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Octotel Speed Changes

Hold Onto Your Helmets… New Octotel Speeds Are Coming! TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 September 2020 ๐Ÿ™ย  Octotel are completely overhauling their line speed offering, 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 . . . Update: 4 August 2020 FASTER OCTOTEL

The Best WiFi Names

Quick word on Wi-Fi passwords: Itโ€™s highly recommended you have a password on your Wi-Fi network. This helps prevent neighbours from stealing your bandwidth, having your devices publicly accessible to those in the vicinity, or, having hackers use your WiFi to perform malicious activities. You donโ€™t need to get too creative or hyper secure with home Wi-Fi passwords, all you

Octotel Business Fibre Pricing Slashed by 40%

FTTsmB – Making FTTB affordable, accessible and epic! FTTB offers the fastest and most reliable internet for your business, but itโ€™s usually very expensive, slow to install, and requires long-term contracts. Atomic FTTsmB is a new category of business fibre: Fibre To The small/medium Business. FTTsmB has all the benefits youโ€™d expect from an enterprise business fibre service: symmetrical speeds

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What does the sale of an ISP mean for its customers?

โ€œSome internet companies are fast to sell. Others just have fast internet.โ€ According to the article some of the bigger South African ISPs seem interested in purchasing the ISP that is for sale. But what does this mean if you are a customer of an ISP that is for sale? Looking into the crystal ballโ€ฆ itโ€™s still difficult to tell.

Fibre or Fiber?

Today’s Internet Spelling Bee When it comes to how to spell the super fast, non copper, non wireless kind if 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

Fibre For Friends 1 Year Later

What a year! Recently one of the Atomic team members was at a braai in Stellenbosch and overheard: I’ve heard about Atomic, thatโ€™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

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Gigabit Home Fibre Internet

We are proud to announce the launch of our new Gigabit Home Fibre (FTTH) services on the Frogfoot and Octotel fibre networks. These are the fastest home fibre lines available in South Africa today, with the lowest latency, yet very good value, even if you compare the pricing to what people pay for gigabit fibre in America. Our gigabit fibre

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WiFi For Home Fibre Internet

Last update: October 2025 WiFi slowing down your Fibre experience? ๐Ÿข Bad WiFi can be frustrating and makes your Fibre Internet seem much slower than it is, but itโ€™s not difficult to get right. WiFi is like HiFi:ย A simple way to think about wifi network coverage is like an audio speaker. The bass being the 2.4GHz WiFi and the tweeters