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100mb reset daily?
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kaspaas
Expert Member
Nope - it will be impossible to download the MS upgrades for a PC that way 
Nor will one be able to download an ISO image for Linux from Telkom's own servers.
Maybe a weekly quota will work better, but then the question arises of when - maybe resetting on Friday 18:00 would be a good time. The gamers can have some joy over the weekend, and by Monday the international bandwidth is available to the non-gamers. Maybe it would reduce the amount of griping to Telkom....
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<br />Why not make the cap 100mb reset daily
i think itll work better than the current monthly one of 3gb
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Nor will one be able to download an ISO image for Linux from Telkom's own servers.
Maybe a weekly quota will work better, but then the question arises of when - maybe resetting on Friday 18:00 would be a good time. The gamers can have some joy over the weekend, and by Monday the international bandwidth is available to the non-gamers. Maybe it would reduce the amount of griping to Telkom....
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<br />Why not make the cap 100mb reset daily
i think itll work better than the current monthly one of 3gb
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grubman
Well-Known Member
hmmm, don't go putting silly ideas in those telskum heads ...
Its really quite simple, create a reasonable "soft" cap. ppl who consistantly abuse the "soft" cap are then contacted and told as such in a friendly "customer relations" way. If they ignore the warning then they are put onto a slower connection ( like the one telskum has now ) for a month. A lot less admin I think and a win-win for all.
Its really quite simple, create a reasonable "soft" cap. ppl who consistantly abuse the "soft" cap are then contacted and told as such in a friendly "customer relations" way. If they ignore the warning then they are put onto a slower connection ( like the one telskum has now ) for a month. A lot less admin I think and a win-win for all.
paf
Well-Known Member
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ri0t</i>
<br />Why not make the cap 100mb reset daily
i think itll work better than the current monthly one of 3gb
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This would only be viable if it were significantly more than 100MB, say 300MB minimum. Otherwise, no way!
On second thoughts, no way anyway. This would prevent you from going to town on the last day. For example, on Friday I was on 2.9GB. By Saturday evening I was on 6GB. Luckily, they forget to cap me when I got reconnected on Saturday evening, so I got another 2.5GB on Sunday, for a total of 9GB for the month. I'd like to keep it that way, thanks.
I don't think they'd be able to do it technically anyway. I think the measurement only gets taken when you disconnect. That's why they reset your connection every 24h - otherwise they'd never be able to get the metrics.
<br />Why not make the cap 100mb reset daily
i think itll work better than the current monthly one of 3gb
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This would only be viable if it were significantly more than 100MB, say 300MB minimum. Otherwise, no way!
On second thoughts, no way anyway. This would prevent you from going to town on the last day. For example, on Friday I was on 2.9GB. By Saturday evening I was on 6GB. Luckily, they forget to cap me when I got reconnected on Saturday evening, so I got another 2.5GB on Sunday, for a total of 9GB for the month. I'd like to keep it that way, thanks.
I don't think they'd be able to do it technically anyway. I think the measurement only gets taken when you disconnect. That's why they reset your connection every 24h - otherwise they'd never be able to get the metrics.
BlueICE
Active Member
Well if you just download locally at an average of 40kb/s
you should pull an easy 3Gb a day (in 24 hours).
Wonder if TelkomISP will send me a prize if I can break the
magic 100Gb monthly transfer that way?
you should pull an easy 3Gb a day (in 24 hours).
Wonder if TelkomISP will send me a prize if I can break the
magic 100Gb monthly transfer that way?
Quazzi
Well-Known Member
Like kaspaas said, 100Mb a day is too little, a weekly quota sounds a lot better than a Monthly one ( roughly 4 weeks a month, 3GB / 4 = 750Mb per week). I could live with that. The nice thing is that if I do get capped on a weekly basis, next week I've got my bandwidth back again, not next month
cubehre
Active Member
Yeah - I'll vote for a weekly cap - but then I want 1GB a week.
SK33T
Well-Known Member
Atleast 3g p/w
The cap in itself is absolute BS! In my opinion all Telkom have done is to provide a substandard Inet access service due to pressure.
ADSL pricing consists of:
1. the last mile connection fee from the client to the DSLAM and
2. the IP access portion
It seems to me they are trying to get the clients to give them an unreasonalbe ROI wrt the DSLAM kit. They bitch and moan that the International bandwidth is a problem (more BS) so we all only get a small amount of traffic for our +- R300pm Inet access fees.
But the argument is crap! At the beginning of the month EVERYBODY klaps their connection and the speeds are good - so it stands to reason that there is no congestion on the International pipe!
This whole ADSL cap / prioritisation etc issue is pure rubbish! I would suggest that Telkom are:
1. Trying to protect their ISDN market - after all the more you surf the more you pay.
2. Trying to get their ADSL infrastructure paid for before they get comepetition - they would the have a huge cost benefit over a competitor.
3. Full of sh*t! - more interested in corporate profits than social responsibility to the country.
ADSL pricing consists of:
1. the last mile connection fee from the client to the DSLAM and
2. the IP access portion
It seems to me they are trying to get the clients to give them an unreasonalbe ROI wrt the DSLAM kit. They bitch and moan that the International bandwidth is a problem (more BS) so we all only get a small amount of traffic for our +- R300pm Inet access fees.
But the argument is crap! At the beginning of the month EVERYBODY klaps their connection and the speeds are good - so it stands to reason that there is no congestion on the International pipe!
This whole ADSL cap / prioritisation etc issue is pure rubbish! I would suggest that Telkom are:
1. Trying to protect their ISDN market - after all the more you surf the more you pay.
2. Trying to get their ADSL infrastructure paid for before they get comepetition - they would the have a huge cost benefit over a competitor.
3. Full of sh*t! - more interested in corporate profits than social responsibility to the country.