line speed

Two weeks ago I changed my Afrihost bundled package from 8Mbs to 20Mbs. My effective speed has still not changes, despite an annoying call with support in Friday, and numerous modem powerdown/wait/powerup cycles. Here's what I don't get. My ASUS modem says the download speed is 19042 and...

I have been experiencing slow speeds and a high and unstable ping since I do not know when. I have a 2mbps line. My download speeds and upload speeds are fine, but the ping is terrible, which makes it impossible to stream anything. I am talking of a pings between 19 and 800mbps. It appears that...

I'm looking for the cheapest 1MB upload speed, if that's still the max for ADSL? More than that would be great too, if still ADSL. Can't seem to see UL mentioned anywhere on Telkom site or any of the bandwidth provider sites :( AFAIK, 4MB is .5MB up and 10MB is 1MB up. There are 6MB and 8MB...

I have had an ADSL line with Telkom for many years now and it has done the job alright. I haven't been one to download a lot so speed / uncapped wasn't really necessary. I am not sure what my line speed is, but it's on the slow end, and I think I get about 100GB a month from my current package...

Hi Guys, I'm currently using Afrihost as my ISP and wanted to upgrade from the current 2Mbps Package to either an 8Mbps or 10Mbps package however when I entered my telephone number on the Afrihost and Telkom websites I see that the max I can go is 2Mbps. I spoke to a Telkom technician and he...

Hi Guys, I'm currently on a 4mbps line speed and want to upgrade to 10mbps. I checked on the telkom coverage site and it shows my max speed is 4. I called the call centre and they said my area supports it and i can get 10. I went to the telkom store and they said it doesn't and max my...

Hi Guys, So i'm currently on a 4Mb adsl line with telkom, and even to this simple thing took me a fair amount of work due to the fact that my distance from the exchange means i only technically should get 2Mb. Anyway, my 4Mb line works well, but i see now that on the...

I am writing this post to help others that may experience the same issues like I have been having for the last couple of years. I have a TP-LINK router with an 8 Mb ADSL line at my home, +- 2.5km from the exchange. The router would show me the available line speed, and what my current speed...

Hi Does anyone know I Telkom has plas to upgrade Line Speeds as they did two or three times in the past where 386 became 1mbps and then later the 1mbps became 2mbps? This is for the Bellville area in Cape Town.

Hi Guys, At the moment I am on a 4mb/s line at my home, after a battle and a half with the big blue and my ISP. I feel 8mb/s is still too slow, seeing as Netflix and Showmax services are available in SA now. I did a check on my exchange box and it gives me mixed signals(excuse the pun)...

Hello all, Let's say I have a10mbps business ADSL line, which would sync at say, 1000kbps. If I connect 5 of my neighbours via Wi-Fi (WISP setup, with CPE's), and do bandwidth control on there CPE's to say Max. 200kbps, would the network run at okay speeds if nobody runs anything that is...

Hi guys, first off thank you for your interest in my post below.. It's been the cause of many headaches and frustrations. Any advice, help, feedback or comments are very much appreciated. So, for the past few weeks our Internet has gone down the drain. To give you a background, understand...

Hey all! So I bought a D-Link DSL 2750u Router a while back when I upgraded my account from 4mb to 10mb (uncapped). This was done to replace a relatively old TP-Link router which had relatively slow wireless connection. Anyway, the router worked great for 2 or 3 months, then for no apparent...

The back story: I used to have a 4Mbps capped ADSL line (an installer came out to set it up), then changed that to a 2Mbps uncapped line ... which happened pretty much immediately (nobody had to come out for it). Now I've changed back to 4Mbps but kept the uncapped part, and yet I've been told...

Hi there I have just purchased a Smart Tv and I can view You Tube etc on the TV but when i load any of the videos, it starts to buffer and I have a start/stop effect happening. I have 2 Meg line thru Telkom. I have checked my line speed and it is pretty steady (1.73Mbps) What do I do...

I have 4 PC's connected to the net through the same router. (Billion BiPAC 7300NX) They are all connected by cable. All 4 are running Windows 7. Line: Telkom adsl line - speed is 6mbs. Data: Web Africa fastest adsl - uncapped. One PC (quadcore 2.33, 4GB ram, 4 years old) is...

Hi guys, Will a TP-Link 150mbs router give problems if a 2mb line is upgraded to a 4mb line with telkom? Any input will be appreciated, thanx :)

Hi all, didn't want to necro the thread, so for background to what I'm asking about please check out How do i get telkom to upgrade.. Here are my stats: ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 1024 kbps 512 kbps Line Attenuation 32.0 db 17.0 db Noise Margin 27.9 db 14.0 db My...

I have a question - may seem stupid but I want to clarify. If I have a 10mb(up to ;) ) line.... and I have a 4mb uncapped account and do the test. Will I see 4Mbps regardless, but then when I have a 10mb uncapped account I should see 10Mbps theoreticaly? i know it won't always be full speed...

Hi there, We're thinking of moving from JHB down to CT and we're wondering if anyone can tell us about the ADSL situation in the Southern Peninsula (Specifically around Fish Hoek) RE speeds, congestion etc. Thanks! Michelle