Yup the promo is being run by Vumatel and will automatically apply to all ISPs. Double speeds for 3 months starting on June 13th. More updates to follow.
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@websquadza is there any way to view my line usage? Just wanting to compare with my firewall numbers, which aren't looking very right to me
As far as I remember, you’re on Vuma trenched right? Unfortunately no usage tracking there. Only for GPON networks
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I am on GPON. How can I check my usage?
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This has been sorted, had to offline my network (including my ONT) for about an hour. Started it all up, working again.
Is the General Vumatel issue in Roodepoort still ongoing?
How does AH add tracking info? I recall them having something like this but could be mistaken.
Drop support a ticket and they will direct you to the usage portal login.
Vumatel run the access layer for trenched. This means Vumatel hand out our IPs to clients using their DHCP network and basically put all the trenched traffic into a VRF and route to and from our network handovers to you the client.. There is no tie in to our systems with regards to IP/Object allocations. In theory- we could gather traffic usage on a per IP basis if we could correlate this data with the IPs that are assigned to objects by Vumatel. But given that we don’t need the data for anything (packages are uncapped and untracked) and per IP accounting is quite onerous on routing hardware - we've chosen not to do this. PPPOE by its very nature has accounting functionality built into the protocol, and works in tandem with our AAA platform.
The issue seemed to clear after weeks of back and forth and "nothing" being changed on AEX/Vuma's side.
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I want OpenServe Gbps first, get in lineI guess I shouldn't be expecting 2gbos?
Unfortunately not - There is an upside on the 1000/200 packages, albeit tiny enough not to make news like double up does: Upload speeds are being increased to 250 Mbps for the duration of the promoI guess I shouldn't be expecting 2gbos?
I think they meant to increase it to 500mbps
... I guess I'll take it, but not sure I would actually pay extra for it after the promo period.Edit: My original post came across d-baggy... Anything for free is great, and I acknowledge that there are other issues which would inhibit going over 1gbps such as hardware limitations. My frustration is that this is the 2nd promotion where Vuma has done something negligible for 1gbps subscribers... would like them to appreciate us more...
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line has been upgraded to the promo running. Thank you!
No stress at all. Having a 1G at home- I would have liked something more than 50M upload too. Hardware limitations aside, it would be interesting to spitball possible promos FNOs could run on a 1G service..I think they meant to increase it to 500mbps
Edit: My original post came across d-baggy... Anything for free is great, and I acknowledge that there are other issues which would inhibit going over 1gbps such as hardware limitations. My frustration is that this is the 2nd promotion where Vuma has done something negligible for 1gbps subscribers... would like them to appreciate us more...
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On a recent trip to Singapore I learnt they also have a hard limit of 1Gig
If you need more they light up more ports on your ONT and send another router
With current hardware, I think the most "realistic" upgrade could've been 500mbps upload, or sync 1gbps/1gbps. I can't imagine it'd be a costly exercise either as I'd imagine most users are more download intensive.
I was debating whether a 10gbps sfp module could simply be slotted into my mikrotik - to enable speeds over 1gbps. I suspect this would break a whole bunch of processes/policies and there'd probably be more elegant solutions. But be that as it may, I've not yet needed more than 1gbps - all my devices have gigabit ports, and without considerable investment to switch out AC to AX wifi, and get higher speed NICs, it just feels like a problem I'll worry about in 5-10 years...
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