Is there a big differance??

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Ares

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I have I-Burst at the moment, but I am not happy.I am looking to get adsl. I heard that in practice there is not a big differance between 192, 384 and 512 packages.Is this true? Is there anyone who went from I-Burst to adsl?What are your exp.?
 
From what I've seen and heard the 384 is just about the same speed as 512k.. better value for money.. for want of a better description :)
 
Start with 192K.

For the first few days you will experience 512K while they sort out the software to reduce your speed.

Heck, if you lucky, they might even never reduce your speed.

Then if they downgrade you to 192K and it is too slow, then simply upgrade to a higher speed. Upgrades are done for free.

Ps. guess what... I'm lucky!!!

:)
 
384 aint the same as 512 there is about 12-18 difference in speed quite alot

192 is ok if you not downloading alot but 384 is perfect not to fast not to slow

if you can afford 512 get 512 the extra speed is great for watch porn video on winamp lol
 
Ares if I were u I would stick to Iburst until August if you can and wait to see if there is going to be a price reduction on ADSL and how the whole local capping situation is going to turn out. I had 192 dsl and for online gaming and browsing the web the speed are more or less the same on all the packages. I upgraded for free to dsl 384 and I must say that this is the best option at the moment for me.
 
192 is good for downloading +/- 24 KBytes/s. There is no need for anything faster if you have a small cap.
 
i've moved from iburst to ADSL and have the 192k option. Because it's for free to upgrade (while the montly rental goes up) I'm pretty sure I'll be going 384k soon
 
Ares said:
Will Skype work on 192k adsl?
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Skype is not as much bandwidth dependent as it is latency dependent.

If you have a 56k modem with good ping then voip will work fine.. Skype uses around 5KB/s both ways so most connections (with a decent ping to the person you're calling) will work just fine.
 
35 - 50 should be good? Thats what I used to get when I played cs, but that was a long time ago, before they dropped the connections from 2mbps to 640k at the exchanges.
 
The closer to 0 the better. DSL normally averages around at 20-30. It seems the closer you are to the exchange, the better your ping. Someone I know gets about 9 ping :eek:
 
biggest sell for me with adsl is the ability to buy (at a relatively 'reasonable' price) a 30 gig monthly package - (which at current IBurst rates, on a 3 gig package @R399 per extra 3 gigs - would cost R4000 a month)
I like the idea of having a 30 gig pool of data to use, and for another 600 or so, if I want, it turns into 60 gigs to play with every month. No extra fiddling, no workarounds, no proxies, just a big chunk of available data download that I can rely on.

For me, the amount of time and energy and money taken in trying to get IBurst to be consistent and reliable and deliver what I want, I'd rather pay someone else and get a guaranteed quantity of monthly data..
 
BTW telkom does not guarantee anything but its consistant so far.
 
Razer0 said:
The closer to 0 the better. DSL normally averages around at 20-30. It seems the closer you are to the exchange, the better your ping. Someone I know gets about 9 ping :eek:
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WHERE???
Not in the Cape I'd say.

So how much can we "legally" find out about Telkoms infrastructure.

I know theyve got 2 big cables and a few sattelite links. And on the other side of our telephone sockets sits some kind of Cisco DSLAM. Any idea how we're going to map them out?

Hey. Here's an idea. Lets all work for Telkom!!!
 
noone said:
i've moved from iburst to ADSL and have the 192k option. Because it's for free to upgrade (while the montly rental goes up) I'm pretty sure I'll be going 384k soon
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You wont be sorry.
 
Tunasashimi said:
WHERE???
Not in the Cape I'd say.
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Yip, not in the Cape since the SGS servers are located in JHB. One person I know lives right next to the exchange and gets a ping of 12.
 
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