Please Help, No Ports Available

[stfury]

Hi all,

A long story short I have no choice but to move back home, where I used to have ADSL but I had the line disabled when I moved out about 6 months ago.

I've phoned telkom about 20 times over the last two months and every time it's the same answer 'no ports available'. They have told me they'll phone me back if a port opens up or if they upgrade their infrastructure.

After speaking to quite a lot of people, pretty much everyone has told me that there's nothing I can do about it and I just have to wait.

As a last resort I just wanted to ask everyone if they know of any way I can work around this, someone I can phone or anything at all I can do to try get my ADSL line re-enabled quicker, etc etc.

Apart from that, is there any affordable option besides ADSL which I can game on with a stable latency? Never used wireless but I've heard it's complete rubbish.

 

[ponder]

Location?
Are code + first 3 digits?
Order number?

 

[stfury]

031 464

Location is Durban - Malvern (Think it's the Queensburgh exchange though)

Don't have the order number on me at the moment, will paste as soon as I can get my hands on it.

 

[VioAdmin]

Very sad story to hear, he we are in 2010 and a willing customer cannot get broadband internet. Not because he lives in the middle of nowhere, but because they don't have enough 'supplies'. This is why we should go Cable or FIBRE asap but the damn Europeans, who are still ruling us think they know best.

Anyway, I hear Vodacom 3G and MTN 3G are your best bet, especially the VodaCom, don't expect you to use it that much though as the prices on it are completely crazy. Another option is Neotel, they are also terrible now but in the next 5 years thinks will change.

 

[InTheCube]

Or wait for Cell C to launch it's 21mps HSPA+ network and related services. It's imminent...

 

[who.is.michael]

You might not want to hear this, but in order to get what you want (I oppose this strongly) bribe a Telkom official, start with an expensive bottle of Whiskey...

 

[Flippy_r_1st]

Friend of mine also got told this. also lives in durban. he was told to only expect a port to become available in the next 3 years. and they not upgrading the exchange