so i got capped and can no longer use the international sites (99.93% of all sites) and was a bit bummed by it. so i kept disconnecting and re-connecting the service, just to be doing something, then, all of a sudden i had great service, it downloaded real fast, and ping times on my game plummeted to the low 700ms!!!! wow! i was in heaven, i could win one of about 10 fights in the game! amazing, i actually won 2 of 5 at one point. normally i get killed by faster players 40 or 50 times in a row. but today i was just a really bad player, not just a perma-corpse. so i am STOKED! i just have to call someone! wooooohoooo, so i pick up the phone, and hear bzzbbzbzbzbzbzzzzzbzzzzzbzzzkeeeeee.... the phone line is being used for ADSL, my picking up the line drops the connection and i am back to being unable to use international sites again, i have since tried re-hooking multiple times but it only connects normally (slow / unusable) has anyone else ever had something like this happen?
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Are you sure your modem conected to the internet and not your adsl.I know its a stupid question,but you should not be hearing anything over your phone line if your adsl is conected.
Is the your 56k modem also conected to the line?
Is the your 56k modem also conected to the line?
ya, my modem is connected to the phone line, and i do sometimes use it to connect to the net, and that would give me the speed and response that i got, but. but i checked very carefully that it was the adsl that was connected, i have the connections go to the tray as icons and the phone modem was off and the adsl was on - i even wrote down the numbers on the adsl in case the IP address or something had some affect on the connection... who knows??? so it was adsl using the phone line that led to me getting to a better connection than i get during uncapped and of course capped times.
jgoosen
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Sparf</i>
<br />so you guys havnt had this happen then ?
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Nope
<br />so you guys havnt had this happen then ?
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Nope
Quazzi
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Well, I've actually had the opposite problem - I had to have my phone off the hook for my adsl to work. Turns out my filters had to be replaced
OKiDOKi
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When my phone rings my connection drops. But once reconnected I can use them both.
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paf
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Sparf</i>
<br />so you guys havnt had this happen then ?
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Hi Sparf,
yes, I did have this happening.
I had one of those standard white Telkom phones, which I think are in many SA homes, connected together with the Telkom ADSL modem through a splitter to my phone line.
When I made a call
a) I got quite a bit of noise
b) the DSL link LED started flashing i.e. I lost my connection.
I called the ADSL support and asked them whether they had reports about that. The agent said he didn't know of any and couldn't offer much of a solution.
Luckily I found another cheap, non-Telkom phone, connected that up, and the problem is gone.
Which begs the question: one of the few remaining big selling points Telkom offers for ADSL is that you can surf and phone at the same time. Now it seems that if you use all standard Telkom equipment, like any good citizen should, that is not actually the case, for some people at least.
<br />so you guys havnt had this happen then ?
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Hi Sparf,
yes, I did have this happening.
I had one of those standard white Telkom phones, which I think are in many SA homes, connected together with the Telkom ADSL modem through a splitter to my phone line.
When I made a call
a) I got quite a bit of noise
b) the DSL link LED started flashing i.e. I lost my connection.
I called the ADSL support and asked them whether they had reports about that. The agent said he didn't know of any and couldn't offer much of a solution.
Luckily I found another cheap, non-Telkom phone, connected that up, and the problem is gone.
Which begs the question: one of the few remaining big selling points Telkom offers for ADSL is that you can surf and phone at the same time. Now it seems that if you use all standard Telkom equipment, like any good citizen should, that is not actually the case, for some people at least.
pretty darn funny... ahhh well. thought maybe the adsl incorrectly using the phone line maybe had something to do with getting the good speeds, i would take the good speeds and use my cell phone at leasts for some parts of the day... but prob too good to be true.