DSL speed is verrrry slow

[Julz]

Apologies if this is old news, but my ADSL is so slow right now, it's e'ffing difficult to get around the forum to find info from others.

Recently installed ADSL 192/384 as part of Telkom closer option 4 bundle. Use my own DSL modem. Surecom EP-4704SX.

Initially, DSL seemed to work fine - nothing great thought and certainly not the speeds I expected or hoped for. (To me DSL is margionally quicker than 56k dialup!)

Lately, it's become almost impossible to browse the web. I've even diabled AV and Spy bot software to limit external factors during testing (I'm fairly PC literate being in the IT industry, so have hopefully covered most of the normal rubbish.) Checked registry to make sure no nasty startup apps were present. Laptop I am using is not greatest, but not exactly ancient either.

Tried phoning Telkom ADSL support, but I have better things to do with my life than wait for them to tell me that there are 'too many users on the network!' I did notice the following from ping tests:

Local sites like Iafrica.com, News24.com, etc.....+-25ms response (sounds right)
International sites like CNN.com, bbc.co.uk, etc....350ms plus response time
Oh and google.com gives me between 350 and 400ms right now.

Is this normal for international sites...? Perhaps there's some more tests I can before having to try Telkom idiots again?

 

[<moLe>]

Apologies if this is old news, but my ADSL is so slow right now, it's e'ffing difficult to get around the forum to find info from others.

Recently installed ADSL 192/384 as part of Telkom closer option 4 bundle. Use my own DSL modem. Surecom EP-4704SX.

Initially, DSL seemed to work fine - nothing great thought and certainly not the speeds I expected or hoped for. (To me DSL is margionally quicker than 56k dialup!)

Lately, it's become almost impossible to browse the web. I've even diabled AV and Spy bot software to limit external factors during testing (I'm fairly PC literate being in the IT industry, so have hopefully covered most of the normal rubbish.) Checked registry to make sure no nasty startup apps were present. Laptop I am using is not greatest, but not exactly ancient either.

Tried phoning Telkom ADSL support, but I have better things to do with my life than wait for them to tell me that there are 'too many users on the network!' I did notice the following from ping tests:

Local sites like Iafrica.com, News24.com, etc.....+-25ms response (sounds right)
International sites like CNN.com, bbc.co.uk, etc....350ms plus response time
Oh and google.com gives me between 350 and 400ms right now.

Is this normal for international sites...? Perhaps there's some more tests I can before having to try Telkom idiots again?

welcome to south africa? go to speedtest.net run tests ,post results vs speed you paid for?

 

[Takkies]

sounds like you have the same problem as 40M other South Africans!

 

[Submolecule]

I have noticed that the speeds are not what it used to be a year ago, there is something very wrong with the networks. I know this is not breaking news but it is worth saying again.

 

[Boomstomp]

Just ran the speedtest.net test at work:

0.53Mb/s download
0.59Mb/s upload

 

[Sly21C]

Just ran the speedtest.net test at work:

0.53Mb/s download
0.59Mb/s upload

I ran test speeds at my home pc

384 kbps download
I can't remember the upload speed, but it was way lower than the download speed

I currently use my phone as a modem for my home pc to connect to the internet, and I can tell you that it is very slow, at one time I had to wait for one minute for Facebook to load.

 

[LazyLion]

I dunno what is going on this afternoon now, but it is pathetic at the moment

Mine is also farked on SAIX....

Latency to the USA 778 ms.

Download speeds seem OK, but upload is 8 kbps??