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I'm looking at upgrading from 512 to 1024 package? Is it worth while or am i just throwing money in the water???:confused:
 
josephzwarts said:
I'm looking at upgrading from 512 to 1024 package? Is it worth while or am i just throwing money in the water???:confused:
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Depends - do you need it or do you want it?
 
We send a lot of data through to india and uk, at the moment with 5 users it's fine but I'm getting four more guys on my techincal team which would now be nine on one line. This is why i'm enquiring
 
Well then its r203 + whatever extra data you end up using. Probably worth it unless you want to hold out on the hope that telkom decides to upgrade everyone and ditch 192 (which they probably wont be allowed to call broadband if ICASA's regulations go through).
 
lol yeh, that will neva happen :) I would definately recommend upgrading ur line speed to 1024 if there are 9 people sharing it..
 
bwana v.11 said:
Well then its r203 + whatever extra data you end up using. Probably worth it unless you want to hold out on the hope that telkom decides to upgrade everyone and ditch 192 (which they probably wont be allowed to call broadband if ICASA's regulations go through).
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I also doubt it very much, plus there is always a problem when it comes to regulations in sa, as there seems to always be one thing that comes up.

I just want to know what the speed difference is that i could expect??:cool:
 
what kind of speed difference can i expect???

currently this is what we getting:

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 18.607 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 219.3 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 26.9 (kiloBytes/second)

This is on a 512 kb line:mad: :mad:
 
We send a lot of data through to india and uk
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you say send so does that mean uploading only? sorry not too clued up on this stuff :confused: . Won't all the line speeds from 192 not make a difference since they limit upto 60KB/s in terms of upload speed ?

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 18.607 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 219.3 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 26.9 (kiloBytes/second)
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if you have a look at the local speed test sticky then you will see that at this [512] line speed you should get about 40-60KB/s.
 
My experience of 1024 has been disappointing (Midrand). I have logged a fault with TelCon.

Today I have been getting speeds ranging from 172kb/sec to 850 kb/sec for local browsing (International is painful). So therefore the additional cost for a 1024 line so far is not justified. It's very erratic. I hope it's a fault. The speeds seem better off peak.

Hope you have better experiences.

Doc
 
doc_msk said:
My experience of 1024 has been disappointing (Midrand). I have logged a fault with TelCon.

Today I have been getting speeds ranging from 172kb/sec to 850 kb/sec for local browsing (International is painful). So therefore the additional cost for a 1024 line so far is not justified. It's very erratic. I hope it's a fault. The speeds seem better off peak.

Hope you have better experiences.

Doc
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Which ISP are you with or hve you tried any other???:confused:
 
Tried 3 ISP's (Mweb, Web Africa and TelCon test account), same erratic problems... never got full speed...
 
doc_msk said:
Tried 3 ISP's (Mweb, Web Africa and TelCon test account), same erratic problems... never got full speed...
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the point being it is a Telkom problem and not an ISP problem since they are all resellers of the same SAIX aco****s.
 
Thanks PostmanPot, knowing it's a TelCon problem makes me feel a lot better... ;-)
 
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