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RoMark said:
You lost me in the first sentence. I don't know what put.io is, but I get what you say from there on. For me it is simple. If I can do up to about 350 - 400GB month I'm happy. I've never done 350GB, but I would like to have that safety for a 4Mbps line if I need it.

My Http speed needs for day hours are 100% legit. I'm not sure what the put.io does, but I assume it by passes P2P downloads? I already download P2P and Nttp from 00:00 - 06:00, so I don't have an issue with that.

So that is why I made my original statement regarding httpat line speed during business hours.

I am an honest user with a very active household with regards to downloads and gaming. By honest, I mean that I don't try to bypass or hide what I'm downloading.

My usage is close to 250GB per month, but I don't try to bypass anything and most of it is done in the ghost hours. The only streaming I do are YouTube clips and occasional SS games.

I understand what you are saying regarding expenses and buy into it.

All I'm saying is that I hope you guys have a profile where I can fit, without buying a super expensive business account.
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+1 This sums up my usage as well
 
Paul Hjul said:
which slasherjdc should never be on :)
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Depends what you classify as entry level? if its mweb then yes i agree, if its telkom......they actually wouldn't cut me off with my current usage.
Paul Hjul said:
if Telkom changed from Mbps to MB/s while keeping the pricing the same - we'd be very very happy -- as would our customers
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doesn't make a difference if they call it 1MB/s or 8mb/s that's why i didn't bother lifting shift key :P
also i'm never going 20mb/s uncapped so if you have a problem with my usage say so now, coz i have to starting looking for an alternative.
 
Actually 1 megabyte isn't exactly the same thing as 8 megabits .... but for practical purposes we can take byte and octet as synonymous ... :p

Entry level for us is a user who is focused on browsing type purposes ... We have very few entry level users at the moment
 
Paul Hjul said:
Actually 1 megabyte isn't exactly the same thing as 8 megabits .... but for practical purposes we can take byte and octet as synonymous ... :p

Entry level for us is a user who is focused on browsing type purposes ... We have very few entry level users at the moment
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if thats entry level then every isp is scamming the masses......even a heavy "browser" shouldnt ever reach 10gb....

(btw why dont spoiler tags work....damn bbcode.)
no.....lets break it down.....theres 1000 bytes in a kB, 1024 bytes in a KiB and 1024 bytes in a KB.
while we normally dont care about the 24kbits not found in a mB i did specifically say MB.
btw this is why OSX always gives weird results for file sizes as it measure storage in kB not KB(they obviously never got the memo)

i have enough trouble going through this giberish in my theoretically computer science module....if i didn't know that much i would have given up a long time and dropped out of uni lol
 
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we have a few - but would like a lot more
if every one of our customers brought us one light user we'd be most grateful :)
 
slasherjdc said:
if thats entry level then every isp is scamming the masses......even a heavy "browser" shouldnt ever reach 10gb....
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I wouldn't say every ISP is scamming the masses ...

there is also a dynamic concerning limited usage that is quite interesting as well - because of entry costs relating to access - in that mobile is cheaper on really low volume

O and the 1000 vs 1024 relates to SI issues - so kibi and kilo
what I am referring to is that a byte isn't necessarily 8 bits - an octet is 8 bits but a byte can be a different number of bits

so while a kibibyte pretty much will have 1024 bytes of 8 bits a kilobyte with 1000 bytes of 12 bits is quite possible
 
Paul Hjul said:
I wouldn't say every ISP is scamming the masses ...

there is also a dynamic concerning limited usage that is quite interesting as well - because of entry costs relating to access - in that mobile is cheaper on really low volume

O and the 1000 vs 1024 relates to SI issues - so kibi and kilo
what I am referring to is that a byte isn't necessarily 8 bits - an octet is 8 bits but a byte can be a different number of bits

so while a kibibyte pretty much will have 1024 bytes of 8 bits a kilobyte with 1000 bytes of 12 bits is quite possible
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it can also be 7 bits technically :P
on the other hand i just fact checked i was wrong....so there is 1000kB in a MB :/ also theres is <1000 KB is a MB(yes really).....what a fcked up system. i assumed that the acronym naming style for kilo/bi-bytes carried over the higher numbers :(

however there is still 8 mb in a MB :P

a byte can be whatever you want it to be but when talking data transfer 1MB/mB is always 8mbs
however 8kb is not 1KB....fck you IEC for making my life harder :P

By IEC standards semantics don't matter here.
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if were talking data transfer(which was heavily inferred when i said MB/s :P)


even is a situation where you have 12 bits per byte,programing for instance it is possible.......even if the program moves each of your 12bit Bytes every second you would be wrong if you said your program was moving data at 1 B/s
 
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something like that ....

the point though is that the provision is done on a bit basis - and it would be nice if we could have bitstream (at a decent price)

:D
 
Paul Hjul said:
something like that ....

the point though is that the provision is done on a bit basis - and it would be nice if we could have bitstream (at a decent price)

:D
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you cant change the definition of a gigabit regardless of how many bits they have per byte.....gigabits per second is always 1billion bits per second(doubt anyone cares though)
do all the IPC providers in the world use creative license on their definition of a gigabyte :P

.....is their like an unwritten rule that ISPs just have to deal with the BS?


(btw im not calling you out, im assuming your talking about what telkom gives you....also im assuming you mean what im talking about is bitstream.....[-]if not then please explain im not exactly sure what you mean by bitstream never heard that term before :([/-]ok wikipedia fixed that.)
 
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Paul Hjul said:
we have a few - but would like a lot more
if every one of our customers brought us one light user we'd be most grateful :)
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I would take you up on this offer in a heart beat, but there is no telkom infrastructure, nor will there be. So he has to resort to 3G of HSDPA at best.
 
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