A faster ride

So the LITTLE "competition" we have or might in the future get (through Neotel) is actually making the giant shiver!!! :D

Imagine if the market was totally open...we'd have had ADSL 2+ (which is almost old technology in many other countries) a LONG time ago....might have even been this xmas as the fat lady promised a few xmas changes for us a month or two ago. ;) I wonder what ever happend to that....I'm still waiting to see what she's was going to pull out of her big a$$ to make us smile....maybe a dougnut???? :p
 
10 meg connection with a 3 gig cap, nope, not excited at all.
 
Decent to see they actually pushing the technology foward.... Time to raise the caps from 3GB to ummm well Telkoms capping policy formular: 2x-2. x being the previously created cap. So 2*3-2=4. GO GO GO :(
 
Well if Telkom deploy an 10 meg line and still keep the 3 gig cap I will then realy begin to wonder about the future of this country. Lets watch some HD IPTV...... One hour later... You cant watch anymore becuase you are capped!
 
I can't wait.....

I am one of those bizarre people who doesn't actually use that much bandwidth. I need more speed for moving my files around.. More time to play Xbox then..

Oh wait if we get speeds like that M$ will put a local Live server here. Fantastic.... Go Neotel.. Scare the pants of them :D
 
This sing-along is becoming really old!:p
Have you never heard of economies of scale?

Yip, Telkom's gonna build a high speed network so they can sell you IPTV shows at R270 a pop. Common - get a clue already.
 
Pavements in SA cities have begun to look like building sites as workmen, shovels in hand, dig long trenches. It has nothing to do with the Gautrain project. Rather, the workmen are contracted to Telkom to replace the company’s ageing copper-based infrastructure with fibre-optic cables.

With competition looming it’s a do-or-die project for Telkom. The company’s goal is to shorten the length of the local loop — the copper cables that link consumers to its network — so it can provide much faster broadband access into consumers’ homes.
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I guess the pavements are going to look the same again next year - courtesy of Neotel :D
 
Funny thing is that telkom wont probably increase their cap or lower their per gig prices.
Why should they increase user's cap if the user has the option to increase it themselves.


The only way that we can really start to see progress is if neotel gets access to its portion of the sat-3 hopefully next year.
Neotel has a higher slice of the sat-3 than telkum so there might b a chance that we could finally see a price drop in our bandwidth costs.

re. adsl2......it just goes to show how reactionary telkom is rather than proactive.
Yes you dumbasses. It costs to install fibre at home but places like france are doing it and they have almost a similiar suburbia than we have in south africa I would imagine.

For once can't the beast see that its better to go for new established technologies rather than almost dead systems that they ****ing will have to replace in a few years time again cause they once again wont be able to keep up with international trends.

FFS. there was even a report the other day that stated that its cheaper to install fibre nowadays than coper.
Especially in south africa were we have such a great copper theft problem. Make all the lines fibre and you just eliminated half of your problems of constantly repairing lines that were stolen for their copper.



IDIOTS
 
armitage said:
FFS. there was even a report the other day that stated that its cheaper to install fibre nowadays than coper.
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Its not as simple as just the medium of the cable in the ground ... read my posts in http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=60647. Telcos deploy infrastructure in a forward planned way, its impractical to pull the right cable type on demand of the customer.

Also its a heck of of a lot cheaper using the the existing copper than pulling new fiber to every premesis within a suburb.
 
I'm an Iburst subscriber and just wondering when the *kcuf* are they going to wake up before they loose their customer base to Telscum!?!?!?! 2mb's(which is not high at all when you talk 8-10mb's) has been on the table for how long now....and yet we still don't have it.

:(
 
It's not the speed that matters as much as it is the prices of bandwidth.. they need to realise that first.
 
but they can get to 8Mb/s already me thinks if your loop is short enough on the current standard.
 
MaD said:
It's not the speed that matters as much as it is the prices of bandwidth.. they need to realise that first.
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They do realise that. Why do you think they have suddenly become so eager to upgrade everyone to higher speeds? The faster your speed, the faster you burn up those gigs, the more you have to pay...
 
i just want faster speeds thats all..
400k/sec is still slow..

10mb adsl downstream = 1mb/sec
so there for 1hr = 3.6gigs (nice now that what i'm talking about, still must b faster thou..)

hope the improve the upstream also..
knowing telkom they will keep it @ 384k blah
 
The problem is, their 4 meg ADSL is in testing and a fair percentage of the time they have to decrease it to 2 megs or 1 meg. Can they also maintain the bandwidth for ADSL ?
 
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