Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

Like I said in earlier post: there is no fixed trend.
Some days are better, some worse, weekday evenings generally very bad.
Weekends: I've had weekends of streaming and download bliss and vice versa.
Worked from home today - Skype audio, MS Lync conference calls with video, virtual whiteboards and PPT content all in parallel - no problem, crystal clear and ultra sharp.
however...
at 18h00 I return home from a quick run and cannot even stream 702.co.za to listen to the MoneyTalk...

Immediately changed to Afrihost account and waddayaknow... full speed everything, until about an hour later and everything's slow - must be intermittent exchange congestion.

Bottom line - not sure whether any of this is hitting home with Telkom or any other ISP for that matter.
Seems their attitude is that we are at their mercy and have to 'shape up' or 'ship out'.

I agree with what another poster in this thread said - changing ISPs is like changing lanes - always looks faster until you do.
Probably best to keep a couple of them accounts handy on a PAYG/Top-up basis and pay(pray) as you go per gig. Heavy users - good luck - this might become expensive, but then again, it's our money they're after, not our satisfaction, even though they do their best to make us believe that.
 
For the past couple days...

45 kilobyte per second speeds from 7AM-11PM. then 11PM to 7AM I get fullish speeds on my 2MB account. Definately throttled. POS
 
some joker at TI is taking the piss. Immediately after posting above, speeds went back to 45 kilobyte per second throttling.
 
Streaming yesterday was an extreme dog. I switched over to a capped account with another ISP and it all worked well.
 
ponder said:
I don't have issues either on my 2Mb/s account. Youtube good for 480-720p, latency ok, browsing & downloads at full speed. Torrents can be slow during the day but some days, like today, I was getting 150-200+ kb/s which is excellent and it did not even have many seeders.

In general I don't have any complaints with the service, there was that one patch earlier in the year were things were crap for a month.

/touches wood :D
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Same here, besides the slow torrents everything has been running great :D
I mostly use NNTP and streaming and no issues the last few months either.
It must be a KZN thing LOL

Its just k@k that some people are having a terrible experience :(
 
I can handle slow downloada during the day, but am expecting to stream youtube 480p vids without too much hassle in the evenings.
 
Well at around 13:00 yesterday the internet died, spent an hour on the phone, seems they have network fault at exchange ... , no idea when service will be restored.

Hoping that when I get home later there is working internet.
 
I still can't stream a Twitch video for more than 4 seconds without it buffering at any quality. YouTube is slower than usual, and 720p lags a bit until it gets going. Xbmc streaming is about the same as Twitch. Everything just seems awful at the moment.
 
Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

Definitely daytime throttling going on. Tried to download a 300mb file a few times at different parts of the day and had fluctuating speeds between 5-40 odd Kbps. YouTube streams fine all day, even in HD. Tried the same file at 22.50 and got the same dl speeds. Trying again now, without rebooting my router or anything, and getting a steady 430kbps. I'm guessing the throttle is lifted from 11pm ? One can only speculate.
 
Is fine for now, a bit slow, when I got home, but picked up, cannot comment on streaming as it is some thing I seldom do ...
 
I could stream in 720p last night from 20:30 onwards while downloading at 200kb/s.
Again - no trend - throttling definitely happening, but not according to a schedule.
Must be according to load/ISP contention.
 
19:00
www.speedofme.com
Server: London
Download: 3.41Mbps

Haven't seen it this fast, this time of day, for a long time.

*Streaming 720p no issues.
 
It's flying a bit earlier than usual for once, especially considering it is a Friday evening. It's usually dead between 16h00 and 22h00pm Monday to Friday...
 
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