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[Squidofsymphony]

For my first post I would like to have a rant.

I have a subscription with Telkom for the slowest line they can possibly sell you with a 9Gb cap (256K line or something like that). The highest I've ever seen it is 42kbps which is pretty impressive for me, the average used to be ~35kbps. For the past 2 months or so I've been getting an average of 9kbps. I mean we're paying for the slowest line, the least they can do is actually give it to us.

Sigh...I feel better now. If anyone has more information on the subject or even a solution (O.O) it would be greatly appreciated since the call center is utterly useless. Thanks much.

 

[AcidT]

Welcome to the MBB Forums....

The slowest ADSL service they have is 384kb/s which is actually a kilobit per second service and not a kilobyte per second speed. That is why you would see an average of about 35 - 42 kb/s which is in bytes and not bits. 8 bits = 1 byte.

Why it would drop to 9kb/s is strange unless you have been throttled at some point and was not reverted back to normal speed automatically. Which area do you stay in?

 

[Squidofsymphony]

Thanks for the info.

It is indeed rather strange. I live around the Pierre Van Ryneveld region.

 

[AcidT]

Like to help where I can....

It is indeed rather strange. I live around the Pierre Van Ryneveld region.

Look at this thread Pierre-van-Ryneveld-ADSL-subscribers-unite!-Enough-of-this-line-dropping-business. It seems there has been a long outstanding problem in your area. If it has been solved or even looked at i have no idea...

 

[fragtion]

The highest I've ever seen it is 42kbps which is pretty impressive for me, the average used to be ~35kbps.

The slowest ADSL service they have is 384kb/s which is actually a kilobit per second service and not a kilobyte per second speed. That is why you would see an average of about 35 - 42 kb/s which is in bytes and not bits. 8 bits = 1 byte.

35kbps and 35kb/s are the same thing: 35 kilobits per second - so not very pleasing to see a mistake corrected with the same mistake... if you want to talk about kilobytes per second, then you use kBps or kB/s (b = bits; B = bytes: simple)

 

[AcidT]

35kbps and 35kb/s are the same thing: 35 kilobits per second - so not very pleasing to see a mistake corrected with the same mistake... if you want to talk about kilobytes per second, then you use kBps or kB/s (b = bits; B = bytes: simple)

My mistake...Was late at night/early morning when I was typing this. But you got the idea..

 

[phoneJunky]

There are 2 threads about PvR, I am active in one of them. The speeds that you mention is actually decent if you have it in kB/s which I assume you mean. The highest possible rate is 48kB/s so that 42 kB/s seems quite good. The 9kB/s is a problem, but atleast we get an upgrade in about 6 months time.

 

[Nokkie]

Welcome.

May I take your coat?

 

[kingmilo]

Welcome!