are they phasing out 192k?

swordfish1 said:
Ekhaatvensters, make me a favour, browse few sites like www.pbase.com, www.dpchallenge.com and similar, then maintain your own photo site (upload images to it etc.), then read some forums for couple of hours a day, like this forum, refreshing every so often to see if there are new posts, then open a text streaming applet with the E/$ GBP/$ rates for like 10 hours a day and another streaming applet with the gold/silver/oil, then browse to find some information over the web, opening dozens of pages to find what you are lookig for ... then look at your traffic for the day! If you are under 100MB, lol, let me know how did you do that! I would say that 3GB is so little that I have to restrict my browsing as well in order to fit in it, if I have to stream video and download software, I will need a second and even third 3GB account! People in this country don't realise how many things one can do with the internet, and this is only because of the fuc**ng telkom does everything to limit the people to only do what the internet was used for about 10 years ago! light web browsing with low resolution images and not too many of them!

Sorry to not share your positive outlook, but I think this "price reduction/speed adjustment" is absolute rubbish and people should NOT be happy about it, but realise that in 5 years time the internet in the rest of the world will replace the radio, TV, DVD shops and whatever else, while here we will be counting bytes just so we can have the connection alive until the end of the month!

I agree with you man. Just checking my mail, lite browsing and posting on this forum usually has me going through 40-50MB a day, easy.

I could definitely do 100MB a day without much effort and that would still be restricting myself quite a lot. As soon as you talk about any kind of streaming, gaming or downloading, even minimal amounts of each, the 3 gigs a month is just ridiculous.
 
lots of fun again with telkom lol
will the free upgrade form 192 benefit us ? who knows
i just hope other things dont go up
 
ForSure said:
lots of fun again with telkom lol
will the free upgrade form 192 benefit us ? who knows
i just hope other things dont go up
well, the phone line rental is up by R8 or so ...
 
I still don't get it how people who want to download gigs and gigs still complain about SAIX's puny 3gigs. The simple solution for the short term - people who want to download 30 gigs worth of porn or whatever else, get an IS account. People who want to game or skype, get an SAIX account.
 
Ermm locally they both offer the same performance. I manage 6 gigs internationally (which is unshaped) before getting capped internationally, and then moving onto 35 gigs total before being hardcapped. Let's not even try and compare cap sizes ;) Point is it's fine for my needs because I download more than I game. Anybody else who does the same thing should also reconsider SAIX, unless you're an international gamer
 
Highflyer_GP said:
I still don't get it how people who want to download gigs and gigs still complain about SAIX's puny 3gigs. The simple solution for the short term - people who want to download 30 gigs worth of porn or whatever else, get an IS account. People who want to game or skype, get an SAIX account.
the only problem is that IS is VERY unreliable for my needs, and to get uncapped international cost something like R1200 per month min, which I don't feel like spending for something that should cost R200 at most!

I am getting enough frustrated with the IS ups and downs at work, I don't feel like suffering the same amount of pain when I get home too ... so I have to pay telscum of course ...
 
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