P2P Programs

[ShadowSA]

How many of you use P2P programs and is it against the AUP of Sentech to use them. I mean with the "If you hog the bandwidth we'll put on a bigger bandwidth".

Will they at least warn you before doing something like that?


I bought the patch antenna from Broadband in Village walk today. So far not a huge improvement(22% -> 31%), but I havn't been able to fine tune it yet, waiting for somebody to help me (shout signal strength while I'm on the roof).

 

[guest2013-1]

Check the pings you get from FPS games with your signal above 30% please?

I rarely use P2P programs, but excessive downloading may get you into hot water. They said something like 3 gig a day or 1 gig (couldn't remember) is a rough guideline. Thats why I have the 512k package, I download as much as I want when I want without worrying if they're going to "bump me up" but, then I don't always download, I think in the last 16 days of april I haven't even gone above the 5 gig mark.

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

 

[gripen]

I'm sure they will warn you. Its just a nice request.. I dont think they have done this yet or even will do it.

If you keep to 2GB a day you should be fine. So if you have 128k dont even worry about it!

 

[Mean_Monster]

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Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
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Probably to Telkom....[]
remember the phrase that our cost are our cost "due to the high cost of international bandwith"[!]

 

[bb_matt]

With a 128k you've definately no problem exceeding bandwidth limits if it's 1gig a day - the absolute maximum you could get in a perfect world would be 1.3824 gig. In reality, if you d/l'd 24/7 you'd just about get 1gig.

I did a 2gig d/l of mandrake 10 community via bittorrent and it took about 70 hours total of stopping and starting etc.
On bittorrent I set the max upload rate to 2k per second and get an average d/l rate of 10k per second.

 

[kbentz]

me thinks sentech not too worried bout how much you download, coz when you get your new modem you will download 24/7 for the first 2 weeks .... and then get bored and then only download and surf when required which will not be more than your gig a day (exception to the the rule of coz is noone and his porn) well im bored already run out of cool thingies i dont have. so im just doing my mail now and following the motogp of course!!!!!

 

[Dean_Henstock]

I dont think they will be to strict on the Bandwith usage as this is there comeptitive edge agaisnt Telkom.

On a second note as more user sign up, it will load balance everyone and I am sure they have got the equipment to set low prioritys on P2P etc.

Keep Surfing

 

[nicroets]

They're also supposed to look at your usage pattern. The majority IS clients are corporates who consume very little off-peak capacity. So nobody can really complain if you use bandwidth that is in anycase worthless to them.

That's what's wrong with the 3 gig cap meganism. At 4 in the morning there a lot of bandwidth is going to waist.