They Have upgraded me to 4Megs

[Kryon_MC]

Yay I am syncing at 4096. That guestimate site says my line is capable of 6916kb so I should get good performance. I am on the old Telkom Adsl POTS modem and about 1.5km from the exchange according to the telkom techies from a couple of years ago!

 

[Gambit]

Is this good or bad results:

SNR Margin: 27.7 downstream , 12.0 upstream
Line Attenuation: 30.6 downstream, 16.5 upstream
Data rate: 4096 down, 384 up

What you think?

You have an excellent line. Your line is more than capable of achieving the maximum adsl 1 speed of 8megs.

 

[guest2013-1]

just noticed, my home line is syncing at 4mbps too

but with a 384kbps upstream, would I be able to get to 4mbps download?!

 

[dabouncer]

You will next month. Time to place those orders for another dsl account.

 

[guest2013-1]

erm, no but like why can't i download with 4mbps yet?

 

[bwana]

erm, no but like why can't i download with 4mbps yet?

Perhaps because telkom hasnt upgraded our line speeds yet. Just the sync rate.

 

[dualmeister]

Cause it's not 1 September yet

 

[dabouncer]

Cos the trial only starts in September.

 

[magneto]

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 384 kbps
Line Attenuation 36.0 db 19.0 db
Noise Margin 14.7 db 12.0 db

becuase your speed is beeing throttled rite now still to 1024k.

 

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

Okay, so I don't really know what you guys are talking about, but have read all the posts. I bought and got a 1024 line. Checked my router and found the following:
SNR down = 26db, up = 12.0 db
Line Attenuation down = 49.0 db, up = 29.0 db
Date Rate down = 2016 kbps, up = 384 kbps

According to that calculation site, I can get 8192 kbps down, and 529 kbps up.

Is the "data rate" this sync speed you're talking about? Now to the nitty gritty - what's this "upgrade" you're all talking about? Do we all get upgraded, and at what cost? I'm in PE, fairly close to the exchange - less than 2 km's I think.
Any comments?

 

[bwana]

Okay, so I don't really know what you guys are talking about, but have read all the posts. I bought and got a 1024 line. Checked my router and found the following:
SNR down = 26db, up = 12.0 db
Line Attenuation down = 49.0 db, up = 29.0 db
Date Rate down = 2016 kbps, up = 384 kbps

According to that calculation site, I can get 8192 kbps down, and 529 kbps up.

Is the "data rate" this sync speed you're talking about? Now to the nitty gritty - what's this "upgrade" you're all talking about? Do we all get upgraded, and at what cost? I'm in PE, fairly close to the exchange - less than 2 km's I think.
Any comments?

You've already got the "upgrade" - if 2016 down is the best your line can sync at thats the best youre going to be able to get when they enable the faster connection on your line.

 

[Wynsam]

I am quite far from the exchange. My attenuation (resistance, if it makes it easier to understand) is 49.5db. This is quite high. The distance makes it quite high.

However telkom spent quite a bit of time installing new lines up our road and new underground cables further back closer to the exhange to improve the signal to noise ratio when we had trouble a while ago. This resulted in an improved ratio of 14db. This enables me to sustain a decent service and makes the 4096 service attainable.

The trick if you are far from the exchange is to get telkom to try to provide you with "clean lines". Made a big difference for us.

As far as a I know you can have ADSL installed on an ISDN line. The ISDN lines are, by nature of the beast, much cleaner. So if you have a noise issue this might be an option.

 

[Gambit]

I am quite far from the exchange. My attenuation (resistance, if it makes it easier to understand) is 49.5db. This is quite high. The distance makes it quite high.

However telkom spent quite a bit of time installing new lines up our road and new underground cables further back closer to the exhange to improve the signal to noise ratio when we had trouble a while ago. This resulted in an improved ratio of 14db. This enables me to sustain a decent service and makes the 4096 service attainable.

The trick if you are far from the exchange is to get telkom to try to provide you with "clean lines". Made a big difference for us.

As far as a I know you can have ADSL installed on an ISDN line. The ISDN lines are, by nature of the beast, much cleaner. So if you have a noise issue this might be an option.

Telkom doesn't support ADSL over ISDN (adsl annex B), they only support ADSL over POTS (adsl annex A)

 

[bwana]

Telkom doesn't support ADSL over ISDN (adsl annex B), they only support ADSL over POTS (adsl annex A)

Could he be referring to the physical copper line formerly being used for ISDN being of a higher quality? Personally I just assumed copper was copper but I'm just guessing.

 

[_dale_]

Telkom still shapes you down to 1024. The new 4096 service should be in effect end September.

 

[E1b0t]

I got upgraded today as well:

Item Downstream Upstream Unit
SNR Margin 12 14 dB
Line Attenuation 34 17 dB
Data Rate 4096 384 kbps

Don't know if the SNR margins and Line Att. is good or bad.

Have to say way better than my iBurst, I don't BURST any more.... Anyone wants an iBurst modem?

 

[DigitZA]

no

Telkom still shapes you down to 1024. The new 4096 service should be in effect end September.

nope, thats incorrect. It has been said that the 4096k service will be useable 1st of september. Well you can hope

 

[matt loves telkom]

By the looks of things sounds like Telkom have actually made people happy ? or am i wrong? i think they have.dont you love my name.lol.

 

[E1b0t]

Just done speed test, getting 2.11Mbps on Camco!

 

[Kasyx]

e1bot did you reconnect your account or restart your router before you started getting those speeds?