No DSLAM ports

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Hi all,

I've just been told there aren't any DSLAM ports available in my area(Norwood), such charming freakin' news! So they say they have set up a project to install more ports or something.Please someone tell me this won't take like a year to do?? What are these DSLAM ports btw? Thanx
 
DSLAM "Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer" is a box that sits in a Telkom exchange where your telephone line plugs into which converts your DSL signal into an ATM (Asynch Transfer Mode) connection to the internet.

Each DSLAM can only support a limited amount of telephone lines or ports.
 
Is this a common problem, them not having enough ports? Can anyone shed any light on the time of getting my adsl installed if you've had this problem b4? Thanx all
 
jjay said:
Is this a common problem, them not having enough ports? Can anyone shed any light on the time of getting my adsl installed if you've had this problem b4? Thanx all
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It is becoming more common issue as they advertise and offered the 192K package and more people realize how crap the other offerings for broadband are.

I reckon that their capacity is somewhat lagging behind the demand in some exchanges.

It is also a budgetry issues but if there is demand in your area you could write a letter/petition to Telkom and ICASA and see if they can speed up the process.
 
Thanx dude, cringe I can see this taking ages, I seriously doubt its to do with budget, the bottom line is they just don't give a **** and never will. ---

Spoke to a lady about the ordering now and she assured me it wouldn't take as long as I first thought which was three months, so I'm holding thumbs
 
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Well, I have been waiting since the beginning of March. And now they tell me it will take at LEAST till 31 July to install. So don't get your hopes up :(
 
what i cant understand is that with all the money Telkom rakes in, why upgrading exchanges is a "costly" exercise........

Telkom MUST be brought to book on investment in infrastructure VS profits. simple
 
Expanding ports shouldnt be a big issue, afaik they use very large DSLAM's at most installations - so upgrading a port card to something of higher density (or simply adding anotherone) should be all that is required - unless there really is a *serious* amount of ADSL users on that exchange, which I doubt because they'd have contension issues
 
heard in the wind that the problem lies in the fact that up to 50% of the ports on the marconi dslams are not working
 
WTF!!! MArconi?
These guys went bust how many times?
So Telkom perhaps buy inferior technology at discount in order to what/ Further increase profits?
 
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