Telkom Speed Upgrades

[Geoff.D]

Friday past line went dead stayed off for hours and hours. Reported fault. Miraculously service restored no explanation of what is going on and no obvious changes to service.

 

[Genisys]

According to Telkom's website, my area was upgraded to 10Mbps

Don't hold your breath... Lots of things influence the speed you can get. The map can say you can get 10Mbps but if you are too far away you are not going to get close to what the map says.

 

[IchigoK]

Don't hold your breath... Lots of things influence the speed you can get. The map can say you can get 10Mbps but if you are too far away you are not going to get close to what the map says.

Theoretical (based on distance), I should get about 8Mbps, which I'm actually happy about because I've been stuck on 4Mbps for years.

 

[Genisys]

Theoretical (based on distance), I should get about 8Mbps, which I'm actually happy about because I've been stuck on 4Mbps for years.

Distance isn't the only aspect here. Copper quality plays a large role as well. Best would probably be to test and see what you can get.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Heard about a few other users complaining about getting throttled after just a few days. Don't think Telkom thought this through as non of the other ISP's have followed with similar packages.

When have they ever thought things through? They balled up a good thing with IDS, and I won't be surprised if they follow it up with this.

 

[Stiffmeister]

Wow, still no upgrades?
Talk about trash service.

 

[Splinter]

Hey folks. A little while ago my download speed went up from roughly 3megs to near-as-makes-no-differrence 10megs. I was actually on a 10meg DO package but line couldn't handle it. So obviously the line upgrades that had been mentioned previously in my area (Panorama) had happened.

I have a month to month, and am currently paying R835 for line rental and the 10megs plus 100 gigs data.

Now that I stream Netflix, I got a data usage warning for the first time during the week.

So when I phoned up to check (Telkom) options, I was told I could get 10 megs unlimited for R799pm - 2 year contract though I think.

Also could get a 20meg unlimited at R999 pm. They told me max was 40megs?

So, my questions:

- I was told that they throttle you on uncapped, and that capped is better as can top up and remain at advertised speed. Is this true?

- is the 40megs possible on ADSL?

- what package would you go for, all ISP's taken into account?

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

40mbps is possible on VDSL, so if you were to go to 20mbps or 40mbps, they would change the profile on your line and most of the time, you would need to buy a new router, if your current one doesn't support VDSL. I would stay with a capped package and I would recommend VOX Fat Pipe.

 

[Splinter]

40mbps is possible on VDSL, so if you were to go to 20mbps or 40mbps, they would change the profile on your line and most of the time, you would need to buy a new router, if your current one doesn't support VDSL. I would stay with a capped package and I would recommend VOX Fat Pipe.

Ta.

 

[Splinter]

What about CW's Crystal Air LTE-A for R799pm. 220GB of data. Nor sure of speed though.

 

[ponder]

So when I phoned up to check (Telkom) options, I was told I could get 10 megs unlimited for R799pm - 2 year contract though I think.
?

If you take their router it's 24 months, if you supply your own router you can go month 2 month.

In order to get throttled you gonna need to use a schiteload of data, The telkom unlimitedhome fup is pretty good.

 

[JonesY]

Noticed up to 780kB/s upload speeds in my torrent client tonight. Upload sync on 40mbps VDSL bumped up from 3Mbps to 7672Kbps.

 

[Genisys]

Noticed up to 780kB/s upload speeds in my torrent client tonight. Upload sync on 40mbps VDSL bumped up from 3Mbps to 7672Kbps.

There is a thread somewhere here with multiple people reporting the same

 

[atomcrusher]

I have constant ADSL outages on my Telkom ISP "up to 10 Mbps" ADSL line. Not a day goes past without my ADSL connection going down regularly.

and here's a spped test I performed a couple of minutes ago
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

 

[techead]

I have constant ADSL outages on my Telkom ISP "up to 10 Mbps" ADSL line. Not a day goes past without my ADSL connection going down regularly.

and here's a spped test I performed a couple of minutes ago
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

https://www.facebook.com/Fast-Internet-Services-471388689900009/

 

[Splinter]

I have constant ADSL outages on my Telkom ISP "up to 10 Mbps" ADSL line. Not a day goes past without my ADSL connection going down regularly.

and here's a spped test I performed a couple of minutes ago
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6735305812

Is this meant to be a good or bad result? I would have begged for 8megs not so long ago.

What area are you? I actually get sightly over 10megs download speed per speedtest in Panorama.

 

[JonesY]

There is a thread somewhere here with multiple people reporting the same

Upload sync jumped up to 10239Kbps after a port recreate

 

[atomcrusher]

Is this meant to be a good or bad result? I would have begged for 8megs not so long ago.

What area are you? I actually get sightly over 10megs download speed per speedtest in Panorama.

I am in Swellendam, Western Cape

 

[Splinter]

40mbps is possible on VDSL, so if you were to go to 20mbps or 40mbps, they would change the profile on your line and most of the time, you would need to buy a new router, if your current one doesn't support VDSL. I would stay with a capped package and I would recommend VOX Fat Pipe.

If you take their router it's 24 months, if you supply your own router you can go month 2 month.

In order to get throttled you gonna need to use a schiteload of data, The telkom unlimitedhome fup is pretty good.

Thanks folks. A question - I have a relatively old router/modem - the Netgear N600 DGND 3700v2. I have tried looking up the specs, but I am struggling to find out if I would need a new router to get the 20mbs or higher. Advice, please.

 

[ponder]

Thanks folks. A question - I have a relatively old router/modem - the Netgear N600 DGND 3700v2. I have tried looking up the specs, but I am struggling to find out if I would need a new router to get the 20mbs or higher. Advice, please.

It supports ADSL2+ so should be ok