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Capped internet refers to a data package where you buy a set quantity of GB’s in bandwidth every month. How quickly you use up your bandwidth is up to you. Uncapped accounts have the capacity to download and upload without limits, you have unlimited GB to use at your discretion.

Shaping is the technology used to control the speed and amount of data used during a certain time. So, during periods of high traffic, when there are a lot of people using the internet, the service provider will shape the line. This will mean that they are slowing down the service to certain sites. An uncapped, unshaped Fibre line gives you constant, reliable and fast access to the internet at all times, meaning that you will experience no drop in your connection speed and you will have access to fast and reliable internet at all times.

Eskom’s continued load-shedding means many broadband subscribers and smartphone users will experience downtime. Even when a company or tower has batteries they eventually run out of power and blackouts occur. Apart from the impact of batteries running down during load-shedding, there is a big increase in theft and vandalism of base stations by criminals when load-shedding
hits.

In most cases, WiFi is not its own Internet connection, it shares an Internet connection with the entire network. Theoretically, just having devices connected to WiFi does not slow the speed. But the more devices connected and doing something, the bandwidth has to be shared, thus affecting the speed.