20 Meg vs ADSl2+ Router

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Hi there

I'm not sure if I must post this here, or else where, but here goes.......!

I'm currently on 10 meg Capped Afrihost, with a ADSL 2+ Trendnet router. I would like to upgrade to Telkom 20 meg, but need to know if my Router can do the speed. Friends told me that I must first get a VDSL router.
I need to know how do I find out if my Router will be able to run the 20 meg speed?

Thanx

Chris
 
Rather get a VDSL router and use VDSL, 20mbps is well within the capabilities of VDSL, but right at the edge of ADSL's capabilities
 
I have a VDSL 20Mb line - kept the normal R250 Linksys Dlink ADSL modem on line - getting 18Mb down and 1Mb up. With a VDSL you will get an increase on the upload to 2Mb. Since I do not regularly do a lot of upload, I could not justify the cost of VDSL gateway.

No regrets thus far, much cheaper to replace ADSL modem when lightning strikes than a VDSL gateway.
 
tdk said:
I have a VDSL 20Mb line - kept the normal R250 Linksys Dlink ADSL modem on line - getting 18Mb down and 1Mb up. With a VDSL you will get an increase on the upload to 2Mb. Since I do not regularly do a lot of upload, I could not justify the cost of VDSL gateway.

No regrets thus far, much cheaper to replace ADSL modem when lightning strikes than a VDSL gateway.
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Interesting. Please post your modem stats here?
 
MickeyD said:
Interesting. Please post your modem stats here?
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Running modem in bridge mode, but of a mission to see line stats. Result of speedtest:

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tdk said:
I have a VDSL 20Mb line - kept the normal R250 Linksys Dlink ADSL modem on line - getting 18Mb down and 1Mb up. With a VDSL you will get an increase on the upload to 2Mb. Since I do not regularly do a lot of upload, I could not justify the cost of VDSL gateway.

No regrets thus far, much cheaper to replace ADSL modem when lightning strikes than a VDSL gateway.
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same
 
tdk said:
I have a VDSL 20Mb line - kept the normal R250 Linksys Dlink ADSL modem on line - getting 18Mb down and 1Mb up. With a VDSL you will get an increase on the upload to 2Mb. Since I do not regularly do a lot of upload, I could not justify the cost of VDSL gateway.

No regrets thus far, much cheaper to replace ADSL modem when lightning strikes than a VDSL gateway.
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That is an ADSL2+ line and not a VDSL2 line.

@OP is VDSL supported in your area? Could you post line stats from your router?
 
Electric said:
I have the same scenario yet I can confirm that my line is VDSL.
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No, the modulation on your line would be ADSL2+, ADSL2+ Routers do not work on VDSL but VDSL routers are backwards compatible.

Note that ADSL2+ can do 24/1.8, so you can get 20/1.5 lines from Telkom. VDSL2+ is 20/2 and 40/3 in this country.

Both adsl and vdsl use the copper last mile infrastructure, just the port at the exchange is different.
 
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