Reaching Cap

[Xenophon]

So quick question. Does I-burst once you reach like 1 byte before your cap move you to 56K connection and exactly how slow is 56K?

 

[shane101]

They are supposed to move you onto a 64k connection once you reach your cap. The speed is not terrible once capped in my experience but it's obviously nowhere near uncapped speeds. You will certainly notice a difference in download speeds and also webpage loading times, especially if they have a lot of pics on them.

64k theoretically should be 8k faster than a 56k dial-up modem, if that helps...

Sorry, can't really be of much more help than that.

 

[Xenophon]

Oh, that's not so bad

 

[Scooby_Doo]

They are supposed to move you onto a 64k connection once you reach your cap. The speed is not terrible once capped in my experience but it's obviously nowhere near uncapped speeds. You will certainly notice a difference in download speeds and also webpage loading times, especially if they have a lot of pics on them.

64k theoretically should be 8k faster than a 56k dial-up modem, if that helps...

Sorry, can't really be of much more help than that.

no... 64k theoretically should be "8k" not 8k faster. (64 / 8) 56k theoretically should be "7k". (56/8)... But ""theoretically"" never happens in the real world.

 

[MaD]

It will sure as hell be faster than Telkom's definition of 56k.. been capped on ADSL before? =)

 

[Scooby_Doo]

at a friends house

 

[Xenophon]

It will sure as hell be faster than Telkom's definition of 56k.. been capped on ADSL before? =)

No, It'll be my first time. I hope it doesn't hurt

 

[LandyMan]

No, It'll be my first time. I hope it doesn't hurt

Oh, its gonna hurt ... and hurt bbbaaaaddddddd!

 

[Jongi]

64kpbs = 7.8kB/s

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Iburst cap speed if fact regulary exceeds 64kb when loading pages and downloading from htttp or ftp. Thats been my experience anyway, but it jumps aroung a bit... usually like 7-10kb on downloads, not bad at all.
They dont neccesarily cap you as you hit your limit, but you wont get away with much more than 20-50mb over cap till you get throttled.

 

[native]

Some of the users experince death by cap

 

[shane101]

Originally posted by Scooby_Doo

no... 64k theoretically should be "8k" not 8k faster. (64 / 8) 56k theoretically should be "7k". (56/8)... But ""theoretically"" never happens in the real world.

Thanks for clearing that up

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Originally posted by Scooby_Doo



Thanks for clearing that up

np

 

[Jongi]

no... 64k theoretically should be "8k" not 8k faster. (64 / 8) 56k theoretically should be "7k". (56/8)... But ""theoretically"" never happens in the real world.

Are you saying that the statement that 64k should be 8k faster than 56k is not correct?

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Aah another confusion between Kilobytes and kilobits... i geuss youre right jongi.
but shurely you know what they mean?

 

[Jongi]

well as the guy used the same syntax between 56k, 64k and the 8k, he was being constant and thus correct. Pedantic I know.

 

[Nab]

I am gonna dodge the whole 64k/K etc and say that signal providing, next to dialup and adsl cap, iBurst is amazing. The sickest part is that inter-iBurst traffic is even faster, I get up to 50K in the local DC hub and another 7-10K to use on anything else. I don't even care about the full speed portion of iburst, I get capped on day one and enjoy 256k virtual leased line the rest of the month

 

[P0tenc]

The 64kbps capped speed is much better than crappy 56k modem speed, also it's 64k up and 64k down. I can play wow and bf2 after being capped. Once again it's all depends on your tower and location.

*waves at Nab

 

[Xenophon]

Cool, coz I've only got 3MB left to go.

 

[mic_y]

I gotta agree with Nab... The DC hub is amazing, and fast. What we need is more people sharing more stuff to make it totally amazing.