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Durban businessman Bruno Bruniquel said his company changed service providers three months ago and was shocked at having to pay R11 000 to his new service provider, as opposed to their average monthly bill of R1000. His colleague, Nicole Stokes, said someone hacked into their system at a weekend when no one was at work.

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Got to ask: who are actually the bandwidth pirates in this country!!?
 
If 30GB is R1800, that means over 2TB was used. Add to this concurrent connections.... I suppose thats possible. In Japan.

This story does not make sense to me :/ Firstly, what Telkom service do you get to up and lower you cap with? The only way I can figure out that bandwidth price is perhaps something like 3G....
 
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kilo39 said:
Got to ask: who are actually the bandwidth pirates in this country!!?
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Most bandwidth hacks are done by our 3rd world brethren.

- Nigerians
- Zimmies
- Pakistani ans
- Indian`s

They are used by those dodgy Nigerian Internet cafe`s and their related enterprises for massive VoiP connections so people can chat to people back home.

Surprisingly enough this would not be that much of a dangerous problem if Telkom had decent bw charges.
 
w1z4rd said:
Surprisingly enough this would not be that much of a dangerous problem if Telkom had decent bw charges.
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That's what it comes down to, its only an issue because of the ridiculous prices here.

Businesses buy monthly bandwidth from service providers and set a monthly limit of, for example, 10 megabytes
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Um, yeah!
 
Businesses buy monthly bandwidth from service providers and set a monthly limit of, for example, 10 megabytes. If this amount is exceeded, an additional cost is automatically deducted, by the service provider, from the subscriber's account.
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Obviously must be 10GB and not 10MB...
Subsequently, their service provider debited them for this amount. "Our service provider is not accepting any responsibility, saying it is Telkom's fault, but Telkom is also absolving itself. I've sent letters, but Telkom claims it cannot reveal or trace who hacked into our system without a court order," said Bruniquel.
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Well that doesn't make any sense to me, surely it is not Bruniquel's system that was hacked if a court order is required to get Telkodemonopolies to reveal details that the beast alone has access to, IOW it must have been Telkodemonopolies' system that was allegedly hacked into, correct?
 
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Well that doesn't make any sense to me, surely it is not Bruniquel's system that was hacked if a court order is required to get Telkodemonopolies to reveal details that the beast alone has access to, IOW it must have been Telkodemonopolies' system that was allegedly hacked into, correct?
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Presumably they hacked into their system/router to get the ADSL username and password and now need Telkom to trace which line/port it was used on.
 
Subsequently, their service provider debited them for this amount. "Our service provider is not accepting any responsibility, saying it is Telkom's fault, but Telkom is also absolving itself. I've sent letters, but Telkom claims it cannot reveal or trace who hacked into our system without a court order," said Bruniquel.
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What I also find unacceptable is that an ISP refuses to divulge details of which line was used to utilize the bandwidth without a court order. That is a bit like a bank refusing to tell you to whom a payment debited against your account was made.:(
 
w1z4rd said:
If 30GB is R1800, that means over 2TB was used. Add to this concurrent connections.... I suppose thats possible. In Japan.

This story does not make sense to me :/ Firstly, what Telkom service do you get to up and lower you cap with? The only way I can figure out that bandwidth price is perhaps something like 3G....
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Maybe they are with MWeb :)
 
Shows you the intelligence of the person controlling IT at that company.

1. They were stupid enough to use MWEB
2. They did not change the default password on their router
3. They were stupid enough to use MWEB

If I was the boss of that company and had a clue (which very few bosses actually have in IT), I would be asking why I have such expensive bandwidth and why the default u/p was not changed on the router.
 
Well, no Christmas bonus for those guys. This is ridiculious, how can Mweb allow the bandwidth to go that high without warning the clients.
 
w1z4rd said:
Shows you the intelligence of the person controlling IT at that company.

1. They were stupid enough to use MWEB
2. They did not change the default password on their router
3. They were stupid enough to use MWEB

If I was the boss of that company and had a clue (which very few bosses actually have in IT), I would be asking why I have such expensive bandwidth and why the default u/p was not changed on the router.
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Theft is THEFT! no matter what sauce you put on it. Not everyone on the net has the smarts to install a firewall, do NATting and DHCP.... that function is down to a moron that people trust called IT support. I agree with you w1z4rd on some points... (1 and 3 :-P ) This is one of the things that happens when some MCSE's are in charge of IT security.

Taking petrol from a company car 'cos its not used on weekends is still theft... no matter what the price of petrol is. :eek:
 
Besides the hefty bandwidth bill, it would be interesting to see just how much illegal content now resides on the person (or people) who used all the bandwidth's PC.

No chance it's all Linux ISO's :)
 
kilo39 said:
Got to ask: who are actually the bandwidth pirates in this country!!?
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Well to use that amount is not that hard.

U use his connection on a LAN of lets say 30 people play BF2... download music all on a shared connection and bang..... 250 + GB's
 
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