ADSL Protea Village, Brackenfell

[SlowHands]

one and only

 

[BirdIsTheWord]

Yesterday my telephone line and adsl stop working. If I call the phone it rings but there is no dial tone. Any ideas what could be up?

 

[Damon]

LTE Solution

Hi all,

I have been reading through this thread and have a solution to the copper issues.

Telkom LTE wireless internet is available in your area.
Yes, I am a Telkom LTE Sales agent and will gladly come to your home and test the signal strength and speed.

On average we guarantee speeds of 15 - 40 Mbps (dependent on signal strength) and the monthly cost is determined by the amount of data that you purchase.

Please feel free to contact me if you need more information.

Thank you.

 

[SlowHands]

and the monthly cost is determined by the amount of data that you purchase.

aaaaannndddd THAT's where I tell you...thanx but no thanx...

 

[cueball]

the monthly cost is determined by the amount of data that you purchase.

In other words, not even close to a viable replacement for those of us with uncapped ADSL accounts.

Nice try.

 

[cueball]

Yesterday my telephone line and adsl stop working. If I call the phone it rings but there is no dial tone. Any ideas what could be up?

Could be many things. Log a fault with Telkom.

 

[cueball]

So, am I the only sucker that's still offline?

 

[SlowHands]

that's strange...I would've thought everybody would have been up by now...

I'm swamped at work so can't really take time out to make any phone calls...I'm sending you my guy's contact details...give him a ring and find out?

 

[cueball]

Thanks, I'll give him a call if it isn't done today.

 

[ReBeL25]

I wonder when Normandi Estate will be moved. I want 10 meg but i'm stuck on a mini dslam and can only get 4 meg.

 

[SlowHands]

I wonder when Normandi Estate will be moved. I want 10 meg but i'm stuck on a mini dslam and can only get 4 meg.

I heard next year sometime...

 

[Riaandb]

Hi all,

I have been reading through this thread and have a solution to the copper issues.

Telkom LTE wireless internet is available in your area.
Yes, I am a Telkom LTE Sales agent and will gladly come to your home and test the signal strength and speed.

On average we guarantee speeds of 15 - 40 Mbps (dependent on signal strength) and the monthly cost is determined by the amount of data that you purchase.

Please feel free to contact me if you need more information.

Thank you.

NO thank you. Stop selling lte and start doing the job that Telkom is suppose to do and that is fixed lines. You are welcome to give me lte if the price is the same. I need minimum of 200gigs per month.

 

[cueball]

I had a Telkom guy call this morning surprised that my phone is dead, saying that they are done with cable replacements. He says they're going to figure out what went wrong with my line.

 

[SlowHands]

yeah please keep us in the loop...you should have been connected a week ago already :/

 

[Riaandb]

Oh no cueball, thats bad. Hope you get connected soon.

I just want to say that my Webafrica line is running awesomely!

 

[cueball]

Still nothing from Telkom, I got cut off this morning by the incompetent ***** who eventually answered the phone. Haven't had a chance to call again.

 

[cueball]

Hey guys, I sort of forgot to update here.

Got reconnected on Saturday, but for some reason only syncing at 1.5Mbps instead of 2Mbps. I've opened a ticket with Afrihost as my line is with them. At least I'm online again.

Thanks again SlowHands, you're definitely the hero we need!

 

[SlowHands]

Hey cueball, great to hear you're connected again...was a long wait tho :/

sidenote...I was told that those new metal things sticking out of the ground will be secured with concrete...I haven't seen this in my street (Burgundy) as well as Witteboom...anybody else seen concrete being used to secure the new metal pole thingies?

 

[cueball]

I've not noticed any new pole thingies :-/ The only new stuff I've noticed is the 2 MSAN installations.

 

[SlowHands]

...they stick out of the ground about half a meter, and got black letters printed on them. We have a couple of them in Burgundy, and I've seen some in Witteboom (my driving route)