After 5 days without ADSL from Telkom, I decided to go the wireless route and the new special offered by 8Ta (okay, I know it is still Telkom, but a different management team) Signed up this morning at 9am, bought my modem and TP-Link router and everything set up and working by 2pm. Had lunch in between.
Back to ADSL and Telkom......had 4 phone calls yesterday, and nothing...still dead as a dodo. Had one call today, while I was in the queue buying the modem, and they told me they believe my telephone is not working. LOL .... Never had a problem with the telephone, but they will on Monday when I cancel both my telephone and ADSL. Only reason had a telephone line was so I could get ADSL.
My experience so far with 8ta is excellent. Speeds seem to as fast as what I was getting with ADSL and I had a 6meg line. Will test later.
Costs have gone down from R750 plus/minus to R199 pm. So once a month, when I go out for that extra meal, I will say cheers and thank you to the Telkom ADSL team