Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

I'm looking at Afrihost 100Gb for R200. No more shaping for me thank you.
 
Well its the end of a horrible month with TI Uncapped, hoping they get their act together in April.
I've done 221.57 Gigabytes on a 4 MB Uncapped account, and I've managed to make the bar go orange with the warning as well.
 
iaywtimnbe said:
I'm looking at Afrihost 100Gb for R200. No more shaping for me thank you.
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Also considering those packages (though a larger one). The prices seem pretty darn good, and I'm currently using "only" 200gigs/month at the moment because I really don't have much to download other than streams anymore :( I remember my days of yore on 2GB/month 384k dreaming of watching a 360p YouTube video.
Now I really see no point in anything faster (though I would LOVE 1mbps upload). Video compression is getting better and better (h265 should effectively halve the amount of bandwidth YouTube/Netflix uses (or any other service currently using h264)). Streaming 720p for a couple hours every day uses so little, that uncapped almost seems like a waste somtimes

Results for March 2014:
Code: 
UP: 14 588 984 680 (14.6GB)
DOWN: 183 488 411 636(183.5GB)
TOTAL: 198 077 396 316 (198GB)
I thought I had downloaded WAY more than that!


I'd love to see Telkom come out with some large R2/GB capped packages. Maybe even for their mobile ;)
 
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The_Mowgs said:
I have done 100gig on a 2meg line and being throttled to death. This is the first time I have done this amount and its really annoying!!
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100gb?
Do you know for a fact that you're being throttled?
I used to get 250gb + on a 2Mb line.

Telkom streaming was perfect last night after 7pm.
 
Just wait until my line is back, along with who knows how many others. The network going to crumble. Plenty areas have been without Telkom service since Friday/Saturday....
 
These useless bastards are now threatening my credit record if I don't pay the full account for a cancelled service - until such a time as they decide to sort it out and issue a refund.

Telkom - go **** yourself.
 
I really looks like Telkom has double the speed of the lines but the threshold for data has not.

If you got 100gb on a 1mb line before you get throttled. You now can only do 100gb on a 2mb line before for get throttled.

Just a theory...
 
xrapidx said:
These useless bastards are now threatening my credit record if I don't pay the full account for a cancelled service - until such a time as they decide to sort it out and issue a refund.

Telkom - go **** yourself.
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Had the same crap last time I cancelled. Friend also. I had a contact in Telkom who sorted out my bill. Friend had to cough up as he was in the process of buying a house and couldn't risk the bad ITC record.
 
ambroseg1 said:
Had the same crap last time I cancelled. Friend also. I had a contact in Telkom who sorted out my bill. Friend had to cough up as he was in the process of buying a house and couldn't risk the bad ITC record.
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I will take them to court... I'm tired of their complete incompetence, it has been on-going for over three months now.

You really must be as thick as pig **** to work for them.

I have tried everything:
Facebook - same response about doing something, and doing **** all.
Twitter - ignored.
hellopeter - ignored.
CEO email address (the open one) - ignored.
Nr I was given - "will investigate"

But in the meantime they expect me to keep paying, because I have cash to throw around at two ISPs.
 
xrapidx said:
I will take them to court... I'm tired of their complete incompetence, it has been on-going for over three months now.

You really must be as thick as pig **** to work for them.

I have tried everything:
Facebook - same response about doing something, and doing **** all.
Twitter - ignored.
hellopeter - ignored.
CEO email address (the open one) - ignored.
Nr I was given - "will investigate"

But in the meantime they expect me to keep paying, because I have cash to throw around at two ISPs.
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Serious question. Are you not perhaps one of the selective few TelkomZA and ranger respond to? If so, contact them. If not, then my friend you are seriously out of luck. Even employee contacts within Telkom that I know cannot help due to the utter incompetence of their fellow colleagues.
 
yusufdavids said:
New month same old Telkom altbinz running at 40KB/s at 20.25 in the evening is the really nothing we can do?Oh ja 4mb uncapped on 10 mb line.http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/images/icons/icon8.png
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If you can, try use a paid news server. I found SAIX news server to be terrible as of late but using sunnyusenet.com and I get full speed.
You can sign up for a 7 day trial account to test it out. 1 month is access at 5Mb is only R27
 
wow so slow like dialup tonight been like this last two days when will it ever end ...
 
xrapidx said:
I will take them to court... I'm tired of their complete incompetence, it has been on-going for over three months now.

You really must be as thick as pig **** to work for them.

I have tried everything:
Facebook - same response about doing something, and doing **** all.
Twitter - ignored.
hellopeter - ignored.
CEO email address (the open one) - ignored.
Nr I was given - "will investigate"

But in the meantime they expect me to keep paying, because I have cash to throw around at two ISPs.
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Its been 4 months now for me. It started bacl then when Ranger actually still was active on this forum.

I have also tried all the above including telkomza etc excluding the ceos email :P i dont have that. They got someone to phone me but instead of processing my cancellation request they got some incompetant person to phone me in connection with slow speeds. I literally told the woman :O ... kthxbye. No amount of begging, pleading, asking nicely, or shouting gets u any sort of response. We are literally a number that generates income. Nothing more.

Happy clients and quality of service does not go hand in hand with telkom internet. Thus i am moving on. Good luck to the rest of u...
 
xrapidx said:
I will take them to court... I'm tired of their complete incompetence, it has been on-going for over three months now.

You really must be as thick as pig **** to work for them.

I have tried everything:
Facebook - same response about doing something, and doing **** all.
Twitter - ignored.
hellopeter - ignored.
CEO email address (the open one) - ignored.
Nr I was given - "will investigate"

But in the meantime they expect me to keep paying, because I have cash to throw around at two ISPs.
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Did you go into a branch? That's the best.
 
ForSure said:
wow so slow like dialup tonight been like this last two days when will it ever end ...
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Last night the Internet was so slow, I kid not, antivirus updates which use port 80, we're doing 10kbps.... Sad.
But the torrents I queued for 12, were flying when I checked at 6am. Obviously the 4 day downtime 'upgrade' was a fail, still unusable from 6pm to 11pm.
 
Thankfully I had the 40gb Vox Fat Pipe to test last night and all I can say is WOW.

Everything just works.

It's clearly not exchange congestion so I'm a bit confused.
Afrihost also not operating as well as the vox account.
 
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