Which Fibre ISP - Metrofibre

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Looking at the 50 download or 100

these are the options

Afrihost
Cool Ideas
Home Connect
Vodacom
Firestream
Greencom
IConnect

Thanks - looking at price and service - dont care about upload
 
marine1 said:
Any particular reasons?
Thanks
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On this forum they are quick to help, even if it's not their customer. I met some of their reps at a local fiber discussion and they were probably the only ones who were clued up.(Mweb basically tried to accuse everyone else of being unsustainable and CellC tried "we're the only girls" lol.)

And on this forum, I have yet to see an angry rant (just look at the Afrihost Feedback thread to see why you should not go with them). The two ISP I would currently rate the highest are Crystal Web and Cool Ideas.

The feedback thread is currently a bit empty compared to some other ISP: https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/793061-Cool-Ideas-Fiber-ISP-Feedback


Icemanbrfc said:
They have been around for quite a while, along with DFA. Afrihost will only provide data i think, and the other players im not so sure on
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They all have it so that you order line+data through the ISP, or at least that is the norm on fiber (vuma, frogfoot, OpenServe)


We can also start a why not to go with the list:
marine1 said:
Looking at the 50 download or 100

these are the options

Afrihost
Cool Ideas
Home Connect
Vodacom
Firestream
Greencom
IConnect

Thanks - looking at price and service - dont care about upload
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Afrihost already mentioned, constant issues, nice recent summary: https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...ed-accounts-Who-do-I-move-to-Axxess-Webafrica
Cool Ideas: I like them.
Home Connect:
Stay away. All your traffic is passed through a vpn, everything you do is logged, you can't set up any form of Port forwarding, and they are technically man-in-the-middle for all your traffic and could decode anything you try to do securely, like online banking.
https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...s-your-experience-with-Cipherwave-HomeConnect
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Vodacom: Really? You'd trust this company after things like the Sim swap fraud, etc.?
Firestream: Seem to have given up communication?
Greencom: Okay choice
Iconnect: Okay bordering on good, mixed bag here, they seem to have improved.
 
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marine1 said:
Looking at the 50 download or 100

these are the options

Afrihost
Cool Ideas
Home Connect
Vodacom
Firestream
Greencom
IConnect

Thanks - looking at price and service - dont care about upload
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Is it directly with Metrofibre or through a reseller?
 
What's your price range ? And why don't you try Metrofibre as an ISP ?
 
marine1 said:
Looking at the 50 download or 100

these are the options

Afrihost
Cool Ideas
Home Connect
Vodacom
Firestream
Greencom
IConnect

Thanks - looking at price and service - dont care about upload
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Definitely Cool Ideas. They've had a tonne of good testimonials from users on the forum and there's a rep here on the forum too.
 
marine1 said:
Think I am going to try these guys,
http://www.home-connect.co.za/metrofibre/

Big price difference between them and Cool ideas

Home connect :
R788 - 50/50
Cool Ideas:
R999 - 50/50
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You did see the review I linked? They heavily shape/throttle, you get what you pay.

EDIT: I see they say it's unshaped, I wonder... (throttling doesn't count as shaping, lol)
 
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marine1 said:
Hmmm good point :( Thanks bud
So perhaps the other one for 999 is better then
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Looking through the rest of the thread where I linked the bad review they seem to be all right though, so if it's not a fixed 12/24month contract you can try it out and see what happens.
 
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