Telkom confirms free ADSL speed upgrades

Telkom confirms free ADSL speed upgrades

Telkom has confirmed that it is upgrading the speed of its ADSL subscribers free of charge

Now they'll have to double my cap as well, seeing I'm going to burn through it twice as fast :P

Its about time telkom made a move..

1mb uncapped as soon as this happens :)

Some good news for a change :).

Good news for the 384Kers, but is the grid read for this?

Awesome!! :D on 384kb and 1mb mweb uncapped. Just need my line speed to catch up.

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Originally Posted by Pr⊕phet

Good news for the 384Kers, but is the grid read for this?

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Been wondering the exact same thing. I suspect that there may be a heavier strain on the grid and that AUPs will adapt to be a little stricter in their throttling and shaping could be readjusted.

But then again since these upgrades will only be taking place on exchanges that are 10mbps enabled so I doubt it's going to add too much strain to the grid. But like I said, the issue will lie with ISPs and their load management, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue if Telkom is confident that the grid will be able to handle the upgrade. But I'm going to rather ride it out with my capped account and see how things go and maybe in the new year consider going uncapped.

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Originally Posted by will1023631

But then again since these upgrades will only be taking place on exchanges that are 10mbps enabled so I doubt it's going to add too much strain to the grid.

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Where did you hear that? Last I heard, this is being rolled out across the board. If your exchange can handle the upgrades, it's getting it, and there are few upgrades that can't handle at least 2mb/s.

when exactly does this happen ?