Oh, so the iTunes download was on capped? If so - my best guess is that you have exchange issues
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Oh, so the iTunes download was on capped? If so - my best guess is that you have exchange issues
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Take out the middle man, transfer it back to Telkom pronto and chase it up yourself.
When you don't have problems then it's fine to have your line with an ISP, until...
If you want something done right, do it yourself I always say.
I normally log a fault online on Telkom.co.za, also try PM TelkomZA with your issue.
Anyway, exchanges are a lucky packet, so don't get your hopes up
What are your line stats and tracert?
EDIT: You can do that in the old clientzone
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Try reporting a fault to Afrihost, tell them you think it's a line issue. Or you could report one directly to telkom
Hi guys
So looking at moving from TI. I do about 400gigs in a month, when there are a lot of ISO's on the news groups. The other thing im trying to move toward streaming content more, netflix and hulu as well as skygo. Any reason why Afrihost would be a bad choice on 4meg? ISO's can be scheduled for night time, but streaming needs to be 100% 100% of the time.
Anyone care to comment who has the same usage patterns?
So looking at moving from TI. I do about 400gigs in a month, when there are a lot of ISO's on the news groups. The other thing im trying to move toward streaming content more, netflix and hulu as well as skygo. Any reason why Afrihost would be a bad choice on 4meg? ISO's can be scheduled for night time, but streaming needs to be 100% 100% of the time.
Anyone care to comment who has the same usage patterns?
Should be good for you. You will be shaped, however streaming should be fine. Would you consider a business account? It's very worth it
Sounds good but on a budget. The business account would be hard to justify. I dont mind if my ntp downloads are shaped, they can just do there thing in the background, as long as they still come through. I would like to get my full line speed on streaming though.
You should be all good then!
Speeds can really vary if you're using different DNS settings, or if there is an intermittent line fault.
Our App is housed on our own server for now, not on the iStore, so we're confident that it should be a quick download
Looks like there is something weird going on. Have you run the network test app yet?
We only manage the line, but Telkom handles the exchange, as they have their direct clients and multiple ISP managed lines leading into the exchange. We pretty much have no say over which exchange is used or how that exchange is maintained
Our realtime services are never shaped and should always perform at full speed. We only shape non-realtime services like torrents (P2P0. Shaping is dependant on overall demand first, but when we shaped we start with the most aggressive users first.
Business is not linked to office hours any more, it's unshaped all day everyday, so it's like a capped account is pretty every way
We don't always shape to the same level. It depends on the demand at any given moment primarily, and thereafter on how aggressively you use bandwidth.
Bleh. It kinda went down at some point on saturday for an hour or so. We managed to get it back up and working though
I sometimes wonder how we made this possible. Seems like just a few years ago when were doing 70-80 Rand per GB on ADSL. Let's hope we can push prices even lower. I think the recent IPC cuts will help, but it's hopefully a signal that they'll hopefully drop a lot lower in the future.
The issue is pretty much cost. Most ISPs, including ourselves, still pay per GB for the traffic we use, so upgrading a data account free of charge is basically us taking a pretty severe knock. If we can push lot more bandwidth and basically improve our upstream costs, then we would definitely do that, but at present most are cutting things very close to stay competitive. I still think Telkom needs to do more to cut IPC costs so that ISPs can offer more value back to their clients, and also get South Africans onto higher speeds and make using DSL a much more attractive option than mobile.
Different DNS services seem to work better with different services. I think it will also affect fetching cached content, so it makes a big difference. I understand that some people want to use blocked services like Netfliz, but we generally always recommend using our dyanmic DNS.
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