4mbps uncapped!

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cozinsky

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I was just thinking. I have never seen any uncapped offerings on a 4mbps account. So if i buy an uncapped account on an existing 1024kps line, which is in fact a 4mbps trial period line, does it mean I can download at 4mpbs uncapped? If this is the case, it would be great!
 
As far is i know there i no 4mbps uncapped account available in SA, the fastest is 1024.
 
nope. the uncapped offerings are set at 384/512/1024 as advertised. If you're going to connect to a 1024 uncapped service on a 4mbs line, you're only going to get 1024.
 
Thank you, that answers my question. But it raises a next question and that is when, if ever, will there be an uncapped 4mbps account available. Has anyone heard anything?
 
I was involved in a debate yesterday trying to figure out how you would get a 4mbit uncapped service:

The conclusion was that the only way of doing this was 4 x 1mbit uncapped accounts.
Get them to connect simultaneously as 4 seperate PPPoE sessions on the line.
Then put a Linux box as the PPPoE client and get it doing loadsharing across the 4 accounts.

Its all hypothetical - don't know all the buttons that would need to be pushed to make it work - but I am sure it will work.
 
They might introduce one once 4096 becomes a permanent offering, at a price though.
 
ambo said:
I was involved in a debate yesterday trying to figure out how you would get a 4mbit uncapped service:

The conclusion was that the only way of doing this was 4 x 1mbit uncapped accounts.
Get them to connect simultaneously as 4 seperate PPPoE sessions on the line.
Then put a Linux box as the PPPoE client and get it doing loadsharing across the 4 accounts.

Its all hypothetical - don't know all the buttons that would need to be pushed to make it work - but I am sure it will work.
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Yeah it would work, but at what price?
 
DjStyles said:
Can someone tell me how much data one could actually download with a 4mb line? Must be a @#$t load.

:eek:
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Well I checked the other night when I was dl'ing from one of the news servers that I got 400mb exactly in 20 minutes. This was for a couple of series I downloaded, so I would work on 1.2gb / hour

28.8gb / day
201.6gb / week
806.4gb / month

this is of course with no interruptions and stable speed

ps - this isn't at full speed, but estimated on my speeds I experienced. (my avg speed was 340kb/s)
 
SlowHands said:
ps - this isn't at full speed, but estimated on my speeds I experienced. (my avg speed was 340kb/s)
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Now FULL speed would be great! Hmmm :cool:

4096kb = 512KB per second
512KB x 60s = 30MB per minute
30MB x 60min = 1.76GB per hour
1.76GB x 24hrs = 42.19GB per day
42.19GB per day x 30 days = 1.24TB per month

:eek: Now run that on FTTH speeds, More Hard drives anyone?
 
DjStyles said:
My thoughts exactly.

Can someone tell me how much data one could actually download with a 4mb line? Must be a @#$t load.

:eek:
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Completely ignoring any overheads..

Down: 42gb per day
Up: 4gb per day
 
I normally get 1.7gb an hour, so hmm 24* 1.6 = +-38gb a day
 
Well, I get 4Mb/s down at will on my uncapped 1Mb/s account from Openweb. (actually, more like 3.1Mb/s) It is not like it is throttled to 1Mb/s.

But trying to find sufficient content to download at this speed would be a full time job, which would then leave you no time to actually enjoy the content. And where would you put it all?

Apart from which, overseas newservers and file servers like Rapishare require addional charges and even then they limit your bandwidth.

I got this account on 8 January. I'm nearing 200Gb. After the initial frantic compulsion to use the accounit to the max, I see myself slowing down considerably.

All you can eat broadband? Try indigestion. I've pigged out.

For bandwdith starved South Africans the urge is to go crazy, but the true benefit of uncapped is the freedom to use as much as you want when you want at no additional cost.

While uncapped is still an expensive option in SA, its the only way forward.

Don't think I could ever go back to counting those Megabytes.
 
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so tell me this

isp charge a kuk load per gig even IS so uncapped lets say you do 100 gig a month surely they are loosing money?
 
killadoob said:
so tell me this

isp charge a kuk load per gig even IS so uncapped lets say you do 100 gig a month surely they are loosing money?
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IS international bandwdith is via satallite. They are not subject to the Telkom/Saix wholesale pricing structure.

Presumably IS purchase a pipe at a fixed cost, and they need to ensure maximum utilization of that pipe. Better to maximise utilization at R5-R10 per Gig than to let that capacity go to waste.
 
Gatecrasher said:
IS international bandwdith is via satallite. They are not subject to the Telkom/Saix wholesale pricing structure.
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No that is not correct. You get different uncapped adsl options from IS.

Uncapped over Satellite - about R1400 over 512
Uncapped over Fibre - about R2800 over 512

So obviously its more expensive but they do have more than just satellite internation bandwidth options for uncapped.
 
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