They Have upgraded me to 4Megs

[matt loves telkom]

dabouncer - are you uncapped ?

 

[dabouncer]

Nope, using Internet Solutions 30gb Accounts. Managed almost 90gb this month already.

 

[Daveogg]

I am syncing at 2208kbps down and 384 up. Westville Durban. but speed on both IS and SAIX on Telkom speed test about 450kbps. Lets see what happens.

 

[dabouncer]

Cool stuff. I recon we'll see action next month when the 4mbps is meant to launch. They probly started earlier, being proactive for a change.

 

[PostmanPot]

nice guys, upgrading to 1024k tomorrow

 

[dabouncer]

U wont be sorry upgrading. Trust Me.

 

[savage]

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream 
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 384 kbps 
Line Attenuation 13 db 5 db 
Noise Margin 20 db 14 db

 

[LabAnimal]

Lucky for me, the exchange is nextdoor to me, but... see no point in upgrading and getting capped - no fun in that.

 

[squirrel]

Told my friend about this, he checked and he is also upgraded

 

[dabouncer]

Cool.

 

[Arcadies]

the upstream is still very tiny ;/

 

[dabouncer]

The upstream is dreadful. Wish they would do a 1:2 ratio on the lines.

 

[MrG]

is there reason for this slow upload?

 

[dabouncer]

Not sure hay! Maybe its cos it adds to the network load so lowwering the upload speed is meant to create a better service output...?

 

[ziglet]

I want to see some speed tests, if i see speeds of 300kb/s, im selling my soul to the devil to upgrade to 1mbit 2morrow. How long will 1mbit be upped to 4mbit? Is it going to stay like this forever or is this a teaser to make u want to forkout R1000 a month line rental?

 

[BTTB]

384 Connection

Hello?
Did a Router Check now.

I notice My WAN has been downgraded again?

WAN Port Statistics:
Link Status: Up
Upstream Speed: 128 kbps
Downstream Speed: 384 kbps

It was 512 Down and 256 Up on the 2nd of June 2006.
I have been keeping a record since February last year with all the WAN connection speeds on my line.

 

[warichard]

My download rate has also been upgraded to 4096kbits/s, looks like they've learned a bit from the 384K ordeal and has decided to prepare a bit more (that and there are no doubt less 1024K lines they have to upgrade).

Oh, worth pointing out however that the actual download rate on the network has *not* been upgraded yet. Something tells me that'll only happen on the 1st. But I'm excited indeed (oh why does August have to have 31 days!).

 

[dabouncer]

Thats an "old news" downgrade. All 192/384 became 1 and the sync rates of 384 lines started reading as 384 lines. The upload rate of the old 384 line has been downgraded to 128kbps. You are not alone, i also had a 384 line and when i checked these new sync rates and the super slow speeds i decided enough was enough and i went for the 1mb line.

 

[Gambit]

My sync speed has been upgraded from 5pm today. My router is reporting a sync speed of:

DownStream Connection Speed 4096 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 384 kbps

However they are still throttling the bandwidth available to 1 meg speed. From the telkom speed test:

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

Download time: 4.356 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 936.6 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 114.8 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[LethalChicken]

guys remember this is ADSL not DSL, even in real countries like USA, OZ, on ADSL lines the UL is much less then DL.

So the we shouldn't really complain about the ratio.

But if Australia can do a 25mb down and 1mb up for R480. So should we!!