which is the best ADSL ISP?

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adrianw

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Hi,
I am considering getting an ADSL Line, and i am wondering which ISP to go with - is there any advantage / disadvantage to going with Telkom?

:confused:

Thanks,
Adrian
 
I hate to say this - but Telkom as ISP for adsl at this stage may be the best option
 
I think telkom is the cheapest without a contract. UUnet has ADSL for R230 pm but then you need to sighn a 1 year contract, and I dont know if you want to do that with the possibility of the cap getting removed, changed or the lack thereof.
 
I have recently, last week, got my adsl, after using mywireless for far to long, and am using telkom as the isp. Why, because, why go through someone else, go direct to the source. Its a pity about their long user name. Never in my life will I be able to remember it.
 
If you repeat this to anyone, I will outrightly deny ever saying it, but I am with Telkom and quite happy with the service. Hope it will last though!
 
hellkom then

thanks for all the advice!
looks like will have to hand over my cash to the monopolists!

:eek:

Regards,
Adrianw
 
Telkom ISP for ADSL is the cheapest one I could find at R200.
Basically, we are paying this much for one lousy e-mail address and to use the unrestricted DNS.
With the Home384, we all are paying US$110 for a capped and comparatively slow broadband. Unbelievable...

Cheers
 
I prefer not to use the email facility that are provided by my ISP as that locks me into the particular ISP. If I have to change my mail adress every time I change ISP's I would think twice. A good option is GMail (Google Mail) which has in effect unlimite (1000 MB) mailbox space. And it is quite fast with reasonabl features.

In the end it means I am paying my ISP for the connectivity!
 
I find it strange that alot of people rant and rave about telkom, their prices, thier customer service, technical service, being a monopoly etc.. List never stops, although telkom is the only mentioned ISP here. I would rather support another ISP, and not go directly to the source, as some say. Yes down the line you are supporting telkom, but things will change in time and smaller ISP's need the support. Look at other hellkom for good prices
 
adlo,
if you change your e-mail program setup at work to use your MWEB SMTP server, you will be able to send e-mails from work with your "Telkom mail address".
 
Went with the general consensus of this thread when I signed up - Telkom.
I haven't had to phone thier ISP dept. once - I don't use thier email, let me rephrase that :-

"Ah don't need no Steenkin' Hellkom email !"

That is the one thing you don't want to sign up for.
If you don't already have an email addy and want one through an ADSL ISP, don't got with Telkom, thier email support and functionality, to all intents and purposes, is abysmal.

Telkom ISP for ADSL just works if you don't want anything "fancy" like a reliable Telkom email addy - it's obviously so automated that the orcs that work with it can't break it.

I wish the same could be said about the telephone lines ...


Just one thing :-

Who the hell in thier right mind would want a Telkom email address ? :D
 
I dunno who really wants one, but I know a bunch of people who have an @telkomsa.net addy.
 
Luckily they don't moan to me, so I could care less whether it works for them - I have suggested to 2 people that they should get a custom domain name, which I offered to do at cost.
 
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