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Question of the Day: If you were buying a TV today, which brand would you choose?
How many GB's would you settle for?
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general_koffi
Expert Member
30GB for R300.
Honestly, I'm so used to 384k that I could probably live with it. But faster is always better, assuming you aren't going to hit your cap in 2 hours of flat-out downloading.
Honestly, I'm so used to 384k that I could probably live with it. But faster is always better, assuming you aren't going to hit your cap in 2 hours of flat-out downloading.
[OUPA]MrNutz
Expert Member
i'd be happy for 3gb to be pushed up to at least 10gb if you look at the Ti threshold of 5-6gb they give us.
dualmeister
Honorary Master
Most people in the US don't have to worry about International as the stuff they download is Local to them.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
Highflyer_GP - I'm surprised at all the stuff that starts at the end of Sept. What are the yanks up to - I'm keeping tabs on heroes, house, boston legal, smallville, las vegas - all start on the last week!!
Thats when the fall season traditionally starts. Summer is over and the days are shorter so more people are parking in front of the idiot box.
Anyhow - I've come up with a figure - 100gb per month.
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
Uncapped 8MB for R300-R350 PM that makes it still a bit far off from everywhere else unless they throw in free phone calls, or better yet 100 odd tv channels!
gregmcc
Honorary Master
hehe - you have a better chance of falling pregnant!
Jonny Two Shoes
Expert Member
2cents a meg at 4mbit line all inclusive, no rental fee. Lets throw in a slightly different price structure that doesn't involve caps 
makes sense. Incrementally down to 1cent a meg if you are a big customer and therefor supporting the company more.
BTW it's strange how Telkom have not adopted that mindset?? People with big caps are given the middle finger rather than regarded as priority top paying customers. And don't give me that nonsense about our line capacity I think the restriction is causing more problems than solving especially during business hours as you take longer to get what you want and hog up the Internet for longer.
makes sense. Incrementally down to 1cent a meg if you are a big customer and therefor supporting the company more.BTW it's strange how Telkom have not adopted that mindset?? People with big caps are given the middle finger rather than regarded as priority top paying customers. And don't give me that nonsense about our line capacity
I think the restriction is causing more problems than solving especially during business hours as you take longer to get what you want and hog up the Internet for longer.In a perfect world, I would expect uncapped access. Would be happy to pay R350 per month all inclusive.
But because this is South Africa and we always seem to get the worst end of the stick, I would accept nothing less than 30GB international and uncapped local for no more than R250 per month all inclusive.
But because this is South Africa and we always seem to get the worst end of the stick, I would accept nothing less than 30GB international and uncapped local for no more than R250 per month all inclusive.
PearlJam
Expert Member
I would say 100gb with a line speed of 20mb would be nice.
At least we are better off than the americans living inland who still till today only have dialup (Dunno what the situation is with our smaller towns though)
At least we are better off than the americans living inland who still till today only have dialup (Dunno what the situation is with our smaller towns though)
I would be happy (for now) with the "DoBroadband 3" Package set-up for R554 (current price) however I would want 60gigs instead of the 3gigs and local to be say 60 gigs as well. Local and international must count separately (they say this will happen hopefully in November)
Most importantly, this must all be unshaped. Seriously, this shaping thing is almost the worst part of our internet. Who want's to watch a streaming video clip that stop-starts all the time. I get videos coming in at 35KB/sec sometimes. I have a 4meg line that is "CAPABLE?????" of doing around 425KB/sec. If you going to shape streaming video, at least give us 100KB/sec. Then the quality of VOIP. Then, for those of you who are gamers (I'm not really one of them) give them some decent Latency times. O well, that's my rant and rav
Most importantly, this must all be unshaped. Seriously, this shaping thing is almost the worst part of our internet. Who want's to watch a streaming video clip that stop-starts all the time. I get videos coming in at 35KB/sec sometimes. I have a 4meg line that is "CAPABLE?????" of doing around 425KB/sec. If you going to shape streaming video, at least give us 100KB/sec. Then the quality of VOIP. Then, for those of you who are gamers (I'm not really one of them) give them some decent Latency times. O well, that's my rant and rav
feo
Honorary Master
Seems like 20 is the bare minimum judging by the replies. How are we surviving on 2 and 3?! 
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Well anything over around 3-8 (Depends what you need) is for downloading really...
It's easy to survive, you just don't get to downloads lots of (big) stuff.
It's easy to survive, you just don't get to downloads lots of (big) stuff.
My dad was using my computer to watch Youtube videos of old bands he used to like. He clocked up 1 gig just watching Youtube that night. If he did that every night we would only be able to use the internet 3 to 8 nights of the month according to your quote above
The reason why I bring my dad into this is because he, like millions of other South Africans, doesn't realise just how limiting our CAP's are. So what I am trying to say is that it is not only the people that know how to download the "(big) stuff" that use a lot. O and I just said "a lot", it's a lot to us on a 3gig CAP, it is however, nothing to the rest of the world.
PS: I never got upset or anything with my dad for using a gig of my CAP. Why should I, he did nothing wrong. He (everyone) should be able to do those things and have fun doing it, not worry about being CAPPED all the time.
feo
Honorary Master
This is exactly how everyone should be thinking.My dad was using my computer to watch Youtube videos of old bands he used to like. He clocked up 1 gig just watching Youtube that night. If he did that every night we would only be able to use the internet 3 to 8 nights of the month according to your quote above
The reason why I bring my dad into this is because he, like millions of other South Africans, doesn't realise just how limiting our CAP's are. So what I am trying to say is that it is not only the people that know how to download the "(big) stuff" that use a lot. O and I just said "a lot", it's a lot to us on a 3gig CAP, it is however, nothing to the rest of the world.
PS: I never got upset or anything with my dad for using a gig of my CAP. Why should I, he did nothing wrong. He (everyone) should be able to do those things and have fun doing it, not worry about being CAPPED all the time.
We've had all this crap of single digit caps, local and international bandwidth split, sub 1Mb speeds for years now and people here believe it's the norm.
Trust me, if we magically had our caps raised from 3 to 30GB and 384Kb/s upgraded to 10Mb/s we'd all still be complaining because with a fast, decently high cap connection we'd actually begin to use the net the way it was meant to be used and 30GB would get eaten in no time.
Even if people don't use a lot each month, it's becoming more common for multiple PCs in a home to all connect to a single router and share the connection. And what about next gen consoles? The Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii all need a connection to the net (well, to enjoy it anyway) and these morons at Telkom still expect 3GBs to last?