Ok, can someone PLEASE explain this new capping system?

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In Decemeber I managed 40GB before going off to London for the rest of the month/year without being capped. When I returned I heard that that capping strategy was still in place, yet I only managed 4 gigs this month before being capped today. Luckily I have 3 accounts. How exactly does this system work? How predictable is it?

In my understanding, I am being grouped with a lot of other users, and when our collective download average reaches 3gb, we'll all be capped, correct? What about if I've only downloaded 1gb and a lot of greedy users abuse it, will I be affected negatively that way too?
 
Telkom plays God, in theory if you have 3 x 3 gig accounts you are only allowed 9 gigs traffic total (3 gigs per account, check your terms+conditions on your contract).
That is effectively what you pay for, no more. It might be expensive but those are the terms.
Once you have exceeded one of those limits on a account (i.e 3.000000001 gig) then Telkom have the right to bust a cap in your ass anytime they feel like it.
Not to hard to understand. You will always have the bandwidth available that you have paid for, no matter what the other users do or dont do.
 
But if I had one account, then I would be in the pooled system and thus able to download more than 3, even 9 gigs? In Decemember I managed far more than 3 on one account though...
 
Whether you get pooled into a group or not, you have 1 x 3 gig account, thats what you pay for, thats what you are allowed to use.
If your isp sees clear to let you use 40 gigs one month then bonus, but you cant question them not allowing the same practice every month.
If you ever end up where you are capped below 3 gigs on the 3 gig account then you can scream blue murder.
Bottom line is they try and manage the bandwidth that they have at their disposal, so if some people use less, they can either save money and purchase less bandwidth or pass on the unused bandwidth to users that require more, its at their own discretion.
Its predictable sure, I predict that more and more isp's are going to be enforcing the cap closer to the mark as its an expensive excercise if they get it wrong.
 
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So if I cancelled my other 2 accounts, there'd be more of a chance of me getting over 9GB a month from their pooled system?

Or is it possible that the second account I'm using now, may be pooled with others and thus remain uncapped far over 3GB? Or is the fact that I have 3 accounts the be all and end all of how much bandwidth I can use a month?
 
Nooit dude.
The fact that you might have 1, 3, 10 or a 100 accounts makes no difference whatsoever. They all have different usernames I would assume.
Its entirely up to your ISP when they do and dont cap a specific account after you have exceeded the amount of bandwidth that you have paid for on it.

All you will ever know for certain is that once you have used more than what was paid for, you can be legally disconnected at anytime, no bitching.
There is no way around it and it is now totally under the control of the isp themselves.
 
Last month was December - 90% of business was closed at 15th - leaving tons and tons of bandwidth unused.
You'll have to take your queue from this month onwards as to how it really works cos december is a lekker exception.
I doubt that teklom group individual exchanges - it just seems like too much work. They'll group on a global level methinks.
 
@Vamp - who's your ISP? They all have different strategies.
 
Telkom...In December I managed 40, it seems that no one this month has been capped yet either...I feel so left out.
 
My guess is that they're randomly capping the high end users. See how you fare with one of your other accounts.
 
It's luck of the draw now,I try stick to what my masters give me though,don't want to ruffle any feathers...
:rolleyes:
 
Cybersmart vs MrBEEP

Look R100 for 3GB on a 192 is a good deal. But what i don't understand is that to top up another 3GB costs R165. so its better just to take out another account and get 6GB for R200 than 6GB for R265.

That doesn't make any sense.

Thats why I'd go with MrBeep's lastest special, I think he is offering 2GB IS / 28GB local and then 192KB/s international proxy for R220 odd.

So at the end of the day, it boils down to what you actually plane to do with your line.

These days is seems that IS and SAIX are much or a muchness
 
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Telkom...In December I managed 40, it seems that no one this month has been capped yet either...I feel so left out.
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many people have been capped apparently this month
 
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