My latest adsl speeds

[Marq]

Am I the only one here that has adsl speed issues?

I am with Axxess and have been fighting with them for the past 6 weeks, which is when things started to get bad. This is not the first time.

We have Telkom here - who found nothing. We have done the router tests etc.
Axxess are blaming me the router and telkom and I say its an Axxess problem.
The speed is fine over the weekends - usually about a 19ms latency and 8.7Mbps download speed.
Look at this mornings offerings - 610ms with a .24 speed - the upload speed is more.
During the week its a pain - I cannot get anything done.

Anybody have some ideas......yes I know move would be the best one - but to where?

[tec0]

After a horrible ordeal with both Vocacom and MTN i switched to Telkom and never looked back.



Can it be your hardware?

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A lot of people i know switched to Telkom and have no problem and get even better speeds then what i do.

I think Axxess may need to check things on there side. Over all Telkom is giving a good service both on ADSL and 3G.

[HR Solutions]

No you are not the only one - ADSL is crap. After going thro quite a lot of other service providers I ended up with 3G 8ta. Apparently nothing else works in our area. *ta works like a bomb - getting up to 10mps download speeds.

I was told that I was too far from the Telkom exchange - that is why the speed was so crap ! - Go figure - they install it and then tell me I am too far.

[IanF]

I was having the same with Afrihost.Then took out an account with vox 100GB a month and it was much better. I still use afrihost in the office and can't complain as the line syncs at 7mb. At home there is no buffering on Netflix now.

I am gobsmacked by this latest test. Well done Afrihost.

[HR Solutions]

I was having the same with Afrihost.Then took out an account with vox 100GB a month and it was much better. I still use afrihost in the office and can't complain as the line syncs at 7mb. At home there is no buffering on Netflix now.

I am gobsmacked by this latest test. Well done Afrihost.

Ian can you tell me how you download movies on Netflix. When I go on it tells me it is not available in this country ? Is there some trick to use ?

[IanF]

Ian can you tell me how you download movies on Netflix. When I go on it tells me it is not available in this country ? Is there some trick to use ?

Www.unotelly.com

[Justloadit]

I have noted that some sites just simply take long to load, unfortunately THEFORUMSA is one of them. I have noted that even FNB takes long to load a new page.

[Dave A]

I have noted that some sites just simply take long to load, unfortunately THEFORUMSA is one of them.

That has me curious. For me, most often pages from the site load lightening fast.

If it's a regular occurrence, please run tracert in the cmd line, and copy and paste the result via pm to me please. I pay a fair chunk of change to run TFSA on a dedi, so I expect stunning response times.

EDIT: Or maybe it's a device issue... So add your device to that feedback please.

[Marq]

The way I understand it:-
Axxess is owned by Afrihost - they use the MTN network/backbone - dead slow and oversubscribed
I have tried Cybersmart and WebAfrica with no joy
Ex IS management it seems is now running afrihost
I am not sure where Vox sits in this dismal picture but could be in my new short list
All using telkom network.

Anybody using Mweb adsl? Maybe a little more expensive but is this an option?

[Marq]

Meanwhile South African superusers have found a faster ISP.......... Intercontinental Super Pigeons