It's pretty obvious that Telkom's current implementation of their cap structure doesn't function properly AT ALL, there method of just dumping people past their cap onto a low-bandwidth, high-latency satellite network has pretty much shown that that method is unable to handle the connections required (I won't get onto port prioritization as it should never be required and frankly, Telkom should remove it - who are they to tell us where to use the *precious* 3GB window they allow us).
The thing I don't understand is, why did they go that route of using a different network in the first place? You don't see dialup (33.6 & 56K), ISDN 64K, ISDN 128K and Diginet being put onto a different network when they reach arbitrary download/upload numbers, in fact, all those above connections (with the exception of Diginet) are CHEAPER than ADSL, yet have no restrictions placed upon them, and lets face it, when you're capped on ADSL your speed varies between relatively OK and worse-than-9600bps dialup speed (for those of you NOT in the know, a 9600bps modem was capable of downloads in the region of 0.6 KiloBytes per second, a 56K modem by comparison is able to do up to 7 KiloBytes per second - side note, ADSL is capable of downloads at 64 KiloBytes per second, thats 3GB in 11-13 hours) with users reporting speeds at about 0.2KB/s - paying R1000 per month for a 0.2KB/s connection? I think not.
What Telkom SHOULD have done, is had speed throttling systems on their side, a system whereby you are NOT dumped onto a different network, but remain on the same high-speed, low-latency network, the only difference being that you are only allowed a transfer speed "up to" 56K dialup or ISDN 64K equivalent speeds (thereby keeping traffic in the region of general network usage) - an ADSL user "capped" at 64K after his 3GB limit has been reached should have NO network load difference when compared to an ISDN user at 64K.
Remaining on the same network as everyone else will still allow you to get decent speeds after capping (up to 8KB/s if they went the ISDN 64K equivalent route) while keeping pings at "acceptable" levels - the reason pings skyrocket is that satellites are an extremely high-latency technology, which is why you never want to get Satellite Internet if you want to play games online.
I feel Telkom should instead implement this "software" capping instead of their current move of "hardware" capping, I just don't know whether it could be used to differentiate between international and local usage, which may make it pointless [xx(]
The thing I don't understand is, why did they go that route of using a different network in the first place? You don't see dialup (33.6 & 56K), ISDN 64K, ISDN 128K and Diginet being put onto a different network when they reach arbitrary download/upload numbers, in fact, all those above connections (with the exception of Diginet) are CHEAPER than ADSL, yet have no restrictions placed upon them, and lets face it, when you're capped on ADSL your speed varies between relatively OK and worse-than-9600bps dialup speed (for those of you NOT in the know, a 9600bps modem was capable of downloads in the region of 0.6 KiloBytes per second, a 56K modem by comparison is able to do up to 7 KiloBytes per second - side note, ADSL is capable of downloads at 64 KiloBytes per second, thats 3GB in 11-13 hours) with users reporting speeds at about 0.2KB/s - paying R1000 per month for a 0.2KB/s connection? I think not.
What Telkom SHOULD have done, is had speed throttling systems on their side, a system whereby you are NOT dumped onto a different network, but remain on the same high-speed, low-latency network, the only difference being that you are only allowed a transfer speed "up to" 56K dialup or ISDN 64K equivalent speeds (thereby keeping traffic in the region of general network usage) - an ADSL user "capped" at 64K after his 3GB limit has been reached should have NO network load difference when compared to an ISDN user at 64K.
Remaining on the same network as everyone else will still allow you to get decent speeds after capping (up to 8KB/s if they went the ISDN 64K equivalent route) while keeping pings at "acceptable" levels - the reason pings skyrocket is that satellites are an extremely high-latency technology, which is why you never want to get Satellite Internet if you want to play games online.
I feel Telkom should instead implement this "software" capping instead of their current move of "hardware" capping, I just don't know whether it could be used to differentiate between international and local usage, which may make it pointless [xx(]
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