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TL;DR… From 1 February 2025 🐸 Frogfoot’s fibre pricing and interconnect fees are changing – that means our packages will be changing too. The price changes on 1 February 2025 are 1 year after Frogfoot’s last price changes. Please note: Frogfoot’s standard speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Details of the changes
Atomic’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
Will we see 75ms pings from Cape Town to London soon? Using Space Lasers or Undersea Fibre? You probably know about Elon Musk’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
MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1️⃣ Filter incorrect routing information2️⃣ Stop spoofing3️⃣ Coordination (PeeringDB)4️⃣ Global validation (RPKI) Atomic is one of only 5 South African ISPs that implement 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
Atomic is now live on the Vumatel fibre network! 🚀 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 Vumatel’s GPON and
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
Today’s Internet Spelling Bee When it comes to how to spell the super-fast, non-copper, non-wireless kind of internet, in South Africa it’s Fibre Internet. TL/DR Wait. But why? Way back in the 19th century, Americans moved for a distinctly American version of English. Meanwhile, at the same time, many British linguists preferred to spell words that they borrowed from French
What a year! Recently one of the Atomic team members was at a braai in Stellenbosch and overheard: I’ve heard about Atomic, that’s the fibre ISP started for friends and if you refer friends you get a discount. Graham We are very happy to have expanded our offering beyond just our friends, and that lots of customers are enjoying discounted
Last update: October 2025 WiFi slowing down your Fibre experience? 🐢 Bad WiFi can be frustrating and makes your Fibre Internet seem much slower than it is, but it’s not difficult to get right. WiFi is like HiFi: A simple way to think about WiFi network coverage is like an audio speaker. The bass is the 2.4GHz WiFi, and the tweeters
