Openserve has more than doubled the maximum upload speeds available on 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL products.<\/p>\n
Subscribers reported they noticed an increase in upload speed test results<\/a><\/strong>, with 20Mbps VDSL subscribers seeing up to 5Mbps uploads.<\/p>\n 40Mbps VDSL users experienced upload speeds of up to 10Mbps.<\/p>\n Openserve’s 20Mbps VDSL service previously offered maximum upload speeds of 2Mbps, while 40Mbps VDSL had a maximum upload speed of 3Mbps.<\/p>\n Openserve told MyBroadband it started increasing upload speeds during October 2017.<\/p>\n ISPs previously explained there are cost and technical trade-offs to consider<\/strong><\/a> before upgrading DSL upload speeds, along with the\u00a0asymmetric nature of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology.<\/p>\n GPON uses time division multiplexing to handle upstream signals, resulting in a trade-off between the number of subscribers Openserve can have per line and the upstream bandwidth per subscriber.<\/p>\n If Openserve increased the amount of upstream bandwidth to subscribers, it would decrease the number of subscribers it could serve on the same infrastructure.<\/p>\n Openserve didn\u2019t provide technical details on what enabled it to roll out the upgrades.<\/p>\n \u201cOpenserve consistently seeks to improve the user experience on its broadband offerings,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n \u201cOver 70% of the Openserve VDSL base, across all resellers of VDSL services, would have benefitted from increased speeds already.\u201d<\/p>\n Similar speed increases for ADSL subscribers with 1Mbps to 20Mbps lines are not planned, due to the technical limitations on ADSL technology, said Openserve.<\/p>\n Openserve has increased the maximum upload speeds available on 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":183296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,33386,109],"class_list":["post-241080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-headline","tag-openserve","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241174,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241080\/revisions\/241174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Upgrade<\/h3>\n
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