IMPORTANT: Telkom usage tracker

Hi Hans

Thank you for involving MyADSL members in the decision making process regarding bandwidth measuring. I think this is definitely a step in the right direction to bring users and Telkom together to ensure an ADSL service which suits both party’s interests.

Most of the users that votes were in favor of option 2: “Telkom has configured a second option, which is based on the measurement at the start of a session. With this method the usage will be reflected on the day the session was started and not as part of the following day if the session ends after midnight. All usage of sessions open over midnight will only be reflected and added to the applicable day in which the session was started, 2 days later. This means that the entry for day one will display a different value on day 3. However all usage will be accounted for on the day of usage”. Of the votes cast, 82% selected option 2 while 18% thought option 1 was the better choice. It should be noted that many members that voted were of the opinion that the third option or a more specialized measuring service will be beneficial to ADSL users. We are eagerly awaiting the implementation of these more advances measuring services.

Thanks again for trying to improve the service to suit user’s needs.

Regards,

Rudolph Muller
MyADSL
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mithrandi</i>
<br />Well, you can always schedule your own disconnect just before midnight; we do this to avoid IP address changes/disconnections during the day. But clearly option two is far preferable to option one.

mithrandi
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Please help with this one mithrandi - how do I schedule a disconnect? I use a marconi USB modem an run Win2000Profesional. I would love to schedule a forced disconnect just before midnight
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Please help with this one mithrandi - how do I schedule a disconnect? I use a marconi USB modem an run Win2000Profesional. I would love to schedule a forced disconnect just before midnight
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You could use our Telkom ADSL Router Utility but it's only for the Ethernet Marconi.

Get it here: ftp://ftp.biometrics.co.za/Miscellaneous/Biometrics.co.za_Telkom_ADSL_Router_Restart_1.0B.EXE
 
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Please help with this one mithrandi - how do I schedule a disconnect? I use a marconi USB modem an run Win2000Profesional. I would love to schedule a forced disconnect just before midnight


The easiest way is to buy an old fashioned time switch plug - they are R50 at my local P&P. Then you switch of the power to you modem.



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There is sodtware out there just go to google and search for it , EG: internt dissconecting software and so on , i am shure the are houndereds of progies out there
 
i'm sorry, but I don't see why I should have to resort to such things as having to disconnect my connection before midnight to accomodate telkom. They sell me 3gb of usage per month, if they carry any of it across to a new month then they are knowingly breaching the contract.

If telkom cannot give accurate figures of usage then they should not be allowed to enforce a cap - plain and simple!
 
HHUUHH?! Yesterday I looked at my usage tracker volumes on http://adsl.telkomsa.net, and it showed something like just over 1Gb of combined 'up and down' volume for the month of January - this morning it shows 614Mb!! Mind you, not that I'm complaining (what's to complain if they can't count before I get capped - hehe), but it certainly shows the need for one to use another tracking mechanism, and not Telkom's useless offering...
 
Yes, mine has decreased as well - but I had logged a call with Telkom about the large difference in results from their online usage tracker as apposed to the daily emails I get. So I thought they had fixed their mistake. Although the online usage tracker still states that I've used about 200MB more than the emails. Strange...but true.


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