Telkom ADSL Speed Upgrades

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I read somewhere that Telkom intend upgrading speeds at no extra cost and that it was to take place at beginning of March 2021.
Anyone who can confirm this or was I just hallucinating?
 
I note that it states Openserve wholesale, will this apply to those of us who have our ADSL line with Telkom and a separate ISP?
 
I’m with CoolIdeas and they’re passing along the speed doubling to the customer for no extra cost.

This is fibre though, not sure what the case is with ADSL.
 
Obviously the speed upgrade means more data being consumed, so if yo have a capped account it will deplete faster and uncapped, you will reach your threshold faster.
 
haroldj said:
Obviously the speed upgrade means more data being consumed, so if yo have a capped account it will deplete faster and uncapped, you will reach your threshold faster.
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Correct, but this has nothing to do with the question the OP is asking.
 
If I download a (say) 50MB piece of software, why will more data be consumed at the higher speed? May be true for a video where the system downloads a better quality of video due to the higher speed being available.
 
I am with Openserve/Telkom Internet. I got the speed upgrade last night, but then they messed up and created a new profile so I had no access in the morning. But I have been moved from 20/20 to 50/25. I hope I am not going to get a messed up bill next month
 
The Telkom ADSL page is down. I guess they're bringing new packages since not all of us are eligible for the upgrades due to the exchange not supporting it.
 
Fox1 said:
The Telkom ADSL page is down. I guess they're bringing new packages since not all of us are eligible for the upgrades due to the exchange not supporting it.
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I was told this already by telkom, i cannot go higher than 10mb on my adsl
 
Fox1 said:
The Telkom ADSL page is down. I guess they're bringing new packages since not all of us are eligible for the upgrades due to the exchange not supporting it.
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It's down more than it's up in my experience...
 
badtrev said:
I am with Openserve/Telkom Internet. I got the speed upgrade last night, but then they messed up and created a new profile so I had no access in the morning. But I have been moved from 20/20 to 50/25. I hope I am not going to get a messed up bill next month
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Happend to me as well. I had no inernet from Friday until Monday. Tech guy came out and found out that they upgraded me without advising me. New profile blah blah ..not for free it is going to cost me more.
 
ouman430 said:
Happend to me as well. I had no inernet from Friday until Monday. Tech guy came out and found out that they upgraded me without advising me. New profile blah blah ..not for free it is going to cost me more.
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Change to afrihost.
 
Totempole said:
We still don't know whether users with DSL lines and separate data packages will be upgraded as well.

So far only bundled services are being upgraded for certain.
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The lines will be upgraded by Openserve whether the ISPs change prices or not and if ISPs don't change prices the 40Mbps and people on the max line speed already will lose out unfortunately because those won't be upgraded.
 
cavedog said:
The lines will be upgraded by Openserve whether the ISPs change prices or not and if ISPs don't change prices the 40Mbps and people on the max line speed already will lose out unfortunately because those won't be upgraded.
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I'm on 20Mb, but I'm not sure I'm close enough to the exchange to officially support 40Mb, so can't be certain my line will be bumped up.
 
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