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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
Good or bad stats?
- Thread starter luka138
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I'll upload a picture of the telephone cables tomorrow
They never bother to fix it properly and our neighbour refuses to cut their trees.
ActivateD
Expert Member
My line is just as bad but stable mostly. At least I can get 10mb.
Max of 2 here
Any idea why the ISAM didn't make a difference?
Icemanbrfc
Honorary Master
how far away from the exchange are you? im in Portlands in Mitchells Plain, and the coverage gives me a max of 20.
ScottulusMaximus
Honorary Master
Put in your Telkom number here:
http://www.broadbandstats.co.za/search/phone/
It'll then hopefully find your exchange, see how far you are from it(62db should be about 4.5km) if it's much closer then you may have a problem on your line, your noise margin isn't great either but makes sense if you're miles away from the exchange.
http://www.broadbandstats.co.za/search/phone/
It'll then hopefully find your exchange, see how far you are from it(62db should be about 4.5km) if it's much closer then you may have a problem on your line, your noise margin isn't great either but makes sense if you're miles away from the exchange.
Icemanbrfc
Honorary Master
interesting, that on the Telkom website, my max is 20MB, but on that link, it only shows a max line speed of 4MB. so who is right and who is wrong. I checked with Charl from Telkom, and he confirmed 20, and the website was updated to reflect that. I intend to upgrade my line from 2 to 10mb, but i just want to be careful that i dont go 10, and can only go 4mb
ScottulusMaximus
Honorary Master
That site was last updated in 2012 so is VERY out of date, but the exchange locations should be ok.
The shortest road route to there is 4.1km. Not sure about the displacement. Also they've installed an MSAN 2 roads away from me recently. Shouldn't that make a difference?
Wow
That's a really good speed. So you're covered by VDSL right?
Icemanbrfc
Honorary Master
I think so. Vdsl Normally what 20 and 40mbps?
I don't download or game, only streaming now and then, so for me I can live with 10mb possibly even 4mb Line
I don't download or game, only streaming now and then, so for me I can live with 10mb possibly even 4mb Line
ScottulusMaximus
Honorary Master
So 62db is probably about right, well they either haven't or aren't going to connect you to the MSAN, try get details of a techie in your area to ask.
0.4 wtf
They likely are. My household is covered by the VDSL rollout on their map. If they haven't connected it yet, why have u heard it running when I walked past there? I don't know much about this.
Yep seems like it. What speed do you use?
Johnatan56
Honorary Master
Your line must be dropping every 5 minutes with the new system, Telkom tries to keep SNR at 6dB.
Or have they not upgraded their system yet at your exchange? Only explanation.
ScottulusMaximus
Honorary Master
There's about 1000 reasons you may not be on the MSAN, simplest of which is that you might be connected if you ask for an increased speed, the most complicated of which is that Telkom just don't feel like it.
You'll have to get Telkom on the line and find out unfortunately.
But I can tell you right now that you are almost certainly still connected to the old exchange still.
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ActivateD
Expert Member
very stable actually. It only drops when it rains heavy else its fine. I get 8mb plus speeds so no complaints from me. When I do have issues I get telkom to reset my line and it works again.