Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

[reactor_sa]

Dunno, but I was upgraded from 2 to 4mbps in November before the freeze, was fine then

 

[Electric]

Dunno, but I was upgraded from 2 to 4mbps in November before the freeze, was fine then

This is my experience as well.
2Mb ran Hulu just fine for months on High setting.
4Mb upgrade and I was smiling even more.
As soon as all the upgrades started kicking in the line began working intermittently.

Before say 7-8pm it runs perfectly fine.
After 8pm streaming on Low via Hulu is only possible with everything else buffering.
3570 kbps International speed test but MTV streaming registers as 750kbps and streams shyte.

It's not exchange congestion as my vox account flies but Afrihost capped crawls like Telkom.
That being said, nzb still flies 100% 24/7.

 

[wingnut771]

This is my experience as well.
2Mb ran Hulu just fine for months on High setting.
4Mb upgrade and I was smiling even more.
As soon as all the upgrades started kicking in the line began working intermittently.

Before say 7-8pm it runs perfectly fine.
After 8pm streaming on Low via Hulu is only possible with everything else buffering.
3570 kbps International speed test but MTV streaming registers as 750kbps and streams shyte.

It's not exchange congestion as my vox account flies but Afrihost capped crawls like Telkom.
That being said, nzb still flies 100% 24/7.

Then their shaper is borked.

 

[Electric]

I see Telkom is still up to **** as per usual.

 

[Electric]

10 seconds ago it was totally different.

25kbps
270 ping earlier

 

[Taranis]

Streaming yesterday was a problem. Also torrent downloads were slow. Weekend effect or shaper, I don't know?

 

[KingLv]

Downloading at 10kb/s again tonight. FNBconnect at full line speed for same file.

 

[Former member 61586]

downloading at 45 kilobytes per second since yesterday. Telkom and Telkom ISP = POS

 

[Spamhater]

youtube streaming bad tonight again , like every sunday evening

 

[Romito]

Downloading at 10kb/s again tonight. FNBconnect at full line speed for same file.

Upgraded from 2Mbps to 4Mbps untapped on Saturday and yesterday morning couldn't even run a speed test. Late last night saw Omega Rom maxing out my line speed on utorrent (448KB/s . Seems fine though this morning.

 

[Former member 61586]

definitely being throttled as speeds are still constant at 45 kilobytes per second. line is fine.

If I knew of a better ISP, I would cancel and move today.

 

[moondoggie86]

Cancelling my 4mb data portion tomorrow. Can't stream higher than 480p (was able to stream 720p a few months back), torrents are useless, NNTP is useless, HTTP won't download higher than 15kb/s.

I've only used 33gb so far for the month and Telkom usage page indicates I'm still in the green.

My 2mb Connection data package outperforms this account in every way possible.

 

[Former member 61586]

Cancelling my 4mb data portion tomorrow. Can't stream higher than 480p (was able to stream 720p a few months back), torrents are useless, NNTP is useless, HTTP won't download higher than 15kb/s.

I've only used 33gb so far for the month and Telkom usage page indicates I'm still in the green.

My 2mb Connection data package outperforms this account in every way possible.

where will you go to?

 

[moondoggie86]

Thinking of a 4mb Connection account. There has been quite some complaints recently from the Afrihost, MWEB and Open web forums so I'll stay clear from them for now.

Maybe Webafrica but I had some bad experiences from them in the past.

 

[Former member 61586]

Thinking of a 4mb Connection account. There has been quite some complaints recently from the Afrihost, MWEB and Open web forums so I'll stay clear from them for now.

Maybe Webafrica but I had some bad experiences from them in the past.

That is always the conundrum. Where to go as it seems all seem to be crap.

 

[moondoggie86]

Just so damn purrdy

 

[Romito]

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Just so damn purrdy

That's just plain bad speeds.

 

[retired]

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Just so damn purrdy

This is Telkom's version of loadshedding. Data usage management. Its just such a pity they wont come clean and tell their customers what they are doing rather than trying their best to hide the facts from us.

 

[Former member 61586]

NZB speeds have now dropped to 1 kilobyte per second.

 

[The_Imp_ZA]

I just want to browse the internet, but it's so slow I can't. NetLimiter is telling me that I'm getting 4kb/s, but as soon as I go to Speedtest.net, i get perfect speeds. Hmm...something looks fishy here, Telkom.

Same as ambroseg1 above me, my NZB's are also getting 1kb/s.

I'm over this. What is the point of having internet, if I can't browse articles, or even load Google services properly. I'm starting to go insane. My internet was faster and more reliable when I was on a 384 line. So much for 2meg. :/