How to increase line speed at the office?

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Our office is currently running a 4 meg Telkom Adsl line. They put it up to 10 megs last year when the upgrade occurred, but the line became unstable and it was bumped back down to 4, and has been fine since.
Now we're sub-letting some office space to a small company (working off our server/network) with high bandwidth requirements , and we need more bandwidth. What are the options? Is it possible to run another ADSL line in parallel? What do larger companies do?
(I'm kinda clueless on technicalities, so please keep your answers understandable :) )
 
Call Telkom and get them to put you on a 7/8mb profile - that may be more stable than 10mb but quicker than 4mb, just a thought.
Also your line/port may have improved since cause when 10mb first came out I also had sync issues at home now it seems ok after a few months had passed.

GL!
 
Post your line attenuation and SNR margins here of your ADSL line, then we can make suggestions on the speed profile that you should use.

ADSL Line Bonding (eg. Fishbone, like Zyraz suggested), which is where you combine a few ADSL connections in parallel, is a good option if your current ADSL line is operating at full capacity and without any issues.
I really won't suggest line bonding if you already have ADSL issues, like where a 4Mbps ADSL line only runs at 1Mbps.

Depending on where you are located, you might be able to get a leased wireless connection, or even fiber connection from like Neotel.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone.

Line stats:
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4095 kbps 511 kbps
Line Attenuation 40.0 db 19.0 db
Noise Margin 20.00 db 11.5 db
 
With those SNR margins, I can't recommend anything above 6Mbps, but you'll hit problems with your upstream SNR margin first.
I'm not sure if Telkom can set your downstream speed to 6Mbps and keep your upstream speed at 512kbps. If they can't, then I won't recommend increasing the speed at all, because then you'll compromise on stability.
 
luckily for me, if you look at my sig, i dont have that problem :D

only downside is that we at work are limited by webSense, so no torrenting or any form of download :cry:
 
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