CAP: Seriously

[HavocXphere]

I agree with OP that its annoying when people confuse cap & bandwidth. Those are two separate concepts & it hinders communication if used interchangeably.

The word "cap" as in 5gb cap is fine by me though. Plus we don't really have any good substitute. "Data" doesn't connote a limit per se so it is unsuitable in a SA context. "Data allocation" would be closer, but that is just tedious.

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

I dont know if it is actually a good idea to buy uncapped anymore, im hearing MWEB heavily shapes (reduces download speeds) of users. I had a friend who had the 4Mbps ADSL Line Uncapped from MWEB. He got 450kb/s download speed, then he got shaped to 150kb/s download speed.

Where as if you buy a cap it is unshapped and I have not heard of people getting shaped on an unshaped capped thing.

When will South Africa get True Uncapped Internet??

 

[Paul Hjul]

Telkom did not invent the term and even uTorrent has a "transfer cap" option in it. Apart from the pedant being wrong to speak of data allocation is simply idiotic because often a cap is not about allocating data - because the ISP does not intend that you actually use the entire allocation but rather that you use no more than the allocation. A cap indicates "up to" a particular volume and ISPs would generally like to have the service oversubscribed with somebody using less than what is allocated. The fact that cap has come to determine basic internet access in South Africa is Telkom's fault.