Can Telkom every get it right

[pope24]

From my email this morning...

According to our records your total online usage as at [2007-12-16 00:00:01] has reached and exceeded both your service threshold and our collective service threshold.


Username : online********@dsl.2gbsh.telkomsa.net
Uploaded : 231MB or [0.22GB]
Downloaded : 2.60GB
Combined total : 2.83GB
Service threshold : 2.00GB
Percentage used : 141.65%

This action has resulted in your username being disabled until the end of the month.

And considering I am able to freely surf the net and play WoW it seems that this is not entirely accurate...

 

[Gadget Man]

Don't disconnect, or change accounts and hope that the electricity doesn't go off. If you disconnect, that's it the email will hold up to its promise. You can probably go way beyond 4 GB if you don't disconnect. Last month, one of my accounts ended at 140% and the other went onto 400% before the month ended. Not sure how long it could have gone for.

 

[Ou grote]

Don't disconnect, or change accounts and hope that the electricity doesn't go off. If you disconnect, that's it the email will hold up to its promise. You can probably go way beyond 4 GB if you don't disconnect. Last month, one of my accounts ended at 140% and the other went onto 400% before the month ended. Not sure how long it could have gone for.

Yeah, hoping CT doesn't have a power cut myself.

Combined total : 16.12GB
Service threshold : 3.00GB
Percentage used : 537.55%

 

[MrH]

Start saving up for a UPS and generator, as you can be sure in the not so distant future and for many years to come the whole country is going to have many more power cuts probably on a daily basis.

Eskom's generator network is popping off one after the other as they can't handle the strain anymore......looks like we are going back to "darkest africa".

 

[BTTB]

Start saving up for a UPS and generator, as you can be sure in the not so distant future and for many years to come the whole country is going to have many more power cuts probably on a daily basis.

Eskom's generator network is popping off one after the other as they can't handle the strain anymore......looks like we are going back to "darkest africa".

Looks like those 2 "expensive to run" gas turbines at Mossel Bay and Atlantis are going to have to run more often than not.

The cost of building new Base Load Power Stations is frightening to say the least and collectively through Direct or Indirect Taxation and/or high Electricity Bills we are all going to pay through our necks. Energy costs in General - oil included - are just getting out of control.

At least the Eskom Engineers and Planners of yesteryear had some foresight, otherwise we would really be in trouble now.

 

[MrH]

Looks like those 2 "expensive to run" gas turbines at Mossel Bay and Atlantis are going to have to run more often than not.

If they run those thirsty turbines too often it won't take long before there is a shortage of diesel in the country.

The future does not look too "bright" as far as power generation goes, and it would not surprise me if we are going to be paying far more than any other country in the world for "interrupted" electricity in the near future.

EDIT: pope24, sorry of hijacking your thread with a slightly off topic addition.

 

[BTTB]

If they run those thirsty turbines too often it won't take long before there is a shortage of diesel in the country.

The future does not look too "bright" as far as power generation goes, and it would not surprise me if we are going to be paying far more than any other country in the world for "interrupted" electricity in the near future.

EDIT: pope24, sorry of hijacking your thread with a slightly off topic addition.

I still say our Government is a large part of the problem why the cost of living has gone out of proportion.
Government has control over not only Electricity, but water, Rates, Taxes, VAT plus a whole list of other items that will influence the bottom line of why things are simply costing more and more.

Look at Water and Property Rates as a prime example of skewed increases out of line with CPI.
From one year to the next the area you live in could get Rates Increases of 100% or more because Rates are based on Property Values.
Council's hike the price of water basing their increases on Drought or lack of dam capacity etc, but in truth how much of that reasoning is simply used as an excuse to hike the water tariffs up.
The Cost of Water in The Cape has gone up 500% since the year 2000, based on the reasons Council gave us and what The Media portrayed from that.
What has happened now with Water in The Western Cape, is that the Dams are now full and overflowing into the sea as I believe that many people are too scared to use Water, not because of good Management of a very necessary resource, but simply because the price penalises a person from using it for anything other than domestic use like washing, bathing and dishes.

The list goes on, but Government just hikes prices, but fails to appreciate the results of those actions.
Government should be looking at ways to make the burden easier for the man on the street, not harder.