I think Telkom ADSL has improved

[paf]

I've had ADSL since June, and it seems to me that there has been a genuine improvement in the last 3 months.
- In the beginning, I'd get cut-off every 2 weeks or so. Now it almost never happens anymore.
- Speed seems up, bearing in mind I only use it in the evening and on weekends. Before it frequently happened that things almost came to a standstill
- I am now capped, but unlike before, where I got absolutely nowhere, I can actually download my mail from overseas and I can do basic surfing. It's very slow, but it does work.
Just my 2c.

 

[Tharaxis]

I too have noticed a marked improvement in ADSL (though only this December month, which has me fearing that this could be a once-off Telkom christmas freebie), I've been able to use the Internet even while capped without having to go through a proxy (and when I do unproxy'd capped ends up being faster than proxy'd), and I have been able to actually use my ADSL for things other than plain old browsing (such as FTP downloads, video, etc.) at really good speeds.

 

[onionpeel]

I have also noticed that the cap enforcement may be erratic. Today it might be slow, then tomorrow I get high speeds at times, then the next day slow again. Somtimes Kazaa downloads are fast, other times slow, then fast again. I think it may be just because internet traffic usage by corporates is very low this time of year because most people aren't at work. At my work, I can <u>now</u> download from a <u>local</u> ftp site at 1.3Mbits, but during the year, I get just a couple of KB (same site).

 

[freeek]

1.3 Mbps !!!! hmmmm can't be possible

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[Perdition]

He didn't say he was using ADSL at work []

 

[Karnaugh]

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<br />1.3 Mbps !!!! hmmmm can't be possible

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Why not?

[root@dragon]~: wget http://kokey.alink.co.za/music/kokey-booty.mp3
--10:19:32-- http://kokey.alink.co.za/music/kokey-booty.mp3
=&gt; `kokey-booty.mp3'
Resolving kokey.alink.co.za... 213.253.1.231
Connecting to kokey.alink.co.za[213.253.1.231]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6,426,748 [audio/mpeg]

100%[========================================================================================&gt;] 6,426,748 4.43M/s

10:19:43 (4.42 MB/s) - `kokey-booty.mp3' saved [6426748/6426748]

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[xerox]

Yes, I agree, Telkom did improve a bit... their customer service (Technical Support) became friendlier and faster action were seen.

Now I only need the disconnections to stop! I get disconnected every few minutes / seconds on some days.

They get no fault on my line though....


Decided to cancel and go back to R7 infinate call rather...