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Starlink reaches places fibre never will. Where fibre does reach, it costs less to start, needs no hardware purchase and holds steady when the network is busy.
Starlink changed home internet in Kenya: a household far from any cable can now get fast internet by putting a dish on the roof.
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Lists of the "best ISPs in Nairobi" rank companies. The better first question is which technology reaches your building, because that decides speed, reliability and price.
Search for internet providers in Nairobi and you will find long lists ranking dozens of companies, several written by providers that put themselves...
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Four home packages, from 5 Mbps at KES 1,500 a month to 30 Mbps at KES 4,000, each with a WiFi router and installation support. How to pick the right one for your house.
Home internet in Kenya is sold by speed, and the cheapest package is rarely the wrong one for a small household or the right one for a large one.
Read moreEvery provider will quote you a speed. These are the questions that actually separate one from another.
Comparing internet providers is hard because the number on the front of the quotation, the speed, is the number they have all optimised.
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Packages are sold on download speed. Almost everything that goes wrong on a home or office connection is an upload problem.
Every internet package in Kenya is advertised on one number, and it is the download figure.
Read moreMost connections reported as slow are working correctly. The fault is in the twenty metres between the router and the person complaining.
A large share of the support calls we take about slow internet turn out to be about WiFi.
Read moreTwo quotations for the same job can differ by half the price. The difference is usually in what the cheaper one has left out.
A fibre quotation is easy to compare on price and hard to compare on substance.
Read moreSend us the building, the distances and the problem you are solving. We will come back with a survey date and an honest view of what it takes.
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