telkom not hard capped?

[s2000]

If i apply the 3gb , is that mean i can use exceed 3 gb usuage and wont stop the adsl service?

 

[ToAsTeD]

If i apply the 3gb , is that mean i can use exceed 3 gb usuage and wont stop the adsl service?

If they arent hardcapping, then that is correct, ull be capped internationally, but locally will be unlimited.. altho ive seen quiet a few ppl around that arent getting capped at all on saix based accounts.. so yeh..

 

[Silent_Bob]

saix based account are meant to be hard capped, my mate has a telkomsa account and so far he has downloaded around 30 gigs this month and no hard cap

 

[s2000]

saix based account are meant to be hard capped, my mate has a telkomsa account and so far he has downloaded around 30 gigs this month and no hard cap

download 30 gig for local or international?

 

[wyldcyde]

yeah i have telkom 3gb account and so far im on 14gb... it went over 3gb over a week ago. I notice no difference in local and international browsing/downloading at the moment... so either its a glitch with telkom or they've changed how they cap.

The way it usually works is that once you go over 3gb, international slows down to the point its unusable (obviously that includes skype, p2p, msging) but local is fast and isn't capped...

so the trick is to find a local proxy server so at least http traffic stays fast the remainder of the month.

What i'm hoping they've done is that instead of connection being slowed to unusable after 3gb, they've rather just lowered the priority of my connection or put me on a link with worse contention/user ratio... i can handle a slower connection, just not one that doesn't work.

wyldcyde

 

[HellB0y]

Chaps, it's simple, keep your usage as per normal and all will be fine. There are no more soft caps and all traffic is anywhere traffic, so there should be no effect in the serivce, infact it's an improvement. The serivce is based on a hard cap, however it will only be impossed once the average of 3GB has been reached accross all the subscribers. So it's no glitch it's planned, the higher the average use reaches the sooner the hard cap will come into effect.

 

[fivelza]

Chaps, it's simple, keep your usage as per normal and all will be fine. There are no more soft caps and all traffic is anywhere traffic, so there should be no effect in the serivce, infact it's an improvement. The serivce is based on a hard cap, however it will only be impossed once the average of 3GB has been reached accross all the subscribers. So it's no glitch it's planned, the higher the average use reaches the sooner the hard cap will come into effect.

So how is this fair if all other ISP's are hardcapping at 3gb

 

[cyberbob]

Chaps, it's simple, keep your usage as per normal and all will be fine. There are no more soft caps and all traffic is anywhere traffic, so there should be no effect in the serivce, infact it's an improvement. The serivce is based on a hard cap, however it will only be impossed once the average of 3GB has been reached accross all the subscribers. So it's no glitch it's planned, the higher the average use reaches the sooner the hard cap will come into effect.

this sounds like a load of croc ... anyone able to back tjis up or confirm it?

 

[Kropotkin]

Chaps, it's simple, keep your usage as per normal and all will be fine. There are no more soft caps and all traffic is anywhere traffic, so there should be no effect in the serivce, infact it's an improvement. The serivce is based on a hard cap, however it will only be impossed once the average of 3GB has been reached accross all the subscribers. So it's no glitch it's planned, the higher the average use reaches the sooner the hard cap will come into effect.

So, if you download like mad in the first couple of days of the month you won't be capped, simply because the other people on the network don't know about this yet.

Cool, now just drop the price another R300 per month and I'll start considering ADSL.

So how is this fair if all other ISP's are hardcapping at 3gb

I think this is an option for all SAIX ISPs if you take a look at the pre 1 Nov communication sent to ISPs. The problem is that probably only TelkomInternet have a large enough user base to ensure that they don't only have high usage users but have a nice spread of low usage users to high usage users.