Telkom uncapped ADSL monthly ceiling

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Don't know if this is being discussed elsewhere, please direct me if it is. I noticed that the monthly throttling ceiling is coming down month after month:

  • Jul: 115GB
  • Aug: 106GB
  • Sep: 104GB
  • Oct: 98GB

If this trend continues, it's better to just get a capped account, at least you can up your line speed without paying more for the data. Atm the 2Mbps Telkom uncapped costs R229 pm while 100GB costs R189 at Axxess. Do you guys also get throttled so soon? I recall some people would get 160GB+ in the past.
 
That doesn't sound right. What are you doing on the line month to month?
 
Yep, especially if it's alot and big downloads. If you eating into 100 plus gigs before the month is out, then it becomes a problem. best as always to schedule your downloads during 12 and 6, and stream and other smaller activities during the day. Its either 11pm or 12am to 6am night surfer.

Just an idea, im on a 2mbps line, and for 14 days, I did around 18GB's of data last month. Only streaming most of a day, whatsapp, the occasional play store app download my son does. So thats around less than 2 gigs a day. If I did that over a month, I'd be doing 60GB's.
 
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I googled around for more info on the Night Surfer but it only seems to apply to capped products, not to uncapped. In any case, I've got access to a capped package also, might just use that for the downloads.

PS @ Iceman: Do you have a capped package?
 
The exactly policy only applies to capped accounts but the idea applies to all. Telkom gets seriously miffed if you're a constant heavy daytime user.
 
Miffed, indeed - I'm also miffed :twisted: One thing I did notice though, that movie downloads from a certain legal (genuinely!) provider still runs at full speed after I've been throttled, very nice of them to leave that door open ;0)
 
Well their rationale is that if you download during the daytime you're potentially stuffing up and slowing down the network for businesses and so on, legit people that need max capacity for work and will clog up the Telkom call center if they don't get it. And if you download during the night it doesn't matter, all you nasty pirates can slow the net to a dial-up chug for all they care during those hours. And they will try and force you into this route (hence the seemingly decreasing ceiling). It doesn't matter if you download this or that now and then (every once in a while there's a 50GB Steam game I let download non-stop over 3 days and that's no problem but if I did that almost every day then Telkom would quickly consider me a nuisance to their network), but streaming is a constant strain and that's likely why you're being shaped.
 
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DearHeart said:
Don't know if this is being discussed elsewhere, please direct me if it is. I noticed that the monthly throttling ceiling is coming down month after month:
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No, it is not

  • Jul: 115GB
  • Aug: 106GB
  • Sep: 104GB
  • Oct: 98GB

If this trend continues, it's better to just get a capped account, at least you can up your line speed without paying more for the data. Atm the 2Mbps Telkom uncapped costs R229 pm while 100GB costs R189 at Axxess. Do you guys also get throttled so soon? I recall some people would get 160GB+ in the past.
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It depends how much you do between 00h00 and 07h00, which is not counted for the purposes of fair usage enforcement.

You basically had almost usage in NightSurfer time in October ...

BTW., that price is dictated by someone who will take us to court 'just like that' if our products are cheaper than theirs .... hopefully with the various changes going on at the moment that tactic (abusing regulatory bodies because Telkom) will become invalid soon. Of course, they can't use the same tactic against their other competitors, although I don't see why no-one has made the argument that MTN has a controlling share of the broadband market (including mobile broadband).
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try to schedule my downloads and do Windows updates early in the morning. I do a lot of Windows upgrades and re-installations and that invariably use substantial data. @SCHUMI-4-EVA, I only stream video in the evenings and weekends, the daytime usage is mostly work related.

@ranger, what do you mean by "You basically had almost usage in NightSurfer time in October ...", do you mean "no usage"? And do you determine that by the fact that my threshold is so low? In any case, it's happened a number of times now that I've switched between capped and uncapped packages, depending on which on gives more value. ATM capped looks like a better value proposition, without having to go into all the trouble of scheduling downloads at odd hours.
 
DearHeart said:
Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try to schedule my downloads and do Windows updates early in the morning. I do a lot of Windows upgrades and re-installations and that invariably use substantial data. @SCHUMI-4-EVA, I only stream video in the evenings and weekends, the daytime usage is mostly work related.

@ranger, what do you mean by "You basically had almost usage in NightSurfer time in October ...", do you mean "no usage"? And do you determine that by the fact that my threshold is so low? In any case, it's happened a number of times now that I've switched between capped and uncapped packages, depending on which on gives more value. ATM capped looks like a better value proposition, without having to go into all the trouble of scheduling downloads at odd hours.
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If you make full use of the 12 to 7 nighttime window you can do around 300 gigs a month. So it comes down to what you value more, quality or quantity, and when you want to download.
 
DearHeart said:
@ranger, what do you mean by "You basically had almost usage in NightSurfer time in October ...", do you mean "no usage"? And do you determine that by the fact that my threshold is so low?
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I assume so. And he determines it by being Telkom and looking at your usage stats.
 
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