Telkom uncapped - shaped & throttled?

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GerWol

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Hi all,

Can someone please explain to me the extent to which a Telkom uncapped line (4 mb in my case) is shaped and/or throttled? How does t work in practice from an end-users point of view?:sick:

Thanks a lot.
 
You get full speed on common protocols during business hours (web etc - see below on this) and lower for p2p. After around 22:00 (i think) , all protocols are opened up so torrents go full speed.

There is an unspecified GB limit that if reached (possibly around 400GB but i can't be sure) to which you will be throttled to 1MB speed until the beginning of the month.

Only indication you get that you are close is by logging into the Ti Tracker for which there are bars with RED indicating you get throttled.

However, an email associated with your account will get a notification to warn you before it happens (think if you get billing via email).

Checkout the uncapped thread just above and read the last 10-30 pages to get an idea of what others have experienced.

Am on 10MB uncapped but there is a hiccup (only getting 4MB now) so until i get this resolved and around the 25th i can report back in the other thread what limit there is :D.

Need to save some GBs for E3 coming up :).

All above subject to correction (if any) from other Ti users.

Edit: basically anything besides torrents run at full speed from what i have seen. However you can wait until others have mentioned anything else that isn't fast.
 
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Yuu said:
You get full speed on common protocols during business hours (web etc) and lower for p2p. After around 22:00 (i think) , all protocols are opened up so torrents go full speed.

There is an unspecified GB limit that if reached (possibly around 400GB but i can't be sure) to which you will be throttled to 1MB speed until the beginning of the month.

Only indication you get that you are close is by logging into the Ti Tracker for which there are bars with RED indicating you get throttled.

However, an email associated with your account will get a notification to warn you before it happens (think if you get billing via email).

Checkout the uncapped thread just above and read the last 10-30 pages to get an idea of what others have experienced.

Am on 10MB uncapped but there is a hiccup (only getting 4MB now) so until i get this resolved and around the 25th i can report back in the other thread what limit there is :D.

Need to save some GBs for E3 coming up :).

All above subject to correction (if any) from other Ti users.
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Remember this is a guess based on forum posts. for example my line is unusable during the day for anything. and theres no congestion on tracert.
 
Yuu said:
You get full speed on common protocols during business hours (web etc) and lower for p2p. After around 22:00 (i think) , all protocols are opened up so torrents go full speed.
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Thanks for the info, but what does 'full speed on common protocols' include? Can I watch YouTube and iTunes streaming movies on full speed say at 1 pm during the day?
 
I have a stable 4Mbps line.
GT5 is the main game I play and the PD servers are honestly not great, but I almost never dc or lag and regularly host races, because of my stable line.

I can mostly play first person shooters okay. I'm in the Eastern Cape and ping is a bit slow compared to some of the other ISP's.

In general my PS3 experience is good.
 
GerWol said:
Thanks for the info, but what does 'full speed on common protocols' include? Can I watch YouTube and iTunes streaming movies on full speed say at 1 pm during the day?
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Oops, i will adjust the post with this info.

Youtube runs full speed, just about anything besides torrents from what i can see. I know the other "common" downloading protocol goes full speed if you need to get your "news" fix ;-).
 
what about netflix/hulu etc.
Is that shaped during the day at all?
 
pboy said:
what about netflix/hulu etc.
Is that shaped during the day at all?
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Streaming isn't shaped at all. But then again in my experience nothing appears to be shaped on Ti.

Only time its slow is when there are IPC issues etc (or you throttled)
 
I don't torrent. Downloaded 3 games (3 x 40gig each) on ps4 this month and netflix.

Have been throttled on 4 meg line to 0.4 downloads... have done 280gig so far this month. I find this ridiculous, phoned the center and they can't even give an explanation on why this is. The line is basically useless..
 
I'm on a 4Mbps uncapped account. Have done 276GB so far this month.

My TI Tracker shows:
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Wife is still streaming away. Son is still gaming away. I am still DL'ing after midnight with no throttling.
 
MickeyD said:
I'm on a 4Mbps uncapped account. Have done 276GB so far this month.

My TI Tracker shows:
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Wife is still streaming away. Son is still gaming away. I am still DL'ing after midnight with no throttling.
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I think Telkom thumb suck who they want to throttle each month. I got a response from social media that reached fair use policy limit.

This is so annoying.

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Chris_SA said:
I think Telkom thumb suck who they want to throttle each month. I got a response from social media that reached fair use policy limit.

This is so annoying.

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No thumb sucking involved. Its a well kept public secret, schduling downloads for after midnight makes a huge differenece in how much data one can use.
 
Gboss said:
Streaming isn't shaped at all. But then again in my experience nothing appears to be shaped on Ti.
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Same here. I did a torrent earlier today and as always it comes down at full speed. I've only ever been throttled once but I was really pushing it and it was only throttled like a day or two at the end of the month (Think I pulled about 260GB that month on my 2Mb/s line).

Have zero complaints except the latency for gaming could be a wee bit better but when I compare myself to other players it seems ok.
 
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1234567 said:
No thumb sucking involved. Its a well kept public secret, schduling downloads for after midnight makes a huge differenece in how much data one can use.
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Don't have it any other way... The only thing that was different this month I downloaded 80 gigs on ps4.
 
MickeyD said:
If you had scheduled it to download from 00h00-07h00 it would have taken 5 days and not counted towards your FUP allocation at all.
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Would have taken couple of days extra . Did about 15 gig during the day. Just find it absurd that you are "penalised" for using cap on psn.
 
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