The way people consume media has changed immensely over the past few years, and this increased connectivity means you need to up your internet game.

Someone in the house is streaming a movie, someone else is updating apps on their phone, and the rest are cruising social media judging their friends for posting another sunset picture.

A few years back this meant everyone suffered, with internet speeds unable to handle the load, but as fibre has rolled out we’re back in the game.

So let’s say you live in one of those high-use households – digs, sharehouse, commune, call it what you will – what should everyone be paying to make sure buffering is a thing of the past?

We looked at Octotel over on RSAWEB, who cover most of Cape Town’s CBD and surrounding areas, and these three packages hit the nail on the head:

Divide that cost between four or five in the house and boom, your internet is very affordable. Or pay it yourself and laugh in the face of buffering – it’s your life, you live it how you please.

You’ll also see that free set up and router bit down the bottom – your normal set up fee is R1 749, with the router costing R400, but sign up for 12 months and you can knock that on the head.

Come on, we all know those installation / router costs are the cause of most digs internet arguments. If you’re unsure whether or not the area you live in is covered by fibre, you can search your area down the page HERE.

You know what they say – a home with high speed uncapped internet is a happy home.

By the way if 10MB fibre uncapped, with free router and installation, at R679 per month is more your vibe they have you covered too.