Telkom 20Mbps ADSL2+ service

Arietans said:
How do you know you're still on 10Mbps hardusb?
We've just been upgraded to 20mbps. The modem (ADSL 2+) is syncing at 18mbps and I'm getting these speeds on Afrihost capped account:

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I suspect it's just a congested exchange or AH.
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Try out with a 1GB account from afrihost/webafrica
 
vangend said:
ADSL Availability
Service Available
Maximum speed available in your area 20 Mbps
Your Current Service speed 4 Mbps

Lewisham exchange, will try today to get my speed upgraded.
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Wow I am moving to Krugersdorp.:D

Lonehill max speed is 4mbps
 
I'm confused why my exchange does not support 20Mbps. Its a IMAX and its served by metro ethernet. Max 10Mbps for now it seems.
 
cavedog said:
I'm confused why my exchange does not support 20Mbps. Its a IMAX and its served by metro ethernet. Max 10Mbps for now it seems.
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If you are connected to the IMAX then there can only be 1 issue - they need to replace the 32 bit backplane with a 64 bit one....
 
MickeyD said:
If you are connected to the IMAX then there can only be 1 issue - they need to replace the 32 bit backplane with a 64 bit one....
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Ok cool. Interesting what does that thing do? I know the IMAX was served with a ATM link for long then finally 3 weeks ago they switched it over to metro ethernet. It pushed everyone up to 10Mbps but yeah no 20Mbps yet. The congestion disappeared overnight. Exchange was down for 1 week though.
 
cavedog said:
Ok cool. Interesting what does that thing do? I know the IMAX was served with a ATM link for long then finally 3 weeks ago they switched it over to metro ethernet. It pushed everyone up to 10Mbps but yeah no 20Mbps yet. The congestion disappeared overnight. Exchange was down for 1 week though.
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Improves the throughput to enable the higher rate... same as a 32 bit vs 64 bit motherboard in your PC.
 
Arietans said:
How do you know you're still on 10Mbps hardusb?
We've just been upgraded to 20mbps. The modem (ADSL 2+) is syncing at 18mbps and I'm getting these speeds on Afrihost capped account:

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I suspect it's just a congested exchange or AH.
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Hallo,

Thanks, after a lot of battles they did a 3rd port reset and now my speed is up to 18Mbps.
 
hardusb said:
Hallo,

Thanks, after a lot of battles they did a 3rd port reset and now my speed is up to 18Mbps.
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Nice!
I've been told to do the same. So correct me if I'm wrong - your modem was synching OK, but the speeds were around 10Mbps?
 
Telkom advises the Pace modem.

On my Telkom Mega100WR2 router I am syncing at 20Mbps but am seeing 1.2MB/s download speeds (9.6Mbps) assuming no overheads.

I guess I'll be buying a VDSL router with backward ADSL compatibility
 
Arietans said:
Nice!
I've been told to do the same. So correct me if I'm wrong - your modem was synching OK, but the speeds were around 10Mbps?
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Yes, modem was syncyng at 20480 and my speed I got was only 10Mbps. The guys at Webafrica helped me out really well. They had me do a speedtest through the telkom guest account also and everywhere I strike the 10Mbps wall, like the line was hard coded to it. After a days tests they did a port reset again and my line speed was 12Mbps, then after a reboot it was on 18Mbps speed test, even though it syncs at 20, but 18 is fine, worth the extra R100 a month.

You just need to hang in and fight it out. I struggled in the past allot to get my line stable (Was dropping every now and then), after allot of struggling they eventually got it stable.
 
grim said:
Upload is 1Mbps. The download speeds I posted were 17.2Mbps which is 2.05MB/s
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reading that initial post properly would have helped.

but interesting to note that a adsl2+ modem is getting you that high a download speed. which modem is it btw?
 
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