Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

ProfA

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I got an answer at the cancellation department after 50 mins. YAY! Seems they have a one month cancellation policy, which means, it will be cancelled by the 28th of June and next month will be the last month billed. I'm so happy right now :p

Celebrate after you have received your call to verify the cancellation and they haven't continued billing you for the cancelled services.
 

Wackyza

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I won't wait for any call from them. I will phone them on the 29th of June and be sure :)

Celebrate after you have received your call to verify the cancellation and they haven't continued billing you for the cancelled services.
 

bar1

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I also wanna cancle, just wonder if it wont be the same with other ISP's
 

ponder

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I was on the RED from the 23@303gig 4meg line and 4meg data
wanted to see how far I can push the Bar .
Throttled now first time since I left the 1 meg line last year .
Done 377 gigs speed test 0.40-0.90 mbps

I dont want to download anything for a long time
Ok I did not plan any downloads from 12-6

If you had scheduled the bulk of your downloads between 12-6 I suspect you would have gotten way more.
 

alternate

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Since the throttling my account has been perfect in the Western Cape. Twitch is working perfectly as well.
 

reactor_sa

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Netlimiter might have a time option, I'll check, but either way, most download systems have scheduling and I try get my steam games ASAP (screw scheduling for that).
 

giggity

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True, I will have to look into scheduling my downloads properly now. Pity steam and origin don't have this functionality.

You might be able to write a function using AutoHotKey. It'll be difficult, but hey, it might be worth it.

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Web's still working great at the moment! *touches all the wooden items in the house ;)
 

giggity

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Ok yeah I think the thresholds have been changed...
I've never hit orange before, and it's only at 136.5GB. I've done 280GB before and stayed in green. I have been watching youtube videos, downloaded a few games from origin, League of Legends updates, and Guild Wars 2. The internet was so terrible I couldn't even watch 720p most of the month... Has Telkom changed their idea of abusive usage?

What's happening!?
 

Electric

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I've used about 40gb, so not throttled or shaped; my Telkom uncapped account just sucks.
Plain and simple.

Everything else works perfectly until I connect to Telkom again.
 

genetic

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I've used about 40gb, so not throttled or shaped; my Telkom uncapped account just sucks.
Plain and simple.

Everything else works perfectly until I connect to Telkom again.

I'm loving my TI uncapped service. It's always quick - streaming, the odd torrents and browsing.
 

MickZA

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Hmmm, TiTracker is currently screwed on Firefox & Chrome but, hey, the TI dev team have it covered:

TI-CYA-msg.png

... "This website is best viewed using Internet Explorer 9 and higher", in red nogal:wtf:

Anyway I've done around 300GB this month on 10Mb uncapped with no problems.
 

Gboss

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Capture.jpg

No complaints here either. Dropped a torrent to test earlier and it averaged 378kB/s :D
Almost as good as the old days #SIGH
 

ranger

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Hmmm, TiTracker is currently screwed on Firefox & Chrome but, hey, the TI dev team have it covered:

View attachment 121637

... "This website is best viewed using Internet Explorer 9 and higher", in red nogal:wtf:

Anyway I've done around 300GB this month on 10Mb uncapped with no problems.

QA noted the issues, but it was decided that the functionality that was added was too important to delay deployment, thus the message.

We have since enlightened the developers as to the source of their problems with Firefox and Chrome, and provided recommendations on how to avoid those in future (e.g. use validation add-ons in browsers when developing).

They are currently working on fixing the problems, but there are lots of areas to fix, so QA will be longer than usual.
 

MickZA

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QA noted the issues, but it was decided that the functionality that was added was too important to delay deployment, thus the message.
Hi ranger, I guessed the problem had been spotted when I saw the IE9 message - made me chuckle though :)
 

ranger

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I've used about 40gb, so not throttled or shaped; my Telkom uncapped account just sucks.
Plain and simple.

Everything else works perfectly until I connect to Telkom again.

We are aware of some issues, specifically that some customers experience lack of connectivity on e.g web browsing between 18h00 and 21h30, while DNS works. Then, a few minutes later, everything works again.

We have had a support ticket open, and have been working with vendor support engineers to identify the cause. So far, we have had difficulty capturing diagnostics for users experiencing the problem, since it often disappears by the time we have the details we need.

If this is what you are experiencing, we are working on it, but we wanted to rule out other issues being caused by the 2% of uncapped users using the most capacity during peak times. This has, as far we can determine, reduced the occurence of the problem, though we received a report from an affected employee today.

Just to be sure, yiu have tested for dslam congestion at the time you experience problems?

Also, if your problem doesn't match the description above, please provide some more details (or a Telkom Internet ticket number if you have one).

(My participation in this thread has bern hampered by work load and family commitments, I have hardly had time to actually use the internet myself in the past 6-8 weeks, my line is mostly just running automated tests :-().
 

giggity

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(My participation in this thread has bern hampered by work load and family commitments, I have hardly had time to actually use the internet myself in the past 6-8 weeks, my line is mostly just running automated tests :-().

Since you are a highly important member of this forum, as you are the only Telkom employee that actually posts anything, maybe you should suggest to Telkom that they get an official rep to focus on this thread. TelkomZA was supposed to do that, but they have their twitter, support@telkom.co.za and forum PMs to worry about. Need like someone with a full-time job sorting out Telkom complaints and feedback on social networking sites. This would improve the popularity of Telkom across social media, therefore improving its reputation and sales. Just something like "Telkom is aware of the situation and is currently working on it. Expected to be fixed in x hours." Seriously makes the customer more satisfied and secure than no response whatsoever.
 
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