Telkom LTE Data requirements

How much data do you need per month?

  • <200GB

    Votes: 13 11.9%

  • 200-250GB

    Votes: 8 7.3%

  • 250-300GB

    Votes: 21 19.3%

  • 300-400GB

    Votes: 29 26.6%

  • 400-500GB

    Votes: 25 22.9%

  • >500GB

    Votes: 13 11.9%
  • Total voters
    109
Thepax said:
I think 500GB is fine for full speed. Even though a couple of hours of Netflix every day will take at least a 400GB chomp out of it. So my suggest throttle down to 10Mbps after 500GB then throttle down to 5Mbps after 800GB then down to 2Mbsp after 1TB, but I would suggest to never ever have to go below 2Mbps throttling.
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Also, another option they can give us, is to allow, PPPOE connections over this at unthrottled speeds. Then I would be happy with a 500GB throttled service.
 
Zyzzyva said:
400gb would make it stress free for me. I tend to average around 300gb, some months low 200's other months nearly 400gb. But given Telkom's reluctance to give more gigs i feel like 10 gigs a day throttled to 512kbps with 12 to 7am not counting would be easy an easy sell. That should take care of one to two netflix streams and large downloads like games or OS updates overnight when we sleep. Not being able to download the odd 40 gig game overnight is extremely restrictive. At the moment with 6.6gb(200 gig threshold) a day you know the moment you download a game it's going to cost you nearly a week's data. That is not internet freedom.
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I had a similar thought to say do 100GB over per week, with weekends excluded or 100GB per week, excluding data between 00:00 and 06:00.
 
AirWolf said:
Perhaps a better solution (from the start) would have been a 3 (or 4) tier product eg. lite, medium, heavy, super etc.
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What they should have done is copied their DSL products. 4, 8, 10, 20 and 40mbps, at similar pricing and similar thresholds. I would have been over the moon to get off unstable DSL and onto a last mile connection which was more consistent and allowed me to still use DSL accounts from other ISP's.
 
Zyzzyva said:
What they should have done is copied their DSL products. 4, 8, 10, 20 and 40mbps, at similar pricing and similar thresholds. I would have been over the moon to get off unstable DSL and onto a last mile connection which was more consistent and allowed me to still use DSL accounts from other ISP's.
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Not everyone wants low speed/low cap or high speed/high cap.
 
Lament said:
Hi, Can one of the mods please change this into a poll.

I would like to create a poll as to what you think is a fair amount of data before they start throttling us. Please bare in mind it does not help you say 600gb+ because we know this does not sit well with Telkom. Let's are fair and conservative, rather looking at it as a minimum you can live with. That Jacqui lady said we can engage her and I know for a fact they monitor this forum. Let's meet each other half way.

Mods, I would suggest we use the following as options

150 - 200 GB
200 - 250 GB
250 - 300Gb
300 - 350 Gb
350 - 400 Gb
400 - 500 Gb
500gb +
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Hey mate have you posted this on the Telkom Page (FB or otherwise) for the other users to see? Are we allowed to do that? if so, may I do that?
 
AirWolf said:
Not everyone wants low speed/low cap or high speed/high cap.
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Being able to choose line speed and data(from any ISP) separately would allow people to design a package to fit their needs.
 
All said and done, we are still compromising on what was originally sold to us. But I would rather come to a compromise that suits people than just a blanket throttle.

I would hate to give this product up because the speeds are fantastic(for when you need them), I never used more than 500GB per month, until I got Netflix. So at the end of the day, perhaps I should downgrade my Netflix account to only do SD content, chuck in Sophos and do speed limiting and then just un-limit the speeds when I need it for something.

That said 200GB is still way too low.
 
Uncapped LTE with 100gb soft cap - R299 (Throttled to 2Mbps)
Uncapped LTE with 200gb soft cap - R499 (Throttled to 4Mbps)
Uncapped LTE with 300gb soft cap - R699 (Throttled to 4Mbps)
Uncapped LTE with 400gb soft cap - R799 (Throttled to 4Mbps)
Uncapped LTE with 500gb soft cap - R899 (Throttled to 4Mbps)
Uncapped LTE with 1TB soft cap - R1499 (Throttled to 10Mbps)
 
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