What does everyone out there get?

[croaker]

I'd like to know what others pay for, get allocated and how they find using it.
Currently:
1) I pay for a 4Mbps line,
2) My router syncs at maximum 3424kbps (downstream) but full 512kbps upstream
3) Bandwidth according to speedtest.net and pingtest.net is average 1.8Mbps downstream and 0.42Mbps upstream


Now for a bit of background.
For almost a year, my routers synced at 4096Kbps (According to my Netgear DGN200, Linksys WAG354G, SMC7409BRA and SMC7904WBRA)

A month ago, my line went physically disconnected and Telkom "restored" it, so it connects and retrains between 2700kbps and 3328kbps at various random times during the day. I got an SMS that the fault was repaired and "cleared".

Well, what to do but reported it again.
My line is now rock-solid stable at the first mentioned values above.
I notice that the Texas Instruments DSLAM had been replaced with Infineon gear.

However, I have a suspicion that this will be its henceforth operational state. A less than optimal downstream bandwidth and traffic allocation, with a constant upstream provision.

Since I know that I have enjoyed a full 4Mbps line quality before, and now find the downstream values to constantly fluctuate (well stable a full 24 hours now at 3424Kbps), I come to the conclusion that Telkom actively sabotages accounts by throttling and applying "fault" conditions on their gear.

What do you guys out there, get?

Hoping I am wrong.. but those girls, Hope, Faith and Charity... I don't think work at Telkom...

 

[zll]

...I come to the conclusion that Telkom actively sabotages accounts by throttling and applying "fault" conditions on their gear.

As much as I'd love to say Telkom are pure evil and out to make our lives miserable, chances are it's simply the fact that more people are on your exchange, especially since a lot more people have been moving onto the Fastest DSL package in the hope that they can get 10 meg. Same thing happened to me when I first got "10 meg". I was synching at 8 meg, 2 weeks later after more people have subscribed, I'm bumped down to 6 meg.

So in reality it's Telkom getting as many subscribers as they can so they can make as much profit as they can.

 

[drukkie]

As much as I'd love to say Telkom are pure evil and out to make our lives miserable, chances are it's simply the fact that more people are on your exchange, especially since a lot more people have been moving onto the Fastest DSL package in the hope that they can get 10 meg. Same thing happened to me when I first got "10 meg". I was synching at 8 meg, 2 weeks later after more people have subscribed, I'm bumped down to 6 meg.

So in reality it's Telkom getting as many subscribers as they can so they can make as much profit as they can.

uhm so you are saying they are evil in the last sentence?

 

[zll]

Lol. No, just a business. If a business didn't aim to make a profit it wouldn't last very long