Broadacres ADSL speed?

[greper]

I live in Broadacres. On most days I don't get above 0.08 Mb/s on my 4Mb line. Started in Jan of this year, and I have logged 15 faults with Telkom. They send a technician out, who checks on his laptop and his modem, and declares the problem is at the exchange.

2 months ago I received a random call out of the blue from some guy at telkom to say that they knew exactly what the problem was, and that it affected everybody in my area. Apparently the exchanges can't cope with the load, and need to be upgraded. I was told this would happen by the end of May latest.

Guess what? Still dead slow, and I'm still paying for a 4Mb line.

Time to change I think.....

 

[EricsON]

Yeah I'm feeling your pain. I've recently been experiencing extreme slow-downs. I thought it could be my Axxess account, but I its more like too much contention in the area. I'll log a fault as well, hopefully enough complaints will get the DSLAM and link down the road upgraded. I was told last year that we could expect 10Mbps lines early this year, so far nothing.

 

[Pada]

Telkom should rather stop upgrading exchanges to support 10Mbps in residential areas and rather fix problems where needed and provided businesses with faster connections.

I mean, why would a business with 10-20 people have to be limited to a 4Mbps connection when another person can have a 10Mbps connection in his home when he don't really need such a fast connection...

If I got less than 1Mbps on my 4Mbps connection, I would've either downgraded to like 1Mbps or 384kbps even or canceled my ADSL subscription, or at least organise with Telkom to only pay for the percentage service that I'm receiving.

 

[EricsON]

Firstly why should a business get better access on broadband than home users? Personally I feel businesses should choose appropriate broadband or dedicated Internet services. Businesses should be looking at Metro Ethernet/FTTx solutions like NeoBroadband Fibre and the various metro services.

 

[VioAdmin]

Firstly why should a business get better access on broadband than home users? Personally I feel businesses should choose appropriate broadband or dedicated Internet services. Businesses should be looking at Metro Ethernet/FTTx solutions like NeoBroadband Fibre and the various metro services.

+1

10mbps is not even fast enough for me right now. We should have had at least 20mbps going to home users by now, sigh.

 

[EricsON]

10mbps is not even fast enough for me right now. We should have had at least 20mbps going to home users by now, sigh.

FTTx is the way forward. Countries like Latvia are already upgrading from 100Mbps home connections to gigabit, thanks to a great open fibre network. Sure international is not 100Mbps but local content is, and it rocks.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

I am so going to necro this thread - just got a call from Telkom that they will stop by tomorrow to discuss that everyone in the Broadacres area will be migrated to fibre. So excited - by the sounds of it they will stop ADSL and VDSL roll-out. Quite strange as my mini DSLAM was just (April) upgraded to support VDSL.

 

[MickeyD]

I am so going to necro this thread - just got a call from Telkom that they will stop by tomorrow to discuss that everyone in the Broadacres area will be migrated to fibre. So excited - by the sounds of it they will stop ADSL and VDSL roll-out. Quite strange as my mini DSLAM was just (April) upgraded to support VDSL.

They use that MSAN for the FTTH as well.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

What a disappointment - on the phone they mentioned that copper will be decommissioned and they are switching everyone to fibre. Telkom rocks up and wants to upgrade me to VDSL - the fibre is only up to the MSAN.