My possible problem with a 40mb line

[Grubscrew]

When we do get this, it will be pointless to have a 4mb uncapped account on this. So what kind of accounts will have to be available for this.

R400 for 400gb?
Rxxxx for 40mb uncapped?

Any good educated guesses here?

[buyeye]

It would be the price of 10meg/fastest line available.
The trend is speed is upped at the same price

[Lycanthrope]

It would be the price of 10meg/fastest line available.
The trend is speed is upped at the same price

If only the ISPs responded in kind. Often 10Mbps data (uncapped, at least) costs more than four times the amount of 4Mbps (half the speed) data.

Would love to know how they justify that.

[buyeye]

Looking the new afrihost packages it seems IPC costs were the bottleneck.

[Flidiot]

No man, I was expecting to see a serious problem.

If you said that you aren't going to have time to take a smoke break while waiting for a file to download, that would be a problem

Back to your "problem", I tend to agree with buyeye, in a way.

As things are now - I think ISP's create a bit of breathing room for themselves by billing 4 and 10mb services separately. As Telkom rolls out more and more 10mb capable exchanges, more customers of a specific ISP would be able to utilise the full capacity of their line (if they were to only have a 10mb service, which was billed at the same price as the current 4mb service). Now, that would be fine, except that the ISP's have to sort out infrastructure to handle the load as well. It is a pretty huge investment and considering how long Telkom is taking to actually get all their exchanges up to 10mb, it is a bit of a risky investment too.

My guess is that once the majority of Telkom exchanges are capable of max speeds (E.g. 10mb currently), ISP's would then look at dropping the 4mb and bringing the price of 10mb accounts down to the same of 4mb. At least I hope so, else I am never going to have anything more than MAYBE 4mb uncapped

[hereticangel]

lantic is R60 afterhours uncapped with no speed limits :P

[AntiThesis]

You also need to consider that 10mb is not particularly common as yet. When 4mb was first available, it was also heinously expensive. With time, prices come down. It's not as simple as applying a x10 price tag to 4mb uncapped to arrive at a likely price - hopefully no ISP would be silly enough to expect that kinda cash.

[jackshiels]

If you look at ISP's with very high data rates in Ireland (where I used to live) they employ caps on 100mb broadband.

The max you are allowed is 500GB a month. I guess that as you pass the 4-5mb barrier the potential download limits are roughly the same in order to protect ISP earnings.