Help in explaining cap and broadband usage

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Please anybody explain to me how the international/local cap works. I have searched other forums and even tried telkom but all answers'explanations are confusing. I have a 1gig adsl line with telkom as ISP.

I understand that broadband gets loaded the 1st of a month and is not carried over. Also that if I have reached my cap then I can surf only local sites and up/download from. That is about it.

What I need to understand is the International/Local issue.

If I have not reached my cap yet and I up/download from a local site does that gets added to my international usage or not.

How much can I up/download from local sites?

Is there possibly a sort of a "user manual" available somewhere that will fully explain this (to me) vague and confusing concept?

All help will be highly appreciated. If I get enough meaningful information I will gladly compile an user manual in ebook format (.pdf)and make it available for free to all interested persons.

So please if you would send me all relevant info or links where this info might be avalable. Also possibly QandA that can be included (I have noticed some in this forum)

Thanks - I owe you
 
thats something i am also wondering about so lets hope someone can explain it to us.
 
Int & Local Cap

I've got capped since yesterday on a Telkom 3GB.
I've used 3.6GB of this around 1 GB Int the rest is
local. Telkom is calling it Blended. But I'm now on
partly local, since I can access a few local sites only
Email and Banking ,so it does not matter if you use Int
or Local, once you reached the cap youre off.
 
I was also capped yesterday. According to the tit-racker site I'm 3.8GB and 100mb local.

Think I"ll just download a few local linux isos to get my money's worth....damn Telkom!

Currently is works as follows: You counter clears 00:00 on the 1st of the month (or very close to that time). All your downloads (local and int) count towards your cap.

Once your capped you can only access local sites (this is still in trial phase - you can access as much local stuff as you want, eventually they will be charging us per GB)
 
i have a 3g cap and am just over that amount does this mean i can talk on this forum still for awhile or will my internet shut down soon. i have never seen anything on the usage tracker that mentions local usage or whatever.
 
If your over your limit your int usage could be shut down at any time. Currently you can visit any local site while your capped until Telkom decide to screw us even further and stop it (ie local is free after your capped)

I'm capped and can still visit myadsl, news24 etc etc
 
Further to my starter thread (Raycomp)

See how confused I am! See my start thread. I've been capped on the 28th. My usage as seen on https://secure.telkomsa.net/titracker/ as follows

Blended Usage for December
Uploaded 187.8047 MB
Downloaded 837.7876 MB
Combined Total 1.0016 GB
TopUp Purchased for December 0 GB
Blended Current Active Sessions
No Blended Active Sessions


Local Usage for December
Uploaded 19.7675 MB
Downloaded 464.9553 MB
Combined Total 484.7228 MB
TopUp Purchased for December 0

Now I've been able to visit ALL local sites and downloaded some movies/series from a local news.net site as shown in my local usage for December as above. Unable however to visit any international sites but are still downling a series from this new.net site.
 
This is how I understand it to work, let's use your 1GB account as the example.

Your 1GB get refreshed on the 1st day of every month like you said. You can browse any site, both local and international but they BOTH count towards your "blended" usage for the month. Once your "blended" usage hits 1GB (sometimes users report getting more than a GB, sometimes they're capped immediately once they reach 1GB) then the "uncapped" local kicks in. You can now use your capped account for local access only. AFAIK, the uncapped local is free for now.
 
Capped now Uncapped

Yesterday I've got capped this morning I received the Email confirmation that I'm on local only. This morning
still the same. But I logged off and around 3 hrs ago I logged in again. I see I'm not capped anymore so what
now. Telkom my userstats are still the same Funny ways how Telkom works
 
It seems there is quite some confusion on this, and this is on the Telkom side of things.

Some people got capped after 3Gb;
Others (myself included) got capped internationally, but I have yet to reach the end of my local cap (pushing hard to see what it is);
A few lucky ones still have the soft cap and get to over 6Gb on a 3Gb account, lucky swine.....
 
Since nobody really seems to want to take the time to explain this i'll give it ONE LAST TRY...

TI (telkom internet) sells adsl bandwidth, they sell these accs in 1/2/3gb packages. These come with a set amount of data e.g. 1/2/3gb as stated above. BOTH local + international count towards your initial cap , e.g. if you are on a 3gb acc and you do 2gb int/1gb local - YOU ARE CAPPED.

Now heres the catch22, telkom are at the moment trialing uncapped local access, TELKOM ONLY...

So once that initial 1/2/3gb cap has been reached you then have access to uncapped local, international wont work but only local, note .co.za doesnt mean local it can still be hosted internatioanlly. So until telkom inform you otherwise and state what they are going to charge you rand/gig wise for that uncapped local download all you want locally.

J
 
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