Capped Speeds. Still fast?

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PierreLeRiche

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Hi,

Anyone still getting the fast download speeds that we experienced during December, even when capped? I'm capped at the moment and still getting good download speeds on Shareaza.
 
My speeds to all international sites are capped, apart from some sites hosted in some parts of Europe, e.g. France, Norway and Holland are fast (50Kb/s) while USA, England, Canada, Germany, etc. are slow (0.5Kb/s or less).
This includes download speeds and surfing speeds, btw :/
I'm in Cape Town
 
I am in the northern subs of cape Town. Normlly my total available download bandwidth is 53k/s - slow for adsl but usable.

On a capped account I can easily download at 53k/s total downloads 24hrs per day, with individual downloads as fast as 35k/s at times.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by doekvoet</i>
<br />I am in the northern subs of cape Town. Normlly my total available download bandwidth is 53k/s - slow for adsl but usable.

On a capped account I can easily download at 53k/s total downloads 24hrs per day, with individual downloads as fast as 35k/s at times.
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Same here. I'm in the Somerset West area. It's as if the cap isn't currently implemented. I've downloaded 40GB from international P2P this month alone, and I can still surf the net without any problems.

The usage logs say that I am capped, but my IP address is in the 165.165.200+ range so that means I'm uncapped?
 
Was it below 127 or 128 that meant you were capped?

Both the office and my home ADSL have the lower ending IP's and both are far from being capped.
 
and then you realise you're on an account which bills you every 3 gig
 
My IP ddress is in 165.165.(below 50).xxx - which means I am capped - yet I have downloaded 38Gig p2p so far and run at max speed for many hours at a time. Some international sites opens slower than normal and msn does not work properly - but otherwise the capped service is OK so far during the past two months
 
Perhaps you are downloading local. Using Kazaa? This is interesting...

Cheers
Ant

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by doekvoet</i>
<br />My IP ddress is in 165.165.(below 50).xxx - which means I am capped - yet I have downloaded 38Gig p2p so far and run at max speed for many hours at a time. Some international sites opens slower than normal and msn does not work properly - but otherwise the capped service is OK so far during the past two months

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He who does not understand the value of war at the right time, cannot comprehend the value of life at any time - Anonymous
 
I suspect that Telkom is busy running a trial in this part of the country to determine how much people will download if given free reign.

They are probably going to offer an uncapped ADSL product soon (due to Sentech competition), and they need to find out how much bandwidth will cost them. This is probably the easiest and most accurate way for them to find out.

Once the initial excitement and mass downloads subsides, most users will settle into a more or less fixed usage pattern which may be representive of what their usage will be like in the long term. Therefore I doubt that this "gift" will last for more than a few months. Enjoy it while you can folks...
 
I got adsl this month. Got capped after 4 days lol.
But i almost didn't realize as i download most of my stuff in kazaa lite. And yes the speed is sky high. Im getting anything brom 40kb/s up. So this is really cool.
[:D]
 
A contact of mine in Telkom says the cap still works, but users that reach their cap first gets switched over to a lower bandwidth link. If you are the first user to get capped (and switched over), you will have a lot of bandwidth (even more than before you were capped!).But as more users get capped and switched to the lower bandwidth link, each capped user's bandwidth drops proportionately.

Ajax
 
thats just telkom K*k iv been capped many times at the 1st couple of days in month and the speeds r as slow as it would be if u got capped at end of month.But these last 2 months have had normal speeds even when capped.
 
I agree - and that is what Telkom does not seem to realize - once one has downloaded what you wanted to download, the usage from there onwards will stabilize to maybe 20Gig per user per month - which is my opinion would be a fair service

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by PierreLeRiche</i>
<br />I suspect that Telkom is busy running a trial in this part of the country to determine how much people will download if given free reign.

They are probably going to offer an uncapped ADSL product soon (due to Sentech competition), and they need to find out how much bandwidth will cost them. This is probably the easiest and most accurate way for them to find out.

Once the initial excitement and mass downloads subsides, most users will settle into a more or less fixed usage pattern which may be representive of what their usage will be like in the long term. Therefore I doubt that this "gift" will last for more than a few months. Enjoy it while you can folks...

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Consider yourselfs lucky............................When i am capped I am Freaking Capped................
 
I must admit this is a nice change, not sure what happened for them not to cap us, i am now on 15 Gig so far this month and still going strong at a nice 54kbytes/sec. Shooting for 30 gig :)
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dtox</i>
<br />I must admit this is a nice change, not sure what happened for them not to cap us, i am now on 15 Gig so far this month and still going strong at a nice 54kbytes/sec. Shooting for 30 gig :)
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Lucky Basterd i am on account 6 for the month...
 
Hi,

I used to live in South Africa, and have a friend there who is interested in getting ADSL. I'm a little confused about this cap. When you go over the 3GB cap limit, does the service remain the same but you pay extra for every GB you download, or does the service get downgraded but pay the same, or some other thing?

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