Hello Forumites
The reason being thrown about for the revision of the cap implementation on the SAIX ADSL accounts is because some users are pulling the ring out of it, so to speak. Apparently, over 50% of the bandwidth is consumed by less than 10% of the user base - so things are obviously out of proportion. Now, I dont want to enter a debate as to whether Telkom should be telling you what you can do with your bandwidth, or how much bandwidth you should actually have. I think we need to come up with a solution for them as to how to address this. So I have been thinking about this : How about being throttled down as you use more and more bandwidth? For example - your First 3GB (or whatever) is at full speed. Bandwidth used between 3 and 10GB is throttled down to 256Kbps. Between 10GB and 20GB is throttled down to 128Kbps. 20Gb and over 64kbps. (Or any permeatation of this combo that would work for the average user).
An alternative could also be to only allow a fixed amount of p2p type traffic a month i.e. say 1 or 2GB for p2p then you get throttled to, say 8Kbps for the rest of the month.
So lets hear your opions, and ya can all tell me where the failure in my logic is
(bearing in mind that we need to be realistic!!!! We are not going to get cheap uncapped ADSL anytime soon).
We need to have some alternatives that we can throw in their face everytime we hear the "users pulling the ring out of it" story If we can provide feasible alternatives, it will make it a lot harder for them to implement such stupid things as hard capping!
Cheers ~
ScrnScrm
The reason being thrown about for the revision of the cap implementation on the SAIX ADSL accounts is because some users are pulling the ring out of it, so to speak. Apparently, over 50% of the bandwidth is consumed by less than 10% of the user base - so things are obviously out of proportion. Now, I dont want to enter a debate as to whether Telkom should be telling you what you can do with your bandwidth, or how much bandwidth you should actually have. I think we need to come up with a solution for them as to how to address this. So I have been thinking about this : How about being throttled down as you use more and more bandwidth? For example - your First 3GB (or whatever) is at full speed. Bandwidth used between 3 and 10GB is throttled down to 256Kbps. Between 10GB and 20GB is throttled down to 128Kbps. 20Gb and over 64kbps. (Or any permeatation of this combo that would work for the average user).
An alternative could also be to only allow a fixed amount of p2p type traffic a month i.e. say 1 or 2GB for p2p then you get throttled to, say 8Kbps for the rest of the month.
So lets hear your opions, and ya can all tell me where the failure in my logic is
(bearing in mind that we need to be realistic!!!! We are not going to get cheap uncapped ADSL anytime soon). We need to have some alternatives that we can throw in their face everytime we hear the "users pulling the ring out of it" story
If we can provide feasible alternatives, it will make it a lot harder for them to implement such stupid things as hard capping!Cheers ~
ScrnScrm
