Need Technical advice please guys

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Frankc

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After asked Telkom to upgrade me from ADSL 512 to ADSL 1024 but nothing happened after 3 weeks, I contact them again and it seems that I already running on ADSL 1024. (Without any speed improvements at all - In fact, even slower if possible)

I know a lot of people already tried but I don't care and am definitively going to make things as difficult as possible for Telkom with everything I have.

Can some of you please provide me with some technical information to help me determine my true speed. (I am for example not 100% sure but does 1024 ADSL in theory means that I would be able to download via FTP at 1024 KBPS while I only got 54 KBPS????)

I am going to do whatever it takes, whatever method, to get attention so I MUST be very sure that my facts are correct.

Any help would be appreciated to get my facts straigh pls?

(By the way. Don't even try to respond that it will not help, or such thing pls as I KNOW that I will get enought attention, just as with ABSA, Standard Bank, MTN and many other big companies)

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=38245&page=2

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=449157#post449157
 
That would be 1024 Kilo bits per second, not Kilo Bytes per second. And for the mathematically challenged 54KBps would equal 432Kbps.

Still much slower than 1024Kbps.
 
Thanks a lot. I don't know that kilo bits and kilo bytes was write the same way. KBPS.

So, for a 1024 ADSL line, what should my normal, standard download speed be in kbps. (I got 52kbps and noticed that other people somewhere on the forum got about 54kbps for 512 ADSL line)

Interestingly, I KNOW for a fact that it's not the line, or any damn other excuse because I once got 400 to 500kbps download speed while I was still on the 512 ADSL package)

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=34189
 
Also look through ur router/modem status screens and see what the modem/router is connecting to the exchange at... like on mine it says 512 Kbps up and 320 Kbps Down. For a 1024 ADSL connection it should be around 1156 (trying to remember from a while back i read what someone else had) Kbps down (Don't ask me why its a strange number)...
 
I'd be willing to bet 10 bucks that this is an IS ADSL product.

It took me 3 weeks to get IS to make ours [1024kbits/sec] run at 780kbits/s ... could not get it any faster than that.

I downloaded from ftp.is.co.za and that should run at full speed.
 
Telkom (I have Telkom 1024 ADSL account)

Your line speed is approximately 441.8 Kbps or 54.1 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

Gamco

469.30kbps
which means you can download at 58.66 KB/sec. from our servers.

Sentech

Your download speed is: 14.38 KBps, or 115.08 Kbps
The test took 71.187 seconds to complete
 
System Uptime 7 hour(s) 7 minute(s)
DSL Status Connected
DSL Speed 384 Kbps Upstream,
1152 Kbps Downstream
LAN IP Address 169.254.1.1
Ethernet Connected
DHCP Server Running
Software Version V1.00B02T02.ZA.20041109
 
Your line is not a 1024 line.
No way Hoze.
Phone 0800 DSL DSL and do the modem sync lights are flashing menu option and ask them how you can proove that it is a 1024 line. They will fail to proove it and then log the fault for you.
 
My 1024Kbps line runs at about 120 KBytes per second (max).

8 seconds for 1 Megabyte - Actual speed. (=7.5MByte per minute)
 
Frankc said:
Telkom (I have Telkom 1024 ADSL account)

Your line speed is approximately 441.8 Kbps or 54.1 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

Gamco

469.30kbps
which means you can download at 58.66 KB/sec. from our servers.

Sentech

Your download speed is: 14.38 KBps, or 115.08 Kbps
The test took 71.187 seconds to complete
Click to expand...

adsl 1024k you will download at just over 100kb/second. anything less than that something wrong with your line.
 
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