Telkom considering free 10 Mbps ADSL upgrades

Garyvdh said:
Didn't they also bump up the upload speeds last year for free?
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Can't remember that: can't really differentiate between extremely slow and very slow. :P But my cap was upped from 3GB to 5GB for free.
 
Yeah. The 384 is killing me. Just downloaded a 2.5 gig file. Took like 20 hours...and then the hash didn't check out. *Cries*
 
yeah but seriously everyone should just expect a million more complaints like people being capped in 3 days if we all got 4MBPS. just think how quick you would chow a 3gb or 5gb cap with that?

384 is not that bad.....il never go back to dial up but i could easily live with 384 for another year or so.i just dont get the point of being able to drive my ferrari around (4mbps) with 5 litres of petrol (5gb) ?
 
Positively Negative said:
yeah but seriously everyone should just expect a million more complaints like people being capped in 3 days if we all got 4MBPS. just think how quick you would chow a 3gb or 5gb cap with that?

384 is not that bad.....il never go back to dial up but i could easily live with 384 for another year or so.i just dont get the point of being able to drive my ferrari around (4mbps) with 5 litres of petrol (5gb) ?
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Why are you complaning about your cap in a thread about DSL Speed? Sure the two are related, but you are insinuating that you will now use your cap quicker with 4mb than with 384. How "quick" you use your cap is up to you, and how heavy you use the internet, not how fast your linespeed is.

Frankly I'd rather have a 10mb DSL with 1mb upload speed, with 10gb cap, which I can use moderately, than a 1mb down, 512k up line with 10gb gap. When I need the speed, atleast I have the CHOICE to use it or not.

384k is NOT broadband, it's narrowband, and more importantly it's a JOKE.

2mb and up can be considered "broadband" not these offerings Telkom offer us. I'm all for faster line speeds, but in the same breath I hope Telkom also upgrades the QUALITY of the network that carries our bandwith.
 
SLicK said:
Why are you complaning about your cap in a thread about DSL Speed? Sure the two are related, but you are insinuating that you will now use your cap quicker with 4mb than with 384. How "quick" you use your cap is up to you, and how heavy you use the internet, not how fast your linespeed is.

Frankly I'd rather have a 10mb DSL with 1mb upload speed, with 10gb cap, which I can use moderately, than a 1mb down, 512k up line with 10gb gap. When I need the speed, atleast I have the CHOICE to use it or not.

384k is NOT broadband, it's narrowband, and more importantly it's a JOKE.

2mb and up can be considered "broadband" not these offerings Telkom offer us. I'm all for faster line speeds, but in the same breath I hope Telkom also upgrades the QUALITY of the network that carries our bandwith.
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Well put...
 
Balstrome said:
That 10/20/30G "free" local is a great thing from telkom. At least from my pov
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Agree, works for me as well. I use my total Telkom account for my local needs and the Afrihost 5GB for international.
 
Garyvdh said:
Yes, this is it. It was originally due for rollout in October last year, but was delayed due to problems with the interfaces in some of the exchanges. I mentioned that in several other threads.
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Thank you, Sorry if I missed your previous posts about it.
 
burn said:
Yes, I do all my downloading at varsity as well... Even torrents fly :)

Btw, you can get OpenSuse locally from http://mirror.ac.za, unless it is faster from Italy :p
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Yep. I have seen 80 MB/s from http://mirror.ac.za (and no, I am not anywhere near the physical location of this server, AFAIK). On my laptop, the write speed of my hard drive becomes the bottleneck. Now, if only we could get that kind of bandwidth internationally ...
 
Can't wait for the free bump up in speed, maybe I won't d/c in data heavy fights on WoW anymore!
And yeah, please stop complaining about line speed and cap, it sucks that we have to pay for both but at least our line rental will stay the same but with a bigger benefit.
If you want super duper uncapped 12 meg zoomynes then pony up. We are still 3rd world here!

I gave up on hoping for things to change drastically here, now I will take what I can get!
 
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