New LTE AUP from September 2016

[Saba'a]

Do u have the huawei app on phone? Just choose the sms button and send blank sms to 188 with no * or #

 

[Kawak]

Thanks

So here are my usage

Hello!You have used 347685 MB of your inclusive SmartBroadband Uncapped Wireless service.

Hello!You have used 769 MB of your P2P FUP bundle

No idea how to get July, I suppose these are August figures, now is 350gb excessive? I also only run downloads from seedbox (have Netflix but hate the fact that I must adhere to SA content while paying full price) after 12am and hardly stream during their evening peak but maybe gaming.

Will have to see.

 

[Telkom]

Thanks

So here are my usage

Hello!You have used 347685 MB of your inclusive SmartBroadband Uncapped Wireless service.

Hello!You have used 769 MB of your P2P FUP bundle

No idea how to get July, I suppose these are August figures, now is 350gb excessive? I also only run downloads from seedbox (have Netflix but hate the fact that I must adhere to SA content while paying full price) after 12am and hardly stream during their evening peak but maybe gaming.

Will have to see.

Hi,

PM your Telkom number , contactable number and email address, we will assist with July usage.

Regards,
Joshua

 

[jman]

Hi,

PM your Telkom number , contactable number and email address, we will assist with July usage.

Regards,
Joshua

Please comment on this FUP to be imposed

 

[mark353]

Hi,

PM your Telkom number , contactable number and email address, we will assist with July usage.

Regards,
Joshua

What about a comment on the topic at hand - the AUP? Can we be given clarity on what specifically is deemed "excessively high"? As you can see from the comments in this thread, usage between users is all over the place with some getting the underhanded warning and others not despite consuming far more data (NOT P2P - if I have 1 more Telkom rep repeat the P2P FUP to me...)

 

[RedhotNeo]

A colleague of mine received an e-mail from them regarding high usage (his was under 200gb) in July.

I wonder what their idea of 'excessive' is

Lol.. 50GB is considered excessive for telkom...

 

[blowdart18]

I use in excess of 500gb per month, probably used about 100gb for p2p but then again I am throttled in the evenings and only find my torrents downloaded when I get home from work. So this throttling is nothing new to me.

Still get to enjoy full streaming during the evenings.

 

[Saba'a]

I use in excess of 500gb per month, probably used about 100gb for p2p but then again I am throttled in the evenings and only find my torrents downloaded when I get home from work. So this throttling is nothing new to me.

Still get to enjoy full streaming during the evenings.

Issue is not p2p, its streaming. They want you to stream only one youtube or one netflix stream as they thought all tech geeks stay alone

 

[Azg]

Issue is not p2p, its streaming. They want you to stream only one youtube or one netflix stream as they thought all tech geeks stay alone

Get a separate LTE contract for each member of your family, that way Telkom won't complain

The problem is with speeds above 20Mbps you can get two or three family members streaming / Youtube and then the monthly usage adds up pretty quickly. It's easier for those staying alone.

 

[HapticSimian]

Here's a handy screenshot for if and when the proverbial pawpaw hits the fan:



The clincher is the first line of the second highlighted paragraph.

 

[Saba'a]

Get a separate LTE contract for each member of your family, that way Telkom won't complain

The problem is with speeds above 20Mbps you can get two or three family members streaming / Youtube and then the monthly usage adds up pretty quickly. It's easier for those staying alone.

Thats what Telkom is hoping for. Morons cant even manage a 150 user limit on a tower. Imagine managing a tower w.o. a cap on users.

Planning is clearly lacking.

 

[PhireSide]

As per Telkom screenshot:

For these you will never be capped AND throttled.

Does this mean they can throttle us but not cap us once we exceed their 'limit', or cap us but not throttle us whilst on the way to reaching the cap?:wtf:

Or am I taking the AND expression too literally?

 

[Saba'a]

Huh literal would mean they will never throttle or cap except for torrenting.

 

[RedhotNeo]

In a short time, it will be September.... New AUP..

Lets see what happens.. If i watch the complete season stranger things in 4K.. that would be over 100GB.. See if the AUP also includes streaming

 

[Fury05]

Sent a blank SMS to 188 few minutes ago, got this reply: Hello!You have 10240 MB of full speed Wi-Fi access remaining for this month. Usage only shows 1,2gb used. What the hell? Is this really what the new AUP implies? So you get 12gb for the month?

Edit: might have been tiredness kicking in. The 10gb relates to the wifi access. Got the mail of abuse last night and thought this might be related. Only do streaming and game downloads with minimal NNTP downloads after 12.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Sent a blank SMS to 188 few minutes ago, got this reply: Hello!You have 10240 MB of full speed Wi-Fi access remaining for this month. Usage only shows 1,2gb used. What the hell? Is this really what the new AUP implies? So you get 12gb for the month?

Edit: might have been tiredness kicking in. The 10gb relates to the wifi access. Got the mail of abuse last night and thought this might be related. Only do streaming and game downloads with minimal NNTP downloads after 12.

I dop think that the AUP will be around 100GB due to the p2p limit being 50GB, thats just my guess but now that the month has started we will see. Although yeah your sleep got you there.

 

[cavedog]

New AUP kicked in and by the looks of it p2p and nntp is permanently capped @ 4Mbps for 50Gb then 128k after that.....

 

[Gothan]

Yip the new aup seems to concentrate on torrents/p2p/nntp specifically. Which is not too bad. The rules does state 50gig

 

[ahf]

@Hellkom at its best. They really took us for a ride.

 

[Saba'a]

No one has disputed the torrenting cap/throttle.

We bought product to stream and not to torrent.