Hardcapped finally?

[riggs_9mmp]

Sis

 

[bwana]

Can't wait till they just drop this crap and introduce a fixed cap at a sane level, 30 or 50GB or something. Screw the "broadband should not be capped" crap, unless you think our network and peering REALLY IS good enough to support 500GB / month per user.

What is the theoretical monthly (30 days) max on a 1024/256 line? Math isnt my strongest attribute.

Oh - and yeah - screw that broadband should be capped argument. Only a small fraction are going to downloading like maniacs. If the network cant support that then we might as well give up now.

 

[kobie]

Riggs, 'What I download/upload and what I do with it is my business '. Of course it is BUT Telkom have the right to monitor what you're downloading, browsing etc if it's on their bandwidth.

They do not monitor what you download:

Save as may be set out herein, we do not monitor the activity of accounts except for measurements of system utilization and billing records. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet community, if we become aware of inappropriate use of our service, we will respond appropriately

 

[Tomasz-London]

Assuming constant download @ 120KB/s
450MB/hour
5.27GB/day
158GB in 30 days.

In London I used to average 95KB/s in downloads on a 1 MBit line.
This included P2P, FTP and Web. No caps, no shaping.

 

[NameOfBeast]

What is the theoretical monthly (30 days) max on a 1024/256 line? Math isnt my strongest attribute.


I'm sure this has been done somewhere before, but lets do the calculation for downloads (one connection allowed):

1024Kb/sec = 1024000/8 = 128000 B/sec [8 bits to a byte] = 125 KB/sec [1024 bytes to a KB]

Let's be realistic, and say we get 80% of the advertised speed (which also makes the numbers come out nice and round

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....). We are then getting an effective 100KB/sec.

Assuming 100% uptime [i.e. the freaking Rosebank link stays up for a full day] we get:

100KB/sec*60sec/minute*60minute/hr*24hr/day = 8640000 KB/day= 8.2397 GB/day

[1024KB = 1MB; 1024MB = 1 GB --- computer scientists do not respect SI conventions, obviously]

*In a 31 day month [and that 100% up-time assumption again] you can therefore download about 255 GB per month.
*Similarly (details left to the reader) you can upload about 64 GB per month.

The chance of anyone with a life [i.e. someone not searching for worthwhile downloads 24/7] actually pulling in even a quarter of that amount seems unlikely [p2p people are allowed to disagree loudly, iccl].

Of course few people have 1024 connections, so multiply the above numbers by a factor of 0.5, 0.375 etc for these smaller pipes [what is the proportion in each category? Anyone know?]

 

[bwana]

Thanks Tomasz-London and NameOfBeast