Telkom sabotage causes outages impacting thousands of users

Catch the fsckers, charge them criminally and the start civil proceedings against them to recover the losses where their houses and cars are attached by the sheriff. oh and use live ammo on the violent bastards!
 
I hope they switch to VDSL

I don't understand why VDSL was never pushed
 
MickeyD said:
huh?
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The boxes are broken right?

So they are fixing and replacing right?

So might as well get VDSL up and going since they HAVE to fix/replace the thing anyway.

And then I followed by a general comment; I don't understand why telkom never pushed VDSL the infrastructure is there already.
 
What's the difference between ADSL and vdsl?
 
Thor187 said:
The boxes are broken right?

So they are fixing and replacing right?

So might as well get VDSL up and going since they HAVE to fix/replace the thing anyway.

And then I followed by a general comment; I don't understand why telkom never pushed VDSL the infrastructure is there already.
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Depending on the configuration VDSL also could require SDCs. VDSL requires the installation of MSAN or ISAM units, which is not necessarily a one for one replacement of SDCs as the SDCs have no switching capabilities.
 
MickeyD said:
Depending on the configuration VDSL also could require SDCs. VDSL requires the installation of MSAN or ISAM units, which is not necessarily a one for one replacement of SDCs as the SDCs have no switching capabilities.
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Makes sense, which brings me to my second more general question, which was, why was vdsl never pushed. It would have moved our average broadband speed a lot higher a lot sooner which would have resided well for Telkoms reputation?
 
Thor187 said:
Makes sense, which brings me to my second more general question, which was, why was vdsl never pushed. It would have moved our average broadband speed a lot higher a lot sooner which would have resided well for Telkoms reputation?
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VDSL has been pushed pretty aggressively over the last 5 years; that is what the MSAN/ISAM rollout is all about. But it costs money... lots of it.

Telkom also has to decide on what technologies to provide in certain areas. Why roll out VDSL in a high revenue area when the community want FTTH? So some areas (like mine) are going straight from copper DSLAMs to FTTH. Other areas first went to VDSL and are now being converted to FTTH areas.

In some areas there will be neither ADSL, VDSL or FTTH - with only LTE on offer.
 
MickeyD said:
VDSL has been pushed pretty aggressively over the last 5 years; that is what the MSAN/ISAM rollout is all about. But it costs money... lots of it.

Telkom also has to decide on what technologies to provide in certain areas. Why roll out VDSL in a high revenue area when the community want FTTH? So some areas (like mine) are going straight from copper DSLAMs to FTTH. Other areas first went to VDSL and are now being converted to FTTH areas.

In some areas there will be neither ADSL, VDSL or FTTH - with only LTE on offer.
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All great and wonderful everyone is upgrading 2/4mb to 20/40mb lines but that also requires upgraded backbones which like MickeyD says costs lots of money...
 
Thor187 said:
Makes sense, which brings me to my second more general question, which was, why was vdsl never pushed. It would have moved our average broadband speed a lot higher a lot sooner which would have resided well for Telkoms reputation?
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There's another factor, which is distance. VDSL by itself doesn't give you a better service. You need to be closer to the exchange to get higher speeds. Having VDSL at the nearest exchange does not help if you live 5km's away from it.

Hence, VDSL was rolled out in areas where there was sufficient density and demand for higher speeds. It won't ever replace ADSL entirely; it doesn't make sense spending that much on yet more copper when the strategic direction is to roll out fibre going forward.
 
Have they sabotaged their payment portal?I'm trying to pay my account for Christ's sake for the last 20 min's and dololo. Go figure.
 
Herr_Koos said:
There's another factor, which is distance. VDSL by itself doesn't give you a better service. You need to be closer to the exchange to get higher speeds. Having VDSL at the nearest exchange does not help if you live 5km's away from it.

Hence, VDSL was rolled out in areas where there was sufficient density and demand for higher speeds. It won't ever replace ADSL entirely; it doesn't make sense spending that much on yet more copper when the strategic direction is to roll out fibre going forward.
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VDSL runs on the exact same line. I am kilometers from my unit and getting a good 37/38Mbps
 
Thor187 said:
VDSL runs on the exact same line. I am kilometers from my unit and getting a good 37/38Mbps
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Yes, it uses the same copper, but distance still factors into it. Do you know the exact copper run length to your nearest MSAN?
 
MickeyD said:
And they install the MSAN out in the streets so it would shorten that distance...
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As far as possible yes. Once of the reasons why VDSL can be expensive, you need to get closer to the customer to get those speeds, which means deploying more equipment. ADSL just runs back to the exchange.
 
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