64k when capped is totaly useless!?!

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Hi there
Ive got capped like since last week and on the beginning the speed was fine like about 62-70kbps and it was opening everything without no problems...Now since thursday my 64k is terrible its always timing out the download speed averages at 2KB/s and after i put something to download it just goes to 0kbps connection....(its connected online but seems that there is absolut no connection at all..) i dont know what is going on....but please if someone has the same problems just reply to my thread....btw my signal is 100% always and error rate is going to max of 10%.... :mad:
 
So you're capped... me thinks a whole lot of other people got capped aswell and you're all contended on the so-called "throttled service"
 
The exact thing happened to me but speeds returned to normal when i bought more bandwidth. The 64k service in a waste of time.
 
kei its not contended like adsl, its not everyone thrown onto a 64k line and fighting for it its your own personal 64k piece of the pie, your own 64k line.
 
some people just get unlucky with iburst speeds...i had my turn a week ago. Well im capped and getting some awesome download speeds ;)
 
I got capped early in the month, but was uncapped for the 18th, 19th and 20th.

My capped experience goes like this-->
1. Webpages open 50% of the time.
2. i can get 5 to 7kb/s of http downloads (The speed does seem to burst and then stand still).
3.P2P = useless (20mb for 8 hours).

Over all I would say their capped service needs some work. Uncapped on the other hand is nice and fast.
 
How do you guys explain being capped and getting great speeds? Anyone explain?
 
slimothy said:
kei its not contended like adsl, its not everyone thrown onto a 64k line and fighting for it its your own personal 64k piece of the pie, your own 64k line.
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you wish !
 
it isnt, thats a fact please call up wbs right now or read the fine print, the reason it isnt is because its software controlled where as with telkom they redirct you to a different part of the network when you connect, thats why i can download at 10k all the time when capped internationally and sometimes more and an adsl user cant
 
craigsa said:
How do you guys explain being capped and getting great speeds? Anyone explain?
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I was getting uncapped speeds last Wednesday & Thursday. It seems like they took the bandwidth manager offline or something. My capped speeds are 6-8KB/s which is good enough.
 
i've been capped for two weeks and it's been great.
Except for the weird fluctuations everyone had ( where suddenly I became uncapped for one night ) I get a rock solid 7kB/s. My bandwith graph is a nice straight line.
 
i dont think they take it offline, maybe they issued updates or something, its all software controlled so its pretty dynamic, although at this part of the month I can officially say unless you kill like 250GB they won't suspend you, so if it opens up for a while, hit it... hit it hard
 
I've been capped for a week now, and still downloading at good speeds, ranging from 6KB/s to 16KB/s. And no, my signal is not perfect.
 
Just a comment guys ....

If capped (or not) ... when using p2p it tends to kill everything ...

You'll notice that (even when capped) if you don't use p2p your speeds TEND to be around the 8KB/s mark.

Just bear that in mind when making speed test comparisons
 
its not p2p that kills it its the fact you have lots of connections created, for instance if you open a single web page it will start at above 64k once you download more than 10KB it quickly gets throttled to 8KB, or if you're uncapped it might start above 120KB and get throttled to 120KB after around 10KB of data is tranfered, however if you initiate lets say 20 web page requests at the exact same time they will all get throttled crazily to about 2KB/s or less (assuming you're capped) and then the requests will go through one by one.

So with p2p if you initiate lots of conenctions to peers, the bandwith manager rather than trying to dynamically distribute 8K across all connections it will throttle most connections to 2KB or less and give the rest of the bandwith to one connection at a time
 
I haven't actually read the thread but my experience when capped is I can get consistent 8K (actually the speed bounces around alot but averages out to 8K) with some uncapped periods now and again. I'm on a 3 gig account and have done at least another 6 gigs since being capped, mostly over http but one a two things with bittorrent which is crazy slow. I haven't had any problems with being capped and if I did I would cancel because thats one of the reasons I got it (always on & reliable even when capped).
 
Ok here is the thing...
I`ve tried 3 times...When downloading something with download manager the speed fluctuates from 3-8KB/s when multithreading with 8 connections...( on capped 64K speed....)
So i just pause the download manager and quickly reconnect and guess what the whole file which is about 10-20 MB i downloading it with 120KB/s...so when the download it comes about 98% it just trottles by itself to 6KB/s again...
So i think there is a system that recognise the users wich are capped after like 30-60 seconds since their connection online...and aftrer turns it on 64K....(while that 30-60 seconds we have like full speed)
And yeah again Iburst 64K its totaly useless for HTML and FTP and for P2P lets not go there is f````n slow....0.8KB/s-1KB/s on every P2P...even using proxys...:P
 
it has nothing to do with time it runs a cron check, a sheduled check every x seconds/minutes and whenever a new connection is created, so it would work for very short times and even shorter if you had more concurrent connections, its all software controlled and they're still playing with it so don't get too happy

and 64k is not useless, saying its useless is saying ISDN/dialup/GPRS are useless for HTTP (not HTML, duh), or 192 dsl for that matter. And the reason your p2p is slow with proxies is because you use slow proxies
 
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