Telkom uncapped ADSL explained in detail

If I buy the Battlefield 3 package I wonder if I can finally get them to fix my line. I tried out the BattleField 3 Beta, but it's unplayable with 500-800ms pings to local servers.

Traceroute shows the latency is on the very first hop.

Telkom technicians tell me the they can see there is a problem, but they make no guarantees on latency, they hand the fault over to the cabling department, who then promptly closes the fault.
 
gregmcc said:
+ One hundred million.
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Its just crazy. If they offered uncapped at this price, but with no shaping or throttling, they would have every single uncapped subscriber jump ship to them. Or if they offered exactly what they are offering, but undercut the competition....

I simply do not understand this company.
 
copacetic said:
Pity the internet is quite often international then. :p
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That was to answer a specific question.

At least they are being honest and open about their throttling on international... what other ISPs have published their throttling policies?

Do Uncapped 1Mbps - 6AM to 6PM: Up to 472kbps - 6AM to 10PM: Up to 767kbps - 10PM to 6AM: Up to 1Mbps. No restriction on local traffic
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This is better than my Afrihost account.
 
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I know this is telkom and so on, but my opinion is that telkom offering uncapped products (once more, after all these years) is more significant than most people think.

I am also going to stick my neck out and predict that their uncapped products will perform better than their competitor's uncapped offerings.
 
MickeyD said:
That was to answer a specific question.

At least they are being honest and open about their throttling on international... what other ISPs have published their throttling policies?

This is better than my Afrihost account.
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I know, was just kidding.

If the throttling is like that exactly, then it's not too bad, as in, torrents are full speed from 10 PM - 6 AM, and at the max the other times, but if torrents are still subject to general network load like MWEB do, for example, I won't be impressed at all.
 
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Uncapped bandwidth is like insurance: it's expensive and it degenerates over time.
 
@ranger & McD: Thanks for clarifying

Drunkard #1 said:
Ja, what do they mean by that? Local gets full account speed or full line speed. If it's full line speed, then I'm :D. 8Mbps local uncapped for R 219! Probably isn't.:cry:
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The 219 is for 384k. I don't think you'll get 8mbps on local?
 
HavocXphere said:
The 219 is for 384k. I don't think you'll get 8mbps on local?
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The gamer package is a 10Mbps line and a 1Mbps account. Why would they do that unless you could use the fast line for something. I don't think they'll encourage you to use other capped accounts on the same line?
 
Roman4604 said:
Well thats the big question, is local unrestricted relative to the account or line speed?
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My logic says Account speed.

Remember that Telkom may not provide a different service to TelkomInternet than it provides to any of their other wholesale customers.
 
If it is the way you hope it is then I foresee the filesharing crowd abandoning Mweb & co entirely. 10mbps running local torrents 24/7 can move a truckload of data. Enough to clog most exchanges with a couple of such ppl.

Drunkard #1 said:
Why would they do that unless you could use the fast line for something.
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This IS Telkom were talking about.
 
Drunkard #1 said:
The gamer package is a 10Mbps line and a 1Mbps account. Why would they do that unless you could use the fast line for something. I don't think they'll encourage you to use other capped accounts on the same line?
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"Customer service, can I help you?"
"My interwebs are super slow!"
"You must upgrade your account to the 10mbps profile to fix, should I do this for you?"
"Sure!"
Skip to month end, open bill.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
 
Drunkard #1 said:
The gamer package is a 10Mbps line and a 1Mbps account.
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A more pertinant question would be, with the std Do Uncapped 384kbps can I gun a 10Mbps line at full speed from local sites 24/7?
 
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They say that the speed reduction during the day won't effect local.
So with gaming through origin or steam, once you connect to a local server and enter the game you shouldn't have any restrictions.
Does anyone know if I'm correct or not.
 
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