Cell C on Fibre in Cape Town. How is your experience?

Hi,

I have a friend who is on the 20/20 cell c fibre package through vumatel and his experience has been pretty awful for the most part.

Main issues:

1. He stays in cpt but he gets 40ms to cpt and he gets 178ms to london. However, to joburg his ping sits in the 20s which is normal. Its as if all his traffic is being routed through joburg.

2. For the past couple weeks there has been some severe congestion on the network during peak times (mostly the evening) causing high ping and packetloss. They did some upgrades on the network this week which alleviated most of this, but my friend is still seeing some ping spikes now and then.

How has the experience been for anyone else on cell c in cape town?

I can't comment on Fibre experience, but what you've describe to some extent mirrors my Cell C LTE experience. I'm also in CT and my traffic gets routed through Johannesburg, I have the same issues with congestion, high ping and packet loss. It's been better of late, but the service nowhere near as good as it was a year + ago when I was getting 30mbps regularly. Now I'm happy if it stays around 8mbps - 15mbps.