Is there ADSL in the Eastern Cape ?

[SpottyGekko]

Seems I've been transferred to Port Elizabeth

Anybody have some info on what the ADSL installation times and line stability levels are down there ? Do Telkom have a guy with a forked stick that carries the data packets to PE ?

Seeing as some SA airlines don't even fly there, I'm getting a bit nervous....

 

[bwana]

My line is stable, installation was 13 months before they said I would get it and SAA flies here.

 

[Dan C]

ADSL in Eastern Cape

Nope, just like the rest of South Africa at the moment. But we used to have and
was stable for years.

 

[Syndyre]

Took about 3 months to get our line installed, that was a while ago though. On 4mbit and haven't had any problems since it was put in, aside from the usual ones everyone experiences thanks to Telkom.

 

[Style]

PE should be fine! Im in tiny East London and I 430k/sec you will survive in PE

Style

 

[Lood]

I live in PE. The staff at the two Telkom customer care outlets that I frequent are very friendly and helpful. When I had my ADSL installed, the technician also went out of his way to assist.

Problem now is that the Internet is so damn slow. I upgraded from 192 to 512 (applied on Wednesday, apparently it was done this morning), but my download rate is just laughable. It seems that it's not only a local problem and that everybody in SA is experiencing the same problem. Why then bother with unlimited internet if you can hardly download anything?

BTW, great forum.

 

[slowgo]

Glad it is not just me in PE that is having this problem. My 1024 up to 39k dial up is even slower than this.

 

[Syndyre]

My 4 meg line's ok here but not great, better than it was a couple of days ago at least.

 

[Freaksta]

I got my line in 3weeks...

N 3 of my friends that got dsl got it within a month.. This was not so long ago..

Best thing to do is to go visit the telkom shop at walmer park..

 

[Lood]

The Walker Drive shop staff are also very helpful.