Telkom ADSL

[irneb]

Yes, well - just because all companies in SA has p*** poor service doesn't mean we should just roll over.

About the "upgrade" from 384 to 1024 ... that's a big MEH ... while most of the (so called) 1st world looks down their noses at 21MB/s. It's as if Telkom wants us to jump up for joy because they've finally harnessed 2 extra horses to their rickety wagon, while everywhere else they've already got airports and some places you can even get space port access!

As a sample, a colleague of mine in the US has a fast enough WAN connection over his home line to work directly across VPN to his office server with filesizes averaging on 500MB, without even noticing any speed difference when he's in the office connected to the 1GB/s LAN. And it's so cheap as to be feasible for him to rather work from home and save the fuel costs.

[kleva]

With current fuel prices it works out still cheaper to sit with the dodgy ADSL connections.

I have no choice about fixed line since I need the fixed IP's and live in an area that makes general Wi Fi/3G access pretty useless. For a long time I have had 2 x ADSL lines, 1 to back up the other (only backup) and still have battled. Line so slow and restricted no that I use a CellC stick at Edge speeds for my use and the ADSL stays dedicated for server otherwise the link gets chocked. Connect a facebook app on the 4Mb ADSL (HA HA HUGE JOKE) from 1 machine and everything dies... Line went down for 4 months once while Telkom fought about which department had to fix the fault.

I dream of having affordable alternative, but then again I live with it because it is still better than what I had when living in Nigeria for 2 years, so a good step in the right direction.

[murdock]

Yes, well - just because all companies in SA has p*** poor service doesn't mean we should just roll over.

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the problem is we all do...why because if i told you enough is enough and we should all meet at city hall to demostrate...i would be the only Ahole standing there...if however a chain email did the job where you only had to click a button on a media ntwork...companies would be folding by the minute...so the solution...the person who comes up with that solution will become the next richest person...even trying to get people not to buy etags isnt working...so everyone will be paying the toll road.