{"id":63282,"date":"2014-04-10T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63282"},"modified":"2014-04-10T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:55:30","slug":"adsl-capacity-upgrade-stymied-by-telkom-afrihost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/63282-adsl-capacity-upgrade-stymied-by-telkom-afrihost","title":{"rendered":"ADSL capacity upgrade stymied by Telkom: Afrihost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> announced that <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> will not upgrade its <a title=\"ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224881-ADSL\">ADSL<\/a> IPC capacity today (10 April 2014) as initially planned. This is the second upgrade delay, which Afrihost described as disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost said that it was aware of the ADSL performance problems in the \u201cSouth region\u201d, and was awaiting additional capacity to be installed to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of our clients in the affected region are reporting slow DSL speeds, increased latency and occasional packet loss during peak periods,\u201d Afrihost said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Afrihost, Telkom was supposed to increase its wholesale ADSL capacity (IPC) by 20% in March, but this did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom was then supposed to perform the IPC upgrade today (10 April 2014), but the company yet again delayed the upgrade. It is now scheduled for 18 April.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost said that they have not been given any further information from Telkom regarding the delays, aside from the new provisional dates for installation.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost explained that the additional capacity will ensure that they have enough bandwidth to serve its clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that the additional capacity will immediately improve our clients\u2019 overall internet experience, and also allow for less shaping on uncapped accounts (which are currently experiencing more shaping than we\u2019d like),\u201d Afrihost said.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom was asked for comment regarding the Afrihost IPC upgrade delay, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article courtesy of MyBroaband &#8211; <a title=\"MyBroadband\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/100410-afrihost-adsl-capacity-increase-delay.html\" target=\"_blank\">Afrihost ADSL capacity increase delay<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Afrihost ADSL issues<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost ADSL performance problems addressed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/99404-afrihost-adsl-performance-problems-addressed.html\"><strong>Afrihost ADSL performance problems addressed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost ADSL price cuts, improved uncapped performance\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/98382-afrihost-adsl-price-cuts-improved-uncapped-performance.html\"><strong>Afrihost ADSL price cuts, improved uncapped performance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost \u201cdouble your data\u201d ADSL gifts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/98262-afrihost-double-your-data-adsl-gifts.html\"><strong>Afrihost \u201cdouble your data\u201d ADSL gifts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has delayed Afrihost\u2019s IPC upgrade again, leaving the ISP with limited capacity on its network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":51331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,293,2289],"class_list":["post-63282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-adsl","tag-afrihost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}