10 Mbps ADSL upgrades start this weekend

[ichigo]

Some of the City centre exchanges are 10MB capable - Hayfields and Pelham seems to be a problem but I think they will be upgraded soon...

Ok great news thanks my exchange is main one of pietermaritzburg

[DOOMIE61]

Where I found it.... was in my router... under "Status"

ah crappy netgear doesn't give me that much info.. im connected using ADSL2+ in settings tab but can't find a status thing to confirm that it is

[Zyzzyva]

Going from 384 to 10000 is going to be redonkulous.

I can successfully connect via adsl2. Lets hope the tubes are in place to make it work.

[MrSmith]

The Billion 7300RA router at my Gardens, Cape Town office is set to Auto and says G.DMT

[Garyvdh]

G.DMT is theoretically capable of 8 mbps... so there is a slight hope (in hell) that some of us might see 8 mbps.

[ichigo]

so when they upgrade speeds do we need to restart router or does it change automatically?

atm mines on adsl 2+ auto-fallback will this change to adsl 2+ from G.DMT?

[Rosaudio]

My Telkom router says ADSL2+ under status. My Netgear doesn't seem to give that information

[Zyzzyva]

The silence around the slower account upgrades is deafening. huh, did you hear that? yeah, the sound of nothing.

[Zyzzyva]

adsl2 can do up to 24Mbit/s.

[Beylie]

I found this online to apparently set your router's protocol to ADSL2+ using telnet.http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/tec...han-adsl2.html

Can anyone confirm this? Also, when I telnet to my router (10.0.0.2), it asks for a username and password (busybox) , but the normal ones don't work. Mega 105WR. Advise please!

[Garyvdh]

If your router supports "Auto Sync Up" for the ADSL state... make sure that is enabled.... and then it will sync you up to ADSL2+ if it is available.

[ichigo]

seems mine is on auto

[snail]

yeah.....wippy doo....10MB lines....but yet they cant even keep the exchange in toti running for longer than 5 min at a time without dropping!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kuga]

My router reveals :
Mode: G.DMT
Type: Fast

When I saw "Fast" I lol'd. I'm on 384 kbps.

[gregmcc]

Not holding my breath. Starting this weekend means they might only do one exchange and then sit back for a month.