Whose lines have already been upgraded by Telkom?
- Thread starter Neonfox
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They said to me they will however we know Telkom so just check out Telkoms Line Checker! http://www.telkom.co.za/checkadsl/#.UonyjcSnpbc
There you will see the speed of your line!
There you will see the speed of your line!
Mine has been upgraded, it was syncing at 4Mbps and is now syncing at 7Mbps.
Probably not, I wasn't informed.
ROFL, that about sums it up.
Probably not, I wasn't informed.
ROFL, that about sums it up.
moondoggie86
New member
The SO's 2mb line is reflecting as 4mb on the Checkadsl site. Going to do a port reset when she is home and hopefully it will sync at 4 
My 1mb line cannot sync higher than 1440kbps so I'm not in any rush for the 1mb upgrade.
My 1mb line cannot sync higher than 1440kbps so I'm not in any rush for the 1mb upgrade.
Vixremento
New member
Well my current speed is marked as 10 however only 4 is available in my area. Spoke to a chap that came around mid-last year and asked him and he said we'd have 10 meg by the end of this year in our area...well so much for that!
Then again I sync on a speed of around 3.2 to 3.6 (usually closer to 3.2) yet I guess I shouldn't be too miff about it considering many people can't even sync at 4...just saddens me to think that I'll probably still be stuck on the same old speed when people are already getting near 100 Mbps
I wonder if I can make my own house a "gated community" to maybe get them enable our area as a Telkom Fibre Neighbourhood (dammit that Dark Fibre Africa cable was planted right in the very street running past my driveway...why can't they just tap in a box to it?).
Then again I sync on a speed of around 3.2 to 3.6 (usually closer to 3.2) yet I guess I shouldn't be too miff about it considering many people can't even sync at 4...just saddens me to think that I'll probably still be stuck on the same old speed when people are already getting near 100 Mbps
I wonder if I can make my own house a "gated community" to maybe get them enable our area as a Telkom Fibre Neighbourhood (dammit that Dark Fibre Africa cable was planted right in the very street running past my driveway...why can't they just tap in a box to it?).
Well my current speed is marked as 10 however only 4 is available in my area. Spoke to a chap that came around mid-last year and asked him and he said we'd have 10 meg by the end of this year in our area...well so much for that!
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Then again I sync on a speed of around 3.2 to 3.6 (usually closer to 3.2) yet I guess I shouldn't be too miff about it considering many people can't even sync at 4...just saddens me to think that I'll probably still be stuck on the same old speed when people are already getting near 100 Mbps
I wonder if I can make my own house a "gated community" to maybe get them enable our area as a Telkom Fibre Neighbourhood (dammit that Dark Fibre Africa cable was planted right in the very street running past my driveway...why can't they just tap in a box to it?).
You can get fibre at R1850 per Mbps. Shall I sign you up?
You can get fibre at R1850 per Mbps. Shall I sign you up?
Holy crap bro, Thats alot hey!!
HavocXphere
New member
From today onward they are doing the 2 -> 4 mbps upgrades.
If you were previously on 4 mbps then you should already be on 10/4 depending on what the line can handle.
If you were previously on 1 mbps then you'll have to wait till next week.
Telkom call center staff is under instructions to not assist with upgrades...the techies are supposed to do so at the exchanges. So save yourself the trouble of asking for a port reset.
If you were previously on 4 mbps then you should already be on 10/4 depending on what the line can handle.
If you were previously on 1 mbps then you'll have to wait till next week.
Telkom call center staff is under instructions to not assist with upgrades...the techies are supposed to do so at the exchanges. So save yourself the trouble of asking for a port reset.
Not bad for fibre actually.
Yep, it's simply unaffordable. Our company currently has 3 ADSL lines so roughly the potential of 18/2Mb, and for this we pay R2500pm. We can't even get a comparable upload speed on fibre without shelling out an additional R1200pm, and that's not even to talk about the 18Mbps download potential...
Vixremento
New member
You can get fibre at R1850 per Mbps. Shall I sign you up?
Is that just for the line alone? Also is it a 100Mbps line? Are there any additional installation costs involved?
Vixremento
New member
Never mind...I seem to not read properly these days - sorry about that.
It's uncapped, but per Mbps. So for 100Mbps it is 1850 * 100 = R185,000pm. Installation and first month is free if you order now, and your area is covered.
Mister 44
New member
Exactly my problem as well except that I sync at a solid 4. The thing is, I have no idea if our area will get 10 or not.
Then you will have two options. You can downgrade to the previous 2Mbps, now 4Mbps and save around R120 per month, or you can take whatever speed you get above 4Mbps and pay the same as you are currently paying.
Vixremento
New member
Yeah I think we just have ancient copper and probably only around 4 people actually have an ADSL service in our area too (okay maybe 5) so they don't really care about us yet when they can klap the okes in the northern suburbs with a higher user count (can't say I blame them).
Mephisto_Helix
Grump Squad
Got upgraded to 8mb last week already ...... has been stable sine then.
HavocXphere
New member
The benefit is not the speed...its the low contention, no shaping and uptime/SLA. If you don't need those then bonded ADSL makes more sense yes.
Fibre makes more sense for businesses that lose big bucks for every minute that the core infrastructure goes down so they really don't care whether it costs 1k or 100k as long as it doesn't fall over. Same thing for companies that have people dialing into the WAN via VPN...there is no chance of doing that on anything less than fibre.