Please note… From 1 November 2023 🦎 Openserve changed their line speeds again – please review our Openserve fibre pricing page for more. Changes in the Openserve galaxy… 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. Atomic’s line fees will go up by
TL;DR… From 1 February 2023 🐸 Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds and pricing – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. We increased our pricing on certain lines less than Frogfoot’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
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 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
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
TL;DR… From 1 May 2021 🐸 Frogfoot are changing their line speeds and pricing – that means our deals and pricing will be changing too. Hold onto your hats kids, there’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
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
Hold Onto Your Helmets… New Octotel Speeds Are Coming! TL;DR… From 1 September 2020 🐙 Octotel are completely overhauling their line speed offering, and pricing – that means our deals and pricing will be changing too. Hold onto your hats kids, there’s a new hyperdrive spinning up! Now for the details . . . Update: 4 August 2020 FASTER OCTOTEL
Quick word on Wi-Fi passwords: It’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 don’t need to get too creative or hyper secure with home Wi-Fi passwords, all you
FTTsmB – Making FTTB affordable, accessible and epic! FTTB offers the fastest and most reliable internet for your business, but it’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 you’d expect from an enterprise business fibre service: symmetrical speeds
