....and the wait begins

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Nosaj

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Hey ppl
I officially ordered me adsl from telscum this afternoon. I am going to do a self-install and will see how long this all takes. The guy I dealt with was ok, he had a decent idea of what was potting,but had no idea of the new regs thou when I asked for an under 30 day install, suppose that was to be expected.:rolleyes:
I can’t wait to join the whole online community of SA on adsl, and so I will update when I know anything new. I will go see the guy agian in a week and then pester them for results.
 
Nosaj said:
Hey ppl
I officially ordered me adsl from telscum this afternoon. I am going to do a self-install and will see how long this all takes. The guy I dealt with was ok, he had a decent idea of what was potting,but had no idea of the new regs thou when I asked for an under 30 day install, suppose that was to be expected.:rolleyes:
I can’t wait to join the whole online community of SA on adsl, and so I will update when I know anything new. I will go see the guy agian in a week and then pester them for results.
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It will be interesting to see how long it will take.

I say, 21 days. Why did I say that? Simply because I applied for ADSL on my new premises and thats what they told me but, I been calling them on a regular basis (3 times a day) made lots of enemies but got good contacts in the process. Soooooooooooo, call, call and call it may work :)
 
My dsl installation (self install) took 13 days. Anyone any quicker.

P.S. I phoned them 6 times every day. I suspect they got a little irritated with me.
 
Yip. Thanks to GangStarr I now know that they have to add ports to my exchange. This should be done by month end (Yeah Right!!!!), then they have 7 days to plug in the line (double yeah right!!!!).
 
I guess my biggest problem is that they have to put more ports in. I live in a townhouse complex and have seen a telkom box up against one of the walls so i dont know if that one has to be upgraded or if its further away.

I have seen many telkom vans in the area, on some days i drive past at least 5 doing something. Looks like they are laying cable.
 
ZA_medic said:
Looks like they are laying cable.
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They ever do anything else?:D

Shot guys. Ja as I said I will give till next week then rash them until I get what I want.
Our area ia also quite busy so I doubt a 3-4 day wait. But the guy I delt with kinda hinted at helping me out and getting this sorted. Thou he could do this 10 times, a day so will see what ahppens.
 
Update

Ok, so a woman phoned my house on friday and spoke to my old lady, said that the application had been processed and eveything would all be complete in the next 7/8 days. I was quite surprised that THEY phoned us after only applying a few days ago.
Well I can only hope that it actually pans out out this way. Any advice on how to go about making sure that I don't let them get away with anything. I want adsl by next week. I am getting a netgear 834g in the next couple of days so if they can come with the connection I am sorted.
 
I Applied on the 22th of may.... I'm still waiting...

There is no hope for Telkom.

I allso applied for Diginet and they can't help with the either.
 
!!DV!! said:
I Applied on the 22th of may.... I'm still waiting...

There is no hope for Telkom.

I allso applied for Diginet and they can't help with the either.
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I applied around the same date, and I am still waiting!
 
Dudes you have my sympathies.
Things could still go decidedly south for me still. I walked into the telkom shop today. was told runaround stories. all i heard was blah blah blah eish. Ill go back when the white guy i spoke to first is there.
 
...A friend of mine is going for like 3 months now.....Best of all is, he HAS a telphone line and just need the ppl at Telkom to throw over a switch....they dont even NEED to install new lines...lol
 
Update time

Ok. so on monday my phone line started acting up. It had a wierd interferance type of noise in the backround. Figured that something was happening in the direction of adsl install. I phoned them but had no diffinitive answer. So today I phoned and was told i was waiting for for varification. Now the phone had been behaving badly, it doesn't ring when phoned and its all distorted. When i called my mom's cell I got her voice mail and managed to speak to her at the SAME time. I went this afternoon to the telkom office and spoke to the same guy. He said that I was now activated, sorted out the isp and then I had to go to home and then to work (where i am now). I did connected the router and stuff before i went and left my brother to sort it out.
Basically it is not working and the telkom techs tell me differing stories. mainly that the filter is wrong.
I got a netgear 834 g an hooked it up the way the diagram said, flter and all. So i mean wtf.
My concern is the that we ahve an old line, meaing we got the old like 3prong plug things going into an adapter that then comes with rj-11. so i thought that maby the old connectors are stuffing it all up. telkom aren't worried thou.
I will try and sort it when i get home a little later(8pm).
 
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!!DV!! said:
I Applied on the 22th of may.... I'm still waiting...

There is no hope for Telkom.

I allso applied for Diginet and they can't help with the either.
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I hope for your sake you're not running of the same exchange as I do, Lynnwood Glen I think (361...348..etc.) Best guestimate they were able to give was Feb 2007. Maybe being on the other side of the highway will bring you more luck :D Oh yes, applied on the 20th of June, eventually got a date today, 11 weeks later.
 
Don't use the standard netgear filter, it doesnt work here, you have to get a filter from the devil, um Telkom, and all should be fine(lol, I referred to Telkom and everything being fine in one sentence).
 
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