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[PSY85]

Howzit guys/girls

Been doing some research, and being in the IT profession myself, I was wondering if some of you that are located in the CBD area would mind doing a little comparison to showcase true throughput speeds using say Speedtest.net or something similar.

I signed up for the Telkom "free' 3month program, and wish to upgrade my line to either a 4mb/10mb, but it would seem that the 10mb uncapped solution at this stage is not quite feasible. I prefer speed above bandwidth so may chose to go with an ISP that can guarantee me higher speeds.

I am pretty sure 10mb/s is supported where I live, as some friends who live close by and operate off the same exchange using Telkom as an ISP have informed me.

Should I sacrifice bandwidth for the speed, and if so - are the newly showcased DoBroadband(UNCAPPED) products the way to go?!

Thanks

 

[Pada]

In my opinion 1Mbps uncapped is more than enough, unless you're downloading 1080p videos 24/7.

If you're referring to latency as 'speed', then you should note that the latency between the 384kbps & 10Mbps accounts should be exactly the same, unless they are shaped/throttled differently.
10Mbps uncapped usually costs a fortune.

Before you consider upgrading to 4 or 10Mbps ADSL, you should check your ADSL statistics page on your router's web interface. If your downstream line attenuation is above 45dB, then your odds of getting a stable 4Mbps or faster ADSL connection would be slim to none.

 

[Tinuva]

Latency does improve from 384k to 10mbit, not as much as you would think, but latency to the 1st hop usually is about 18-20ms on 384k and 6-7ms on 4mbit and 4-5ms on 10mbit. As you can see, its tiny but does improve.

1mbit is what I would call the minimum for Broadband, and 4mbit is nice, though I don't think you need more than 4mbit, once you experience 10mbit you will fall in love, as geeky or nerdy as that may sound.