3 Gig Cap

[Sadad]

TELKOM: White says only 24% of ADSL users use peer-to-peer protocols. Their potential to disrupt the service had been neutralised with the imposition of the cap, and the pool is grown every time one of them upgrades his service, says White. He adds that Telkom has measured less than 20% of its users reaching the 3GB cap.

I say: If so few people are reaching there caps, then where is the proplem. There should be no reason to have a cap. I think White just shot his foot off.

 

[VQuest]

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I agree. Most of the time this guy actually talks in circles. If this is indeed a fact (and I usually take whatever he says with a pinch of salt) the only reason the rest of the 76% don't reach the cap is because if we did, our ADSL connection becomes totally useless if we need it for anything other than local email and web browsing. You probably find there is about 5% of the total userbase who don't need to worry about the cap because all they do is browse the web and check their email. If they can afford almost R1000 a month for that, then good on them. Personally, I'm quite sick and tired of having to continuously worry about everything I do on the internet to prevent myself from being capped. We are being dictated to about what we can and can't do on the internet. It's as if Telkom thinks they own the internet. Think again....

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[Tainted]

Simple sum which everyone has probally worked out before...

512kb/sec / 8bits = 64kbytes
That's what you should be able to run at every second.

If we now take roughly on a 30 day calendar that there is 2592000 seconds a month and multiple that by the 64kbytes we get to = 165,888,000 kbytes per month. that's 165gigz a month!!!

Now we reverse it and do the opposite..

2592000 seconds divide by 3000000kbytes (the 3g cap) = 0.864 kbytes/sec

Now that folkes is what Telkom really means by always on, always connected... Surely if you pay for a 512kb/sec line you should be allowed to use it as that speed during the course of the whole month all the time.

No one sells you a sports car and says after you have driven 300km's you must drive at 20km/h for the rest of the months because they will govern the engine remotely!

Sounds like blatant fraud to me...

 

[gee-ct]

So tell me something... Peer to Peer is the problem right?
now why would telkom advertise in PCFormat? Is this not going straight to that market? I think so, mabe i'm wrong (page5 May edition - IN YOUR FACE FULL PAGE AD)
what do you guys think?

 

[gripen]

Because they only care about making money and not about providing anything. Since they control all ZA bandwidth, they can easily provide more bandwidth with their profit money. Except that due to BEE and corruption carrying such a high cost, the end user suffers.

All they are doing is "catching" the p2p people and shoving all their traffic over a single slow diginet line. The 3GB cap is enforced so that people dont use the line too much so that all adsl users experience what looks like high speed where in fact, due to very few people online (saving their traffic) the line appears to have a very low contention ratio. Basically, the 3GB cap enables a 100:1 (or more) contention ratio.

 

[alex]

Isnt that abit contridctury of MR white since almost no one reaches the 3gig cap whats the point of haveing the cap is it there for good looks , he doesnt kow what he is saying .... he is just digging his own grave .

 

[Darkstar]

goes to show the mentality of the poeple have who work at telkom and run big projects like ADSL.