What is MWEB through Open Serve like?

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I am currently moving from ADSL to fibre and would like to keep my MWEB e-mail addresses.
I was looking at their Uncapped R599 deal with 10Mbps down and 5Mbps up with Open Serve.

Any opinions on Open Serve?

Their offerings can be found here https://www.mweb.co.za/fibre
 
I can't comment on Mweb network but I do believe they have a fair use policy in place.

At R599 per month you can go for Cool Ideas 10/5 on Openserve with Free installtion for R499 + R59 per month to keep your Mweb "premium" mailbox. Will cost you R558 so you saving monthly, still have your email and you are on a network that you know does not have any fair use policies.
 
SoldierMan said:
I am currently moving from ADSL to fibre and would like to keep my MWEB e-mail addresses.
I was looking at their Uncapped R599 deal with 10Mbps down and 5Mbps up with Open Serve.

Any opinions on Open Serve?

Their offerings can be found here https://www.mweb.co.za/fibre
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My eldest brother is on the same deal with Mweb on Openserve and quite happy. I'd say go for it :)

But as cavedog said, CISP also has an awesome deal for 10/5 on OS which is also good value for money.
 
cavedog said:
I can't comment on Mweb network but I do believe they have a fair use policy in place.

At R599 per month you can go for Cool Ideas 10/5 on Openserve with Free installtion for R499 + R59 per month to keep your Mweb "premium" mailbox. Will cost you R558 so you saving monthly, still have your email and you are on a network that you know does not have any fair use policies.
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Thanks, so I take it I pay MWEB the R59 fee?
 
ponder said:
Yes or you can give it to me every month.
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Ha! No thought maybe Cool Ideas somehow handled it for me. I just pay my monthly fees every month and don't know much about this stuff :p
 
SoldierMan said:
I am currently moving from ADSL to fibre and would like to keep my MWEB e-mail addresses.
I was looking at their Uncapped R599 deal with 10Mbps down and 5Mbps up with Open Serve.

Any opinions on Open Serve?

Their offerings can be found here https://www.mweb.co.za/fibre
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No complaints or issues..

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Foxhound5366 said:
81ms ping on fibre??? How's that possible? Fibre ping should be 5ms generally, not worse than 7ms.
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Maybe in a Perfect world..

No chance on normal Openserve Fibre..

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Even on my vox Fibre, PC connected via LAN..

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MyBroadband Speed Tests from phone..
 
BigBear said:
Maybe in a Perfect world..

No chance on normal Openserve Fibre..

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Even on my vox Fibre, PC connected via LAN..

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MyBroadband Speed Tests from phone..
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You need to do trace routes to see where the latency is coming from. Something wrong.

Openserve 200/100 Fibre line with Afrihost. This is not an ad for Afrihost as I was getting the same 4 or 5ms latency on Vox,Axxess,Supersonic,Infogro,Cybersmart,Webafrica with the same line.

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My openserve fibre is being installed tomorrow, will share a speedtest. A ping of 70ms is ADSL not fibre though, so something is definitely wrong.
 
Sometimes it depends on the area and the amount of IPC nodes the ISP has, I would assume Vox has all 3 though. So could just be the way they route traffic.
 
Fibre installed today, Telkom Internet through Openserve:


I'd say I'm happy with that :D Have considered going faster just because, but honestly it's only me and I don't download nearly enough mega files to make it worthwhile.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Fibre installed today, Telkom Internet through Openserve:


I'd say I'm happy with that :D Have considered going faster just because, but honestly it's only me and I don't download nearly enough mega files to make it worthwhile.
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Impressive! I hope I get such good numbers...
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Fibre installed today, Telkom Internet through Openserve:


I'd say I'm happy with that :D Have considered going faster just because, but honestly it's only me and I don't download nearly enough mega files to make it worthwhile.
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Telkom ISP :sick:
 
cavedog said:
Telkom ISP :sick:
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Yeah, I didn't do my research and now I have, it seems like most ISPs offer fibre for 100MB down / 50MB up at the same price I'll be paying for Telkom's 20MB down / 10MB up (R1000/month)

When I can be bothered I'll try make the switch. I've used Webafrica before with good experiences, so would like to go with them again.

Only snag is I'll need to pay for my Telkom router as a penalty most likely :D
 
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