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SYN

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Hi there

I am interested in seeing how far 3gigs takes the average adsl user.
So.. once u are capped this month, please post the date and maybe ure usage ie. up & downloads here.

tnx
 
I can tell you about last month.

I had usage for 2 and half days - that's for international gaming as well as p2p downloads 24/7. When i was not playing i was downloading.

Is that not what adsl is for in the real world?
 
ADSL was supposed to be for doing stuff you couldn't do with a dial-up connection. Unfortunately it has not turned out that way in our lovely country.


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After being capped last month on the 19th, I will do my utmost not to be capped again. I couldn't even collect my e-mail. But I sent an e-mail to MWeb to ask if they had a usage counter yesterday. They replied no, but that I had used 44mb already. That is in 12 hours of use. And no P2P, no downloads. Merely websites and MSN messenger. How the hell are we supposed to work like this?
 
Rtaxerxes, my point exactly. How and WHY are we supposed to work like this. We have a wonderful 24/7 connection but we're not allowed to do anything with it except surf and get our email. It's absolutely crazy.


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Guys and Girls.

If you can, enable traffic logging on your routers, this will enable you to see who and what is using up your bandwidth. I got capped 6 days after startup, i enabled the log and soon noticed that the DNS server from telkom is killing me with DNS updates. The technician that installed my router inserted the wrong DNS entries, and therefore created DNS loops.
 
hows this..

I connected on 09H30 on 31 August 2003 (capped) and disconnected @ 01h15 am Monday morning 01 September 2003 using a total of 524 megs that day (all gaming) this has now been added to my September usage!!
So much for tryna strech it a bit further this month

Seems like no matter which way u turn Telkom is behind u with a big rubber .... arg never mind
 
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<br />hows this..

I connected on 09H30 on 31 August 2003 (capped) and disconnected @ 01h15 am Monday morning 01 September 2003 using a total of 524 megs that day (all gaming) this has now been added to my September usage!!
So much for tryna strech it a bit further this month
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Similar thing happened to me. See the topic I started here :http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=519

I'm in the process of emailing Telkom to see if something can be sorted out.
 
Capped today...yeah!! lasted 2 weeks longer this time[}:)]
 
mm... well, I think Telkom's forgotten about me - on the 17th I hit 80% - so I went ballistic - downloaded nearly 2 gigs on Kazaa, played CS every night, updated all my games through steam, plus normal usage for 4 machines, and, well, I'm not capped yet :)

Artagra
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Artagra</i>
<br />mm... well, I think Telkom's forgotten about me - on the 17th I hit 80% - so I went ballistic - downloaded nearly 2 gigs on Kazaa, played CS every night, updated all my games through steam, plus normal usage for 4 machines, and, well, I'm not capped yet :)

Artagra
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Shhhhhhhhhhh be careful, big bad Telkom is watching. Count your blessings mate :)


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Well, i use ADSL to do video chat(using web cam on MSN) with my wife in overseas.
And it uses my precious bandwidth about 100 MB combined per hour.
I wanna spend more time with my wife on video chat, but the bandwidth holding my ankle.
Now i have another account to overcome this, but it's just not enough.
 
100 MB and hour? Yikes. That certainly is heavy.


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yips - Video chat is killer. My bro chat's with his g/f in the states and it EATS up bandwidth ... but at least it looks like I can persaude him to pay for a second account :)

Artagra
 
This is really pathetic, I'm not capped (got +- 1Gig left) and my international sites take 10 mins to open - this is really unacceptable!!!!!! oh, look, now i'm getting :

Gateway Timeout
The following error occurred:
Code: 
 A gateway timeout occurred. The server is unreachable. Retry the request. 


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