anyone telkmointernet capped yet (DEC)

Have you exceeded your bit-cap on a Telkom Internet account?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • No

    Votes: 6 17.6%

  • To infinity and beyond! :D

    Votes: 16 47.1%
  • Total voters
    34
The rain in spain falls mainly on the plain.

Sorry, I'm actually just trying to get to 100 posts.....
 
bwana v.6 said:
Regretfully they get away without the capping because they have a huge bandwidth pool that according to them is due to 95% of the subscribers using less than 1.5gb.

They can get away with the anticompetitive behavior because ICASA is powerless and Poison Ivy is - to put it nicely - incompetent.
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But yet we are using up 50% of Telkoms network....:confused:

The maths never seems to make sense when it come from Telkom.... I wonder if they realy made R 6 bil profit. :confused:
 
Ok Ip got reset, telkom usage states im over my cap. And im still cruising at 52Kb on torrents.
 
I actually think its a bug in their system.... some people are getting capped while others can still download at normal rates.

I cant see Telkom just giving away bandwidth like that...
 
Off course they can. Telkom wants to drive the other ISP's out of the market so that we would have no choice but to use it and then the hard c(r)ap will start flying. So in the mean time, it will attract all heavy users to it and only cap a few here and there to avoid creating precedents (It can always blame not capping some users as a system software failure if some users are actually capped. I think all judges are familiar with computer failures).

It is up to us not to fall for the attractive bait that Telkom is dangling in front of us and rather say: "No thanks, I would rather suffer than to be tempted by your little tit-bits" as we will really suffer when Telkom is the only ISP left in South Africa.
 
I have been reset twice, haven't done too much traffic, but according to Telkom usage tracker, I'm still on 0.
 
PoiZoNouZ said:
I have been reset twice, haven't done too much traffic, but according to Telkom usage tracker, I'm still on 0.
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Same here and I know I have done at least .5G, so far, as I needed SP's and SW to rebuild a hard drive.
 
caroper said:
Same here and I know I have done at least .5G, so far, as I needed SP's and SW to rebuild a hard drive.
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That is why I am saying... there must be a bug in the system that they are using. Its almost like, if you fly past the 3GB mark quickly, the system cant track the usage and then leaves the pipe open.

I dont know... its strange how some people are getting capped and others dont.
 
Same here, done 6.5 gb but only listed as 80mb on the telkom usage tracker.
 
Mines clocking up, but its only capturing about a 3rd of what i do, cuz it says im at 6gigs, but netlimiter says 18.5Gigs. So i dunno.

Maybe they dont expect people to get past there cap on the first. THen it uses a loophole or something, otherwise Telkom is just ttrying to attract users.
 
pimal3 said:
Off course they can. Telkom wants to drive the other ISP's out of the market so that we would have no choice but to use it and then the hard c(r)ap will start flying. So in the mean time, it will attract all heavy users to it and only cap a few here and there to avoid creating precedents (It can always blame not capping some users as a system software failure if some users are actually capped. I think all judges are familiar with computer failures).

It is up to us not to fall for the attractive bait that Telkom is dangling in front of us and rather say: "No thanks, I would rather suffer than to be tempted by your little tit-bits" as we will really suffer when Telkom is the only ISP left in South Africa.
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Wise words! November cost me a small fortune (and December is looking to be worse). Still better than a world where Rikus, Steve and Lulu get to decide how much I may download.

However, things are going to get better. Telkom has suffered more bad publicity in the past 6 weeks than in the past 6 *years*. Dotco's fight (starting tomorrow) is almost certainly going to leave the Telkom twots with even more egg on their faces.

Victory is closer than we think. As Churchill put it: KBO!
 
NameOfBeast said:
Wise words! November cost me a small fortune (and December is looking to be worse). Still better than a world where Rikus, Steve and Lulu get to decide how much I may download.

However, things are going to get better. Telkom has suffered more bad publicity in the past 6 weeks than in the past 6 *years*. Dotco's fight (starting tomorrow) is almost certainly going to leave the Telkom twots with even more egg on their faces.

Victory is closer than we think. As Churchill put it: KBO!
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I refuse to go to TelkomInternet. All the people that are moving across to TelkomInternet... this is NOT helping the cause .i.e the bigger picture.

What we should be doing and stand by the ISP's that are trying to make a difference, and not jump ship as soon a carrot with sugar is dangled in front of your faces.
 
sunsoffun said:
What we should be doing and stand by the ISP's that are trying to make a difference, and not jump ship as soon a carrot with sugar is dangled in front of your faces.
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They're all moneyhungry whores. ISP's aren't trying to make a difference, they are trying to make "toilets full of money". (That works better in Afrikaans)
More power to them, but I'll go where I can get more for less, and that includes Telkom, who decided to give unused bandwidth to high end users.
 
zeb said:
They're all moneyhungry whores.
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So would you call an ISP like SAOL a moneyhungry whore, while they're selling 10gig accounts at a loss? Since 1 Nov ISPs make much less than they used to, now you call them moneyhungry whores. Those ppl also need to make some sort of profit to survive, and because of telkom they cant. Allthough there are ISPs like M-Web and Telkom who are moneyhungry whores, but most of the others definetly arnt.
 
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Dont forget @lantic. They are a money grubbing whore along with the big and little satans (Telkom/M-Web).

While one of the angels is OpenWeb :)
 
nGAGEd55 said:
So would you call an ISP like SAOL a moneyhungry whore, while they're selling 10gig accounts at a loss?
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If you know for a fact that they are selling at a loss, I'll trust what you're saying, (because I don't know.) But I don't usually believe the hype from any ISP, or any SA company for that matter. We're seen as cattle, and they milk us dry.
 
zeb said:
If you know for a fact that they are selling at a loss, I'll trust what you're saying, (because I don't know.) But I don't usually believe the hype from any ISP, or any SA company for that matter. We're seen as cattle, and they milk us dry.
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AFAIK SAIX's whole sale cost is aprox R60 per gig, and thats why most ISPs sell their 10Gig accounts at bout R600+, but SAOL sell theirs at R350, and they and Openweb are the only ones selling SAIX accounts at that price. And if i remember corectly, someone from SAOL once said here on MyADSL that theyre selling at a loss.
 
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