Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback.

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You people have to remember that trackers aren't to the second or minute or even hour accurate (at least not all of them) and that timezones also play a role. For instance far less DHT nodes are detected during the day than during the night. Similarly also my high seeder torrents also have less seeds/peers connecting during the day than the night despite the feedback about number of available seeds from the trackers being roughly the same. For instance say about 16/60 seeders during the day VS 52/66 seeders during the night. (and in that example I might even find somtimes that all of my increased torrent speed comes from just 1 of those new seeders)

Sometimes you're lucky and that smaller number of seeds still manages to upload enough to saturate your line's max speed...other times they've enforced outgoing limits or establish very poor connections with a high packet loss which lead to barely a tenth of your line speed being used.

It's not always just Telkom or the overall local network to blame.

I'm sure you'll also notice a higher number of seeds and less choking from the seeds overall around the time torrents pick up which might be a co-incidence, or it might actually be the reason the torrents are now running much faster.

I will grant you guys that all torrents of all sorts of quality on numerous days sitting around 30-50kb/s is a bit odd, I just don't feel torrents are exact enough to place all the blame at Telkom's feet though.


No clue about news servers however, I haven't dipped my foot into that world yet.
 
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Vengeful said:
A very close friend at telkom says, this will never happen cos the money they make is from these.
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Not quite true... remember that at the LLU hearings Telkom presented details regarding the alleged Access Line Deficit. After that they cannot back down and say that their presentation was incorrect and that they can now drop prices.

They could possibly review the "DSL" rental portion and can most definitely review their ISP pricing.

They should be ultra aggressive in the ISP market and halve their pricing. As I understand it they have sufficient capacity on the undersea cables to handle PLENTY more traffic. (and I know there are other factors here...)

Rather attract more customers and have a loss leader or two than sit on idle capacity!!!
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
You people have to remember that trackers aren't to the second or minute or even hour accurate (at least not all of them) and that timezones also play a role. For instance far less DHT nodes are detected during the day than during the night. Similarly also my high seeder torrents also have less seeds/peers connecting during the day than the night despite the feedback about number of available seeds from the trackers being roughly the same. For instance say about 16/60 seeders during the day VS 52/66 seeders during the night. (and in that example I might even find somtimes that all of my increased torrent speed comes from just 1 of those new seeders)

Sometimes you're lucky and that smaller number of seeds still manages to upload enough to saturate your line's max speed...other times they've enforced outgoing limits or establish very poor connections with a high packet loss which lead to barely a tenth of your line speed being used.

It's not always just Telkom or the overall local network to blame.

I'm sure you'll also notice a higher number of seeds and less choking from the seeds overall around the time torrents pick up which might be a co-incidence, or it might actually be the reason the torrents are now running much faster.

I will grant you guys that all torrents of all sorts of quality on numerous days sitting around 30-50kb/s is a bit odd, I just don't feel torrents are exact enough to place all the blame at Telkom's feet though.


No clue about news servers however, I haven't dipped my foot into that world yet.
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I cant agree on this hey, my torrents are crazy slow all the time during the day, & then like clockwork @ 10pm without fail it boosts up to normal speed, & its not even like my download speex is slow, if I stream a vid on utube, HD it doesnt even buffer 1ce... & yet my torrents with 42/2543 seefers (exact figures I had on sunday for a torrent) wont go higher than 1.0kbps... whats that all abt?
 
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I cant agree on this hey, my torrents are crazy slow all the time during the day, & then like clockwork @ 10pm without fail it boosts up to normal speed, & its not even like my download speex is slow, if I stream a vid on utube, HD it doesnt even buffer 1ce... & yet my torrents with 42/2543 seefers (exact figures I had on sunday for a torrent) wont go higher than 1.0kbps... whats that all abt?
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It's quite possible that 42 people will all be choking outgoing traffic.
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
It's quite possible that 42 people will all be choking outgoing traffic.
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Everyday for the past 2 weeks and with completely different torrents?

this is happening right now!

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[/QUOTE]looks like port forwarding issues to me[/QUOTE]
I may have released and renewed my IP a few times thinking it might solve the problem, but now that u mention that, I think it may have made it abit less better.. maybe not worse, just not better.

Edit: im using my s2 to post on the app & its playing around with my posts!
 
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port forwarding has nothing to do with an IP but rather a firewall or router/NAT blocking ports that the program is trying to use
 
Any idea on how to rectify the issue perhaps? Using the netgear dgn2200, with the standard factory firmware... I havent made any changes on the router interface, that I know of?
 
Thinking of joining telkom, I am a heavy user so whats my cap before I get throttled on 1MB line I need to to 180GB a month?
 
MickZA said:
Reckon you'll need 2MB line/uncapped to move that much.
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Thanks was just about to ask if getting a higher line speed package would allow me to move more data. So each line speed has its own soft caps. How much data can one move on a 2mb line before throttling?
 
Banned! said:
Thanks was just about to ask if getting a higher line speed package would allow me to move more data. So each line speed has its own soft caps. How much data can one move on a 2mb line before throttling?
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Good question, no one has reported being throttled on 2Mbps yet this month in this thread, several members have reported +/- 130GB was the magic number for 1Mbps.
 
69Joka69 said:
im on a 2meg line, and if I am being throttled, then my total download/upload is 100ish gigs. Not more that 120 tho.
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Are you in the red on TI Tracker? If so check your itemised billing, you might be on Do Uncapped Basic (1Mbps) instead of Advanced (2Mbps). Won't be the first time 10210 have erred in this regard.
 
MickZA said:
Good question, no one has reported being throttled on 2Mbps yet this month in this thread, several members have reported +/- 130GB was the magic number for 1Mbps.
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Just got Throttled on my 1Mbps did 115 GB last month was 132 GB Maybe each Month you get less Gigs ;-)
 
diane7 said:
Just got Throttled on my 1Mbps did 115 GB last month was 132 GB Maybe each Month you get less Gigs ;-)
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Is that 132GB downloaded or in total? I'm on ~100GB DL, 160GB total for the month and I only started on the 13th...

As it is, I'm running out of stuff to watch- this line can barley keen up with a few hours of HD per day ;)

Got whole seasons of Justified, Southland and Sons of Anarchy in the pipeline which should complete in a week or so to keep me going :D
 
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