stoke
Honorary Master
I see more and more ISP's adding the "softcap" option to their product offering.
Every time I see softcap I confuse it with IBurst's "throttled" service.
So ... for clarity :
Softcap: After you consume the purchased throughput, you are then allowed to carry on accessing LOCAL ONLY [i.e. South African] bandwidth. I would love to know why it's called SOFTCAP. What a rediculous name. The name in no way provides any clarity about the product, they may as well have called it muffincap. Why did they not call it InternationalCap? Pfffffffffffft.
Throttled: Once you consume the purchased throughput, you are then allowed to carry on accessing LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL bandwidth, but at a terribly slow rate.
NOW, Once you've been SoftCapped ... bleugh, stupid word ... what on earth are you supposed to do with that?
I cannot even play battlefield on the local SGS servers cos a SOFT-CAP won't even allow me to send and recieve the couple of bytes required to authenticate with the Electronic Arts Authentication server in the states.
So ... what can I do with my SoftCap [hurl]?
- I can have a VPN running between my local offices, but a "local only" account is cheaper.
- I can access IS's news server and download stuff from there [i think], but I don't really want to do this.
- I can download games and demo's from SGS's FTP server, woohoo.
- I can ... um um um
Am I right?
AND
What else can I do with my SoftCapped [puke] connection?
AND
Why don't they make a plan and allow international authentication packets for games?
AND
Why does the initial throughput that makes up the "not-yet-softcapped" part include local throughput?
Every time I see softcap I confuse it with IBurst's "throttled" service.
So ... for clarity :
Softcap: After you consume the purchased throughput, you are then allowed to carry on accessing LOCAL ONLY [i.e. South African] bandwidth. I would love to know why it's called SOFTCAP. What a rediculous name. The name in no way provides any clarity about the product, they may as well have called it muffincap. Why did they not call it InternationalCap? Pfffffffffffft.
Throttled: Once you consume the purchased throughput, you are then allowed to carry on accessing LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL bandwidth, but at a terribly slow rate.
NOW, Once you've been SoftCapped ... bleugh, stupid word ... what on earth are you supposed to do with that?
I cannot even play battlefield on the local SGS servers cos a SOFT-CAP won't even allow me to send and recieve the couple of bytes required to authenticate with the Electronic Arts Authentication server in the states.
So ... what can I do with my SoftCap [hurl]?
- I can have a VPN running between my local offices, but a "local only" account is cheaper.
- I can access IS's news server and download stuff from there [i think], but I don't really want to do this.
- I can download games and demo's from SGS's FTP server, woohoo.
- I can ... um um um
Am I right?
AND
What else can I do with my SoftCapped [puke] connection?
AND
Why don't they make a plan and allow international authentication packets for games?
AND
Why does the initial throughput that makes up the "not-yet-softcapped" part include local throughput?
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You can buy a prepaid accoutn from webafrica and use that to log onto the server like steam/bf2 account thing and then just switch accounts and play on the local only, that is what i do and saves me alot money