ADSL2+ in sa?

[feo]

Hi

I've been reading up a little on ADSL2+ and the speeds that can be acheived with this DSL technology and also how international telcos, like the ones in aus, have already been taking steps since the beginning of last year to get their exchanges ADSL2+ ready. Aus expects ADSL2+ to kick off by mid-2006 so when can we in SA expect this tecnology (if at all)?

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Well its not that we can't have ADSL 2+ its just that the network would not be able to handle the huge load of 100 000+ people connecting at 24 Mbits per second.... And telkom are cheap B@stards.

 

[feo]

Well it seems that telkom can't handle 100k people connecting at sub-1MB speeds so ya...24MB seems far off.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Yeah... Will prob get better speeds this year but nothing close what adsl2+ is capable of...

Welcome to the forum... thought i had said that already.

 

[feo]

Thanks Scooby. I even read somewhere that you could stream HD over this connection thats what really got me reading further on ADSL2+.

 

[Gladiator]

im not sure, but i think i read an article somewhere that said the minimum distance between the household and the exchange must be a shorter distance than normal adsl, therefore telscum has to actually build more exchanges or something.

we all know how enthusiastic telkom is about investment in its customers.

 

[feo]

"For instance, if you live within 2km of a central exchange you can have up to 24 megabits to your home.

"Alternatively, you can run ADSL in 'Reach Extended' mode and have up to 200 kilobits per second up to 7km from the local exchange. So you have it both ways. Either lots of capacity close to, or less but further out, compared with ADSL."

From the BBC website...

 

[Glipsie]

24Mbit/s = 3 Megabytes/s. 3000MB cap / 3 = 1000 seconds = ~17 minutes. Therefore your connection would be reset every 10 minutes. Fun stuff ...


Glipsie

 

[quik]

*sigh*

It'll be a long while before we see 24Mb, and by that time the rest of the world will be on 24Gb

 

[TheRoDent]

I'd like us to get decent ADSL1 first, please.

 

[Sneeky]

Can you even imagine where the rest of the world will be when we eventually (if ever) get 24 meg connections.

 

[feo]

I remember one of the news articles on myadsl.co.za a few months back about this Italian telco JazzTel that was down in the dumps and the boss of this company said he's gonna make the company shine like a diamond or something and soon afterward they offered 20MB ADSL2+ at a very low price and the company just skyrocketed. So why Telkom can't do something similar to put SA on the world stage in terms of ADSL is beyond me.

 

[quik]

I remember one of the news articles on myadsl.co.za a few months back about this Italian telco JazzTel that was down in the dumps and the boss of this company said he's gonna make the company shine like a diamond or something and soon afterward they offered 20MB ADSL2+ at a very low price and the company just skyrocketed. So why Telkom can't do something similar to put SA on the world stage in terms of ADSL is beyond me.

That would require qualities such as the following:
Foresight, innovation, QOS, etc...
which the stupid clod we know as Telcrap just don't posses.

 

[Nokkie]

telkom telscum mooo

 

[S1ght]

Telkom must die!

 

[sunsoffun]

its not all telskum fault (*duck the punch*)... its the "guavamunt" that needs to catch a wake up. The only problem is, half of them that work there dont even know what the internet is.

oh yes, Telskum is the guavamunt.

 

[feo]

Well someboy's gotta do something fast coz 2010 is not far off and I can already see the rest of the world condemning SA in '10 for our lack of initiatative in improving ourself when it comes to stuff like DSL....I just hope we dont leave everything till the last minute and make fools out of ourselves

 

[Kabraal]

who cares about speed?

telkom will prolly supply a artificial dsl2+ coupled with the 1000000M (not milli but mega)s latency

 

[ettubrute]

teklom doesn't need to build more exchanges, they just have to place the DSLAMs where they belong: in the splitter boxes in the suburbs... then everybody is less than 2 kilos from the access port! But... knowing teklom, they'll find some excuse (maybe thiefs?) for not doing this!