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So my friends 192kpbs HomeDSL was activated today after 9 days

Now can someone explain to me as to why his data rate downstream is 1152kbps? And when doing speed tests he is getting 55kb/s. Then we tested downloading a few files off IS news server and constant 55kb/s...

Now i have 192 and data rate downstream connection is 320kbps?

Why the hell is it like this cause 19kb/s compared to 55kb/s seriously bums me out!
 
that speed is awsome!
I have 192 and downstream is 320K,actrual download speed is always sitting around 20kb/s.
Your friend is lucky.
 
he is a a$$h0le ;) seeing as though he is using my IS account at the moment,lol
 
Question... I have a ADSL 512kpbs line... right, so devide 512kbps by 8 and you get 64 KBytes/s...Now that's the line I pay for, but sadly it usually doesn't run at top speed, but rather at about 87%. Is this normal or should I insist on them fixing it?

According to the technician Telkom considers 45 KBytes/s acceptable for a 512kbps line... Acceptable?!?!?!?!?!

Lemme know what your thoughts are...
 
TelkomDSL is a best effort service and no guarantees are provided on throughput

Straight from the horses mouth, dont think you will get anywhere complaining. Earlier last month tons of 192kbps users where getting 35kb/s and now 19,20kb/s is max... :(

It seems 384 is the best package price and speedwise...
 
wernerhp said:
Question... I have a ADSL 512kpbs line... right, so devide 512kbps by 8 and you get 64 KBytes/s...Now that's the line I pay for, but sadly it usually doesn't run at top speed, but rather at about 87%. Is this normal or should I insist on them fixing it?

According to the technician Telkom considers 45 KBytes/s acceptable for a 512kbps line... Acceptable?!?!?!?!?!

Lemme know what your thoughts are...
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My Thoughts? TElkom is a bunch of thieves. They rip you off and this slack ANC led GVT feels nothing for the citizens of this nation as they allow Telkom to defraud and cheat the population, as they are part of this gravy train!. Telkom expects another whopping 9-10 billion profit! That out of a relatively poor and small nation like ours! I went through these same pains years ago to no avail. The only way you can achieve the speeds you pay for is via a special proxy that bypasses Telkom. Openweb or Nukecap. It costs extra money, but that is TElkom for you!
 
I used to get 70KB - 90KB on my 512k line, so I had the bright Idea to upgrade to 1Mbit... and now I get 80KB - 90KB :P
 
It is completley normal all over the world for a ADSL service to only run at about 90%, really. Especially cable etc. thqat is supposed to run at around 5-10mb, will often only get about 80-90% of that speed.

Its not a big Telkom conspiracy you guys.. well thats what I think.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
It is completley normal all over the world for a ADSL service to only run at about 90%, really. Especially cable etc. thqat is supposed to run at around 5-10mb, will often only get about 80-90% of that speed.

Its not a big Telkom conspiracy you guys.. well thats what I think.
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Then why, if they were able to offer 32k down and 20k up on a 192k line( and there were many like this) did they feel they needed to change it to 20k down/ 10k up??

If they could provide the service at that speed, then why degrade it?
 
ADSL is hugely influenced by attenuation, i.e. the further you are from the DSLAM the slower your access.

My point was, I was getting great speeds on 512k and the same speeds on 1MBit?? even though it clearly indicates in my router that my port speed has increased from 640kbits to 1152kbits.
 
hj2k_x said:
Then why, if they were able to offer 32k down and 20k up on a 192k line( and there were many like this) did they feel they needed to change it to 20k down/ 10k up??

If they could provide the service at that speed, then why degrade it?
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Simply to maximise profit ;)
 
Here are his speeds for 192kbps line on IS account:

Your line speed is approximately 647.9 Kbps or 79.4 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )


Results:
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:
Download time: 6.297 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 647.9 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 79.4 (kiloBytes/second)
 
well i'd keep that as secret as possible man. Seriously, posting here is gonna get ur mate downgraded one-time.

keep it secret, keep it safe!
 
Don't believe any of the hype you hear about what your supposed to get!

I'm on a 2mb line and my average is around 150k per sec - with torrents, heck, it entirely depends. They will STILL crawl in, even if there's lots of seeds - best I've seen is 100k per sec, usually it's averaging 25.

ISP's use all sorts of tricks to manage available bandwidth and often what is advertised, is really only "the most ideal situation"

It's like the 8mbs and 24mbs they advertise here - the chance of seeing those speeds is rare, one of the reasons being your entirely dependent on the speed of the server your connecting to.

If you downloading via FTP or HTTP, your speed is first and foremost determined by the pipe the server hosting the files is on. It doesn't matter one little bit if your line is 8mbps - if the server can only provide you with 1mbs, that's what you'll get.

To be really honest, the difference between the 2mb line I have now and the 512k line I had in SA, is mainly the cap.

My streaming audio/video is way better, but by and large, average surfing etc. isn't any different - it's a bonus when I get a 250k per second d/l - usually I'm around the 512/1024 level.

Go figure.
 
bb_matt said:
Don't believe any of the hype you hear about what your supposed to get!

I'm on a 2mb line and my average is around 150k per sec - with torrents, heck, it entirely depends. They will STILL crawl in, even if there's lots of seeds - best I've seen is 100k per sec, usually it's averaging 25.

ISP's use all sorts of tricks to manage available bandwidth and often what is advertised, is really only "the most ideal situation"

It's like the 8mbs and 24mbs they advertise here - the chance of seeing those speeds is rare, one of the reasons being your entirely dependent on the speed of the server your connecting to.

If you downloading via FTP or HTTP, your speed is first and foremost determined by the pipe the server hosting the files is on. It doesn't matter one little bit if your line is 8mbps - if the server can only provide you with 1mbs, that's what you'll get.

To be really honest, the difference between the 2mb line I have now and the 512k line I had in SA, is mainly the cap.

My streaming audio/video is way better, but by and large, average surfing etc. isn't any different - it's a bonus when I get a 250k per second d/l - usually I'm around the 512/1024 level.

Go figure.
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ya, but on an 8MB line you can have 6 or 7 different downloads running at 1Mbit...

I know someone in the UK using a 24Mbit connection provided by bethere.co.uk... they get about 14Mbits - 16MBits, but single downloads usually peter out at about 6Mbits (they can have 2 or 3 of those running at 1 time though).
 
hj2k_x said:
Then why, if they were able to offer 32k down and 20k up on a 192k line( and there were many like this) did they feel they needed to change it to 20k down/ 10k up??

If they could provide the service at that speed, then why degrade it?
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Why? heck I didnt say I know anything about that.. just saying the new speed isnt at a level where I would really complain.

But look you can see a very possible reason they would want to cut the speeds back to around where they are supposed to be (slower i know, and yes it sucks and is evil) is because they are a business and they can make more money by cutting speeds. I think the slowness is more of a problem than a intended action. They probably slowed everyone down to exactly 192kb, meaning you get through a bit less than that. they should have slowed everyone to about 30kb over their speed, then it would have been about 192kb exactly most of the time. But cutting a down a service where you are giving double what people are paying for is very reasonable/likley.

No other companies dream of giving more than what they have to, and this is Telkom.
 
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