Telkom Speed upgrades

[Mr_P]

I love you telkom, but please hurry up!!!

 

[placid07]

Tried my luck on the telkom twitter page...

 

[Pooky]

My mental wellbeing is suffering

 

[DawieZA]

These is what I have currently:
View attachment 83539

Your problem there is the noise margin and not the line attenuation.

 

[Drifter]

To be stable on 8Mbps you need no more than a 42dB downstream attenuation on the router/line, if it goes over 42dB then the line will become unstable.

42dB will mean you are +-3km from the exchange.

My downstream Attenuation is 30dB, cant get more than 6.144Mb on 10MB exchange.

 

[Rickster]

Point is you can now call your ISP and upgrade to a 4meg package.

I cant afford the 4 Meg package.


PS: My account is actually a 1Meg, 2Meg was a typo.

 

[wiinuts]

Anyone in the olivedale,sharonlea area been upgraded yet ? 2mb to 4mb.

my router still showing 2048 download... should i do a port reset (anyway of doing this myself without having to call telkom ?)
my line is still with telkom but my isp is OW & Afrihost (capped)

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

@Dragon_void Hi, it is currently in the process of being upgraded, will test and advise at the soonest. ^RI

And the wait has officially started...

 

[dt513]

Your problem there is the noise margin and not the line attenuation.

To high?

 

[KingRamses]

I was under the impression that 4meg will be upgraded to 10meg, my line currently syncs a 3, herewith a message from Axxess who manage my line: So what now?

Good Day
Unfortunately you the client will not be able to get up to 10mb speed as you are to far away from the Telkom exchange. Your only options are up to 4mb or up to 2mb speeds. Please do advise on the speed that you the client wish us to downgrade you to?

 

[placid07]

Tried my luck on the telkom twitter page...

...and it worked! Syncing at 4mbps now.

 

[werny]

These is what I have currently:
View attachment 83539

WOW & ROFL = Those Noise is terrible, 3.8dB is not good at all.

SNR (Noise Table):

6dB or below is very bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no sync problems
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

Your line attenuation is not that bad on the other hand, just that Noise, you should get Telkom to check out your line.

 

[Kido]

So I gave Telkom a call last night and they did a profile reset. Now I'm on a 4 meg line (2 meg OW gold account).
speedtest shows 3.57 up, woohoo!

Now just contact OW to update you to 4mb data plan

 

[Pooky]

And the wait has officially started...

You in DBN?

 

[dt513]

WOW & ROFL = Those Noise is terrible, 3.8dB is not good at all.

SNR (Noise Table):

6dB or below is very bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no sync problems
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

Your line attenuation is not that bad on the other hand, just that Noise, you should get Telkom to check out your line.

The problem is that they were yesterday and said there was no problem. :/

 

[henry1103]

Now just contact OW to update you to 4mb data plan

I'm waiting for OW to announce their new 4M prices.
But honestly, getting 3.57M on a 2M account is fantastic

 

[madrynn]

When you call in, they are able to see SNR stats on their system. Call them again.

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

You in DBN?

Nope, in JHB.

 

[WiseCrack]

Woot 4meg hooray!

 

[Drifter]

WOW & ROFL = Those Noise is terrible, 3.8dB is not good at all.

SNR (Noise Table):

6dB or below is very bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no sync problems
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

Your line attenuation is not that bad on the other hand, just that Noise, you should get Telkom to check out your line.

So if my downstream line attenuation is 30dB, what does that mean?