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can some one in plain english plz explain what they mean when they talk about a shaped and unshaped service.. ???
 
From Telkom's ADSL site... This is THEIR explanation.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><b>Shaped</b>

To bring the difference between the two services in context, you can view this one as the entry level service of the two. It is shaped according to protocol and therefore provides the main priority to HTTP, which is the protocol assigned to most Internet websites. This service is therefore mainly designed for surfing the web and retrieving or sending email.

At the moment all international HTTP traffic is transparently cached for uncapped ADSL users. With this service all international un-cached data is shaped. The following un-cached protocols are prioritised on the network: HTTP (in certain cases HTTP is not cached due to website incompatibilities), HTTPS, FTP. Mail (POP3 and IMAP), SSH and TELNET. This means that protocols not mentioned above will receive a lower priority on the network.

<b>Unshaped</b>

This service will offer you unshaped international bandwidth and a higher data transfer rate than the shaped service. The unshaped service will not shape the un-cached protocols. All protocols will therefore share the available bandwidth equally. Similar to the current service local bandwidth will remain as is with no shaping implemented. Keeping this in mind this service was typically designed for a niche market including for example your typical Forex Trader, who uses unfamiliar protocols, which are not bandwidth exhaustive.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

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Is there an explanation in english ????

<i>Originally posted by Headend</i>
<br />From Telkom's ADSL site... This is THEIR explanation.

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It basically means that they give different priority to different types of network traffic. http (web pages), ftp (some downloads) and mail will always have an unfair advantage over kazaa or [insert_you_fav_p2p_app]


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koffiejunkie
 
If you modify a P2P prog to use mail ports it should work fine, no?

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - www.hellkom.co.za</font id="size1"></font id="navy">
 
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