Broadband caps: How much data is enough?

At least Telkom has the 10GB FREE local :whistle:

The internet has changed significantly since Telkom launched ADSL. And it has been argued in many threads that you can burn a LOT of bandwidth with legal content and just using the web how it is intended to be used in 2010. Youtube alone can use a fair amount of GBs with HD content now fairly common. Steam downloads and product updates are getting bigger and bigger.

I really wonder how Telkom determined that 1GB is enough for a home user and 5GB for 'power' users.
 
"An interesting finding was that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is 38 percent of global broadband traffic. According to the Cisco study the average broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month."

What a load of cr@p!! More like 11.4GBytes per day with P2P..
 
With Vodacom..."How much data is enough?" = "How deep are your pockets". Basically I don't even watch youtube videos if it happens to be longer than a minute.
 
I know that I use the internet more than the average users that I know yet I don't see myself as a person that uses a lot of cap. Still I use 25-35gb a month. I'd probably download more if I had a uncapped account though :D
 
ibanez said:
"An interesting finding was that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is 38 percent of global broadband traffic. According to the Cisco study the average broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month."

What a load of cr@p!! More like 11.4GBytes per day with P2P..
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Erm, most people don't actually even want to download 11.4Gb of stuff off P2P every day. You'd have to spend quite a lot of time every day finding and downloading things, nevermind watching/using all of that.

I don't think Cisco are lying for any reason, the global average is probably around 11.4GB. Most people don't download tons of series and movies etc.
 
last month I did a little over 50GB on my insignificant 384k without trying.. :) so I think we are way beyond 1 - 5GB caps..
 
This morning I woke up to my computer that redirected me to Vodacom4me web site that says I have insufficient funds. That's my 2.3GB gone for the month and have to fork out another R389.
 
Agreed. All be it that i use 25gigs a month and if I had free reign i'm use 40 most likely. However! For the last year i used 2 to 4 gigs a month now i use 25, so i think 10gigs a month for a family of fair users to low users (typical) you be great.
 
ibanez said:
"An interesting finding was that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is 38 percent of global broadband traffic. According to the Cisco study the average broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month."

What a load of cr@p!! More like 11.4GBytes per day with P2P..
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I'm sure Cisco's results are based on fact and refer to avergage usage rather than a gut feel.
 
I will go with the Cisco figures.

My own experience sums it pretty well up. We were able to do with 1Gb a month, but now that is insufficient, and we need 2 to 3Gb's for home use only.

I do all my downloads at work (uncapped), the figure for my home usage will be much higher if I do my downloads at home.

scrap sub-5Gb caps, and start thinking of 30Gb and upwards as minimum caps.

A few years ago you could get away wiht a 64k diginet line, nowadays, due to the content of the Internet, you do need a faster line and bigger caps in order to do your work.

And it won't change, it will evolve, and you'll need bigger caps.
 
bottom line is that 10 years on flowing dsl introduction to sa we should be discussing how to deliver fiber networks to consumers instead we are still talking about if 3gb is sufficient quota for broadband connection.

the answer is NO, 384 should not be considered broadband connection; NO 3gb is not sufficient usage limit;

for the money that telkom and isp's take from us, we are entitled to much more and better service.
 
ibanez said:
What a load of cr@p!! More like 11.4GBytes per day with P2P..
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99% of the people who use P2P don't try to leach everything they can get their hands on. They will keep up to date with the occasional series and movie or game.

I think a 100gig cap would be more than enough for most users and allow even moderately high users to have more than they need without bringing the whole network down.
 
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I think that they will have a 5Gb minimum and 50Gb maximum.

According to them this is a quantum leap !!!!!!! :sick:
 
Also remember that most people in the world get series shown on their televisions when they are due to air - they do not need to download everything since they dont have DSTV/Mnet that show things that are old. Movies is a different thing, but movies are usually far and few between series updates.
 
Shred said:
This morning I woke up to my computer that redirected me to Vodacom4me web site that says I have insufficient funds. That's my 2.3GB gone for the month and have to fork out another R389.
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Ouch! :cry:
 
this Goldstuck guy is Fing mad. lets all put money together and hire a hitman and shoot stupid people that say stuff like that
 
I happy to remain a capped user, but in the past few months I have found myself reaching my ceiling before month end. There are so many bandwidth hungry sites out there (and I am not even talking about torrents or the like). The more reputable news websites, such as CNN, BBC and the others, are all making tons of video content available. You Tube chews data. And my cap of 5 Gb is taking tremendous strain. I agree that capped accounts of minimum 10 Gb should become the norm very soon.
 
30Gb is the sweetspot...R100 for 30GB...
i must say since going uncapped me and my wife fight a lot less...i was on the local 30Gb and she was on 1GB prepaid international(bridged). She works from home and would phone me every week complaining that my internet was working but her machine wasn't aaaaaarrrrrrrghhhh!!!!
 
I'm struggling to keep just under 5GB.

I'd actually say a 500MB a day is a reasonable starting point. Low end packages should be 5GB a month, normal usage at 30GB a month, and high end limited to 100GB a month.

Local should be free and uncapped always across all ISPs. (Even wireless networks)
 
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