Bandwidth Caps are silly

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MrG

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I was thinking about it and your connection speed should really be your cap.

384kbps line you can get downloading 24/7 - 114GB per month. @45kb/ps - now who is gonna download 24/7 ??? - That can basically be halved since for 12 hours of that time the computer would probably be off...

~60GB
 
EdRobinson said:
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For those who don't know it that full stop represents the reasoning of the Telkom executives with regards to their prices - know one uses full stops anymore....


...except when going ... :D
 
Novel idea this...
yeah I think they caught on in the US (and the rest of the world) about this phenomina a while back..

It'll come.. sometime.
Well I geuss you could say Sentech already almost do this, they offer slow packages but with bandidth caps adjusted to the speed of your connection. 10gig for 128kb 20 for 256 and 40 for 512. Pretty generous for SA, and no shaping too... if only the service was as good.
 
don't for get adsl = asymetric ie you can download full blast and upload full blast too. This factors in when you use services that eat bandwidth like p2p
 
So how abour sharing some of the Latency with me.. Oh wait.. people dont really give a damn about anything other than what they download themselfs and screw anyone else that actually uses their connection for anything that isn't illegal.. Blah..

Try flame away. I just dont care anymore, Telkom has driven me insane.. (as have P2P junkies)
 
telkom is a monkey! 3GB cap

In Greece their dsl is unlimited they can download as much as they like for like 40euros a month!
 
What i dont understand is the actual cost of data, how does data comprimise a variable or fixed cost, does moving more data = more cost of maintaing the line, from an business point of view i get it, are gigs a scare resource?
 
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