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SnowWar
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It can't be, because then your connections speed (tested this on various routers, Netgear DG834, D-Link 504/604) would show 512/256 and not 2048/512 as it is doing here.
As I have stated before, I've used ADSL in other countries and there the correct connections speed is showed, ie: 512/256 or 1024 depending on what package you take.
It does NOT show you the maximum connection speed and then gets limited somehow. You get exactly what you pay for.
Another thing that is worrying me is that in the UK I just fell within the ADSL limits, but I still did get round 64KB/sec download speeds most of the times, and thats what your suppose to get under ideal conditions when your connection speed is 512/256.
So back to the "how do we get limited by telkom", if our connection speed is infact 2048/512 (as was the speeds when we started to test ADSL here in SA) how then DO we get limited? by software? (it seems so)
I've never even seen anyone (expect during the testing fases) get constant +- 64KB/sec download speeds. I've been in a town where they only recently got ADSL, sitting right next to the exchange, but still the speed was around 55KB/sec, nothing more. Surely we should have an ideal condition sometime and download at around 64KB/sec for that period, just like it happens in the UK. It just seems to me that telkom is again just trying to save a little bit of bandwith and screwing us some more.
I wish someone who REALLY know how things run there at telkom would have a chat with me. Then again, the "highly qualified cisco engineers" there don't even know how things are suppose to run...
As I have stated before, I've used ADSL in other countries and there the correct connections speed is showed, ie: 512/256 or 1024 depending on what package you take.
It does NOT show you the maximum connection speed and then gets limited somehow. You get exactly what you pay for.
Another thing that is worrying me is that in the UK I just fell within the ADSL limits, but I still did get round 64KB/sec download speeds most of the times, and thats what your suppose to get under ideal conditions when your connection speed is 512/256.
So back to the "how do we get limited by telkom", if our connection speed is infact 2048/512 (as was the speeds when we started to test ADSL here in SA) how then DO we get limited? by software? (it seems so)
I've never even seen anyone (expect during the testing fases) get constant +- 64KB/sec download speeds. I've been in a town where they only recently got ADSL, sitting right next to the exchange, but still the speed was around 55KB/sec, nothing more. Surely we should have an ideal condition sometime and download at around 64KB/sec for that period, just like it happens in the UK. It just seems to me that telkom is again just trying to save a little bit of bandwith and screwing us some more.
I wish someone who REALLY know how things run there at telkom would have a chat with me. Then again, the "highly qualified cisco engineers" there don't even know how things are suppose to run...