So what does Telkom do when they start running out of bandwidth - choke down service - surprise!
Somewhere along the line someone said Telkom does not know what they're doing - I reckon they know exactly what they are doing.
For instance, we know they are masters of shaping service. Prioritise http and e-mail - drop gaming channel priorities - all as advertised on shaped services.
But if you are hooking in through a particularly overloaded exchange - how about shaping the service against certain hosting servers? Is that ethical?
I couldn't believe it, but the evidence is pointing that way. I get faster speeds using my cellphone as modem over GPRS than I get on my business 512ADSL line when trying to view IS hosted sites.
Posted a thread on it here. The full story is here.
Don't know which is worse - a general slowdown or a virtual denial of service to specific sites. On my 512ADSL I get about 24kBp/s - if I downgrade to say 384 will I still get 24kB/s or will it drop to 16kB/s?
Doesn't seem like I'll get the answer from Telkom.
Somewhere along the line someone said Telkom does not know what they're doing - I reckon they know exactly what they are doing.
For instance, we know they are masters of shaping service. Prioritise http and e-mail - drop gaming channel priorities - all as advertised on shaped services.
But if you are hooking in through a particularly overloaded exchange - how about shaping the service against certain hosting servers? Is that ethical?
I couldn't believe it, but the evidence is pointing that way. I get faster speeds using my cellphone as modem over GPRS than I get on my business 512ADSL line when trying to view IS hosted sites.
Posted a thread on it here. The full story is here.
Don't know which is worse - a general slowdown or a virtual denial of service to specific sites. On my 512ADSL I get about 24kBp/s - if I downgrade to say 384 will I still get 24kB/s or will it drop to 16kB/s?
Doesn't seem like I'll get the answer from Telkom.
