Telkom to double line speed

[Gboss]

http://www.humanipo.com/news/32600/telkom-doubles-line-speeds-in-continued-charm-offensive/

So Telkom is planning on upgrading and doubling line speeds, ie. 1MB becomes 2MB, 2MB becomes 4MB and 4MB becomes 10MB.

This is great news for all, but does anyone else feels like maybe Telkom should fix their congested exchanges first?
I mean what use is having a 4MB line if your exchange is so congested that you can barely get 2MB at peak periods???

 

[froot]

Telkom is slowly upgrading the exchanges to support VDSL (via the MSANs), so one day you'll have uncongested exchanges.

 

[nerf]

Telkom is slowly upgrading the exchanges to support VDSL (via the MSANs), so one day you'll have uncongested exchanges.

Lol one day , maby in 10 years then the world will have 10gbps to the home and we only have 40mbps in best copper circumstances

 

[Zertop]

Google Fiber - We need you!

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Lol one day , maby in 10 years then the world will have 10gbps to the home and we only have 40mbps in best copper circumstances

You've got a lot to learn young paddewan...

 

[NomNom]

Here is the mybb article: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/87278-free-adsl-speed-upgrades-from-telkom.html

 

[thomascmyk]

Lol one day , maby in 10 years then the world will have 10gbps to the home and we only have 40mbps in best copper circumstances

LOL... Unfortunately I think you are right.

 

[Gboss]

Telkom is slowly upgrading the exchanges to support VDSL (via the MSANs), so one day you'll have uncongested exchanges.

Dont get me wrong its nice that they upgrading line speeds for free but thats only good if the current exchanges can handle it. I hope for Telkom and us consumers sake that our exchanges are upgraded before 11 November or else the congetsion problem will just worsen!

I forsee a major congestion fail approaching.
Almost as epic as BlackBerry's BBM4ALL fail

 

[Dlamaqhinga]

Telkom is a big company that can do multiple projects at one i.e. MSAN (exchange congestion) and Line Speed upgrade. but with that said they need to fast track their MSAN project now, with these new speeds coming.

 

[froot]

Dont get me wrong its nice that they upgrading line speeds for free but thats only good if the current exchanges can handle it. I hope for Telkom and us consumers sake that our exchanges are upgraded before 11 November or else the congetsion problem will just worsen!

I forsee a major congestion fail approaching.
Almost as epic as BlackBerry's BBM4ALL fail

Oh definitely. But you can't get a deaf dog's attention by shouting at it.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

The pessimism of some people on this forum. They complain about line speed, Telkom upgrades the line speed, now they look for something else to complain about.

Congestion is being done away with with the MSAN's. And for those of you who still do not know what that is, do some googling. Its an immensely powerful /complex interconnection of machinery. It costs MILLIONS!

 

[MickeyD]

The MSAN itself will NOT sort out congestion. Telkom must upgrade its core network and backhaul links.

 

[Gboss]

The pessimism of some people on this forum. They complain about line speed, Telkom upgrades the line speed, now they look for something else to complain about.

Congestion is being done away with with the MSAN's. And for those of you who still do not know what that is, do some googling. Its an immensely powerful /complex interconnection of machinery. It costs MILLIONS!

You might see it as pessimism but its a fact. Telkom is going to give all of us double our current line speed yet many of us sit on exchanges that cant handle the current speed. What good will that do us? Nothing, as currently we dont even get the speeds we paying for.
I'm just guessing here but I assume that your on an uncongested exchange and dont have to deal with the issues that come with it.
I had to downgrade from 4MB to 2MB simplybecause my exchange cant handle the load.
I'm with Ti and have nothing but praise for the service they provide as well as the assistance from the likes of Ranger and TelkomZA.
But Telkom needs to catch a wake up! Dont brown-nose us and get to your network up to scratch. We dont need double our line speed as much as we need a good solid stable connection.

The MSAN itself will NOT sort out congestion. Telkom must upgrade its core network and backhaul links.

Amen!

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

The MSAN itself will NOT sort out congestion. Telkom must upgrade its core network and backhaul links.

You're missing the point I'm tryign to make. When they replace your DSLAM with an MSAN, they WILL upgrade the backhaul as well so that goes without saying. Them upgrading your area to an MSAN but leaving your backhaul on copper will be the dumbest thing in the world!

So again, the MSANs WILL sort out congestion.

 

[Vengeful]

I'm just guessing here but I assume that your on an uncongested exchange and dont have to deal with the issues that come with it.
Amen!

or he's a telkom employee.....

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

or he's a telkom employee.....

Which is why I know...

 

[MickeyD]

You're missing the point I'm tryign to make. When they replace your DSLAM with an MSAN, they WILL upgrade the backhaul as well so that goes without saying. Them upgrading your area to an MSAN but leaving your backhaul on copper will be the dumbest thing in the world!

So again, the MSANs WILL sort out congestion.

You missed the 'itself' part...

 

[dews]

Great, more latency for everyone, for free.

 

[diabolus]

Didn't Telkom do this last year too? I'm still waiting to go from 4mbps -> 10mpbs . There was all this big hoo-hah about everyone getting upgraded to 10mbps, meantime it turned out only very select areas actually got that upgrade. Shouldn't it read "Telkom is STILL busy upgrading our lines to what they promised 2 years ago" .

So they now got everyone to be at least 1mpbs , but clearly they can't get much further than 4mbps , hence as the article states, they are not doubling speed of 4mbps/10mbps , but "splitting the offering" . I hope that implies 4mbps gets cheaper instead, as it doesn't look like i will get 10mbps anytime soon.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

You missed the 'itself' part...

Apologies. I think I misinterpreted your post then