Holy crap! Caps are flying and I ain't doing all that much extreme stuff...

[bwana]

TELKOM is trying to avoid losing cash to IP driven voice solutions. Its main cash cow is analogue voice. Why give people high bit caps at an affordable price when you know it will negatively impact on your per minute/second billed analogue voice business?

I've got a machine dedicated to skype - it's got a 1gb payg account that it uses for the sole purpose of skype. Makes life that much simpler.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Lol

THATS scary.... i promise even if i had a 10mbit line i would not be able to use that amount in a month.yes i know Torrents are lekker and all but after awhile what else can you download.and if you could download that much when the hell do you have time to burn and organize the tons you download.

Ive had 384 for a month now and im so unorganized its crazy.my folders are messy as im always surfing and downloading.id be doomed if i had uncapped

If I were uncapped, I wouldn't download and hoard so much carp - I would use the internet as one big hard drive.

 

[pupa]

If I were uncapped, I wouldn't download and hoard so much carp - I would use the internet as one big hard drive.

Problem is that some programs or data is there today, Gone tomorrow! There is many info pieces and software I cannot find because sites closed down, changed or they cleared the archives!

 

[nuyork]

It doesn't mean because people are using up their bandwidth that they are downloading illegal stuff

One Vista beta and it's gone.

My friend builds a couple of PC's a week. Each machine has to be 100% up to date before it's delivered to the customer. Couple of PC's per week doing Windows update x a month .... a lots of bandwidth.

Steam updates ....

Half Life 2 Episode 1 purchased online ...

You get the picture

Tell your friend to use AutoPatcher - http://www.autopatcher.com/

It's updated every month and has all the patches that have been released since the last service pack.

Much easier and faster if you're doing constant rebuilds and installs.

:L:

 

[Nocturnity]

I'm with Antowan on this one. You should not need to justify high bandwidth usage! The rest of the world is going digital and South Africa is left behind in the analogue era while the ministers drive their R3 000 000 Mercs and the deputy president gets accused of fraud and the next deputy spends R900 000 on a little holiday and Telkom makes a few billion rand profit. country is filled with opportunities but to take them you have to be willing to work with an arse-over-head mentality. In South Africa, exploitation = profit. Simple as that.

As for easy ways to waste your "huge" 3GB cap... SABC TV is a joke. They only air rubbish and movies from before my grandmother was born. DSTV has no interesting channels anymore and what used to be interesting now only airs re-runs of the same old junk. What do I do? I go to TV.com and watch the episodes after they've aired in the states. I have no more use for a TV as my entire entertainment system is PC driven and a PC and projector is all I need. I would rather pay for the 3/4 show a week that I actually watch than get 100+ shows for free that mean absolutely nothing to me.

Is my response a little harsh maybe? Deal with it! Welcome to Africa!

 

[evilsee]

download dvd legally

heres another reason why we need uncapped adsl:

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...TRIDST_0_MEDIA-CINEMANOW.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

can you imagine trying to download say a 4.7 gig file with a cap, so on the current 3 gigs you could almost get a whole dvd that you paid for legally.

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[=ChaosTheory=]

I got my ADSL for work purposes, and 3 GB isn't enough by a long shot. I am a self-employed (work from home) database and web designer. Due to the outrageous local pricing system, all my websites and databases are hosted overseas. I spend a fair bit of time uploading files, making changes to database structures, doing data entry, testing systems etc etc... and I also spend a fair bit of time downloading software/help files/ebooks on new development techniques etc etc. 3GB is not much under those circumstances.

In short, the 3GB cap limits my productivity.

 

[bwana]

heres another reason why we need uncapped adsl:

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...TRIDST_0_MEDIA-CINEMANOW.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

can you imagine trying to download say a 4.7 gig file with a cap, so on the current 3 gigs you could almost get a whole dvd that you paid for legally.

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Even an iTunes Store movie is over 2gb.

 

[kilo39]

TELKOM is trying to avoid losing cash to IP driven voice solutions. Its main cash cow is analogue voice. Why give people high bit caps at an affordable price when you know it will negatively impact on your per minute/second billed analogue voice business?

If telkoms voice services were reasonably priced (in line with world practise) - then there would be millions more installed telephones - and the threat by VOIP would be less - profits would remain the same.

But because - legislation, business practise is brain dead our monopolies do not run this model (more is better.) (They run the Less is Better model.)

 

[Antonio]

I must say If I, and probably most SA internet users who complain about caps, didnt download illegal stuff or music videos id hardly ever be hitting my 3 gig cap.

I know people are going to give some stupid examples like Linux distros and streaming radio and video everyday as reasons for uncapped etc.. But these apply to very few people, and those who can complain about caps really restricting them besides in downloading from P2P or illegally are too just not catered for, and that isnt really a crime.

So anyway, what are you doing that need several accounts antowan?

I'm a bit confused by your posts but I don't do p2p AT ALL and I 'burn' couple of 3 Gig accounts every month - 4 last month and 6 this month by doing exactly the same. I'm aware of the fact that people like me are very few but you should be aware of the fact that MANY businesses are crippled because of the caps.

My business is 100% online I can't really grow it in a place where
there's no broadband e.g. South Africa. So I'm taking the easy way out - I'm moving overseas in two months time. I wish I had 100 lives so I can waste one to wait for SA to get broadband but I don't.

 

[davidrexcampos]

I subscribe to alot of podcasts

I used to think like you that I'de never use all that bandwidth .

guesse what !!I've had my adsl for 2 weeks and I need more ...

I subscribe on Itunes to a few daily podcasts .which is legal and free.
just the podcasts alone I've subscribed to use around 350 mb a day , and I'm subscribing to more all the time ..

we will always want more / faster / bigger / smaller etc..

 

[bwana]

I used to think like you that I'de never use all that bandwidth .

guesse what !!I've had my adsl for 2 weeks and I need more ...

I subscribe on Itunes to a few daily podcasts .which is legal and free.
just the podcasts alone I've subscribed to use around 350 mb a day , and I'm subscribing to more all the time ..

we will always want more / faster / bigger / smaller etc..

I think we just want what most countries have - decent ADSL. You wouldnt think it would be too much to ask but it seems to be.

I wonder if we could afford to bribe ICASA?

 

[bullfrog]

Maybe we could afford to bribe them if we didn't have to put up with the cost of adsl in this country