Telkom hardcapping.

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Franna

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According to this Telkom implements hardcapping on ADSL accounts:

How does the DSL 3GByte monthly volume cap work?

The 3Gbyte Internet service available from most Internet Service Providers (ISP's) measures your local, international up and download usage and once the 3Gbyte cap is reached your DSL access will terminate which means you will no longer be able to access the Internet on an DSL connection until the reset at the beginning of the following month or until you purchase an additional username from your preferred ISP.
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From the Business ADSL 1024K FAQs:
http://www.telkom.co.za/attheoffice/products/dsl/business_faq.html
 
But then there is contradicting information on the TelkomInternet website:

http://www.telkomsa.net/products/adsl_telkom_internet.jsp

Once your cap threshold has been achieved you may purchase further Gigs of usage in the form of usernames to maintain unrestricted service.Although TelkomInternet currently allows capped users restricted access to international sites and applications, and unrestricted access to local content, e-mail and applications, TelkomInternet reserves the right to deny authentication to any ADSL users dependent on network usage or abuse.

In summary these services offer you the following:
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Its 2 demon, stupid and confused as hell, trying to work out how to split an atom.

End result, they will soon break something heavily.
 
Clipse said:
Its 2 demon, stupid and confused as hell, trying to work out how to split an atom.

End result, they will soon break something heavily.
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If they break it any more, we got some big probs!
 
I'm really confused!

Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to be the current situation:

If you are with a SAIX reselling ISP, then after 3gb up and down, reset every 12 hours or according to the isp. The username is dead and does not authenticate.

However if you are with TelkomISP (also a SAIX resellers :rolleyes: ) then after 3GB restricted international and normal local. But if you use to much the call their clients abusers and from the following month you only get 3GB.

If this is the case, with the way that IS's international is so slow, then the best deal would have to be 10GB for R350 that mrBEEP and SAOL offer.

So why did everybody (me included :D ) migrate and freek out about 1 November, when technically nothing has changed except the 30gb accounts?

This is very confusing.
 
A friend of mine has just been hardcapped total disconnect, no local
browsing on Mweb
IP address if the range means anything 165.146.223.239
 
Franna said:
According to this Telkom implements hardcapping on ADSL accounts:

From the Business ADSL 1024K FAQs:
http://www.telkom.co.za/attheoffice/products/dsl/business_faq.html
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Contradicted on the DSL home terms & conditions as well:
3 Gigabyte Shaped Internet services
ISP's provide the Internet services that run on DSL with a 3 Gigabyte cap. To provide all DSL customers with a reasonable service a 3 Gigabyte limit was introduced as part of the Internet service to ensure that power users do not abuse the international bandwidth and to equally distribute the limited bandwidth amongst all DSL access end users.

Although Telkom currently transports capped users' international access over a slower international link without affecting their local access, Telkom hold's the right to disconnect the usage entirely depending on network usage. Customers can subscribe to additional accounts or wait for the cap to be reset at the beginning of the following month.

International traffic is shaped to ensure that bandwidth hungry applications such as peer-to-peer including Kazaa, Fasttrack & Napster etc. do not adversely affect other applications.
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http://www.telkom.co.za/athome/products/dsl/home_terms.html
 
Fck...so many redundant posts in this forum. "Hardcapping or not?" Just let it be...damnit man!! FFS!!
 
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