ADSL problems in Centurion

fixx

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Has anyone experience connection problems in the Centurion / Pierre van Reyneveld area ?

My line has been intermittently up and down :mad:

On the weekend Telkom said it was due to a network failure and that a lot of the number starting with (012) 663 xxxx and almost all of 662 xxxx was experiencing the same problem.

Surely if it was such a big problem it would be fixed by now ? :confused:
 
fixx said:
Has anyone experience connection problems in the Centurion / Pierre van Reyneveld area ?

My line has been intermittently up and down :mad:

On the weekend Telkom said it was due to a network failure and that a lot of the number starting with (012) 663 xxxx and almost all of 662 xxxx was experiencing the same problem.

Surely if it was such a big problem it would be fixed by now ? :confused:

I live next to Irene. No problems.
 
There seems to be problems all over PTA, we have 7 lines down in PTA, most in Hatfield/Arcadia. Centrurions exchange is one of the most unreliable. Regularly you can see all the ADSL lines in Centurion dip.
 
Pretoria still experiencing problems.
List your Telkom ref here and I will have a techie bother Telkom the whole day. I will have them try and esculate all calls!! I have several ref no myself. Some from 090206.
183ARK090206, 231ARK100206, 25ATK100206, 64ATK100206, 67ATK100206
 
Yes my connection has been horrible - I am in Hennopspark (near Centurion) - been dropping about every 30 minutes.

Who do I phone to get a Telkom ref ?
 
fabrulana ... welkom by myADSL ... as ons die connections net kan uitsort kan ons weer ons Guild Wars try ... :)
 
I'm also in the Centurion area (close to the Waterfront) and ADSL has been very unreliable these past two weeks.
 
xdsluser said:
Pretoria still experiencing problems.
List your Telkom ref here and I will have a techie bother Telkom the whole day. I will have them try and esculate all calls!! I have several ref no myself. Some from 090206.
183ARK090206, 231ARK100206, 25ATK100206, 64ATK100206, 67ATK100206

Mine is 11 ATK 110206 Thanks ;-)
 
PeekNPoke said:
fabrulana ... welkom by myADSL ... as ons die connections net kan uitsort kan ons weer ons Guild Wars try ... :)

Dankie - Heh heh ek het gewonner of dit jy is ... :D

I phoned them but they say they would help me troubleshoot my modem - that
is not the problem though. As soon as I scrape up enough energy I will try phoning them again...
 
Greetings all Unhappu adsl users.

Yes i too have 2 adsl lines that is down, and before i start with this article i would like to apologise for my lanuage, i would like to blame telkom for pushing me to this level of lanuage usage.

on the 11th feb i called the adsl helpdesk, they told me that my lines were fine and that i need to reboot my equipment, i kept the telkom technician (Fu*king Idiot) on the phone. I rebooted, and got the same problem.

This person "who has now been renamed to FI (Fu*king Idiot) then tested the line and told me the line is fine and that i need to replace my equipment.
Well, seeing after all the lightning, it is a possibility. So the next day i bought 2 new routers and installed them.

No surprise, i got the same problem, so i called them again, This FI that answered the phone then told me that the entire centurion has a link problem and that i do not need to log a call bacause it is a network failure, I believed this FI and decided to wait.

The next day (13Feb) i just about had it with them, i demanded to log a call, i got my 2 calls logged and use told that they will mark it as urgent(BULLSHI*T). Later that night i called again to find out what is happening with my call. I was told that they are waiting for a technician. Well the technician appeared just after 08:00 the next morning(Most probably fell asleep in the computer room), so this technician also tested my line. He then died and gone to heaven, cause nobody know what happend to the result.

I was so furious that i put the phone down.

Later on the 14th i called again, and after 23Min on hold some IO (Incompetent Operator) picked up the phone, this person told me that there is a network failure, and quoted a ref of 15atk140206 and that it has been reported to management. At last i said, Telkom relised that they have a problem. I was hoping that M-A-N-A-G-E-M-E-N-T woudl do something about it. Ohhh i was wrong.

As we enter the 4th day of being down, and after the 8th call the telkom, i demanded to speak to MANAGEMENT. I was blocked my another person who told me that the EldoGlen DSLAM is faulty. (Tell me something i do not know) again she told me that this issue has been escalated.

As i sit here i can only think of a couple of words "Telkom you are Fu*king pathetic" it take them 3 days to reliase that they have a DSLAM problem. Useless bunch of IDIOTS, i thought they have network management. Oh I forgot that are goverment owned and dont give a "some word that become a sentince that is to vulger to utter on this forum" about the customer.

So telkom, (i know your are reading this forum) take your ADSL Service and suv it right up your Goverment owned ASS. I have already send my fax to your durban office for cancellation.

I found new services, and a company that care about their customers. All for one, Sentech offerred BIZbet, i will now move all my Diginets (2*512kb, 4*64kbs) to them. Even if sentech has problems with the new service, i am willing to live with it, They even call me back regaring the fault service.
 
Also in Pierre van Ryneveld got horrible bad the last week or so - my problem is I also upgraded to 1024 during the same time, and according to Telkom they had to work on our line to make the upgrade possible - now is it just the network, maybe my setup is too old (old router) or they buggered up?

aaaahhhhhh!
 
In Centurion (Rooihuiskraal), had the call logged 2 days ago, no feedback, line is permanently up, down, up, down, up, down

what to do, what to do
 
habadaba said:
In Centurion (Rooihuiskraal), had the call logged 2 days ago, no feedback, line is permanently up, down, up, down, up, down

what to do, what to do

Escalate the complaint to customer services 0860 600 126
If they dont come back to you with what you feel is an acceptable timeframe, fax a complaint to them 011 886 8798 and send a complaint to ICASA at the same time: [email protected]

Btw my ADSL is down since Friday too, I have been given a waiting period of "4 to 8 weeks"

Sod these Telkom idiots, we will force them to give us service. :mad:

Bastards! :mad: :eek: :mad:
 
Also in Pierre van Ryneveld. Line is going up and down and when up, I have horrible latency to local
game servers. Logged a fault on Monday but no action yet from Telkom.
 
CPT having problems aswell...

Hi All

I'm in Cape Town on a 1024 Adsl line and for the past 3 days have not been able to get more than 70KB out of my line. Anyone else in Cpt experiencing slow speeds....especially Internationally.:mad:

Thx
Proff
 
habadaba said:
In Centurion (Rooihuiskraal), had the call logged 2 days ago, no feedback, line is permanently up, down, up, down, up, down

what to do, what to do


Same problem, same exchange. Fortunatly I'm moving in 4 weeks, no more Telkom for me.
 
I am still experiencing the same problem.

Seems to be worse earlier in the mornings, during the night its fast and doesn't fall over once.

Telkom--
 
I live in The Reeds, and have had ADSL now for a month and am very happy with the performance.
First big problem today. From about 4pm to 8pm I could not authenticate to any of the two services I use.
I called Telkom 0800375375 at around 4.45pm, but as I said all fine at 8pm.
I have a 192kbps line, and an constantly getting 20KB+ on the downloads. Last week I connected to a local FTP site, and was getting like 512kbps speeds!

The two ISPs I subscribe to use IS and Telkom, and sometimes the one will be slow but the other will be cruising.

Very very happy with ADSL in Centurion.
 
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