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Frogfoot Home Fibre Changes Coming In 2024

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 February 2024 ๐Ÿธ Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds, pricing and interconnect fees โ€“ that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. Please note: New speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Frogfoot have given all ISPs notice that they are changing their fibre service offering from 1

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Atomic joins the Openserve Fibre Network

Atomicโ€™s first customers went live on the Openserve fibre network this week and we have IPv6 working! About Openserve Yes, Telkom is not the company with the best reputation. When we started Atomic we wanted to only offer services on independent Open Access fibre networks and we did not want to deal with legacy PPPoE/Radius systems. We ideally also wanted to offer

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Octotel Double Up Changes

Octotel fibre, 2x the speed and 43% better value! ๐Ÿš€ We are excited to announce that Octotelโ€™s Double-Up promotion will soon become a permanent feature. While we have been offering the double-up speeds at no extra charge during the promotion, Octotel will be adjusting their line fees on 1 April 2023. Therefore, we will need to adjust our Octotel packages

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Openserve Package Changes

Please noteโ€ฆ From 1 November 2023 ๐ŸฆŽย  Openserve changed their line speeds again โ€“ please review ourย Openserve fibre pricing page for more. Changes in the Openserve galaxyโ€ฆ Openserve will be changing their fibre line fees and speeds on 1 April 2023, so we have had to adjust our Openserve fees and line speeds. Atomicโ€™s line fees will go up by

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Frogfoot Fibre Changes

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 February 2023 ๐Ÿธย  Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds and pricing โ€“ that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. We increased our pricing on certain lines less than Frogfootโ€™s increases and lowered our higher speed lines (in spite of their increases). Please note: These changes do not apply to links in the Century City

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Starlink vs Hollow Fibre

Will we see 75ms pings from Cape Town to London soon? Using Space Lasers or Undersea Fibre? You probably know about Elon Muskโ€™s Starlink project, but have you heard about Hollow Fibre? Both of these ideas have the potential to radically reduce your international latency. You are probably thinking: how is this possible? Surely the speed of light is constant and we just

Atomic is fully MANRS compliant! ๐Ÿš€

MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1๏ธโƒฃ Filter incorrect routing information2๏ธโƒฃ Stop spoofing3๏ธโƒฃ Coordination (PeeringDB)4๏ธโƒฃ Global validation (RPKI) Atomic is one of only 5 South African ISPs that implements all of these https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing

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We’ve Joined Forces With Vumatel

Atomic is now live on the Vumatel fibre network! ๐Ÿš€ We have launched fibre internet services on the Vumatel fibre network. If you are interested in our Vumatel packages they are listed on our site here, https://www.atomic.co.za/vumatel/ and if you feel like switching (and are in the greater Cape Town or Cape Winelands area) please get in touch. Our Vumatel services are live on Vumatelโ€™s GPON and

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Frogfoot Fibre Changes

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 May 2021 ๐Ÿธ  Frogfoot are changing their line speeds and pricing โ€“ that means our deals and pricing will be changing too. Hold onto your hats kids, thereโ€™s a new hyperdrive spinning up! Now for the details . . . Frogfoot has let us know that they are making adjustments to their home fibre services from 1

Three Ways to Avoid Fibre Frustration – Ethernet Port, UPS and Trusted Techies

Avoid fibre frustration! Our support team would like to share three things which are proven to help customers avoid frustration with their fibre internet service: 1) A Laptop with an Ethernet Port or Ethernet Dongle2) A UPS for your Fibre ONT and Wifi Router3) A trusted techie or PC support service If you already have these, well done! If you