Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

[skimread]

Yesterday and today has been the worst.

 

[Taranis]

Torrents are a problem today. Bank holiday effect or something else?

 

[Will_717]

My line is so unstable today, on & off, can't even browse, when is Telkom gonna sort out this problem!!!!

 

[darkjak101]

7.6MB MS Word document is taking 15 minutes to download on my 4Meg account...

 

[retired]

Yesterday and so far today have been worse than usual. Im afraid no improvement at all.

 

[alternate]

Telkom internet in the western cape has been terrible for the past two days.

 

[shanezn]

Been pretty much $h!t here in Durban as well.

 

[Badprop_za]

It just took me 3mins to open Superbru page on a 4meg line. Ridicolous!

 

[diane7]

Are you on a business account with those speeds?

Telkom 4Meg Free upgrade from 2 meg

Sounds more like a 10mb line.

I actually dont know what a 10meg line does was told The Exchange is 10Meg but the mini DSLAM I am on is only up to 4Meg

No way a 4Mb account get's speeds that high.

woke up this morning AND its still fast Still Downloading Documentarys From YouTube 700KB/s
NetWorx Brilliant Program .

Now doing Avrage 682KB/s ,,,780 KB/ps

Also have my Son playing online Games on XBoxLive and Watching YouTube Normaly he comes to ask me WHAT are you Downloading Cant Play or watch ...

 

[skimread]

For me bad experience of the weekday evening throttling of international HTTP downloads has changed from evenings only to being the whole day. (Gauteng)

 

[skimread]

woke up this morning AND its still fast Still Downloading Documentarys From YouTube 700KB/s
NetWorx Brilliant Program .

Now doing Avrage 682KB/s

Telkom can't force us to eat McDonalds(Youtube) 3 meals a day. You might be happy with this arrangement but that type of internet diet is rather unbalanced and not the norm.

 

[giggity]

Been pretty much $h!t here in Durban as well.

PMB not looking too great either (PMB also runs through the Durban IPC, I believe). Internaional is horrible, but local is decent. YouTube 720p isn't streaming smoothly, and Twitch is buffering at mobile quality.

 

[Electric]

/snip

What are you paying / month.

 

[Wall]

I'm considering moving across to TI.

and this has probably been asked before but... what are the thresholds for 2 & 4 meg uncapped before they start throttling you?

 

[genetic]

I'm considering moving across to TI.

and this has probably been asked before but... what are the thresholds for 2 & 4 meg uncapped before they start throttling you?

I've done 100GB and not been throttled, although my average is 50GB per month.

Some have claimed they're throttled at around 80GB.

 

[Wall]

I've done 100GB and not been throttled, although my average is 50GB per month.

Some have claimed they're throttled at around 80GB.

80 gig for 2meg, I think. 4 meg?

 

[genetic]

80 gig for 2meg, I think. 4 meg?

Nope... 2Mbps, although I've never been throttled when I seldom pass that threshold.

 

[Malasius]

Telkom internet in the western cape has been terrible for the past two days.

yes getting 0.2MB down on a 4MB line.... any idea of the cause?

 

[giggity]

I'm considering moving across to TI.

and this has probably been asked before but... what are the thresholds for 2 & 4 meg uncapped before they start throttling you?

You might want to hold back changing for now until they fix some major network problems. Telkom offers a great service for a very good price though for ages now they have been having intermittent network issues. So unless you're on a terrible ISP right now, I'd suggest you don't change for at least a month.

A mate on 2mbps does 80GB-90GB then can't do a thing on the web. On 4mbps, I do on average 180GB~220GB without getting throttled.

 

[Wall]

You might want to hold back changing for now until they fix some major network problems. Telkom offers a great service for a very good price though for ages now they have been having intermittent network issues. So unless you're on a terrible ISP right now, I'd suggest you don't change for at least a month.

A mate on 2mbps does 80GB-90GB then can't do a thing on the web. On 4mbps, I do on average 180GB~220GB without getting throttled.

is the issues ISP related?