{"id":550031,"date":"2006-09-01T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550031-4-mbps-adsl-here.html"},"modified":"2006-09-01T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T07:47:03","slug":"4-mbps-adsl-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550031-4-mbps-adsl-here.html","title":{"rendered":"4 Mbps ADSL here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADSL 1024 subscribers started posting late yesterday on the MyADSL forums that they are getting speeds of up to 425KB\/s \u2013 or 3400 kbps -, sound evidence that some lines have been upgraded to 4 Mbps.<\/font> <\/p>\n

All Telkom DSL1024 customers\u2019 line synchronization speeds have already been upgraded to 4 Mbps, but not all only some have had their full service upgraded.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Performance<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

MyADSL did some very basic tests on the new 4 Mbps service, and the results look promising when using local servers.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Telkom\u2019s local speed test gave an impressive download speed of 4210.5 Kbps – or 516 kBytes\/sec. This speed test is however hosted on the SAIX network which means this test will provide optimum speeds.<\/font> <\/p>\n

When testing the service on the Verizon Business based iBurst speed test, a downlink speed of 3.27 Mbps and an upload speed of 325 kbps were measured.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Internationally based speed test results were less impressive. <\/font><\/p>\n

Speedtest.net\u2019s London based test measured the downlink speed as 490 Kbps and an upload speed of 295 Kbps. SpeakEasy\u2019s New York based test gave a downlink speed of 582 Kbps and an uplink measurement of 308 Kbps.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Using a download manger to download files from the US gave better results, with download speeds in excess of 1 Mbps.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Comprehensive testing of this new 4 Mbps ADSL offering will form part of the soon to be conducted MyADSL Broadband Testing next week, and these results will paint a clearer picture of the service\u2019s true ability. <\/font><\/p>\n

New Services<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

Telkom\u2019s launch of the new 4 Mbps ADSL service is partly in preparation for bandwidth intensive services like video-on-demand.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Telkom has recently created Telkom Media (Pty) Ltd, a private company with a 41.5% Black Economic Empowerment shareholding. On Thursday they applied to ICASA for a commercial satellite and cable subscription broadcast license.<\/font> <\/p>\n

These higher speeds are very welcome, but with a limited 3Gig cap many users are skeptical about how long they will be able to stay online with the faster service.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The majority of ADSL subscribers welcomed Telkom\u2019s decision to upgrade all DSL1024 subscribers to a 4 Mbps service, and many hope that this is the start of many more positive developments from the incumbent.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

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Many Telkom DSL1024 customers have reported that their service has been upgraded, and that they are experiencing speeds of up to 4 Mbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550031"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}