R700 384kbps uncapped yah or nah???

I'll be happy with 60 gigs a month at the current price. But would be great if they would then just throttle the lines to cater for normal browsing, emails instead of hard capping.

thanks for the replies.
 
Xbox 360 Agent Weed said:
I'll be happy with 60 gigs a month at the current price. But would be great if they would then just throttle the lines to cater for normal browsing, emails instead of hard capping.

thanks for the replies.
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I think the bottom line is if you don't abuse the offer of uncapped the status quo will pretty much stay the same. I may be wrong though so if anything changes re pricing please let us know...
 
I think if they had everyone on uncapped they might see how sustainable it is. The average person won't come close to using 30gb per month. (It is quite a nice round number though and I would love to get 30gb pm at a reasonable price.)

Thing is that probably due to the starvation factor and wanting to get the most for the buck, people who get uncapped are going to go crazy. Others have said it and I also think that people would get bored and their usage level out after a while.
 
sandmanm34 said:
I think the bottom line is if you don't abuse the offer of uncapped the status quo will pretty much stay the same. I may be wrong though so if anything changes re pricing please let us know...
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What exactly constitutes abusing the line??

You paid for 384K uncapped ... whether you use 1Gb or 90Gb per month it shouldn't matter.
 
bmchunu said:
What exactly constitutes abusing the line??

You paid for 384K uncapped ... whether you use 1Gb or 90Gb per month it shouldn't matter.
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Agreed, it shouldn't but the business model these guys use is based on a net average usage of 40gigs or less (I'm estimating).

Any usage greater than that and the package is not financially viable and they pull it or put the price up.

The general public wouldn't use more than 10gig a month but tech savvy and bandwidth starved forumites on myBB will take the full capacity IE 90gig+ rendering the offer hugely unprofitable for the ISP...
 
sandmanm34 said:
Agreed, it shouldn't but the business model these guys use is based on a net average usage of 40gigs or less (I'm estimating).

Any usage greater than that and the package is not financially viable and they pull it or put the price up.

The general public wouldn't use more than 10gig a month but tech savvy and bandwidth starved forumites on myBB will take the full capacity IE 90gig+ rendering the offer hugely unprofitable for the ISP...
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Not exactly.

ISPs purchase a "bandwidth pipe" to resell and NOT a selective amount of gigs which means uncapped providers don't actually care how much you download, it's how much you download over a set period of time. It's the simultaneously used bandwidth that chokes the service. (That is 20mb pipe divided by x amount of users if all users fully use the pipe at once things go shoddy)

So really the issue here is how much utilization of the available bandwidth they've provisioned for and not even remotely the amount one downloads. This is one of the reasons why Digichilli has had so many issues as the majority of 4mb line holders have reached speeds far beyond the 256kb package's aim.
 
Why would anyone pay R700 for a 384kbs account when for R300 more they can get an axxess express account 384 during day and 4mbs at night?????
 
I say best solution for this thread:

R10 p/GB topup . Done.

Do the calculations, it will be better than "uncapped" , because if i use 30GB, i pay R300, if i use 70GB* i pay R700 vs. -always- paying R700 .

And then they might even lift the speed restriction too...so if you download 30GB @ 4 mbit/s you still pay R300, if you download 300GB, well then it's R3,000 for you (which is right about what a 4 mbit/s uncapped account would cost).

*Assume 70GB is the practical max you will get out of a 384 kbps line if you were to download 24-7 at an acceptable speed. Theoretical max would be more, but we know it's not really attainable (you are going to get slowdowns and you are going to stop a download to browse or to search or something).
 
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Basjohn said:
Not exactly.

ISPs purchase a "bandwidth pipe" to resell and NOT a selective amount of gigs which means uncapped providers don't actually care how much you download, it's how much you download over a set period of time. It's the simultaneously used bandwidth that chokes the service. (That is 20mb pipe divided by x amount of users if all users fully use the pipe at once things go shoddy)

So really the issue here is how much utilization of the available bandwidth they've provisioned for and not even remotely the amount one downloads. This is one of the reasons why Digichilli has had so many issues as the majority of 4mb line holders have reached speeds far beyond the 256kb package's aim.
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I would imagine it to be a combination of both as ISP's have a cost per gig too...
 
IMHO it doesn't look like our ISP's can handle proper uncapped with the current pricing structure (Local loop, Telkom etc.)
I understand their problems and would be quite happy with a capped account for a reasonable price, but then no speed limits.
So I wanna be able to use my 4meg line if I can afford to, and then cap me at 30GB to 40GB. Heck, I'll even accept 15GB if the price is right.
BUT, that would only be acceptable as long as the current situation holds true. As soon as Telkom comes to the party + LLU etc., then I expect to see drastic price drops / cap increases / uncapped.
 
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