Is it me or Telkom?

**popayetwo** · 24-Jun-10, 06:39 PM

Couldn't get internet sites such as google, yahoo, microsoft etc and no gmail, yahoomail, etc. using teklomsa.net as my isp. changed to AXXESS and bingo - everything works ok.
Anyone else experience this today (Thursday 24 June)?

**Dave S** · 25-Jun-10, 05:58 AM

According to my ISP (Afrihost), and confirmed by Telkom and Axxess, there has been some more problems with the Seacom link since 23/06. Apparently it will be sorted by the weekend.

**popayetwo** · 26-Jun-10, 10:27 AM

Thanks for that, Dave. Funny thing is I couldn't get popular sites like Google or Yahoo on the Telkom ISP network but they worked fine when I switched to Axxess. Wondering what Telkom does/did to foul this up so badly?

**FreelanceZA** · 01-Jul-10, 12:47 PM

I experienced the same problem, but found out that once I reach my cap, I can only surf local co.za sites. Problem is there are only a few genuine local sites, some local sites route through international servers.

**wynn** · 01-Jul-10, 03:44 PM

I had no discovery, animal p, and nat geo on dstv sat, sun or mon.
had no water sun and mon.
had no powerball on fri

beat that for a s#!tty weekend

**garthu** · 01-Jul-10, 05:32 PM

Wynn wins!!!

**popayetwo** · 02-Jul-10, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by popayetwo

Couldn't get internet sites such as google, yahoo, microsoft etc and no gmail, yahoomail, etc. using teklomsa.net as my isp. changed to AXXESS and bingo - everything works ok.
Anyone else experience this today (Thursday 24 June)?

Actually, Telkom had a problem with internet in the Port Elizabeth area (where i live) that was only resolved on Monday morning. But I still couldn't get many sites so I logged a fault. I turns out I WAS capped earlier but at the same time their daily report on usage also went belly up so I didn't realise I was capped. As another poster said you can then only get local sites but who know what these are?
<Gripe mode ON>
Why is telkom still capping the service when many others are providing uncapped at no extra cost? I realise they are parastatal and need an act of parliament to change anything but in a modern business world surely this must change?
<Gripe mode OFF>