ADSL cap usage explained

No offense but this is not exactly new news. Telkom has had this in place for a long time now. To some people it is common knowledge, nothing has changed.
 
They can't charge u for that, cause what if you just want to finish your international cap to be able to use your local cap and now this happens...
 
Telkom's just trying to be clever... trying to make more money.
 
Overage. How generous :rolleyes:

Seriously though, at least it's nice to be able to quantify how far one is from being capped (after being soft-capped) rather than "surfing blind". I'd welcome the ability to see how much overage my IS Fibre Semi-shaped account is going to give me...
 
So...open two accounts. With the one download to the max. Near the end of the month when it gets capped then switch it to the other account. Walla...cheaper "almost" uncapped?
 
Never a straight answer from telkom. Its always smoke and mirrors magic. They show you a imaginary percentage of your usage, of a maximum average, combined from some other random people in your pool. I'm grateful for the extra gigs (wow 2 gigs, my god im blessed). But just set the thing to either 5 or 6 gigs.
 
KillerX said:
Never a straight answer from telkom. Its always smoke and mirrors magic. They show you a imaginary percentage of your usage, of a maximum average, combined from some other random people in your pool. I'm grateful for the extra gigs (wow 2 gigs, my god im blessed). But just set the thing to either 5 or 6 gigs.
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Also known as: "Give your customers a hand and they'll take your whole arm."
 
BrendanD said:
Also known as: "Give your customers a hand and they'll take your whole arm."
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Telscum has been overcharging customers in SA for decades. Now they throw a few pitiful coins at the bankrrupt beggar which is the SA consummer,
they expect people to worship them?
 
This is really useful, at least one has an idea of where the "collective usage level" is set to, something which was not possible before 1 October.

Now it's possible to manage one's usage intelligently.
 
Let's all band together and tell the whole world that we will take up arms and kill if an uncapped policy isn't put in place immediately.

The struggle has gone on too long!
 
Flanders said:
Let's all band together and tell the whole world that we will take up arms and kill if an uncapped policy isn't put in place immediately.

The struggle has gone on too long!
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Sure, I'm up for it. I'll get the tires ready for burning. Think you could organise a bus or two? If it works it might just be worth it :D
 
why must all this be so complicated. I feel sorry for people who are not that clued up on all this. Caps and threshold and international and local and blended vs unblended, shaped and unshaped.

COME ON telkom!
 
Lycanthrope said:
Sure, I'm up for it. I'll get the tires ready for burning. Think you could organise a bus or two? If it works it might just be worth it :D
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Hell, if we get enough support, I'll organise a train!

Now...let's jot up a list of innocent victims and I think we're good to go!
 
Same ****,new name,this shared bandwidth pool has been active circa 2002? Only difference is now you get email notification. What a yawn
 
should you exceed your initial individual service threshold, 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB service, you will automatically be transferred into our collective threshold option. This will enable you to stay online until such time that the average usage for all our subscribers reaches the collective service threshold
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BUT, there is no mention of what the "collective threshold" is comprised of.

This is a key issue in determining if Teklom are being anti-competitive by giving their customer base more throughput than they pay for, while at the same time charging for exact throughput on their bulk-selling side.
 
martmeister said:
why must all this be so complicated. I feel sorry for people who are not that clued up on all this. Caps and threshold and international and local and blended vs unblended, shaped and unshaped.

COME ON telkom!
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Agreed, but it serves Telkom's purpose to make more money off it's clients, and in their (Telkom's) eyes it is justifiable.

Never mind the ridiculous caps, what grates me is the fact that Telkom is dubble charging me for bandwidth. Unfortunately I'm in the position where I have to upload and download data to a remote server. I also have to foot the bill for the bandwidth, from my office and the remote location. This means when I'm downloading a 10 MB file from the remote server, I am paying for 10MB download to the office, as well as 10MB uploaded from the remote server. The size of the file remains 10MB, however, I'm paying for 20MB transferred data. The amount of SAIX bandwidth used is surely only 10MB, why am I being charged for 20MB?

Telkom and it's management does not deserve anything which could even remotely give them pleasure in this life. They are scum, end of story.:sick:
 
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