Back to square one.

[sunsoffun]

If we are hard capped, legal action can be taken and most likely will be taken against Telskum, as they are advertising it as a permanent connection.

For f%$k sake, that is what ADSL is suppose to be.... a permanent connection to the net, and that is most likely why everyone here got ADSL in the first place.

We are back to square one... pay, pay, pay... every time you want to use the internet. Nowhere else in the world this is done!!!

Telkom complains to the ISP's about the 30 Gig caps... I think the ISP's actually helped Telkom ADSL sales by doing so. It became a much more attractive offer. If TelkomInternet did the same as some of the ISP, they would have competing fairly in the market... and I think allot of people would have taken TelkonmInternet ISP .... on the bases - one bill one place

There must be something we can do from a legal aspect to fight this. I cant keep on giving all my money to Telkom.

 

[Phantasmo]

Welcome to South Africa!

 

[arni1954]

You must admit that Telkom came up with a fantastic Idea . ADSL in dial-up terms. They can run for the anual competition of the" scam of the world".

 

[photonman]

F$%k that $hit!!!

 

[Kropotkin]

You must admit that Telkom came up with a fantastic Idea . ADSL in dial-up terms. They can run for the anual competition of the" scam of the world".

IMO dialup is much better (~46k, unshaped, uncapped international bandwidth) and cheaper (about R450 p.m. total for always connected in callmore time) than standard ADSL (192k, shaped, 3GB international bandwidth for around R550).

The 30GB accounts made ADSL appealing, but the limited period of availibility of the offerings (WebAfrica, Axxess, etc) prevented me from ever ordering. Now we're back to the situation where a dialup is at least two times better than ADSL (ITO international bandwidth) for 2/3 of the costs.

Sure ADSL has better speeds, but it's unusable because of the international bandwidth cap. At the very least your international bandwidth cap should be 50% of the total potential bandwidth of the connection.

In my case local bandwidth is entirely superfluous, I don't need it and I don't want it, so the IS accounts don't appeal to me either.