Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback.

[Billy]

I went uncapped about 10 days ago.

I don't see any shaping, or throttleing during the working day.

So far I am happy. (But I was happy with MyWireless initially so time will tell)

Surprisingly my wife has adapted to uncapped and is now downloading when before she was worried of hitting the cap.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

I went uncapped about 10 days ago.

Surprisingly my wife has adapted to uncapped and is now downloading when before she was worried of hitting the cap.

Becarefull, wife's have a habit of monopilising TV, because of Soapies, Serials, etc. just now the uncapped is monopolised to increase their "fix"

"Lovie, get me the latest "Prison Break" before sister Jo" ... , eeeeeeeek, my wife beter not realise I have uncapped ... , will be making the move Monday ... ,

 

[Necuno]

I went uncapped about 10 days ago.

I don't see any shaping, or throttleing during the working day.

So far I am happy. (But I was happy with MyWireless initially so time will tell)

Surprisingly my wife has adapted to uncapped and is now downloading when before she was worried of hitting the cap.

Let's see if that is still true after the honeymoon period.

 

[Spyk3r]

I personally wait in anticipation. I would really like to see what kind of usage the TI guys do. Especially with the throttling during the day.

When Telkom says Local is unlimited, does that mean that if one were downloading from local sites that there won't be any speed limitations or that there won't be any throttling beyond the account speed?

Any ideas?

 

[LurkerZA]

I personally wait in anticipation. I would really like to see what kind of usage the TI guys do. Especially with the throttling during the day.

When Telkom says Local is unlimited, does that mean that if one were downloading from local sites that there won't be any speed limitations or that there won't be any throttling beyond the account speed?

Any ideas?

I'm hoping it means local traffic will be unshaped

 

[abs1]

Awfully quiet here in the Telkom camp, seems like nobody has Telkom uncapped……..

Read the whole thread....

Some of us are in our cancellation month with other ISP's (that funny 30 day notice period thingey, you know?) and will be switching over on 1 November. There are already users that have the uncapped package and who have shared their positive experiences with us.

I am aware some of you guys are waiting out your 30 day notice period, was supposed to be a sarcastic post. Would like to see peoples download stats, shaping etc...and also how srtictly telkom will apply their AUP.

Good luck with your accounts and give us feedback, thanks.

 

[Spyk3r]

I'm hoping it means local traffic will be unshaped

If it is not throttled, I would be super happy and may even consider paying the extra R70 because then I can download from the saix news server without any shaping/throttling...

That would be brilliant

 

[Chevron]

If it is not throttled, I would be super happy and may even consider paying the extra R70 because then I can download from the saix news server without any shaping/throttling...

That would be brilliant

They already stated that local traffic wouldn't be restricted in any way.

 

[Billy]

Let's see if that is still true after the honeymoon period.

Which is why I made the MyWireless comparison.

 

[Spyk3r]

They already stated that local traffic wouldn't be restricted in any way.

Cool.

Thanks. Think I might consider them, or at least, speak to friends and inform them of this fact...

 

[hashbrown99]

Have now had this for 2 weeks and am very happy. Download speeds unchanged from when I was on 16Gb Telkom account.


Only thing I am not happy with is all the thunder and lightning we've had over the last few days

 

[xrapidx]

*subscribe*

Signing up this evening

Out of interest, anyone running the 1MB account on a 4MB line?

 

[MickeyD]

*subscribed*

New account details inserted.

It's 17h30 and my 1024 line is DL'ing (a torrent) at 98.8kB/s. Almost full speed....

 

[MickZA]

Out of interest, anyone running the 1MB account on a 4MB line?

Yes, see my posts in this thread. My 1Mb uncapped ran at full speed until last week when Telkom finally figured out how to throttle it down to 1.05Mb on the MyBB speedtest. The daytime additional throttling is not happening ATM.

I got my monthly billing last night and there were no nasty surprises - R369 as stated on their pricelist.

 

[Smackit247]

Currently downloading @110Kb/s directly from a site. Will post feedback on torrents. So far so good.

 

[blunt]

Can you please show us some traceroute's?
1) hetzner.co.za
2) hetzner.de
3) gmail.com

If you don't mind... while the line has no downloads running

 

[MickeyD]

C:\>tracert telkom.co.za

Tracing route to telkom.co.za [196.43.22.222] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967293 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 11 ms 7 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 49 ms 46 ms 45 ms 196.43.39.166
4 50 ms 46 ms 46 ms rrba-ip-bssr-1-ge-2-48.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.23.6]
5 42 ms 50 ms 44 ms nbsc-ip-bssr-2-atm-5-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.23.34]
6 52 ms 49 ms * nbsc-ip-rcache-1-vif2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.22.222]
7 53 ms 49 ms 53 ms nbsc-ip-rcache-1-vif2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.22.222]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert mweb.co.za

Tracing route to mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967293 ms 4294967293 ms 4294967293 ms 192.168.1.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 32 ms 31 ms 32 ms 196.43.11.234
4 24 ms 27 ms 25 ms 196.43.25.206
5 27 ms 31 ms 28 ms 197-84-4-22.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.22]
6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms vlan11.cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.99]
7 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 196-28-178-34.adsl.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.34]
8 26 ms 29 ms 29 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert hetzner.co.za

Tracing route to hetzner.co.za [41.203.23.117] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967294 ms <1 ms 4294967294 ms 192.168.1.1
2 11 ms 7 ms 8 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 28 ms 24 ms 24 ms 196.43.11.234
4 20 ms 20 ms 18 ms 196.43.25.206
5 32 ms 17 ms 18 ms ge0-3.br2.cpt1.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.7.8.206]
6 46 ms 48 ms 46 ms vlan9.hr3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.156.136]
7 43 ms 39 ms 43 ms core-router1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.30.213.108]
8 49 ms 45 ms 46 ms 196.30.132.165
9 46 ms 49 ms 46 ms hetzner.co.za [41.203.23.117]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert hetzner.de

Tracing route to hetzner.de [213.133.107.227] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967294 ms 4294967294 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 11 ms 11 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 42 ms 41 ms 46 ms 196.43.10.130
6 40 ms 40 ms 44 ms 196.43.33.5
7 245 ms 247 ms 244 ms lon-ip-dir-telecity-gig-4-0-1025.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.18.121]
8 244 ms 244 ms 245 ms ge9-16.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.13.13]
9 248 ms 249 ms 246 ms linx-2.init7.net [195.66.226.175]
10 252 ms 251 ms 253 ms r1ams1.core.init7.net [77.109.128.149]
11 252 ms 264 ms 251 ms r1fra1.core.init7.net [77.109.128.153]
12 255 ms 259 ms 253 ms gw-hetzner.init7.net [77.109.135.18]
13 258 ms 267 ms 256 ms hos-bb1.juniper1.fs.hetzner.de [213.239.240.242]
14 264 ms 264 ms 264 ms hos-tr1.ms-ex3k1.rz11.hetzner.de [213.239.236.67]
15 260 ms 260 ms 257 ms www.hetzner.de [213.133.107.227]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert gmail.com

Tracing route to gmail.com [72.14.203.18] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967294 ms <1 ms 4294967294 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 51 ms 47 ms 50 ms 196.43.10.130
6 50 ms 46 ms 50 ms 196.43.33.5
7 192 ms 193 ms 194 ms hkg-ip-dir-hongkong-pos-3-2-4.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.18.214]
8 193 ms 209 ms 193 ms 72.14.196.129
9 194 ms 193 ms 193 ms 209.85.241.58
10 220 ms 215 ms 218 ms 209.85.250.120
11 223 ms 217 ms 223 ms 209.85.243.23
12 223 ms 224 ms 218 ms 209.85.241.166
13 222 ms 220 ms 222 ms tx-in-f18.1e100.net [72.14.203.18]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert gmail.co.za

Tracing route to gmail.co.za [196.41.214.134] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4294967294 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms dsl-145-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.145.0.1]
3 49 ms 46 ms 46 ms rndf-ip-esr-4-gig-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.25.6]
4 45 ms 41 ms 45 ms data-pro-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.238.90]
5 48 ms 51 ms 51 ms fisheagle.wm.co.za [196.41.214.134]

Trace complete.

 

[MickeyD]

Hehehehe - interesting... traceroute to Mweb is better than to Telkom itself!!!

 

[blunt]

Thanks that is quite strange hehe.

Pings aren't as good as I'd expect from Telkom

 

[xrapidx]

**** it - been on hold now for 10min just to apply... you can see Telkom doesn't need new business if the sales line is this slow.