New LTE AUP from September 2016

[Iceman360]

Hopefully they limited all the people that abuse this service.

 

[FlashSA]

OK, anyone who has maxed their 50GB FUP - were you throttled for the rest of the month or not (my thinking: maybe they have not been strict with P2P capping and now they will be)?

 

[willsotaku]

OK, anyone who has maxed their 50GB FUP - were you throttled for the rest of the month or not (my thinking: maybe they have not been strict with P2P capping and now they will be)?

Reached my P2P Cap today but no throttling it only slows down from 6-12 from what i can see

 

[FlashSA]

Reached my P2P Cap today but no throttling it only slows down from 6-12 from what i can see

Let's wait for others who have hit 50GB to confirm, but I really feel this is where the SMS is pointing to - proper throttling of P2P once over 50GB. They would not throttle HTTP, email etc etc as there would be a sh$tstorm. They are also still offering new sign-ups for R799 so why now kill the shine of the product with a global cap.

 

[KaMoS]

Hopefully they limited all the people that abuse this service.

Please define abuse? 100GB, 200GB, 500GB p/m? It's subjective. I stream supersport, one rugby game is approx 3GB. If I watch sports all day, I can easily hit 20GB, that's besides the rest of my family streaming youtube, twitch, etc. So now you tell me, is that abuse?

 

[HapticSimian]

OK, anyone who has maxed their 50GB FUP - were you throttled for the rest of the month or not (my thinking: maybe they have not been strict with P2P capping and now they will be)?

That would be my assumption too, had only people with high p2p usage been sent the message. As things stand who they chose to send the message to seems completely random. The preliminary lesson here is that Telkom's ability to communicate its intention is comically inept. The irony isn't lost on me.

 

[Saba'a]

OK, anyone who has maxed their 50GB FUP - were you throttled for the rest of the month or not (my thinking: maybe they have not been strict with P2P capping and now they will be)?

Always throttled it but didnt bother me as not really into p2p anymore as streaming netflix and youtube works.

 

[Saba'a]

Please define abuse? 100GB, 200GB, 500GB p/m? It's subjective. I stream supersport, one rugby game is approx 3GB. If I watch sports all day, I can easily hit 20GB, that's besides the rest of my family streaming youtube, twitch, etc. So now you tell me, is that abuse?

Agree. No abuse simply using product on a daily basis as intended - streaming by 3 - 4 people of youtube twitch netflix with me on radio streaming service or social media.
P2p limited to books and few odd video files. Thus my surprise p2p on 30 plus gb.

 

[Dipro]

Please define abuse? 100GB, 200GB, 500GB p/m? It's subjective. I stream supersport, one rugby game is approx 3GB. If I watch sports all day, I can easily hit 20GB, that's besides the rest of my family streaming youtube, twitch, etc. So now you tell me, is that abuse?

Exactly.... Netflix is extremely data hungry and will use all the bandwidth it is given... that can easily account for 6GB a night for me, easily.... and that is just the one streaming service that I use. They need to answer these questions and god help them if they nail the 100% legal streamers.

 

[Iceman360]

Please define abuse? 100GB, 200GB, 500GB p/m? It's subjective. I stream supersport, one rugby game is approx 3GB. If I watch sports all day, I can easily hit 20GB, that's besides the rest of my family streaming youtube, twitch, etc. So now you tell me, is that abuse?

Using a seedbox for p2p.

 

[SeaSickMama]

They were probably hoping that people would still want to p2p and that, after your 50gb was used then it would be all basic browsing for the rest of the month. But now that these legal options have come about such as netflix and people using twitch etc alot its probably hit them as now all the usage is going there and its way more as more people have learnt that streaming is easier and every TV supports it well almost all of them. Even Dstv streaming on that behalf its probably way more than p2p would be in a whole month if you compared the two.

 

[Wahlburg]

I also got the love-letter SMS.

85GB usage so far this month (thanks, Olympics!); average of around 200GB per month. Have never used P2P on this product; but we do plenty of streaming and a fair share of downloading, though.

This is rather unfortunate since I'm halfway through my contract and wouldn't have expected the terms to suddenly change on such short notice.

I've also been badly affected in the past (for a month or two) by their on-peak congestion issues, and while it's been fine for a while, I especially avoid heavy use between 6pm and 9pm for fear of contributing: so I'm not sure what the criteria are for being warned like we were.

I have a love-hate relationship with this Uncapped product, to be honest. It's not all that reliable, speeds fluctuate quite heavily throughout the day and while my personal Telkom experiences have been mostly good, I'm not sure I'd consider them a great service provider overall.

Fibre infrastructure is live in my area now via other providers: a few hundred bucks extra per month for double the average downstream speed and ten times the upstream speed (ie 100Mbps down, 50Mbps up on Fibre) is seeming appealing suddenly.

I'll see next month. If my general download and streaming performance is deliberately throttled by this new AUP, I'm calling it quits.

 

[Saba'a]

Yep if throttled or capped the product becomes pointless for me. But will not accept false advertising.

 

[SykomantiS]

OK, anyone who has maxed their 50GB FUP - were you throttled for the rest of the month or not (my thinking: maybe they have not been strict with P2P capping and now they will be)?

Yes, I maxed mine last month, P2P got throttled into the ground, everything else worked 100%

 

[blowdart18]

Yes, I maxed mine last month, P2P got throttled into the ground, everything else worked 100%

During the night it would crawl but funny enough whenever I got home from work all my stuff would be downloaded.

 

[Saba'a]

During the night it would crawl but funny enough whenever I got home from work all my stuff would be downloaded.

Because it was throttled only during peak time.

 

[RVR]

Even if they do set a limit of around 500GB (which I don't think they would, It might be lower) wouldn't one be able to take legal action due to the fact that they stated it's UNCAPPED and only capped at 50gb p2p... I mean that's why most of us took this deal especially on the fact that its a 24month contract because it stated uncapped.... And I would never do contracts when it comes to any internet deal however this looked worth it until now.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Even if they do set a limit of around 500GB (which I don't think they would, It might be lower) wouldn't one be able to take legal action due to the fact that they stated it's UNCAPPED and only capped at 50gb p2p... I mean that's why most of us took this deal especially on the fact that its a 24month contract because it stated uncapped.... And I would never do contracts when it comes to any internet deal however this looked worth it until now.

I would have no idea only time will tell and once they start taking action on people those that have the resources I hope they will go after telkom due to what the advertised product said

 

[furpile]

Even if they do set a limit of around 500GB (which I don't think they would, It might be lower) wouldn't one be able to take legal action due to the fact that they stated it's UNCAPPED and only capped at 50gb p2p... I mean that's why most of us took this deal especially on the fact that its a 24month contract because it stated uncapped.... And I would never do contracts when it comes to any internet deal however this looked worth it until now.

This has been before the ASA? (I think) before, and the ruling was that uncapped does not mean unlimited. So they are allowed to throttle you at a certain point and still call it uncapped, as long as they don't cut you off. UNLIMITED is the one want.

 

[ajules]

Assuming they do start shaping all protocols from next month, I wonder if it's got anything to do with users finding a work around to the 50GB P2P limit?