Vanilla Blog

Fibre has recently become a much-used buzzword, referring to super fast internet connectivity. Many companies are offering deals of 10Mbps or even 20Mbps Fibre. Compared to Telkom’s 2Mbps ADSL lines, this might seem really fast. Yet, this is not even half of what fibre should be giving you. A fibre line should give 100-1000Mbps of data transfer, and if you are getting less that that it means the ISP is constraining the bandwidth – in essence, limiting the fibre’s capacity. With an option of 1000Mbps, the promises of “lighting fast” connectivity with 10Mbps seem a bit of a stretch.

Meet Caitlyn Holiday, part-time model, tutor and sales consultant at Vanilla. In all the business meetings, cold calling and coffee pitstops, Caitlyn is by my side — I like to think we make a pretty impressive sales team. Like me, she is ambitious, curious and ready to explore the wonderful world in which we find ourselves. We walk the streets and talk about everything from love to careers to spirituality. She’s a pretty inspiring young woman: she wants to go into curriculum development, focusing on creative ways of teaching children, not only how to learn but also to be happy. She’s also a great friend, always rational, but endlessly empathetic. For this reason she’s had to help me with various heartbreaks and existential crises.