Capped ADSL problems ++

[ASnogarD]

Wierd stuff going on...

Since Tuesday (got capped on Sun) I have been uable to do anything internationally, including get a WONid or a Steam Authentication (Games), though local traffic is still the same (uneffected).

This is a new thing as up to now I have had little to no problems getting WONid's or Steam Auth. ... this is required to play games online even locally (anti cheat/pirate check).

I contacted the Tech support on 0800 375 375 last night , the tech there said he was not aware of any changes, and he confirmed ,by using my account , that there was no int. connection - this tech said the problem was the throttled int. link was overloaded with capped users (contrary to Telkoms media statement which claims hardly anyone gets capped).

My brother has tried to get assistance through the same tech line today (I am at work, using my work connection to post this), and he got told by one tech the problem was a faulty IP assigned my machine plus a fault that caused my machine not to release the faulty IP address, later my brother called the tech line again and got a tech who would not reveal his name, who told my brother that a) Telkom would enforce a no local, no int. bandwidth after cap policy and b) the tech claimed he was working there since ADSL's introduction and he never heard that int. bandwidth was given to capped users.

Number of funny things happening.

Either:

1) the new ADSL offering has caused a re-route of capped users with regards to int. connection, which has dropped from pratically useless to ZERO.

2) there exists faulty IPs on the capped IP range (never heard of this myself )

3) Telkom have plans to implement a 'no connection after cap policy' for all its ADSL offerings. <font color="blue">* I took the precaution of saving the Telkom website with the current definition of its services. *</font id="blue">

Whatever the outcome there definetly seems to be a problem with the service.

 

[BTTB]

Not good.
MyADSL is also affected now as capped users won’t be able to access the forums at all.


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[me]

I can't offer any explanation myself, but I experienced the dreaded capping for the first time last month (my first month on ADSL), and it was so bad the first thing I did was scout around for public proxies. I couldn't even _connect_ to most of my US mail servers.

With a proxy in place, I found it was just about possible to check my email via webmail.

I thought that all this is just unfair for everyone, but a friend of mine says his capping is never that bad, and this month he's been going full speed after getting capped on day one. I don't get this.

My golly, if they DO implement a 'no connection after cap policy', there'll be hell all round. And of course that would be the stupidest move they could ever make.

 

[alex]

But that no connection after cap is just redicules that just kills the whole Idia of ADSL a 24/7 connection. now its gona be like a normal line which is just much faster , but with huge limitations the bigest thig about ADSL is that its always online. and now they killed that too, i think they shouldnt call it ADSL couse its not ADSL anymore,they should make up a name for it some south afrikan name , like Tel-*** and they will be realy proud of them selfs look we made our own standard and we so cool .... thats something u could expect of them .:/

 

[James]

Strange, SGS have got port prioritisation(for capped users) from telkom for some of it's STEAM powered games , CS:CZ, CS.16 and a few others. You should get a enough to auth with the steam server and then play. Maybe telkom took that privlage away too. But look to the bright side, SGS may be getting an auth server so u won't have to access int lines at all.

There is no peace without war!!!