8meg lines??

[OUPA]MrNutz;2608566 said:
have you seen what 40+ years without maintenance can do to a jelly substance that is supposed to keep water out :)

it doesn't.
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ROFLMAO !

:D
 
ok for the pll who dont believe they are testing 8meg lines believe what u want, i have seen it! only problem is the upload is exactly the same as on a 4meg, latancy on any shaped acount should be roughly the same anyway! i agree that telkom is no where near ready to uphold the infrastucture, and neotell doesnt look to promising either, but keeping the upload on a 8meg line the same as 4meg is just rediculous, they could rather keep the download minimum and increase the upload, just my 2 cents

@valante lol yeah but seeing games get better so do they become more internet hungry, 4meg dont cut it anymore
 
progresive said:
ok for the pll who dont believe they are testing 8meg lines believe what u want, i have seen it! only problem is the upload is exactly the same as on a 4meg, latancy on any shaped acount should be roughly the same anyway! i agree that telkom is no where near ready to uphold the infrastucture, and neotell doesnt look to promising either, but keeping the upload on a 8meg line the same as 4meg is just rediculous, they could rather keep the download minimum and increase the upload, just my 2 cents

@valante lol yeah but seeing games get better so do they become more internet hungry, 4meg dont cut it anymore
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Where did we say we don't believe you? We just said that they will have lots of problems going in.
 
I don't see much point in 8 meg lines at this stage until caps and international bandwidth increase and we can use 4meg to its fullest.

Whether it takes 20 minutes (4meg) or 10 minutes (8meg) to download something, it still costs you 350megs of cap.

From a business sense, it doesn't work either - why provision double the bandwidth for 8 meg customers, when they generate no extra revenue?
 
Iv also been sceptical about 8mbit cause iv never seen any evidence posted on myadsl but i trust antowan so im gonna say its legit. Its bad enough being on 4mbit with 3gigs to blow but 8?!
 
trial

well it sounds like this IS for real... gonna be calling up my Telkom contact and see if I can hookup a trial 8MB line.

Can someone confirm where the trials are taking place? Any in Cape Town, coz my guy is based in the Cape so no point if there arent any trials happening here...

regarding adsl lines dropping due to weather, I can say that the distance from the exchange does make a huge difference. my father has a small IT company, many of his clients have adsl and all the ones on edgemead (where I stay) never have problem, even in winter, as we are so close to that new exchange. I say "new" coz its not one of the donkey ones run by a mouse-wheel... :D

Im really close to the exchange and this morning my line was peaking over 500KB/sec (first for me!)

Would post pic, but cant post attachments! :(
 
HTC_guy said:
well it sounds like this IS for real... gonna be calling up my Telkom contact and see if I can hookup a trial 8MB line.

Can someone confirm where the trials are taking place? Any in Cape Town, coz my guy is based in the Cape so no point if there arent any trials happening here...

regarding adsl lines dropping due to weather, I can say that the distance from the exchange does make a huge difference. my father has a small IT company, many of his clients have adsl and all the ones on edgemead (where I stay) never have problem, even in winter, as we are so close to that new exchange. I say "new" coz its not one of the donkey ones run by a mouse-wheel... :D

Im really close to the exchange and this morning my line was peaking over 500KB/sec (first for me!)

Would post pic, but cant post attachments! :(
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host it here then
 
oh I didnt know about this... Cool , will post tonight when I get home, Im at the office right now.
 
Meh... My line hit 500K download before. Never happened again, so don't get used to it... :)
 
Elev8r said:
I highly doubt Telkom is testing out an 8mbps line, they can only just manage 3.5mbps on the so-called 4mbps line. Imagine if we ever do get an 8mbps line, they'll claim 8 but we'll probably be getting somewhere around 7megs if we're lucky...
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I'll still take 7mbps over 4mbps.
 
Hmmm, I wonder how much they would charge for line rental? Hopefully not alot more than what they're currently for the 4mbps line
 
Elev8r said:
Hmmm, I wonder how much they would charge for line rental? Hopefully not alot more than what they're currently for the 4mbps line
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should be the same as a 4meg, the 4 meg wil replace the 512, the 512 the 318
 
ok so tested my line speed to joburg servers this morning, got 8meg download and 420kbs upload, tested to cpt server and got 520kbs download and 420 upload

any idees?
 
know a few guys that were on the 8meg test, they were notified.. this seems to be random
 
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