Capping suggestion

[kaspaas]

Hi,

it is obvious that the Telkom model at present does not allow for the scrapping of the cap.

Herewith a suggestion that will ease the capping woes - but to users, and to Telkom (less gripes).

Furthermore Telkom has indicated its inability to measure the International bandwidth consumption from a specific login.

I would love to have a simple web page where I can log into (like the bandwidth stats) where I can "cap" and "uncap" myself - provided I stay within the 3GB "cap-able" allocation in the "uncapped" state.

Very simply said: If I access the page, I get "capped" until I cancel the "capping" by accessing another page.

When I select a change in capping, obviously Telkom drops the ADSL connection, and when I connect again I get willingly a "capped" connection.

Similar when I select to cancel the "capping"

May sound funny to some, but this way one can ration your fast bandwidth during the month. It would also reduce the beginning of the month "Yippee I'm not capped" stresses on the Telkom system.

This is merely a tool that will enable the user to manage his bandwidth better.

What do you think?

 

[doekvoet]

I think I follow what Kaspaas is saying. I for a long time have been thinking about the idea of being able to manually myself toggle between a "512k" service (as Telkom tries to sell ADSL as) and a slower service, say the same speeds as dial-up (not this un-usable service whch one receives when capped). On the slower service there should be no cap. One can then only use the "fast ADSL" service when downloading big files etc, and the slower uncapped service for normal browsing, emails etc. Surely this should be technically possible.

 

[grahambell]

Surely, the answer is to pressure (convince) Telkom to purchase equipment to be able to indentify international traffic?
As they have put the Cap on it is not unreasonable to expect them to administer it fairly
This could be at least one point that Telkom could acceed to without appearing to "give in to our demands"

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[Quazzi]

Very good suggestions. How about this to add on - We 'cap' ourselves when we want to use local bandwidth, and 'uncap' ourselves when we wish to use international access. That way, we distinguish between local and international access - just remember not to surf locally when you 'uncap' yourself

 

[kaspaas]

After reading RMP's request for advise on strategy, I realise that my suggestion is an interim solution until Telkom gets its bandwidth accounting sorted out to enable them to measure local and international seperately.

It bugs me that I can measure the bandwidth consumption of my freeware Linux server without any problems with freeware, and Telkom can't measure International Bandwidth on its own in spite of having thousands of staff, plenty of well paid IT specialists and financial resources I can only dream of.

 

[ASF]

Well put kaspaas...