How many are using Telkom as their ISP?

[sorCrer]

I haven't had any connectivity or bandwidth issues apart from the 3GB cap which I misread to mean that the cap is calculated on international traffic. Needlessly pissed me off!

My ISP is Telkom. But all my clients use other service providers and they seem to have problems. Love to see the agreements that are in place between Telkom and the ISP's. Bet Telkom is screwing them! Also, I have now setup several clients using Telkom's PPPoE client and only used Telkom's support! So are the ISP's just providing a User/Pass????

Does anyone with a 3rd party ISP have a fully-configurable router? I mean one that doesn't have PPP or dialing disable in it's software.

'There are none so blind as those that will not see'

 

[Andre]

Which router has PPPoE disabled?

My reason for choosing Telkom was that it would probably lead to less finger pointing when it came to troubleshooting connection problems.

 

[mbs]

Yeah - I switched to Telkom for the same reason as Andre, coupled to the fact that other ISP's did not have any unique offerings which made them attractive...

 

[KnKyJ]

I am using both telkomsa and imaginet.
They're quite the same performance-wise, but imaginet's usage tracker updates immediately after you reconnect, while telkom's still has 1-2 days lag

 

[antowan]

Hi

That is a good question. I don't think you will get rid of the PPPoE part of ADSL networking but you might be able to get the router you are looking for in terms of autoconnecting. One that simply keeps the connection info in its own memory. That will save you a lot of setup effort. The problem is that you won't have more than one IP if you have more than one PC using the same router...

Cheers
Antowan

PS. Using Telkom as my ISP.

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<br />I haven't had any connectivity or bandwidth issues apart from the 3GB cap which I misread to mean that the cap is calculated on international traffic. Needlessly pissed me off!

My ISP is Telkom. But all my clients use other service providers and they seem to have problems. Love to see the agreements that are in place between Telkom and the ISP's. Bet Telkom is screwing them! Also, I have now setup several clients using Telkom's PPPoE client and only used Telkom's support! So are the ISP's just providing a User/Pass????

Does anyone with a 3rd party ISP have a fully-configurable router? I mean one that doesn't have PPP or dialing disable in it's software.

'There are none so blind as those that will not see'
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He who does not understand the value of war at the right time, cannot comprehend the value of life at any time - Anonymous

 

[fusion01]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">My reason for choosing Telkom was that it would probably lead to less finger pointing when it came to troubleshooting connection problems.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Telkom support often just state within 30 secs that the service 'offers no guarantees'. Troubleshooting? Who needs to when you're such a great service disclaimer?

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[cAde]

whats the adress on the imaginet usage tracker?....


caio

South Africa / Poland / UK

 

[KnKyJ]

http://userstats.adsl.saix.net/

 

[vincent]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by sorCrer</i>
Does anyone with a 3rd party ISP have a fully-configurable router? I mean one that doesn't have PPP or dialing disable in it's software.

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Not sure what you mean by 'fully-configurable router", but I use a 3rd party ISP and I also purchased the NetGear DG814 from them. I plugged the router into my hub via the uplink port, told it to assign ip addresses via DHCP, entered my adsl subscription details (all via a browser window) and away it went. Immediate connectivity for my entire LAN with no PPoE client software installed on any of my machines.

I have subsequently changed my config to include a Linux box as an intermediate gateway, but the router still takes care of connectivity and has never had a major crash. I now also use it to do port forwarding for incoming http and https connections and it works like a dream.

Vincent