Telkom local bandwidth question

D

doonit

Active Member
Joined
Oct 16, 2008
Messages
85
Reaction score
5
Location
Cape Town
So, Telkom has graciously allowed us some more bandwidth to play with on certain contracts, bringing us that little bit closer to the 21st century...a gesture that I'm eternally grateful for.
If I understand correctly, I now have 9 gigs of www and 30gigs of local bandwidth. Yesterday I spent the entire day surfing the web and in the end I had not even used a meg of local bandwidth, and this seriously confuses me.
Please can someone define "Local Bandwidth" for me? I know this seems like a really stupid question but I'm genuinely confused. What is it, and where does one find it. 30gigs seems like an incomprehensibly huge amount of data! How can such a big thing be so well hidden? :-)
 
Last edited:
Local Bandwidth can only be used AFTER the international is finished. Yes - it is stupid.
 
I've just spent 5 mins thinking about that and I seriously cant see the sense! Does that mean that, even if I knew what local bandwidth was and where to find it, which I dont, that browsing it would come out of my 9gigs until the 9gigs was used up? Huh???
 
Once your bandwidth is finished, you can access local sites. I.e. sites hosted in SA. This means that you can still access absa, fnb, News24 (I think!), your telkom mail, etc. Yeah, it's silly that it only kicks in after international is done, but at least you've gotten access to the basics.
 
30 (thirty) gigs of FNB's gonna be a real hoot! I appreciate that I can still use local after the international's been killed, really. But 30 gigs? Couldn't they rather give me 1gig of local and, like, 5gigs more www?
 
What happens once you top up? Does it *again* use up your international top up first?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X