Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

Keeper said:
What is Telkom's AUP/limit on a 4Mbit uncapped package? (do Uncapped Advanced)

Also, I take it you get "Night surfer" full speed between 00:00 - 07:00 which doesn't affect your "rating" if you use that a lot?
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It doesnt effect the rating, you can do over 200gigs with those hours alone. So i should imagine its around 300gigs if you manage your downloads properly.
 
So what happens when you become a "power user"? do they just throttle your line speed for the rest of the month?
(And more importantly, does your Night Surfer get throttled as well ???)

Because with a capped package, once you hit your cap and they soft-cap you, your Night Surfer is soft-cap-throttled to 500kbps too! :erm:
 
Keeper said:
So what happens when you become a "power user"? do they just throttle your line speed for the rest of the month?
(And importantly, does your Night Surfer get impacted as well ???)

Because with a capped package, once you hit your cap and they soft-cap you, your Night Surfer is soft-cap-throttled to 500kbps too! :erm:
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Works the same as the soft capped...
 
MickeyD said:
Works the same as the soft capped...
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So with Telkom Uncapped, once you download too much they throttle you to 500kbps for the rest of the month including during 00:00 - 07:00 :eek:

I don't understand how I "could" do about 300 gigs per month on 4Mbit Telkom Uncapped when I'm doing 370 gigs per month already on 2Mbit Openweb Uncapped :confused:
(And late at Night I have never been throttled)
 
Keeper said:
So with Telkom Uncapped, once you download too much they throttle you to 500kbps for the rest of the month including during 00:00 - 07:00 :eek:

I don't understand how I "could" do about 300 gigs per month on 4Mbit Telkom Uncapped when I'm doing 370 gigs per month already on 2Mbit Openweb Uncapped :confused:
(And late at Night I have never been throttled)
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You can do FAR more than 370GB on a 4Mbps account is you utilise the Night Surfer to its max.
 
You can do about 10GB in 7 hours so you can say 300GB a month just in Night Surfer time.
 
Hmmm... alright.

I think I'm going to get a 4mb line from telkom and then the 4mb uncapped from OpenWeb.
...purely because they also have 00:00-07:00 like telkom BUT OpenWeb also let you download full speed every weekend. Telkom doesn't do that. (That's 8 DAYS of downloading out of 30 days...almost 1/3rd of the month!)
(and if I use telkom's internet too much to become a power user, they will throttle my Night Surfer....that I don't like at all)

It won't be a Gold account like I have now but I'm focusing my downloads to be midnight hours and weekends only these days, so I think the standard 4mb uncapped should suffice.

If that doesn't work out, I'll move to Telkom and try them out.


Thanks everyone!
 
Would be great if Telkom include Weekends as part of the off peak (nightsurfer) schedule. We can hope.
 
shanezn said:
Would be great if Telkom include Weekends as part of the off peak (nightsurfer) schedule. We can hope.
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The reason for NightSurfer is to try and incentivise users to move non-realtime traffic (e.g. stuff that they will use later) to a time with least demand. Saturday and Sunday nights have similar levels of demand to other weekdays (Sunday nights beat all weeknights except Mondays). We don't want to trash someone's youtube or streaming or catching up with work stuff to give free data. If we extended NightSurfer this would almost certainly happen, and then everybody here would be complaining.

Other ISPs (or their providers networks) demographics might differ from ours, which allows them to do this, where we can't.
 
ranger said:
The reason for NightSurfer is to try and incentivise users to move non-realtime traffic (e.g. stuff that they will use later) to a time with least demand. Saturday and Sunday nights have similar levels of demand to other weekdays (Sunday nights beat all weeknights except Mondays). We don't want to trash someone's youtube or streaming or catching up with work stuff to give free data. If we extended NightSurfer this would almost certainly happen, and then everybody here would be complaining.

Other ISPs (or their providers networks) demographics might differ from ours, which allows them to do this, where we can't.
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Cool. Not a complaint, just a wishlist item. I'm pretty content with the way things are currently being handled, and scheduling my dl's during nightsurfer isn't really an issue for me.
 
ranger said:
The reason for NightSurfer is to try and incentivise users to move non-realtime traffic (e.g. stuff that they will use later) to a time with least demand. Saturday and Sunday nights have similar levels of demand to other weekdays (Sunday nights beat all weeknights except Mondays). We don't want to trash someone's youtube or streaming or catching up with work stuff to give free data. If we extended NightSurfer this would almost certainly happen, and then everybody here would be complaining.

Other ISPs (or their providers networks) demographics might differ from ours, which allows them to do this, where we can't.
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I agree here. When I was on a exchange that is served by ATM uplink back then when Telkom uncapped was launched and ranger would be able to confirm this if by any chance he can remember, Sunday nights are the worst for exchange congestion too. It was so bad you could not even use the internet. So I know that Sunday 6pm to 9pm is peak peak time for traffic. Lucky for me Telkom did upgrade the exchange to metro ethernet so not having problems now.
 
Good day gents.

Is there a Telkom rep still around here?

Suppose this is in the wrong section, but how do I transfer a domain from Telkom to Afrihost?
 
Tjoker said:
Good day gents.

Is there a Telkom rep still around here?

Suppose this is in the wrong section, but how do I transfer a domain from Telkom to Afrihost?
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First hit on Google: https://www.afrihost.com/site/faq/domain

"How do existing Domain names get transferred to Afrihost?"

If you have a previously registered domain the process is very similar to that of the newly registered domain.

Upon signing up your domain with Afrihost.com (by choosing one of our packages) - you will be requested to select that either Afrihost.com does the transfer or that YOU do the transfer.

» Afrihost does the transfer: This option enables us to complete the transfer process for you. We manage the DNS.

NOTE: the transfer of .co.za domain names are free, .com; .org; .net domains cost R150.00 once for the transfer.

» You do the transfer: This option allows you to perform the transfer. Usually you would manage the DNS administration with this option.

After you have registered the domain name the transfer process will begin. If all is well with the previous hosts the domain can take between 2 days (.co.za) and two weeks (.com) to complete.

However for none .co.za domains you can also get your current host to point the domain to our DNS servers:
ns.dns1.co.za
ns.dns2.co.za
ns.otherdns.com
ns.otherdns.net

You will be given access to our FTP server & Cpanel server so that you can publish your website & create your mail boxes (and databases if any) on our servers once you have signed up.
We can also setup a test URL (host header) so you can test the domain on our servers.

By the time the transfer has completed you should have already a working website & ready mailboxes on our servers.
Our support team and/or your developer will assist with any difficulties you may experience whilst uploading your website & databases."
 
Tjoker said:
Good day gents.

Is there a Telkom rep still around here?

Suppose this is in the wrong section, but how do I transfer a domain from Telkom to Afrihost?
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As noted below, transfers must be initiated by the owner or winning ISP, but to be authorised by the losing ISP you typically need to be in good standing (account paid up).

May I ask why you want to transfer the domain?
 
After over a year of usage I've just got an AUP issue, has there been a change to the terms recently that I missed? I'm using a 4MB account but only around 300GB usage on avg between my family.
 
OtakuD said:
After over a year of usage I've just got an AUP issue, has there been a change to the terms recently that I missed? I'm using a 4MB account but only around 300GB usage on avg between my family.
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Not that recent, was about 5 months ago i think. You must schedule your big downloads between 12am- 7am.
 
OtakuD said:
After over a year of usage I've just got an AUP issue, has there been a change to the terms recently that I missed? I'm using a 4MB account but only around 300GB usage on avg between my family.
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TI would now prefer any P2P traffic (torrents) to be downloaded between midnight and 07:00, outside of these hours you are penalised on the tracker. Not sure what impact streaming has but MickeyD seems to move a lot without a problem.
 
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