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ISP's and their best effort uncapped offerings is what is bringing us down. Pay for 4mbps and you are lucky to get 1mbps during peak hours because of shaping.
 
inferno said:
ISP's and their best effort uncapped offerings is what is bringing us down. Pay for 4mbps and you are lucky to get 1mbps during peak hours because of shaping.
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Agreed, Telkom also helps the index with the 4Mb upgrades. I'm getting my money's worth from mweb though : 394k uncapped upgraded to a 1Mb constantly doing 1.5-2Mb/s
 
Nope not getting what I am promised. Paying for a 4mb Uncapped Solution from Mweb only to find out that the majority of the time it performs worse than a 384k line. Not a fault on Mweb's side per say because the fault has been outstanding on the Exchange since last year September and Telkom is not fixing it... :mad:
 
Oh we don't have to worry about the uncapped accounts bringing it down. That's the least of our worries. For the past 2 weeks I have been unable to get more than 18 - 30kbps download speed on a 4Meg line which has a cap and has for the past 2 years been running at 4 megs and doing so brilliantly with 400- 600 kbps download speeds. And then WHAM I'm plagued with rubbish download speeds, packet loss. Fortunately the average of 500- 1000ms ping has returned to it's ~250ms rate, but still, packet loss and bad download speeds have rendered the line useless. I may as well revert back to dialup since even Google takes as long as it used to on dialup speeds.
 
Can someone explain why some of these old communist block countries have such good internet?
 
Those stats are very much very inaccurate. It has to be waaay below 75%.

Nobody in SA gets the speed advertised by telkom, including the capped people.
 
markings said:
Can someone explain why some of these old communist block countries have such good internet?
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Because they don't need 10000km-long underwater fiber cables to connect to the big backbones in europe.
 
There are many reasons
First one is that much easier to be close to exchange in Europe because it is high rising building and each block or two has got it's exchange.
Second is that exchanges were very old so when they started investing it was not worth upgrading them just putting brand new one. Some of exchanges didn't have tone dial only pulse. In average 40-50 years old. Most of cables going underground, most of cities have underground pipes so putting fiber is not an issue. Don't have to dig here like mad to put extra cable or two.
Third distances there are much closer 1.500km and you are on the other side of Europe almost, that is JHB-CPT here. So ping are not existent. Avg ping there is 3-5ms from one side to another.

And most important I guess there is REAL COMPETITION for customers. Not like here just on paper

My brother lives still over there and for about R200 pm he gets 40Mbs internet+phone+cable TV. He uses one port on router for phone one for TV and two for internet.
 
We beat the UK, Australia and France .... hell, what more do you want?
 
i consistently get more than 4mb/s on my uncapped 4mbps mweb line. frequently as much as 6mbs. milnerton, cape town
 
I always got the speed that I paid for, When I was on 1Mbps I got 110kBps download speed which is full line speed, now that I'm on 384kbps I get 41kBps download speed which is also full line speed.

In the UK my uncle has a 10Mbps line and only gets 7Mbps most of the time and here I know lots of people that gets between 8 and 10Mbps on a 10meg line, which is better that the UK, that's why they are behind us in the list. Still, they have 100Mbps lines there.:eek:
 
blah blah blah How come colombia and argentina beat us this country is whack
 
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