Many lonehill adsl problems
I too have had so many adsl problems in Lonehill, I eventually asked Telkom to cancel my adsl line, and will go back to Iburst. I had adsl installed in August, have logged 5 Telkom faults, and only twice has a techie come out.
More than 1 Telkom techie have informed me that:
a) Water is seeping into various manholes (even when it has not rained for 2 months in winter)
b) A townhouse complex owner ignored the 1 Telkom manhole, and built their boundary wall over the manhole, then built a swimming pool almost on top of manhole. All legal avenues to enforce access to manhole were in vain, so 3 weeks ago Telkom rerouted cables aroung that 1 complex and installed a new manhole and cables.
c) Since then Telkom and contractors have been ripping out old cables in other streets, and replacing copper.
d) Some Lonehill homes are almost at edge of distance +- 5km from Fourways exchange, and (in ideal cases) would be lucky to get 1 mbps adsl). Lonehill Upper East is generally too far for Adsl. Some houses along Main Road have had cables stolen repeatedly so cant get Adsl.
e) There are many townhouses and businesses in area and contention is extremely high. For my installation they battled to find ONE spare port.
e) Sometime in future they intend installing Fibre closer to the homes and installing a mini Dslam, to solve old copper/water/distance problems. Anyone heard about a PSLAM before ??
f) My adsl connects at 2.2 mbps, slows down to 56 kbps (yes dial-up speed), disconnects randomly between 5 and 50 minutes, and is extremely frustrating. I have replaced internal cabling inside the house myself, checked connections, replaced Filters and Splitters, tried with and without filters and splitters, replaced modem, disconnected telephones, checked MTU and everything I can - to no avail
Suggest you use another technology until they install mini Dslams locally (not sure how we find out when that happens though?)
