ADSL line speed drops below 100kbps

B

benitok

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2007
Messages
746
Reaction score
0
Location
Cape Town
I need some help. I've been getting bad ADSL line speeds since December last year. I've got a 384kbps, but my line speed drops to 87kbps intermittently.

I've been doing the test on the games.saix.net website. Tonight it's been the worse and it's been like this most of the evening. Normally the line speed is slow for an hour and then it's back to normal fast speeds.

I've logged many calls with Telkom and by the time the technician phones me back the line speed is back to normal and they don't find anything wrong.

My ISP is Imaginet and I'm in Sonstraal Heights, Cape Town. Is anybody else experiencing this? I've complained to my ISP as well, but they put the blame on Saix or Telkom. Can these slow speeds be related to the ISP, because I'm really getting tired of this and logging another call with Telkom won't help.

I don't have any spyware or viruses on my pc. My pc runs 100%, no problems. I normally realise my line speed has dropped when I get '600' lagging on my BF2142 game.

Since my land line speed are so slow, I'm thinking of going Wireless now. Any help or advice would be appreciated, thanks.
 
Don't worry this is becoming a 'once-a-night-thing'. :mad: :confused: :sick: :mad:
 
Looks like it. I wonder if we would see a better service from the Second Operator.
 
Speeds are a major problem at present. I wonder if Telkom is testing something or is simply not allocating enough bandwidth to the growing pool of ADSL subscribers. The same thing happened in 2003...it became slower than 56k modem speeds...unusable during business hours.
 
rpm said:
Speeds are a major problem at present. I wonder if Telkom is testing something or is simply not allocating enough bandwidth to the growing pool of ADSL subscribers. The same thing happened in 2003...it became slower than 56k modem speeds...unusable during business hours.
Click to expand...

What could they be testing? A new shaping technique? :eek:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X