Telkom scamming???

[Lord Farquart]

So my line was practically down yesterday. Phoned them twice. First time they reset my line. Second time they gave me a reference number and told me that something was up with Telkom and that they are working on it.

Anyway, second time the guy asks me to do a speedtest. Weird thing is, at that point I can only open Speedtest.net. Not even Google would open in my browser. That is on one PC connected via UTP and another via Wifi. I tried to open like 7 tabs with different pages and only Speedtest.net opens. So, was Telkom throtteling me/us here in Centurion yesterday and then only allowing Speedtest.net traffic through? Seems plausible so that you think the problem lies somewhere else.

Miraculously my line is better now. By miraculously I mean who fixed it last night from 11PM onwards. Don't tell me a techie was out in the rain that time of night.

I did a speedtest now via Speedtest.net and via this website. Weird that the one would give me a ping of 21ms and the other of 396. Also, speedtest.net shows my download at 3,4 whilst his here website only shows 0.69 tested at the same time.

Telkom, are you guys up to something????

 

[slvR]

what

 

[Arthur]

Telkom, are you guys up to something????

Sorry about your miserable line performance. It's such a pain when connections don't work they way they should.

But you can't seriously think Telkom is "up to something", surely?

There are several perfectly ornery possible explanations for your connectivity woes, starting with wet connections and high contentions.

As for a techie out in the rain: Yes, not impossible. It's not only Helpdesk and Ops Centre that runs 24x7.

 

[Lord Farquart]

Sorry about your miserable line performance. It's such a pain when connections don't work they way they should.

But you can't seriously think Telkom is "up to something", surely?

There are several perfectly ornery possible explanations for your connectivity woes, starting with wet connections and high contentions.

As for a techie out in the rain: Yes, not impossible. It's not only Helpdesk and Ops Centre that runs 24x7.

Why I'm asking is because the only website I could open yesterday was the one they wanted me to open. Nothing else would open, and if it did, it would take minutes to open some of the content.