Free Telkom ADSL speed upgrades

Hmm, does this mean that my 1Mb line will now actually sync at something close to 1Mb...?? Instead of the current avg of 400k. Current exchange is a joke, so maybe fix what's broken first...
 
Awesome. So now my 2Mb lines that struggles to run at 1Mb, will now become a 4Mb line that struggles to run at 1Mb.

While this is great news, i hope they sort out the congestion first or this is just going to create more problems.
 
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awesome news!!!:D

Telkom seems to be headed in the right direction (just rather slowly)!
 
Will ISP's bump up their uncapped offerings as well or will they force us to move to the next package, in my case from 2 Mb to 4 Mb.

Otherwise this is excellent news. (assuming my line will be stable at 4Mbps)
 
a good move, although still not as good as I want.
For the price of a 1MB line, we should be getting at least the 10MB line, but hopefully this is just a step in that direction and we will get there soon
 
Does Telkom have the technical chops to back up what their marketing team are doing here? Will all the current 4Mbps only exchanges be ready for 10Mbps in time, otherwise they're going to be losing R150 or so per month per person dropping their package to their exchange maximum.
 
This is awesome :D
MSAN/ISAM should start to adress the congestion problems by then .
Problem may be the increased cross noise in the cables due to the increased speed .
This will definetly impact on SNR in the long copper distance runs.
 
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This is a great week for adsl, afrihost cheaper capped and now news of speed upgrades, now Telkom just needs to allow naked adsl. luckily there no congestion in my area
 
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Guess they're anticipating the moaning about pricing when the MSANs are rolled out and current 6Mbps lines (eg: mine :) ) can finally achieve 10Mbps.

Supposedly getting MSANs in our area early next year :whistle:
 
Dear Telkom... between this and the 1 day turnaround time for my new line, you have just climbed a few rungs on my ladder of respect.
Yes, admittedly, you were all the way down in last place on the ladder to begin with, and above you was 1000 empty rungs on the ladder.
But still... this is just pure goodness. Well done.
And do keep making steps forward... however small.

Next thing you should consider is making the total line rental R200 for voice and ADSL :) ... just a gentle suggestion.
 
Nice :-) now my 4mb will cost the same as 2mb; seeing as though my exchange wont do 10mb :|
 
I'm on a 4M (which runs at max around 2.8M) and my exchange can only handle 4M so I guess no upgrade until such time as our exchange is upgraded.....
 
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