Web Africa Fibre... Anyone using it?

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Hi, the block of flats I stay in is busy getting fibre installed. Link Africa and Open Serve are laying it to the entrance of each apartment, so we have a choice of which to go with.

I have been looking at my options, and am wanting to get a month to month 50mbps uncapped account.
Budget is R700-R900

Web Africa looks like a good deal through Mitsol. It's 50mbps up/down, uncapped unshaped for R799. First 2 months are free and installation is free as long as you stay with them for at least 12 months.

I haven't seen much user feedback regarding their fibre, so if anyone has any experiences to share, then please do.

Here are all the other providers I can use through Mitsol: Fibre ISP's

I have heard good things about Cool Ideas, so they are also an option. Not sure about the other ISP's listed.

Any suggestions are welcome.

I'm currently on 10mbps ADSL with the Vox promo 400GB for R164. It's too bad I'll be giving that promo deal up, but I'm hoping the upgrade will be worth it.

Thanks
 
I've had nothing but good service on WA through Vuma.

With that being said, if I had a choice who my provider was, I would use Cool Ideas.
 
I may be wrong but not so long ago WA never had any after hours support this may have changed since they are becoming consumer focussed rather than just business products.
 
My experience with WA and Vuma has been abysmal from WA's side (not Vuma).

I do not recommend WA.
 
Kwerty said:
I've had nothing but good service on WA through Vuma.

With that being said, if I had a choice who my provider was, I would use Cool Ideas.
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Why didn't you have a choice?
 
PBCool said:
Why didn't you have a choice?
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Was also with Coolideas. They were the best. Am with WebAfrica now and the speed is up and down mostly down.

Would move back in a heartbeat
 
bokka1 said:
Does Cool Ideas have capped packages?
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I can say for certain, 100% no. That's one of the reasons I use them as my ISP. All there packages are without bandwidth limits. Which means I don't even know how much bandwidth me and my family use, because it doesn't matter and there is no FUP. So I don't have to worry about being throttled because the kids went overboard with netflix or youtube.

IMO, once you get to using fiber with any provider other than Openserve, it makes no sense to be charged based on the bandwidth you use. The reason I distinguish Openserve is because they charge the ISP a per gigabyte fee on the link from their network to the ISP, forcing the ISP to pass that per gigabyte charge onto the end user (that's what IPC is really about).
 
coop said:
I can say for certain, 100% no. That's one of the reasons I use them as my ISP. All there packages are without bandwidth limits. Which means I don't even know how much bandwidth me and my family use, because it doesn't matter and there is no FUP. So I don't have to worry about being throttled because the kids went overboard with netflix or youtube.

IMO, once you get to using fiber with any provider other than Openserve, it makes no sense to be charged based on the bandwidth you use. The reason I distinguish Openserve is because they charge the ISP a per gigabyte fee on the link from their network to the ISP, forcing the ISP to pass that per gigabyte charge onto the end user (that's what IPC is really about).
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No they do not, it's per Mbps. The difference is that IPC just costs a lot more than everything else, if you look at some older MyBB articles, you'd pay about half the costs on any other provider compared to OpenServe.
 
HeftyCrab said:
99.9% sure its a NO. They have a "what you see is what you get" approach. Month to Month, uncapped, unshaped/unthrottled. That's why people love them.
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We don't, we believe in rather having a simple service that you never have to worry about.
 
Johnatan56 said:
No they do not, it's per Mbps. The difference is that IPC just costs a lot more than everything else, if you look at some older MyBB articles, you'd pay about half the costs on any other provider compared to OpenServe.
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Yeap, IPC is multiple times the price of International transit per Mbps for example.
 
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