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    No permission to change router settings - Telkom

    This is a post I added to Telkom this morning. I have a new router from them and this morning we had no internet connection. I called up to find out what the problem was and before I got the choice to hit the right number to be put through, I got told to check that the Guest account is not...
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    How to Flash Telkom Huawei E3276

    Looooong story very short. Telkom assured me that this LTE USB modem will work with any SIMM card plugged into it. It is has taken me two trips and multiple calls to MTN as well as Telkom who keep bouncing me back and forth telling me that I need to flash the modem. What I am resorting to...
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    VDSL modem/router

    Hi, Since VDSL is incredibly new to me, I would like to find out what I should be looking for when I am shopping for a VDSL router please? These are my requirements: Must have WiFi Must be able to split connection across three homes Homes are about 20m apart from one another. Do I run CAT5...
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    Telkom customer strike - do not pay your telkom bill for a month?

    We wanted to find out what people think about not paying their Telkom bill for a month? The service is so terrible that not even the CEO of Telkom (Sipho Maseko) would pay for that kind of service to any other service provider so why should we continue to pay for a service that is as bad as...
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    Intermittent ADSL network problems

    Hi, This is part of an ongoing problem I have had for a long time now and I am beyond words with all of it. For over a month now (and this happens every two to three months) my line will drop intermittently. This is my setup at home 10Mb ADSL line - 900m from the Strand Exchange Home network...
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    How to: A definitive Xampp guide to allowing people access to your sites on your PC

    I've been using Xampp for years now and with bandwidth and speeds improving so much over the years, I now want to give my clients direct access to the development site I am working on so that they can start adding content to the site from the getgo, rather than wait for the content at the end of...
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