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  1. F

    How to connect the cottage

    Hi There I just got installed a new fibre line 500Mbs down 250Mbs up. They brought the fibre line and installed the ONT on the second floor of the main house. I need to bring the signal to the 2 cottages where I would have 4-5 computer that need the high upload speed for huge video file. The...
  2. J

    49db line attenuation

    is a line attenuation of 49db downstream the problem of my often disconnects? I had ongoing problem and it got worse when line was sync at 4mbps, it will drop connection often. I had phone call from a Telkom Engineer today giving me below info regarding my problem: Direct quoted from out...
  3. Rouxenator

    Johannesburg to Cape Town in a city car

    This weekend I did the trip in a 2011 Spark LS and was pleasantly surprised at how well such a small car, considered a city car, handles longer journeys. I left Brakenhurst at 6am and was back home in Stellenbosch at 7pm. Best consumption was achieved after I filled up with 95 unleaded (did...
  4. Rouxenator

    Why don't people use the term Mega Meter (MM)

    It always irritates me when people use the term 100k KM to indicate 100,000 KM. Why not use 100MM as in 100 mega meters? Obviously being in capitals and used in the context of cars it cannot be confused with mm (millimeter).
  5. Rouxenator

    The 200,000+ km thread

    Never thought I would ever own a car that has more than 100,000km on the clock but a few days ago my 2001 Astra reached 200,000km. I know there are a few other folks here that have high mileage runners in daily use and though it would be nice to have a show and tell thread. So lets see those...
  6. M

    DSLAM upgrades, line speed, and stability

    A question for all those marginal, far from the exchange ADSL connections. Now that Telkom is generously upgrading 384kbps users to 1 Mbps, what happens to those whose lines were stable at 384k, but now fall over at 1 Mbps? Does every such user need to ask for their line to be downgraded...
  7. Y

    Help with Modem / Router Wireless Range Calculation please.

    Good Morning friends, I am looking to get a customer of ours the following modem / router TP-Link W8960N problem is i cannot figure out how far roughly this thing can transmit. Is there a standard method one can use to get distance. I do understand that walls etc can interefere but how...
  8. I

    Fibre-optic rollout vs multiple Ethernet segments at a client. Yes/No? Why?

    I am overhauling the entire network of a medium sized company, and need some help and advice. The client has 3 big factories, all seperate from each other, with very limited wired connectivity. The main factory houses the server and switch, and has decent ethernet connectivity to all the...
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