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So finally.......

After months of promises my ADSL in the Randburg area was cut over to a MSAN about 1km from the house. The speeds are now very acceptable, line sync's at 10MB/s (attainable rate - 23Mb/s) and local servers ping at sub 15ms with speeds of about 8.5Mb/s sustained over the day. I hope it stays like this and does not degrade significantly as they cut more connections over to the MSAN.

Maybe there is hope for Telkom yet.
 

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Does anyone perhaps know how many customers/lines does a single msan support?
 
Satguy said:
So finally.......

After months of promises my ADSL in the Randburg area was cut over to a MSAN about 1km from the house. The speeds are now very acceptable, line sync's at 10MB/s (attainable rate - 23Mb/s) and local servers ping at sub 15ms with speeds of about 8.5Mb/s sustained over the day. I hope it stays like this and does not degrade significantly as they cut more connections over to the MSAN.

Maybe there is hope for Telkom yet.
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Your attenuation seems high though? I always assumed a good line should have a lower attenuation figure?
 
Kido said:
Your attenuation seems high though? I always assumed a good line should have a lower attenuation figure?
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I had endless hassles with this line. Last year the DSLAM that I was connected to was way overloaded, at the very best of times (early hours of the morning) I could get 1.2 - 1.3Mb/s - but mostly it was between 25 - 250Kb/s. I complained endlessly to no avail, then got totally gatvol and 'reverse engineered' the email address of the manager for Telkom resonsible of overall network quality and bombarded him with complaints about my slow speeds - eventually they connected me directly to the Craighall N exchange - my line attenuation downstream was 51dB with s/n of only 4db's, but my line sync was 4096 and download speed went instantly to 3.5Mb/s sustained through out the day - latency 10ms. So yes line attenuation is a big factor in max sync speed, but its not everything, right now I am getting what I pay for.

Sorry I should mention, the D-Link router attenuation / s/n figures have a decimal point missing, divide the actual number by 10. Should read - 18.5db and 10.0 db. Oddity of the router stats!
 
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TheRidDlerX said:
Where in Randburg are you? Im moving over to Northwold / Olivedale exchange in 2 months... hoping they will be bumped by then!
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Very close to Brightwater - so its some ways from Northwold. Having said this the numerous area managers and techies that visited my house over the last 8 months, all said without fail that the whole of Randburg is in the upgrade process to MSAN, not just specific area's. So who knows.
 
Hrm, I'm over the hill (Malibongwe) from brightwater, although I'm fed from Boskruin, I believe. Wonder if we'll also see some action.
 
RoganDawes said:
Hrm, I'm over the hill (Malibongwe) from brightwater, although I'm fed from Boskruin, I believe. Wonder if we'll also see some action.
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Okay, well my MSAN is right outside the Checkers (Center) on Braam Fischer, but from what I picked up some months before the cut over, Telkom started placing all new small upright boxes (blue / green) in the various streets around my suburb, there is no electronics in these boxes, just Kroner blocks, I assume they are just DP's, but they replaced all the old pillar and some pole DP's. I assume that was the precursor to the cut over from the DSLAM to the MSAN. So I guess if you see these new boxes appearing in or near your street, then it is quite likely the MSAN may follow?
 
Satguy said:
Okay, well my MSAN is right outside the Checkers (Center) on Braam Fischer, but from what I picked up some months before the cut over, Telkom started placing all new small upright boxes (blue / green) in the various streets around my suburb, there is no electronics in these boxes, just Kroner blocks, I assume they are just DP's, but they replaced all the old pillar and some pole DP's. I assume that was the precursor to the cut over from the DSLAM to the MSAN. So I guess if you see these new boxes appearing in or near your street, then it is quite likely the MSAN may follow?
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Thanks for the info.
 
Saw a nice shiny new msan been done on the corner of Dover and Main in Randburg
 
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