money
 
What’s the difference between Vuma and Vuma aerial?
 
Bump - regarding the Vuma Aerial Fibre here - is the aerial fibre GPON and not Active Ethernet?

Can it support the 1GBPS packages offered now or does it suffer if GPON?
 
jsheed_sa said:
Bump - regarding the Vuma Aerial Fibre here - is the aerial fibre GPON and not Active Ethernet?

Can it support the 1GBPS packages offered now or does it suffer if GPON?
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Most Vumatel Aerial is GPON but I believe there is some that is AE but i stand to be corrected. Vumatel GPON does support 1Gbps as far as I know. IF there is congestion they will just add more OLTs anyways.
 
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