Athlone, PMB Internet Down

[ichigo]

It went down last night and I know the exchange is working since my work uses same one so I presume the dslam is down.

I even tried all 3 of my working routers to make sure it wasnt the router and even tried both boxes in my house and different cables. The telephone is still working perfectly fine so dont see it being a cable.

Anyone know if theres work being done to the Howick Rd UMC Box, cause its been down for like 7 hours now.

I know its wishful thinking but hope they upgrading me to 10 megs , since my line has never gone down for years.

 

[shadow24]

I've just come from a friend in the Athlone area, and her ADSL is working. So must be your dslam

 

[ichigo]

I've just come from a friend in the Athlone area, and her ADSL is working. So must be your dslam

Thanks, hope my dslams fixed by the time I get home , one fear is that they will break it and my line stats will be terribad

 

[shadow24]

Thanks, hope my dslams fixed by the time I get home , one fear is that they will break it and my line stats will be terribad

Well, just be lucky you are not on the Montrose, PMB exchange - I used to have a solid 4Mbps connection until a couple of months ago. My line speed got so bad, especially after hours and on weekends. I've actually just downgraded to 1Mbps line, as I was paying so much for a speed I wasn't getting anywhere close to. As usual, Telkom were ever so helpful... not!

 

[ichigo]

Well, just be lucky you are not on the Montrose, PMB exchange - I used to have a solid 4Mbps connection until a couple of months ago. My line speed got so bad, especially after hours and on weekends. I've actually just downgraded to 1Mbps line, as I was paying so much for a speed I wasn't getting anywhere close to. As usual, Telkom were ever so helpful... not!

Thats quite bad, everytime I go past to cascades there is tons of telkom technicians there, so wondering what they doing if they not fixing it, probably partying .

I am very lucky to be on Loop street exchange, since its not congested at all and 10 meg enabled

Is montrose 10 meg enabled?

 

[shadow24]

Thats quite bad, everytime I go past to cascades there is tons of telkom technicians there, so wondering what they doing if they not fixing it, probably partying .

I am very lucky to be on Loop street exchange, since its not congested at all and 10 meg enabled

Is montrose 10 meg enabled?

Haha, you are probably right about them partying! Sadly, Montrose is not 10 meg enabled. I somehow doubt it's on Telkom's list of priorities to upgrade it

Hope your connection is sorted out by the time you get home..

 

[ichigo]

Haha, you are probably right about them partying! Sadly, Montrose is not 10 meg enabled. I somehow doubt it's on Telkom's list of priorities to upgrade it

Hope your connection is sorted out by the time you get home..

Thanks, and ye since it doesnt share with major businesses I doubt it will be soon. Seems Telkom loves businesses more than us.

Still got to get my dslam 10 meg enabled so on 4 meg currently, lucky we got huge business complex connecting to our dslam by redlands so hope they complain lots lol.

Have you tried making a petition with everyone in neighbourhood + cascades shopping centre to get Telkom to fix it? had to do that when we had problems with ours 2 years back

 

[ichigo]

My internet is working again, it was the dslam card which blew and they replaced it with similar one and worked and also found my dslam is adsl2+ yet my card isnt

So only 2 days to fix with helpful call centre and technician even if I had to steer him in right direction