Which would stuff you less Vuma or Openserve

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Ok here is the one big question

I live in area lucky enough to have options between Vuma's heavily over priced service or Openserve which belongs to Telkom :p

I currently have Vuma installed but with the far better prices through Coolideas on Openserve I am considering moving
Coolideas is happy to assist and said they will arrange installation for the Openserve fibre at no cost to me

So what is the opinions would it be worth it and would the fibre on Openserve be reasonably reliable since I need it to work from home
 
Been on OS since December and had 1 drop in that time (during working hours) that lasted 2 mins. Very stable, consistent. Only drawback is the max 200 down, 100 up - if you need faster then staying on Vuma is your best bet.

Edit: Am also on CISP and have never had to contact them due to network issues on OS
 
Been with Openserve a few years. I've had the occassional problem and it's been resolved quite quickly. Even though they are the only option, I wouldn't move if there are others (unless others were considerably cheaper).

There will always be the odd person who has had a rough experience with either. **** happens.

Otherwise it comes down to wanting to pay more for less or not. Don't really see how Vuma is an option even with Openserve being a disguised Telkom.

Didn't think of the higher speeds Vuma offered when I typed this first time around. That is something to consider though. Otherwise if up to 200Mbps down is fine, Openserve all the way.
 
Well I am on 50/5 atm
So being limited to 200/100 is not that bad at this time

Cannot see the need for the 1000 for home use yet for my needs (obviously other people with other requirements might need it)
 
Veneficus said:
Well I am on 50/5 atm
So being limited to 200/100 is not that bad at this time

Cannot see the need for the 1000 for home use yet for my needs (obviously other people with other requirements might need it)
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Based on that, would go with OpenServe.
 
If you're gaming and/or care about low latency then stay on Vuma. Openserve has been giving @S.Claus and I many issues with latency, you can look through our posts on the Cool Ideas thread.

But if you care more about price and perhaps uptime, then maybe switching to Openserve will be beneficial to you. My line barely ever goes down, it's just the unstable latency that's driving me insane.
 
I got messed around by Telkom (openserve) for so many years I wont go back.

I know at least have a leg to stand when dealing with a non government based company so unless the poop really hits the fan I will pay extra for Vuma.
 
Veneficus said:
How bad is the latency issue?
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Well right now my latency to JHB is 37ms, an hour ago it was 60ms and it's supposed to be 13ms. But today it's pretty bad, most days I have about 10ms extra depending on the server.

It seems like most Openserve customers aren't experiencing this problem, but there's a chance you could be one of the unlucky few that are.
 
DYreX146 said:
If you're gaming and/or care about low latency then stay on Vuma. Openserve has been giving @S.Claus and I many issues with latency, you can look through our posts on the Cool Ideas thread.

But if you care more about price and perhaps uptime, then maybe switching to Openserve will be beneficial to you. My line barely ever goes down, it's just the unstable latency that's driving me insane.
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I recall this being an international issue - I think it's quite important to mention that. It may also be specific to a game / a few games.

But otherwise, I get about 11ms to local Dota2 servers on Openserve. A friend in Pretoria gets around 4ms on Openserve.
 
DYreX146 said:
Well right now my latency to JHB is 37ms, an hour ago it was 60ms and it's supposed to be 13ms. But today it's pretty bad, most days I have about 10ms extra depending on the server.

It seems like most Openserve customers aren't experiencing this problem, but there's a chance you could be one of the unlucky few that are.
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Sorry - saw this after I posted. Yeah, I am certainly not getting your experience. Something is messed up there.
 
DYreX146 said:
Well right now my latency to JHB is 37ms, an hour ago it was 60ms and it's supposed to be 13ms. But today it's pretty bad, most days I have about 10ms extra depending on the server.

It seems like most Openserve customers aren't experiencing this problem, but there's a chance you could be one of the unlucky few that are.
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if you do a traceroute to say 8.8.8.8 where does your latency shoot up?
 
Been with openserve for almost 2 years and the only issue I had was latency issues while they did the speed upgrade in the beginning of the year. I have a inverter setup so it hardly ever gets reset as well. Just stay with an ISP like CISP so you dont have to deal with telkom support.
 
Veneficus said:
if you do a traceroute to say 8.8.8.8 where does your latency shoot up?
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The latency can increase at any point in the trace because the problem is on Openserve's transit, and it takes a longer route to some servers and not to others.

In these traces you can see at certain hops the latency is much higher and for other's it's fine, and the destination latency is wildly different even when all these servers are JHB based. (I'm in KZN so JHB latency should be about 13ms)

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Discord server
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Different Discord server
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Was called by Openserver yesterday asking when they can do the installation for the new Fibre
I asked them to schedule it for 18'th
 
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