Will 4Mbit ever get higher upload speeds

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Grimster101

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Title pretty much sums it up. I am so tired of 50KB's upload. I cannot do anything with it when it comes to streaming on Steam. Everybody just gets the error that my bandwidth is unstable. Is there no chance Telkom may change it to 1Mbit or something?
 
If you can upgrade to 10Mbit and you'll get your 1Mbit up. I doubt very much Telkom will make changes to sync profiles for 4Mbit clients only.
 
Yeah its call symmetrical Fibre... Getting its the catch tho... i am moving to get my suburb onboard to make a push
 
No... It is how the technology works. If you want to stream to otherpeople you need fibre or a wireless connection with a WISP that has symetrical bandwidth.
 
I’ve asked a similar question and from the replies it doesn’t look promising. If I have to upload large files I use my mobile account. It doesn’t have the restrictions imposed on it like ADSL.
 
Grimster101 said:
Title pretty much sums it up. I am so tired of 50KB's upload. I cannot do anything with it when it comes to streaming on Steam. Everybody just gets the error that my bandwidth is unstable. Is there no chance Telkom may change it to 1Mbit or something?
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6-7Meg gives you 640k up.
8-10meg gives you 1meg up.
 
Thanks for the replies. Sadly the answers were what I was expecting. But I was hopeful that perhaps Telkom would consider increasing at least the 4Mbit upload speed.

Though (I think this already got semi answered) But what I want to confirm (and I presume my assumption is correct. But please correct me if Im wrong) is whether or not Telkom can indeed give us 1Mbit upload speeds on lower packages such as the 4Mbit if they wanted to. But they choose not to right? Or is there an actual limitation that prevents them from doing so?

I can only assume they just don't want to. Perhaps because their network may get stressed out more if more of their customers actually made use of said higher upload speed. Or they're simply trying to save money on bandwidth used. Thats what Im assuming. But yeah. Thoughts? Answers? =]
 
No, it is not a decision made by telkom this is how the technology (ADSL) was made by the inventors, and this is how the DSLAM cards operate that get purchased by Telkom.
 
psion said:
No, it is not a decision made by telkom this is how the technology (ADSL) was made by the inventors, and this is how the DSLAM cards operate that get purchased by Telkom.
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Ahh I see. Though I presume the MSAN's could support it on a 4Mbit line since they can support 1Mbit on 10Mbit packages (Or least as far as I know). Or is this also not possible? Im asking this just purely for curiosity and learning by the way :p
 
It is possible to create a service with a 1024 kbit/s uplink speed for any downlink speed, but such a service is not in the current portfolio. This might change soon. (higher uplink speed)
 
Technically its very possible to have a 1mbps upload on a 4mbps line but long long ago Telkom made a profile for the 4mbps clients which was UL 512kbps DL 4mbps so i doubt they will change that anytime soon. Just means more work for them and they will never create more work for themselves.
 
I was always under the impression that ME links were symmetrical so was IPC.

Meaning all DSLAM/IMAX/ISAM/MSAN have symmetrical backhaul's and ISP's have symmetrical IPC links.
With the exception of units still on ATM links.

Most ADSL2+, if not all support Annex M which is capable of 2.5mbps up, I also heard all IMAX units can support Annex M with a software update.

So if Telkom really wanted to, they could offer 20mbps down / 2mbps up on ADSL2+

I stand to be corrected?
 
Hummercellc said:
I was always under the impression that ME links were symmetrical so was IPC.

Meaning all DSLAM/IMAX/ISAM/MSAN have symmetrical backhaul's and ISP's have symmetrical IPC links.
With the exception of units still on ATM links.

Most ADSL2+, if not all support Annex M which is capable of 2.5mbps up, I also heard all IMAX units can support Annex M with a software update.

So if Telkom really wanted to, they could offer 20mbps down / 2mbps up on ADSL2+

I stand to be corrected?
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I think so, but their international uplink doesn't have as much capacity as their downlink does it?
 
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