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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
Local FTP servers?
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Karnaugh
Banned
When were they ever planning on doing that?
bb_matt
Executive Member
I would have to be a bad rumour - a lot of businesses, behind the scenes, heavily rely on uncapped local bandwidth. The adoption of ADSL by business is way more widespread than home users. I know of companies sending large amounts data between offices in Jhb to offices in Durbs 24/7 via ADSL. Others rely on it mainly for email.
If a cap were introduced, it would have unpleasant repercussions for business.
If anything, Telkom could introduce a cheaper home service where local gets capped or charged out per meg after the cap is reached.
If a cap were introduced, it would have unpleasant repercussions for business.
If anything, Telkom could introduce a cheaper home service where local gets capped or charged out per meg after the cap is reached.
Karnaugh
Banned
Charged per meg (at a reasonable rate) would be an awesome thing to be honest - that way it is actualy fair and the idiots (see: p2p kids) can pay for the bandwidth they waste themselves.
bb_matt
Executive Member
Yeah - my reference to Telkom charging out per meg to home users was meant as the kind of practice Telkom find acceptable, not what the public would.
The idea behind broadband is services - streaming audio, VOIP, online gaming, fast business connections, video conferencing, video on demand - the list goes on.
We're effectively cut completely out that entire market due to a 3gig cap.
I worked out that if you wanted to listen to a decent quality audio stream - say 128kbps - your cap would be used up in under 3 days.
You are therefore limited to 2 hours 128kbps steam a day which would eat up your 3gig cap in a month before you did any other online activity.
That's just one small example of how we're locked out of the broadband revolution.
International Video conferencing over ADSL, for instance, is completely impossible. You could get away with a 128kbps steam, just about, but then we have the terrible latency to any overseas destination on TOP of the 3gig cap. You'd need under 150ms to have an effective video conference.
The idea behind broadband is services - streaming audio, VOIP, online gaming, fast business connections, video conferencing, video on demand - the list goes on.
We're effectively cut completely out that entire market due to a 3gig cap.
I worked out that if you wanted to listen to a decent quality audio stream - say 128kbps - your cap would be used up in under 3 days.
You are therefore limited to 2 hours 128kbps steam a day which would eat up your 3gig cap in a month before you did any other online activity.
That's just one small example of how we're locked out of the broadband revolution.
International Video conferencing over ADSL, for instance, is completely impossible. You could get away with a 128kbps steam, just about, but then we have the terrible latency to any overseas destination on TOP of the 3gig cap. You'd need under 150ms to have an effective video conference.
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