So Telkom is'nt doing a thing.........

I'm sorry Mr. White, but you sir, are an idiot.

Quote:

"ADSL is targeted at the small business and higher end of the residential market that has a moderate volume of Internet traffic and requires an always available service. That is what Telkom ADSL offers. The service is not designed to offer bandwidth intensive communications such as peer-to-peer applications (e.g. fasttrack, gnutella, napster, kazaa, e-donkey etc.) for downloads, which incidentally are the applications used by most of people who are complaining about the service," White said.

What a load of nonsense. If Mr. White even bothered to glance over these forums, he would see that the majority of "high end residential market" users got ADSL to do things other that browsing (for me, it was gaming). Why the hell would I want to pay R1000 a month for just browsing, when a 56K modem and a R49.99 p/m internet account works almost as well? So what if you page takes 1 second instead of 10 to load?

Bah, then Mr. White wonders why we hate him.
 
My point exactly. Which individual in their right mind would spend R1000 a month to browse and send mail? Most people who work away from home are away during working hours, so why on earth would they need an "always on" connection anyway? They would make use of callmore rates and save around R700 a month. The more I think about this, the more idiotical it sounds.

Telkom: "Give us R1000 a month of your hard earned money, we'll give you this awesome always on connection but don't you dare do anything other than browse the web and send email!".


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This guy seems to be a real fool, he is complaining about international bandwidth so why don't they then monitor international traffic only and base the 3gig cap on only international traffic. I could download more than 3 gig a month using isdn at least with adsl they should make the cap more than what can be downloaded with isdn. maybe if we do eventually get more companies offering adsl we can all give telkom the finger and take our business elsewhere !!!
 
You might have noticed an e-mail addy at the bottom of that post.[:D]

Send the guy a mail.[:(!]
 
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Telkom just cannot make the cap apply to international only. WHY?

Just send a daily request for say 1GB to be dropped to local ftp server.
So Telkom must then figure out who sent the request and add this to their usage. Can't be done.

Telkom will discover that the cap actually does not achieve anything.
Port throttling achieves a lot for them, so you will find Telkom throttling more and more ports as they monitor traffic on the thousands of ports in use.
 
I think the got caught with their pants down...

Launch ADSL - good uptake - power users start to use the network and BOOM - problem - now they port throttle, change the cap rules and basically do what they like.

Give me a SLA Mr White. One that allows me to measure Telkom and the product that I am buying. Then there can be no bitching....

So much for market research & proper product development...

What do expect from a monopoly though.... They can't be expected to actually do their jobs right 1st time round can they.... Oooh No that's too much to ask!
 
It is obvious that this 'Mr White' is trying to shift the blame to all of those whom use Kazaa etc instead of criticisms aimed at Telkom for failing to provide a better service. Kazaa users are downloading illegal applications and trafficking music so they're to be seen as the enemy in your midst. Ignore them, if fact, loath them and view them so hatefully because they are stealing YOUR bandwidth. This is their logic. My brother in the UK at the age of 45 - a fairly recent technophobe - now downloads DVD iso's and surfs Kazaa daily. Whom wouldn't? Fortunately scenes from '1984' by Orson Welles did not materialise and if such a brilliant service exists why not want to use it? Most internationally would agree that that is the whole goddamn point of ADSL! People, don't belive this devil. You have a right just as anyone else in the States / Europe to receive high bandwidth and grab whatever you like without guilt, without finger-pointing accusing you of criminality by a company whom every step of the way has screwed us.

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