ADSL Protea Village, Brackenfell

[IcemanMike2010]

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?

@Slowhands, they pored a mixture of concrete and sand into the Telkom "man hole" on my lawn, after they erected the metal pole next to it.
The metal poles could only be "unscrewed" with a special key and contains all the connections required for the surrounding houses.

 

[SlowHands]

Hey IcemanMike,

Thanx for sharing...did they do this today...or some time ago? Reason for asking is I asked the guys when they were busy installing the new things, and they "then" said they will secure it with concrete. Opposite my house I've checked everyday since they installed the new stuff till this very day and I still don't see any concrete...maybe it will still happen.

 

[IcemanMike2010]

I asked them when they came around a week later to remove the top half of the poles to get the numbers sprayed on. The guy fitting it back on said they filled the man hole with cement a day or two after they installed the poles. I live 4 house from you. I've noticed that they replaced only three of the man hole covers with the new lockable type (replaced round with square). As far as I know the one opposite your house is still the round one. Perhaps they thought it's a "safe" one to leave as it's not as close to the edge of Protea Village and Crammix..

 

[Coldflame]

Oh man, please tell me I'm the only one, My internet is down again, when I logged the call last night they said that it's an area fault. Anybody else have downtime?

 

[cueball]

I'm on the cul-de-sac end of Shiraz Street & all is well. Up & running with very decent SNR/Attenuation numbers.

 

[Ripstorm]

All fine here. Cabernet street

 

[Coldflame]

I'm in Sauvignon, still only able to get 4mb on my copper, upgraded end December and only getting 251kb\s download speeds.

 

[cueball]

Oh, so its slower than expected, not completely down?

FWIW I have a 2M line, currently getting 210KB/sec. WebAfrica capped account.

 

[Coldflame]

No it's down, hoping that they are patching my street into the new Fiber in the area, thats what I hope, also used to get 215kb with my 2mb

 

[Ripstorm]

Have a look here: http://www.telkom.co.za/coverage/index.html

Looks like some areas close to us are already on VDSL

 

[cueball]

According to https://secureapp.telkom.co.za/interest-register/location we are still on the "under consideration" list. Not even the "you'll have it in 3-6 months" list.

Then again that might be outdated, there's a shiny new MSAN on Kruin at Bergroos and another coming down Reservoir just before you turn left into Sauvignon.

 

[Coldflame]

I just hope that it's back up when I get home, Dota Tournament starting this weekend

 

[SlowHands]

soz only saw this post now...my stuff is still up in Burgundy

getting full speed (4mbps...420kb/s)...switched to Afrihost business uncapped (uncapped unshaped for R797...line included) haven't looked back...very happy

 

[Riaandb]

I am off line! Only me or are more people affected?

 

[cueball]

Bottom of Shiraz Street here, all good.

 

[Riaandb]

Bottom of Shiraz Street here, all good.

Thanks Cueball, hopefully my line was not stollen. It happened while Eskom was loadshedding.

 

[eye_suc]

Severe congestion here for almost a month. Bottom of Basset.

 

[Riaandb]

Severe congestion here for almost a month. Bottom of Basset.

Ain't Basset suppose to have vdsl?

 

[eye_suc]

Ain't Basset suppose to have vdsl?

Don't tease me like that! Where do I find out about that?

There's a moerse new box on the corner here, but last time I asked one of the techies who was working on it he said hopefully somewhere in 2015. Vague.

 

[Ripstorm]

So my line just went down...and its staying down. Any1 else with the same issue?