What is your experience with Openserve?

[StoneCold]

Here's an Idea, use CISP / . Apart from always best Netflix performance provider on mybb articles, they come highly recommended. .

I know that CISP is the "creme-dela-creme" here on MyBB and overall, but it's just a tiny bit out of my price range at the moment seeing that I'm becoming a parent at the end of September. So, I need to scale down, but perhaps in the future, I'll acquire their services

 

[pinball wizard]

I know that CISP is the "creme-dela-creme" here on MyBB and overall, but it's just a tiny bit out of my price range at the moment seeing that I'm becoming a parent at the end of September. So, I need to scale down, but perhaps in the future, I'll acquire their services

I moved from Afrihost to CISP cause I get overall better value for the same money.

 

[ProfA]

Absolutely no problem with Openserve as a backbone and Axxess as ISP. The only thing I can complain about is streaming off international servers, but that is not an Openserve problem.

+1

 

[rawoke]

My OpenServe (20mbps) is not too bad ! Installation was fast ! (went with ISPAfrika at first and they were brilliant with making scheduling and ordering my OpenServe installation). My gf also has an OpenServe connection but previous owners took network ONT device with ??? Garth from ISPAfrika organised everything and she got installation second business day.
OpenServe has been ok (for a telkom company anyway)

 

[StoneCold]

My OpenServe (20mbps) is not too bad ! Installation was fast ! (went with ISPAfrika at first and they were brilliant with making scheduling and ordering my OpenServe installation). My gf also has an OpenServe connection but previous owners took network ONT device with ??? Garth from ISPAfrika organised everything and she got installation second business day.
OpenServe has been ok (for a telkom company anyway)

Holy smokes, okay... 2 business days. Colour me impressed

Good to hear more success stories about ISPAfrika

 

[Andre.avw67@gmail.com]

The installation process took some time, but since our Openserve fibre was installed we did not have any problems with it. Works as promised.

Openserve is Telkom which means it is a Telkom company. What I do not like about Telkom/Openserve it has a Fair user policy in this day and age why would you want to be throttled?
This was an ADSL thing to assure no 1 user uses all the bandwidth so all users from the exchange will have the fair bandwidth and use. With Fibre the tech work not the same I see no need for such a FUP in this day and age.

 

[Geoff.D]

Openserve is Telkom which means it is a Telkom company. What I do not like about Telkom/Openserve it has a Fair user policy in this day and age why would you want to be throttled?
This was an ADSL thing to assure no 1 user uses all the bandwidth so all users from the exchange will have the fair bandwidth and use. With Fibre the tech work not the same I see no need for such a FUP in this day and age.

Fibre in the last mile only eliminates the ADSL capacity constraint between you and the nearest node. The backbone to the exchange or node is the same, and has been on fibre for more than 30 years. Therefore there was never a real justification for FUP, IF sufficient backbone capacity existed. And that was and is still the issue. Just because the network is on fibre does not guarantee that sufficient capacity has been provided.
So, the real issue has and will always be a business plan matter and NOT a technical one.

 

[sammi01]

20mbps Openserve / Telkom.
Installation was done within a few days (Nov 2017).
No issues.

 

[sammya]

Anyone experiencing bad Openserve fibre service over the last day or two?

 

[StoneCold]

Anyone experiencing bad Openserve fibre service over the last day or two?

None whatsoever.

I eventually went with CISP last month.

Ordered a 100mb Openserve line on a Tuesday, was installed by Friday and since then it's been running like a baws!

 

[sammya]

ISP - Afrihost
Priority 10/5 service
- Direct 1m fly lead wired connection to D-Link DIR-825 router
- No other connections and no downloads or uploads running.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7710822837
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7710822837.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7710831855
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7710831855.png

 

[sammya]

Connection is still pathetic

Ping: 1293ms
Download: 0.08Mbps
Upload: 0.1Mbps

https://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/result/8375100

 

[sammi01]

Anyone experiencing bad Openserve fibre service over the last day or two?

All good here

 

[eddief1]

If you on openserv, you use IPC, its so expensive for the ISP's they kinda forced to shape seeing as local breakout from openserv is more expensive than international traffic to London