downgrade in upload speeds...

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After moving from one part of CPT to another, I have noticed that i can only upload at around 12kb/s on my 384 account as opposed to like 25kb/s PLUS on my previous 384 account.

It is standard to only be able to upload a measly 12kb/s on a 384 account?
 
martmeister said:
After moving from one part of CPT to another, I have noticed that i can only upload at around 12kb/s on my 384 account as opposed to like 25kb/s PLUS on my previous 384 account.

It is standard to only be able to upload a measly 12kb/s on a 384 account?
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All 384 accounts seem to have been degraded from the beginning of August to a maximum upload speed of 128kbs from the previous 256kbs speed.

As per telkom this is in terms of their new up to 384/128 speed policy as a previous policy of allowing for network overheads and allowing 384 lines to synchronise at 512/256.:mad:
 
I was always on 192kbits, and I'm pretty sure I was always able to upload 12kb/s. When the upgrade came to 384kbits, only the downloads where upgraded. Can still only upload 12kb/s.
 
This Is BS!!!

my friend had 192 and his upload was 20 kbps!
I had 384 and mine was abit higher!!!
No mine is so slow!! no 1 can come and lan at my house over the net, we are limited to 2 ppl! :mad:
 
Re: downgrading of 384 kbps upload speed

Letter to ITWeb today:

Hi there,

There has been a big fuss over Telkom dropping their costs this month. What most don't know is that if you are on the 384 kbps package, your upload speed has been HALVED. It was 256 kbps - the worldwide minimum standard, and is now 128 kbps. No mention was given to me by Telkom - nothing. I noticed terribly slow speeds, only to think it was due to the usual poor level of service I receive.

So I am paying less and not getting more. I'm paying less and getting less. I work in the internet field and am uploading to my server all of the time. 38 mb ZIP file today and 12-15k p/s upload is painful.

So now I might have to face the devil and give them more money, to upgrade to the 512 kbps account. Point is, you don't surf any faster, because there's no bandwidth allocation anyway. Reason I downgraded from 1024 kbps ages ago. So I only benefit on the upload. Not a lot of money, but the principles behind this - no mention to me the customer and just pulling the plug - totally and utterly disgusts me. And I hate giving Telkom my money. This really makes me ill.

Maybe a mention of this issue on your site. I see nothing mentioned at all and it does affect many without them even knowing. Telkom got good press for price cuts, lets bring on some poor press to counter it!

Regards,
Andrew Baddeley.
 
Funny how there's no official news, advertising of the DOWNGRADE in upload speeds. They make so much fuss over a tiny decrease in price though.

Any chance of rpm/MyADSL putting up an article on the DECREASE in upload speeds of the various ADSL connections?
 
fusion01 said:
Letter to ITWeb today:

Hi there,

There has been a big fuss over Telkom dropping their costs this month. What most don't know is that if you are on the 384 kbps package, your upload speed has been HALVED. It was 256 kbps - the worldwide minimum standard, and is now 128 kbps. No mention was given to me by Telkom - nothing. I noticed terribly slow speeds, only to think it was due to the usual poor level of service I receive.

So I am paying less and not getting more. I'm paying less and getting less. I work in the internet field and am uploading to my server all of the time. 38 mb ZIP file today and 12-15k p/s upload is painful.

So now I might have to face the devil and give them more money, to upgrade to the 512 kbps account. Point is, you don't surf any faster, because there's no bandwidth allocation anyway. Reason I downgraded from 1024 kbps ages ago. So I only benefit on the upload. Not a lot of money, but the principles behind this - no mention to me the customer and just pulling the plug - totally and utterly disgusts me. And I hate giving Telkom my money. This really makes me ill.

Maybe a mention of this issue on your site. I see nothing mentioned at all and it does affect many without them even knowing. Telkom got good press for price cuts, lets bring on some poor press to counter it!

Regards,
Andrew Baddeley.
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Good post! I hope this is not the last we hear of it and that it actually gets published.
 
Well its a sad day telkom pulled anothyer one over our eyes and we did not even see it coming.i spoke to the dls fault line pretending that my line was faulty and asked why upload speed was half he said it has changed with price cuts.

The world is crue telkom is cruler
 
Eish.and you know whats sad! I thought that the upload of 12kbps was good cauz i only got dsl last week.Now i find out its half? Thats bull :(
 
If memory serves - and a quick search through the forum and wikipedia supports my recollection - 192 used to have an up-speed of 64 and 384 was 128 - with 512 and 1024 both having 256.

As far as I can tell Telkom never promised an upload speed of 256 for a 384 line.
 
bwana v.15 said:
If memory serves - and a quick search through the forum and wikipedia supports my recollection - 192 used to have an up-speed of 64 and 384 was 128 - with 512 and 1024 both having 256.

As far as I can tell Telkom never promised an upload speed of 256 for a 384 line.
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true... but my 384 used to be able to upload at 30kB/s... and now it can't.

edit: found my previous (i.e 2004) experience with uploads... http://www.myadsl.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=16727
 
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yep it's a serious bummer the speeds have dropped. But I guess we shouldn't complain. Telkom give us Toblerone's for a long time and now they decided to get all stingy and start giving us bite size bar-one's.

Hmm I'm hungry now...
 
Lol ofcourse I can complain my ping times in wow are spiking 300 ms higher because of this crap :P
 
Maybe with the new guarantee of minimum speeds Telkom will be forced to make it 16KB/s? Otherwise they will have to say something like we guarantee minimum speeds of say 8KB/s which won't sound right when they say 128Kb/s Up max, and then people don't even get those speeds.

One could also maybe ask Telkom why only the DSL 384 package sync rates are exactly as they state and the rest of the packages have a bit higher sync rates.
I would like to know there reply to that question.
 
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