Line speed increase?

[Highflyer_GP]

I have something similar with a 384 line, modem shows it syncing at 2048/512

Unfortunately downloads are still only at 384 speeds, but uploads seems to be 384 as well, so finally I have a SDSL line

Awesome, so I'm not the only one who is pleasantly surprised

 

[qinglung]

I guess someone on a 4096 line wanted to change their speeds and somehow ours got changed. Pity that the downloads are still limited to 384 though.

 

[matrixweb]

i got a 2mb line and it downloaded at 4mb for about 5 mins so i phoned telkom and told them to sort it out because if it can take the speed then theres no problem , im making them check the cables from my house to the exchange and repair if faulty

 

[fz1]

I haven't experienced a speed increase (I'm already at max ) but my line has been funny the entire weekend. Noise margin has been fluctuating a lot, dropped down to 8dB yesterday (from the 25+dB that it always runs at), then died for about 10 minutes. Seemed fine in the evening (back at over 25dB). Then, today at 11am, my noise margin dropped to 7dB It's been constant at that dismal rate for over 12h now. I'm hoping that it is temporary (that they are messing around with something), although it could be that something has gone wrong (I hope not). My attenuation remains unchanged, and the line is noisy (static) if I pick up the phone (yes, the phone is connected via a filter).

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!! Turns out the damn TELEAiD unit connected to the phone line was causing the noise. The last Telkom techie that came out must have swapped the line the unit was connected to to my DSL line (instead of my other, voice-only line). As soon as I killed the unit, my downstream noise margin went back up to about 26dB. Lesson here is to go back to basics when troubleshooting and make absolutely sure only the DSL modem is connected to the line

Sorry for the off-topic post.