Telkom Mobile Speed, Disconnections & Coverage Problems – click here first!

KingLv said:
Is Telkom not planning to fix there network issues... I'm getting like 5mbps down. Signal has had a big hit.
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I presume it's your area / tower or isolated ones being affected, as where I am things still seem to be fine.

Hope it comes right for you soon.

EDIT - 1st screenshot doesn't show I'm connected to Telkom, only an ID number / code ; therefore, included 2nd one to show the name just before speedtest is performed (in case you might have any doubts :)).

This is from the WiFi connection, not from one of my 2 SIMs which are from other networks.
 

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Having issues with telkom lte disconnecting randomly,when it is connected performance is good so I'm confused. Gaming is borderline impossible.
 
I'm having the same issue... 3rd month now. Does anybody know whats going on.??
 
BCR said:
I presume it's your area / tower or isolated ones being affected, as where I am things still seem to be fine.

Hope it comes right for you soon.

EDIT - 1st screenshot doesn't show I'm connected to Telkom, only an ID number / code ; therefore, included 2nd one to show the name just before speedtest is performed (in case you might have any doubts :)).

This is from the WiFi connection, not from one of my 2 SIMs which are from other networks.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply.... But its been bad for months now...
 
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Also having serious issues with telkom mobile connectivity over the last month and a bit, and it's bloody weird.

Some things seem to work just fine most of the time like Facebook, but others are so damned hit and miss that it's pretty much useless to have any data.

I haven't dug too much but it's like they've royally fscked the routing and have no idea how to fix it.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Also having serious issues with telkom mobile connectivity over the last month and a bit, and it's bloody weird.

Some things seem to work just fine most of the time like Facebook, but others are so damned hit and miss that it's pretty much useless to have any data.

I haven't dug too much but it's like they've royally fscked the routing and have no idea how to fix it.
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Having the exact same issue.

Have two Telkom LTE SIMs and both have degraded extremely rapidly. Borderline unusable at this stage.

It won't load webpages or connect to games then after a few retries it will work.

When things do work, speed and signal are not an issue. I get about 30 to 40mbps.

Suspected it might have been a DNS issue so I manually set my router to use 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 but that didn't help either.

The best way to get stability is to use VPN on the devices I'm working on but that's not really a feasible workaround there's other devices on my network that can't have VPN apps on them.

Any ideas on what went wrong anyone? It's been going on for over a month now and I haven't found a way to successfully log a fault for mobile internet
 
Danielle Tshabalala said:
Having issues with telkom lte disconnecting randomly,when it is connected performance is good so I'm confused. Gaming is borderline impossible.
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Been having the same problem off/on for the past ±2 years until around December 2023. Signal would often be low randomly switching from LTE to HSDPA becoming really slow or sometimes connection would just drop completely. These signal problems only happened when I was at home. At another location in my area the signal would become stable.

The signal from Telkom mobile has been pretty strong and stable now at my home since early-mid december; except during loadshedding during which it becomes almost completely unusable compared to my MTN sim which still retains a decent signal and is usable during loadshedding.

My conclusion is it might probably have to do with the cell phone towers, maybe other mobile networks have the priority over Telkom during congestion(?), or at least that's part of the problem.
 
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RoLeLu said:
Been having the same problem off/on for the past ±2 years until around December 2023. Signal would often be low randomly switching from LTE to HSDPA becoming really slow or sometimes connection would just drop completely. These signal problems only happened when I was at home. At another location in my area the signal would become stable.

The signal from Telkom mobile has been pretty strong and stable now at my home since early-mid december; except during loadshedding during which it becomes almost completely unusable compared to my MTN sim which still retains a decent signal and is usable during loadshedding.

My conclusion is it might probably have to do with the cell phone towers, maybe other mobile networks have the priority over Telkom during congestion(?), or at least that's part of the problem.
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Didnt work out for me,switched to mtn
 
I see the rep on the first post indicated last seen 3 Feb 2017. Is Telkom still monitoring this?
 
Is anyone having issues with Telkom at the moment? Just went dead from 8:00 in Midrand.
 
datadrain said:
I'm using Garuda Linux, switched mirrors using Reflector-Simple.
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Good you got it sorted ; was joking about a switch to LM, as I know someone using Arch would see it as a serious downgrade.
 
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