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[VeloABF16v]

My line shows 4mb from 2mb but my speedtest still shows what it use to before the telkom upgrade. What gives?

 

[Joka69]

Hey Guy's...

Can somebody tell me if my line stats are ok, i for some reason cannot seem to get higher then 2.80mbps on my 4 meg (recently upgraded by TI), i don't know if its my actual line because my tracert's are not bad at all, here's my line sync:

My Line sync stats:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 640 kbps
Line Attenuation 18.5 db 10.5 db
Noise Margin 18.3 db 12.0 db

and here's my tracert's:

Local Tracert

Tracing route to google.co.za [173.194.41.87]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms ti-224-40-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.40.1]
3 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms ti-224-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.6]
4 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13]
5 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 165.165.216.221
6 181 ms 183 ms 181 ms lon-ip-hsll-1-gig-0-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.46]
7 184 ms 183 ms 184 ms 196.25.191.146
8 193 ms 186 ms 182 ms 209.85.240.61
9 184 ms 183 ms 183 ms 72.14.238.51
10 183 ms 185 ms 187 ms lhr08s01-in-f23.1e100.net [173.194.41.87]

Trace complete.

International Tracert

Tracing route to thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms ti-224-40-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.40.1]
3 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms ti-224-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.6]
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13]
5 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 165.165.216.221
6 206 ms 207 ms 216 ms fra-ip-hsll-1-gig-7-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.110]
7 227 ms 227 ms 233 ms te0-7-0-11.ccr21.fra06.atlas.cogentco.com [149.11.20.65]
8 217 ms 215 ms 215 ms ntl.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.15.194]
9 221 ms 217 ms 221 ms vlan90.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.254]
10 221 ms 223 ms 223 ms ae-92-92.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.29]
11 224 ms 221 ms 216 ms ae-21-21.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.148.185]
12 210 ms 210 ms 211 ms ae-57-222.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.153.134]
13 259 ms 245 ms 221 ms ae-21-52.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.98]
14 204 ms 208 ms 212 ms BYTEMARK-CO.car1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.193.10]
15 209 ms 210 ms 199 ms gi1-24-10-star1.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.9]
16 199 ms 197 ms 196 ms www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]

Trace complete.

And then this is the result of my speedtests:

LOCAL
Last Result:
Download Speed: 985 kbps (123.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 525 kbps (65.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 73 ms
11/25/2013 9:15:01 PM


International:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 947 kbps (118.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 536 kbps (67 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 66 ms
11/25/2013 9:15:36 PM

And Cape Town:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 842 kbps (105.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 535 kbps (66.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 59 ms
11/25/2013 9:16:18 PM

 

[digitalp]

Same here.

I have a 10mb/s line and my international browsing is really ridiculous. I'm on the Telkom Premium 10mb/s product.

I'm in Randburg with a vdsl exchange.
I stream Netflix and I get low quality if I'm lucky. The local speedtest yields 8.9mb/s but a speedtest to an international server in the USA gives me 1.5mb/s and over 500ms ping.

I don't download p2p and I watch Netflix for maybe 3 hours a day.

I'm paying over a grand for this service and I'm getting worse quality than what I got when I was on Mweb's 2mb/s line.

 

[shadow_man]

Hi,

What are speeds like? I see I can do 4Mbps uncapped bundle (line + bandwidth) for R548, this is cheaper than even the new Afrihost pricing...

I mainly use my connection for NZB's / General browsing / Netflix and some light gaming.

Any input?

Thanks,

 

[Electric]

Hi,

What are speeds like? I see I can do 4Mbps uncapped bundle (line + bandwidth) for R548, this is cheaper than even the new Afrihost pricing...

I mainly use my connection for NZB's / General browsing / Netflix and some light gaming.

Any input?

Thanks,

It's all discussed in the thread.
For your needs it will be perfect.

 

[shadow_man]

Thanks Electric,

Any chance they provide trial account?

I'm hesitant to move both my LINE and bandwidth over, unless I know its solid...

 

[MickZA]

Thanks Electric,

Any chance they provide trial account?

I'm hesitant to move both my LINE and bandwidth over, unless I know its solid...

No trial accounts unfortunately.

I've been running my business on 4Mb Uncapped since March this year moving an average of 300GB/mth without hassles but I'm not into gaming, Netflix or 24/7 downloading. Prior to February I had a TI 2Mb Uncapped account for after hours but used TI capped for business, since February TI have improved their Uncapped QoS to the point that my capped account is redundant.

If you're on a stable line and uncongested exchange I reckon TI Uncapped is as solid as any other ISPs offering.

 

[xrapidx]

I currently have 4MB uncapped account on a 10MB line - it costs around R700 (with Telkom, and the line discount thing)

How much will it cost if I move to 10MB uncapped? Apparently the website is wrong.

 

[Brennan123]

Anybody experiencing high ping lately? I want to play league of legends ( euw server) but my ping I constantly 700. The worst part is its jump around between 300 – 700 but most of the time it is above 600. I still have like 10gigs of cap left.

 

[thewusman]

International has gone to the dogs, getting <1Meg to the US on 10Meg Uncapped.

Afrihost capped on MTN backbone working perfectly.

This after 5 days of perfect performance.

Sigh.

 

[Brennan123]

The adsl checker website saying:"Maximum speed available in your area 2mb Your Current Service speed 2mb", but i do a speed test i only get 0.85mb. Should i get closer too 2mb?

 

[aktor]

The adsl checker website saying:"Maximum speed available in your area 2mb Your Current Service speed 2mb", but i do a speed test i only get 0.85mb. Should i get closer too 2mb?

Well, what's your router syncing at?

 

[GreyBush]

Gaming was horrible last night 200 ping on local bf4 servers

 

[xrapidx]

I currently have 4MB uncapped account on a 10MB line - it costs around R700 (with Telkom, and the line discount thing)

How much will it cost if I move to 10MB uncapped? Apparently the website is wrong.

anyone?

 

[MickZA]

How much will it cost if I move to 10MB uncapped? Apparently the website is wrong

... anyone?

It's supposed to be R574/mth but some discounts are being dropped/changed, I should have a better idea tomorrow when I get my Dec account.

 

[xrapidx]

It's supposed to be R574/mth but some discounts are being dropped/changed, I should have a better idea tomorrow when I get my Dec account.

incl line rental?

 

[MickZA]

No, that's for data only - Do Uncapped Premium Plus.

 

[xrapidx]

No, that's for data only - Do Uncapped Premium Plus.

Thats what I'm trying to figure out, a friend showed me a print out where it says it'll be R699 incl line rental for 10MB uncapped.

 

[MickZA]

Thats what I'm trying to figure out, a friend showed me a print out where it says it'll be R699 incl line rental for 10MB uncapped.

Extract from Dec pricing mail:



... AFAIK this pricing excludes discounts which have supposedly changed.

 

[xrapidx]

Tx - thats exactly what he had, except internet speed was also 10MB on the 4MB one, and the price was 699 as it was on the left. (told him I think its a misprint, because the Premium Plus was exactly the same for R300 more)

Can't recall the discount, but I'm assuming 10MB would be around R850-900, wondering if it'll be worth it...

Anyone on 10MB getting 10MB? I consistently get 450KB/s downloads, but find TV streaming a bit slow at times.