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Gone are the days of slow dial-up internet and that weird sound your modem would make when connecting.

Apparently, this is known to techies as a ‘handshake’ and was “a means of negotiating terms between remote machines, after which they could successfully exchange data during browsing”.

Whatever it was, it made connecting to the internet late at night (for research purposes) an affair fraught with danger.

In 2022, we are always online with multiple devices and the speed of connection required to keep a household ticking over has multiplied.

RSAWEB understands this and is running some outstanding home fibre deals at present across a range of networks.

Which specials are available in your neighbourhood will depend on the fibre network operator present. For those who live in an area where Octotel is present, you can now get a 35Mbps line for R295 a month for up to three months.

There are also big savings to be had on faster line speeds all the way up to 1 000Mbps:

A 1 000Mbps line is ridiculously high speed. I guess if you regularly have to send huge files then it makes sense but it’s well beyond what even a home with intense internet usage requires.

Openserve areas have promotions running on lines from 25Mbps and up:

You can check which networks operate in your area using RSAWEB’s search tool.

None of them requires that dial-up noise. If you’re feeling nostalgic, go ahead and give it one last listen for old time’s sake.