I need more up speed!

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With the help of DDNS I started hosting some of my own sites at home with the idea of moving to an ISP one day but it proved to be stable enough, so why move?! Now I have a bunch of sites on my network and I charge for hosting them as well.

Many will argue to go over to ISP hosting but I seriously like the geeky feel, so dont bother convincing.

So my 4mb uncapped is all through Tellkom and I am one of the few people that dont have issues with them (I also HAD issues, sorted now)
@ R700 bucks a month I am not complaining but I would like to get 1 or 2 Mbps up speed, currently I get 0.5 Mbps.
I dont want to pay for diginet lines and all that, I just want to pay a bit extra to get some more up speed.

Any idea how I can wangle that, I just know that Telkom lady on the other side of my phone is not gonna register exactly what I'm trying to achieve here. Any other advice will also be swell, as not along as its not moving to an ISP.

Final note, I know it can be done because Telkom made a mistake in the beginning and gave my loads of up speed, they corrected this once I logged a fault for something else.
 
slicksticker said:
With the help of DDNS I started hosting some of my own sites at home with the idea of moving to an ISP one day but it proved to be stable enough, so why move?! Now I have a bunch of sites on my network and I charge for hosting them as well.

Many will argue to go over to ISP hosting but I seriously like the geeky feel, so dont bother convincing.

So my 4mb uncapped is all through Tellkom and I am one of the few people that dont have issues with them (I also HAD issues, sorted now)
@ R700 bucks a month I am not complaining but I would like to get 1 or 2 Mbps up speed, currently I get 0.5 Mbps.
I dont want to pay for diginet lines and all that, I just want to pay a bit extra to get some more up speed.

Any idea how I can wangle that, I just know that Telkom lady on the other side of my phone is not gonna register exactly what I'm trying to achieve here. Any other advice will also be swell, as not along as its not moving to an ISP.

Final note, I know it can be done because Telkom made a mistake in the beginning and gave my loads of up speed, they corrected this once I logged a fault for something else.
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Assuming your uncapped package is limited to 4mbps. You can still up your line speed and the uncapped package will only limit your download. So you could technically pay for a 10mbps line. You'd only download at 4mbps but your upload speed would get a boost to 1mbps.
 
S1ght said:
Assuming your uncapped package is limited to 4mbps. You can still up your line speed and the uncapped package will only limit your download. So you could technically pay for a 10mbps line. You'd only download at 4mbps but your upload speed would get a boost to 1mbps.
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Thought the up speed is the same through the products butI'll check it out(would check now but telkom site appears to be down). My line does not do well syncing at 10mb so bit of a waste :-(
 
slicksticker said:
Thought the up speed is the same through the products butI'll check it out(would check now but telkom site appears to be down). My line does not do well syncing at 10mb so bit of a waste :-(
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8MB also has 1MB upload.
 
The A in ADSL stands for Asynchronous as in the down and up speeds are not the same.
It goes like this 4/512k, 10/1, 20/1(adsl2+), 20/2(VDSL), 40/3(VDSL)
The only alternative is something like neotel fibre or similar if you want a decent service.
Best bet would be to get a VPS at a hosting company, you get to be geeky and do it yourself but with better bandwidth.
 
You manage to convince people to pay for their websites being hosted on your consumer grade ADSL?

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Rocket-Boy said:
The A in ADSL stands for Asynchronous as in the down and up speeds are not the same.
It goes like this 4/512k, 10/1, 20/1(adsl2+), 20/2(VDSL), 40/3(VDSL)
The only alternative is something like neotel fibre or similar if you want a decent service.
Best bet would be to get a VPS at a hosting company, you get to be geeky and do it yourself but with better bandwidth.
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VPS is an option but only once I have more clients. I do use VPS at my company so I know it will cost me round R1300 a month
 
HavocXphere said:
You manage to convince people to pay for their websites being hosted on your consumer grade ADSL?

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Hehe, I know it seems bad but it's not high volume sites. And there is no convincing, they ask for a site, I say yes and suggest hosting it on my own server at home. Aaand if you thought that was cheeky I resell my internet in my complex to another 4 households at R200 a month each. They dont rape the internet much, just day to day usage, but it's almost the same price as the line rental alone. No complaints, they pay with a smile. Actually scary how this network is growing.
 
>4 households

Kinda prohibited by the contract you signed...but thats between you and Telkom I guess.
 
HavocXphere said:
>4 households

Kinda prohibited by the contract you signed...but thats between you and Telkom I guess.
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This is why we wont say anything... but my usage is not the worst of the worst, I could hurt them more but I really am civil about it.
 
If you struggle to sync at 10Mbit unlikely you'd be able to get VDSL so your best bet would be to upgrade to a "10 mbit" connection and hope that you are able to achieve 1Mbit upload.

If that does not cut it, then ADSL simply won't do for you and you'll need to look at other various options.
 
You. My friend. Is why people are apprehensive when hiring people to get their websites up and running.

But that's your worries.
 
envo said:
You. My friend. Is why people are apprehensive when hiring people to get their websites up and running.

But that's your worries.
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I hope people aren't paying OP for hosting their sites. Sounds more like it's his own personal sites and maybe for friends/family. Obviously sites that don't really need to be up 24/7.
 
So what are you going to do when your web server goes down for an extended period of time (you know, cable theft, vandalism, broken exchange, load shedding, broken server, etc...) and the customers start to complain ?

Better to get those web sites running in a proper data centre already; it sounds like your business is growing :D
 
I guess he has better uptime than WA and Afrihost? lol
 
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