Pretoria East - Mooikloof Ridge

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I can confirm with my own eyes that subcontractors are rolling out fibre in Mooikloof Ridge in Pretoria East.

They are saying its Telkom which I think means its Openserve.

Does anyone know if the network is open access and if so which ISPs are the best in this market (Since I never thought fibre would ever get rolled out there I havent bothered to even do any research).
 
The whole of MKR is in the planning process. Light pink on Telkom website. Spoke to the lady at Telkom store in Woodlands mall. Should be live by mid Jan.
 
Thats awesome, so i will then wait it out, and leave my unotelly, netlfix and hulu active.
 
Went to Telkom in Woodlands again yesterday. The lady told me that a lot of people are asking for this. She gave me the number of the Mooikloof Ridge consultant and he indicated that we will have fiber only by end of March. :`(
 
At least they are installing the fibre. Mooikloof Ridge is in a dead spot. No Telkom Mobile, No Neotel and only some complexes has ADSL and there is a lot of copper theft.
 
I spoke to the same guy today and he said that only the older complexes have fibre and it will go live in April June. So I am officially out of the running. Going to try for adsl, something tells me that won't work out either.
 
I received this letter in October last year;
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essop1@gp said:
I spoke to the same guy today and he said that only the older complexes have fibre and it will go live in April June. So I am officially out of the running. Going to try for adsl, something tells me that won't work out either.
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No try Telkom LTE. We are in Rondebosch and signal is fine !

Don't try adsl. 1mbps maximum:/
 
So I spoke to my contacts, The official/none official word is that Openserve has bitten off more then what they could chew. The December deadline for Garsfontein and the last few parts of Faerie Glen to be either finished or half way done with the fiber installation process, has fallen through. So we are looking at End March or April midway through May, before the project has reached its targets. Asking Telkom for a ETA on the project is a no go for everyone looking for information, it seems as though Openserve runs completely independent of Telkom and they let Telkom know when areas go live.

Your best bet, try finding someone that works in or around Openserve to get a rough idea how far their projects are. Or you could try contacting them directly and see how far you can get. Technically the whole of Faerie Glen should be done by now, they should be at least 50% complete with Garsfontein's Fiber roll-out. Its hard to tell.
 
essop1@gp said:
Going to try for adsl
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captjohn said:
No, try Telkom LTE. We are in Rondebosch and signal is fine !
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^This!

Even though Mooikloof Ridge officially falls into a "hole" on the Telkom LTE coverage map, there are at least 3 LTE-enabled Telkom base-stations within a 3km radius :

20160118 Telkom LTE stations around MKR.JPG

As best I can judge from Google Earth, the elevation profiles between Mooikloof Ridge and those 3 stations - while not brilliant - look do-able, particularly if one is prepared to invest some effort in a decent outdoor external antenna system with some height.
The fact that somebody in that area (captjohn) in Rondebosch) already gets some LTE signal (presumably using just the internal antennas on an LTE router ?) pretty much confirms that.
And if that doesn't work, even 3G with good antenna arrangements will probably get you close to 10Mbps with a nice stable connection.

Why suffer while you wait for the fibre rollout ? Even fairly crummy LTE will blow ADSL into the dust!
 
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From my place last week, while the dude from telkom was telling me that the LTE signal is not that great, i did a speedtest with my vodacom sim and got just over 15mb down.

My problem is the consumption of data in the household, Netlfix, Hulu, live streaming average about 300gigs a month. Can't do that anymore, had to reconnect DSTV for now.
 
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