Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback.

[MickZA]

No problems with my uncapped this morning.

On the topic of torrents, I find that it's the public trackers that are slow during the day. The private trackers seem to offer good speeds 24/7 (depending on the number of seeds obviously).

 

[Joka69]

Why not just use usenet instead of torrents?

Because there is no more direct download sites available, unless you willing to pay for a Rapidshare etc account...

 

[Hectic]

I'm OCD that way. I don't use torrents often during the day, but I want to know that it work properly.

 

[Subways81]

Very much in the green still,
Telkom torrents - 11.5kb
Afrihost spare account torrents ~200kb.

Not praising Afrihost at all, just used it to check if it wasn't local congestion or the torrent itself but definitely Telkom, damn, I would at least expect some speed at this time of the night.

Try changing your DNS settings to google's servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) this sorted out my torrents.

 

[Joka69]

Try changing your DNS settings to google's servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) this sorted out my torrents.

Please can some 1 explain this to me as a noob? i wanna try it, but wouldn't doing this cause more of a lag? considering the servers are international? but anyway, everybody seems to be getting a resolution from this, how do i do it?

Edit: Nevamind... I'll give it a try...?

 

[Ghost02]

Try changing your DNS settings to google's servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) this sorted out my torrents.

Will give it a shot thanks.

 

[Ghost02]

Please can some 1 explain this to me as a noob? i wanna try it, but wouldn't doing this cause more of a lag? considering the servers are international? but anyway, everybody seems to be getting a resolution from this, how do i do it?

Google is your friend
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001161.htm
http://www.google.co.za/#sclient=ps...14,d.ZWU&fp=6cbb9dfbc91bdc48&biw=1680&bih=856

 

[Budza]

Because there is no more direct download sites available, unless you willing to pay for a Rapidshare etc account...

NNTP isn't the same as direct download via HTTP.

Try newztown or newshost for some local news servers.

 

[Joka69]

NNTP isn't the same as direct download via HTTP.

Try newztown or newshost for some local news servers.

Awesome, thanks Budza! Ill have a try at home tonight, tell me, does this speed run like or should i say not like a P2P download, so it will download like my normal other Downloads?

I've registered now, however would just like to know? Where would i get an invitation tho?

 

[MartyMarts]

I see the "use Google's DNS servers" or "use news servers" as a fix/alternative to the vrot torrent speeds. I'm thinking why though - all it's going to achieve is getting one into the orange and eventually the red zone faster. Then throttling occurs

I haven't experienced the throttling but I've definitely experienced the kuk torrent speeds. When I was with mweb, that was pretty much the norm i.e. torrenting was pretty pointless during business hours. I've resorted to doing what I did with mweb - scheduling my torrent jobs for 10pm to 6am and at 50% of line speed during the day on weekends.

 

[Joka69]

I see the "use Google's DNS servers" or "use news servers" as a fix/alternative to the vrot torrent speeds. I'm thinking why though - all it's going to achieve is getting one into the orange and eventually the red zone faster. Then throttling occurs

But would you get throttled on News Server downloads? or just on Torrents?

 

[MartyMarts]

But would you get throttled on News Server downloads? or just on Torrents?

I haven't used news servers on TI Uncapped. mweb did seem to shape them heavily at times but when I toggled the SSL thingy, they couldn't.

EDIT: I think I misunderstood your question... response attempt 2: I think Telkom throttle based on usage regardless of what you were doing?

 

[Subways81]

Awesome, thanks Budza! Ill have a try at home tonight, tell me, does this speed run like or should i say not like a P2P download, so it will download like my normal other Downloads?

I've registered now, however would just like to know? Where would i get an invitation tho?

My nntp mostly maxes my line

 

[Budza]

Awesome, thanks Budza! Ill have a try at home tonight, tell me, does this speed run like or should i say not like a P2P download, so it will download like my normal other Downloads?

I've registered now, however would just like to know? Where would i get an invitation tho?

My nntp mostly maxes my line

I think it counts as P2P though, so if shaping is in effect, you'll notice.

There's a news server thread around here somewhere with everything you need to know.

I did find torrents to be fast enough on SAIX though- the opposite of IS, where I rely more on their news server...

 

[Subways81]

Google dns server in, Torrents @ 936KBps

 

[Awesum]

So how much can you download on a 4 Mbps line before being managed?

 

[Wackyza]

Switched from OW to to TI last night and upgraded my line. Super happy with the performance sofar Just wish I could trial Hulu+ now without having to give credit card details

 

[yebocan]

so changed, my dns to Google...still no joy...Buck Rogers still trickling down....thinking, time to dump TI for Afrihost....

 

[Hectic]

So how much can you download on a 4 Mbps line before being managed?

I think the posts indicated between 320 - 350GB

 

[MickZA]

so changed, my dns to Google...still no joy...Buck Rogers still trickling down....thinking, time to dump TI for Afrihost....

Can't see any well seeded public torrents for Buck Rogers, are you using a private tracker?