ADSL cap usage explained

[<moLe>]

Dear lord am I gratefull for uncapped..dont really have go round reading there novels u guys are writting on this forum

 

[fz1]

Nice post, Drunkard #1.

I also think that there's nothing stopping other ISPs from doing the same thing

Funny you should say this. I have a 10GB IS Fibre Semi-shaped account (10GB international then 10GB local). I'm at about 13.5GB usage and international is still working perfectly.

Off topic: is kilobit kb or Kb, Google spellchecker says Kb, but I've always thought it's kb.

Apparently, it is kb (lowercase 'k'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit

 

[Wyzak]

Off topic: is kilobit kb or Kb, Google spellchecker says Kb, but I've always thought it's kb.

Either Kb and kb are identical.

 

[Darkling]

Kb vs kb

Unless you are a hard-drive manufacturer, both are actually wrong. The correct unit for 1024 bytes is Kibibyte, and its contraction is KiB.

/anal

 

[.Froot.]

Kb vs kb

Unless you are a hard-drive manufacturer, both are actually wrong. The correct unit for 1024 bytes is Kibibyte, and its contraction is KiB.

/anal

You do realise this thread is ancient, right?

To give input on kb vs Kb, they are both the same, but kb is the preferred one, since kilo,mega,giga, etc, are actually small caps.
Only when you get to kB vs kb is there a difference, which everyone should know about.

 

[mikef]

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.

Agreed - However it seems that based on postings on MyBB that this collective threshold is not the same for all users.

Based on my usage notifications they switched to the new basis of reporting in October 2008 and since then the "collective usage level" on a 3gb account has been:
Oct = 5.4GB
Nov = 5.4GB
Dec = 4.5GB
Jan = 4.5GB
Other users have reported different values AFAIK.

 

[Sackboy]

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.

It's an interesting concept.

I equate it to Vodacom extending your expired data bundle collectively to use up what other customers have left over.

Why don't they copy the idea?