Is there any way to AVOID the ADSL speed upgrade?

[new_in_za2]

I'm currently on a 2Mbps ADSL line and would like to stay there. Is there any way to avoid the speed upgrade other than downgrading to 1Mbps and living with that till Telkom upgrade those lines some time in January or February?

The reason I'm asking is that I know that my line won't be able to do more than 3Mbps stable, and if left to attempt to sync at 4Mbps, will get roughly 3500kbps, but will disconnect and reconnect every few minutes, making the ADSL connection nearly impossible to use.

So I'd like to avoid ending up in the situation where my ADSL line gets upgraded to unusability, but at the same time I would also like to avoid having to use only 1Mbps till February (worst case).

 

[Bryn]

You can ask your ISP to set the rate that you sync at.

 

[Sachin1804]

Let telkom upgrade your line. Then call in and ask for it to be dropped to 3meg. It can be done. Then you score an extra 1meg synch rate. Are you too far from the exchange to achieve 4meg

 

[Gerhardt]

I'm currently on a 2Mbps ADSL line and would like to stay there. Is there any way to avoid the speed upgrade other than downgrading to 1Mbps and living with that till Telkom upgrade those lines some time in January or February?

The reason I'm asking is that I know that my line won't be able to do more than 3Mbps stable, and if left to attempt to sync at 4Mbps, will get roughly 3500kbps, but will disconnect and reconnect every few minutes, making the ADSL connection nearly impossible to use.

So I'd like to avoid ending up in the situation where my ADSL line gets upgraded to unusability, but at the same time I would also like to avoid having to use only 1Mbps till February (worst case).

VERY SIMPLE
get you line downgraded to 1mb. Telkom will upgrade you in Jan to 2MB LINE AT THE PRICE OF 1MB LINE

 

[ponder]

Wait until the upgrade and then downgrade if it's unstable.

 

[Barfish88]

hmmm free speed increase not good. Damn u telkom scum