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
Octotel fibre, 2x the speed and 43% better value! 🚀 We are excited to announce that Octotel’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
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
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
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
“Some internet companies are fast to sell. Others just have fast internet.” 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 ball… it’s still difficult to tell.
