Telkom upgrades in my area

[MickeyD]

Wonder how they transfer our lines from the normal cabinets to the new ones?? Do you think the internet would be down for a while?

Yes, an hour or two (max).

[oliverwww]

Oh okay kwl hahahaha

Would we see major improvements in stats? My line is horrible :'( but we are part of this upgrade sooo.....?

[Fireprufe15]

Does anybody know what are all the areas they are doing field testing at?

[oliverwww]

Refer here http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadb...-revealed.html

[grim]

Congrats bro

Sadly i don't think we will hear from you come July as you will probably be under an NDA .

I thought trials are FREE??

Lastly, what HDD would one need to help sustain if we get peak speeds of say 3MB/s or more, i know my SSD handles 1MB/s super but more speed means more write access so those 5400RPMs going to suffer or are those only when on 100MB fibre (i remember an old windows box was suffering at 7MB/s in ol' Germany).

Um my SSD easily does 200MB/s+ and my normal drives do 80MB/s+ and the lines only run at 40Mbps which is only 5MB/s

[mcryan]

Lucky. I'm in Midrand and hoping they'll be upgrading and installing new ports here. They are digging and laying cable on Lever road, but I'm not sure that its Telkom doing it.

[XperiAnce]

Anyone know when Benmore Gardens will be upgraded? I live in the area and there's a TONNE of construction all over the roads, but it's hard to tell if they're telkom, eskom, jhb water ect...

Also, if broadbandstats.co.za says you are connected to the Benmore Gardens exchange, does that mean that I fall under the "MSANS-to-be-enabled" section?

[Ohree]

Thats good news looks like im going exchange hunting tomorrow..

[lilggg]

How exactly does this work? If your exchange gets the upgrade do you automatically get forced to 40mbps or do you get an option to be part of the trial? Do you pay extra to trial? Is there downtime? Thanks

[werny]

One of my old buddies from school told me that his father who works at telkom told him that they will begin installing MSANs here in Bellville also, if they didn't already start.

Yesterday I typed my number in the Telkom ADSL checker and finally my exchange supports 4Mbps, and it is 10Mbps ready.

[Yuu]

Um my SSD easily does 200MB/s+ and my normal drives do 80MB/s+ and the lines only run at 40Mbps which is only 5MB/s

Ah right, wasn't thinking hard enough . Thanks

Look forward to seeing someone spill details during the trial