Who wants 100Mpbs fibre broadband?

Hhahaha, yes please Telscum, I have been waiting 3 years (although you keep telling me it's just another 18 months, every time) for a basic line because you "don't have infrastructure" where are you getting this "infrastructure" from to roll out fiber in Johannesburg when you dont even have proper copper in place
 
I can throw a stone at one 100Mb/s Fibre exchange and urinate on the other from my bedroom window, but does Telkom give me anything faster than 4Mb?

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hey lets be optimistic maybe they just abandon there already half broken copper networks and start using this instead
 
That is heavily optimistic!

100Mbps, eh Telkom? To who? Your CEO? Even IF they could, it'd be exorbitant in its pricing scheme, no doubt.
 
I was in the land of internetlessness for 6 years after getting married. I had to make do with hellishly expensive mobile data, also because there was no "infrastructure". We decided to build a house in a popular group of estates and now I'm lucky to have fibre as my ONLY option. Feels like I'm being rewarded for holding out... :D
 
FarligOpptreden said:
I was in the land of internetlessness for 6 years after getting married. I had to make do with hellishly expensive mobile data, also because there was no "infrastructure". We decided to build a house in a popular group of estates and now I'm lucky to have fibre as my ONLY option. Feels like I'm being rewarded for holding out... :D
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What's your line speed? Shaped or shaped, and consistency?
 
Hagan said:
What's your line speed? Shaped or shaped, and consistency?
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10Mbps, unshaped and pretty consistent. If I download from Steam, Origin or uPlay I get a constant 1.2megaBYTES per second. We also stream Netflix and Hulu in HD with close to instant buffering and no quality drop.

Latency is very good for gaming as well. Local Speedtest is on average 6-8ms and I never ever ever experience lag in online games. I only ever play Guild Wars 2, but I've dabbled in BF3/4 and Injustice. All were buttery smooth.

I'd like to get the 20 or 40Mbps option, but I can't afford it right now. The provider is apparently trialing 80Mbps in the area, so I might just wait for that to roll out and see what the pricing is like.

EDIT: Nice thing about it is the synchronous upload speed. I get roughly 8Mbps upload speed together with the average 10.2 down.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
10Mbps, unshaped and pretty consistent. If I download from Steam, Origin or uPlay I get a constant 1.2megaBYTES per second. We also stream Netflix and Hulu in HD with close to instant buffering and no quality drop.

Latency is very good for gaming as well. Local Speedtest is on average 6-8ms and I never ever ever experience lag in online games. I only ever play Guild Wars 2, but I've dabbled in BF3/4 and Injustice. All were buttery smooth.

I'd like to get the 20 or 40Mbps option, but I can't afford it right now. The provider is apparently trialing 80Mbps in the area, so I might just wait for that to roll out and see what the pricing is like.

EDIT: Nice thing about it is the synchronous upload speed. I get roughly 8Mbps upload speed together with the average 10.2 down.
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I am greatly jealous of you right now. Must be a pleasure having high-speed internet like that.
 
Well if I had to choose between the serenity, beauty, calmness and brilliant weather of the bushveld where I live for fibre broadband in the city... I'd take the fibre broadband in the city.
 
Hagan said:
I am greatly jealous of you right now. Must be a pleasure having high-speed internet like that.
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It is. Like I said, it feels like I'm being rewarded for my struggle in trying to obtain fixed-line internet all those years.

I'm on a capped option, but the provider's monitoring is all scewed - Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Steam and Origin barely affect my cap. I've got 200GB and end up with 150 left over each month, but I believe I use at least close to 200 if not more...
 
I think/hoping they're busy installing by me at the moment :) They've dug up the road around me along William Nicol and Main and laying about 4 or 5 cables. My area isn't on the list though so it's all speculation at the moment from my side. The only thing I have to go on is that the rolls of cable come from www.dart.com (it's printed on the side of the roll) which is apparently "Internet Components for Developers" :D
 
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