{"id":84429,"date":"2015-12-14T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84429"},"modified":"2015-12-14T01:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:31:59","slug":"heres-how-to-fix-slow-adsl-and-vdsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/84429-heres-how-to-fix-slow-adsl-and-vdsl","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how to fix slow ADSL and VDSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many broadband users\u00a0in South Africa are experiencing slow ADSL and VDSL services<\/a><\/strong>, where their real-world speeds are far lower than what they are promised.<\/p>\n

The reason for the slow speeds can be caused by many different issues, including poor ADSL or VDSL line quality<\/a><\/strong>, a congested exchange<\/a><\/strong>, or a congested ISP network.<\/p>\n

To find the cause of slow ADSL speeds can be challenging, especially for a person who is not tech-savvy.<\/p>\n

To assist people to troubleshoot their ADSL problems, MyBroadband asked Telkom and ISPs for their advice on the issue.<\/p>\n

We used the feedback from Telkom and ADSL ISPs to develop a basic guide to help users see what may be causing their\u00a0slow ADSL speeds.<\/p>\n

Telkom self-diagnosis guide<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Telkom has also published a self-diagnosis guide to help people who are not tech-savvy to resolve their ADSL problems<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The guide should assist in resolving\u00a0some of the problems with a slow ADSL connection: Telkom self-diagnoses guide here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finding out where the problem lies<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our\u00a0guide below will help you identify the problem which is causing a slow ADSL or VDSL service.<\/p>\n

\"Slow-ADSL-test\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n

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Perhaps the most appropriate DSL guide a South African might need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":84433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[293,2674,15649,4964,15693,16677,2593],"class_list":["post-84429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl","tag-broadband-1","tag-internet-connectivity","tag-isp","tag-router","tag-speed-test","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84429","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}