{"id":552152,"date":"2007-04-30T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552152-hoorah-for-self-install.html"},"modified":"2007-04-30T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T15:35:09","slug":"hoorah-for-self-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552152-hoorah-for-self-install.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoorah for self-install"},"content":{"rendered":"

When, after moving house, receiving a decent wireless signal proved impossible – even after climbing on the roof and extending the antennae as high as possible with the pole used for sweeping the pool – we gave in and called 10219. <\/font><\/p>\n

I say "gave in" because that was our second attempt at ordering an ADSL line, having given up waiting the first time around. <\/font><\/p>\n

Once you’ve established if your line is compatible and placed the order, Telkom promises a seven-day response time for self-install. And, sure enough, within four or five working days we’d received the call to say all systems were go. <\/font><\/p>\n

The call centre agent, who promised to follow up the following day, never did. However, that was quickly forgotten because the line worked (it would have otherwise been a different story). <\/font><\/p>\n

The process was simply one of configuring the computer for the ADSL modem router – which you can buy from Telkom or your local PC shop – and entering the settings of the Internet service provider (ISP) providing the bandwidth (be sure to shop around). <\/font><\/p>\n

A true technophobe wouldn’t be advised to go the self-install route. But there’s technical help available telephonically and, as a last resort, they say they’ll send a technician. <\/font><\/p>\n

Telkom had for some time been promising to offer self-install ADSL as a means of speeding up its broadband roll-out and managed to do so relatively recently. It will be interesting to see over the coming financial reporting periods just how successful that – and other initiatives to cut roll-out time – have been. <\/font><\/p>\n

Of course, few consumers would be as lucky to get ADSL within days. Former Telkom<\/a> chief sales and marketing officer <\/font>Wally Beelders<\/font> <\/a>was reported previously as saying it needs to build in eight out of 10 cases. However, for those wanting the benefits of fixed-line broadband and with compatible lines, then ADSL self-install is the way to go. <\/font><\/p>\n

Although prices have come down, it’s still not the cheapest offering. But any comparison of costs needs to take your particular usage needs into account. <\/font><\/p>\n

However, as a "man in the street" that has tried almost every wireless option available, there’s no other way to conduct a Skype call (although the quality of VoIP over 3G isn’t bad). <\/font><\/p>\n

Comments<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

Finweek<\/em> <\/font><\/p>\n

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HAVING LONG resisted supporting monopoly fixed-line broadband provider Telkom in favour of stimulating competition by supporting some of the more nimble wireless offerings, I must confess to now being a happy ADSL customer (asynchronous digital subscriber line, or avoiding the techie-speak; fixed-line, high-speed Internet access), particularly so because it look less than a week to obtain ADSL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552152"}],"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=552152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}