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Just an update, so after loads and loads of calls to Telkom and doing several speed tests they say something on my side is the problem. Just to confirm is a speedtest of 0.8mb to and international server like London normal, and if it isnt what should it be

gave Telkom a call they made me do a couple of speed tests which gave some erratic results, so they have logged a customer fault and we will see what happens. My speeds are now averaging about 25KB/s so its probably a Telkom problem although I don't see why speedtest and other give such a high line ...

Yep upgraded 2 days ago, like I said browsing is quite fast but its just slow downloads, I will give Telkom a call a little later.

Are you just downloading directly through IE/FF? No download manager? Getting the same speeds in different browsers? Yep downloading directly through the browser, have tried FF and IE but similiar results. the line is shaped... is this slow download issue during the day, or early morning? (24h00->0...

Slow ADSL download speed Hey I recently upgraded to a 4mb line, websites are loading much faster and its great, Speed test shows about 3.45 download speed, however when i download* anything else I only get speed of up to 42KB/sec, which was about what I was getting on my 512 line. OH and Telkom is m...

Just finished trying that and no success. Still has the same problems, but also now shows a svhost.exe error when booting. It also now lets me select the username but then it does the same as it did before by starting to log in then just showing desktop background and nothing else

Hey guys A friend of mine recently brought his pc to me and I can't seem to figure out the problem. The computer boots normally but then instead of going to the user screen (you now choosing the user to log in as) it goes straight into his username. It asks for the username and password (I just left...

rustypup wrote:not to make this sound too obvious, but have you swapped the NIC?

always on the top of the suspects list, just below the cable...

Going to go buy one today and see if that works.

Didn't want to buy one, if I could rectify the problem, but i will try a new nic.

Hey I have a home setup of 3 computers all going through the router onto the net. Recently one of my computers has been giving me the "Limited or No connectivity problem". I have tried to restart the computers. the router but no luck. I tried to renew ip address on the computer but it says...

Okay finally got it to work thanks Frozenfireside for telling me how to get to customer support

Hey glad I could help, still quite expensive though but at least you can get your data back

Yeah thanks already did that part, just can't get windows to activate

Ok got through to support and explained the situation and after about 40 minutes of going through this and that she eventually tells me there is nothing they can do because they can find the product key so they don't know whats wrong, and she a lodged the complaint with someone and if they can fix i...

Look over here you may find something

http://forums.prophecy.co.za/f10/list-h ... ams-36357/

Ok I will give it a shot and will tell you guys what happens

Tried that and got it wrong (several times) and they don't put me through to an operator... Its just an automated message

Unfortunately too late for that now as I already did which is very stupid in retrospect.

Isn't their anyway I can get into it so I can update the drivers because after that I am sure I could activate it over the net

Hey I just installed an Asus P5NE-Sli motherboard. Now I didn't reinstall windows just repaired it and it and for whatever it now wants me to put in the confirmation ID to activate Windows. This is where the problem comes in. I can't use the internet to activate as the ethernet ports aren't working ...

Madiba is a legend, a great man and hope he enjoys his well deserved rest. It was interesting at WITS (well at least my side of campus) there was a general feeling of greatest respect and excitement for Mandela. However there was a certain race group (or rather religion within that race group) which...

Awesome stuff, well played!!!

Well I was expecting it for free to be honest as its only for a school project

Hey guys just been informed the project is now due for Friday, so if any of you can do it by Thursday afternoon, pm me just to let me know if you think you can help

I know its quite tough to ask someone to do this so quickly but it was like on the spot project thing to do, so I was just hoping...

It doesn't have to be the best piece of artistic work ever, I just thought someone can make a better looking one then I probably could

Hey guys Anyway one of the silly tasks I have to do is have this fashion show in a group. Anyway behind where the "catwalk" thing is, is a backdrop which is used for the projector. Could someone please design a backdrop picture with the name "Apex Creations" and slogan "Ulti...