TelkomSA CAP Report emails - missing?

[mikef]

This may be a bit of topic but how did you use your local before your blended?

If you where on local only connection to your account and do not reset it at monthend you will start using the new months local on that session. This continues until the session is reset for any reason. Any session commenced in the new month will connect to your blended allocation.

 

[gregmcc]

This may be a bit of topic but how did you use your local before your blended?

If your capped at the end of the month and don't reset your router you will still only be able to connect to local sites from the 1st. The downloads will all be local until you reset your router and then have int access again.

 

[Kaufies]

If you where on local only connection to your account and do not reset it at monthend you will start using the new months local on that session. This continues until the session is reset for any reason. Any session commenced in the new month will connect to your blended allocation.

Thanks, I'm gonna try that perhaps a certain server won't be so overloaded in the beginning of the month

EDIT: Sorry - I only saw Kaufie's stats after posting. How do you do that Kaufie?

I'm not sure I follow- do what

 

[mikef]

Thanks, I'm gonna try that perhaps a certain server won't be so overloaded in the beginning of the month

TI is actually quite robust and I have frequently had a session spanning over 10 days before resetting (other intentionally by myself or due to a network error or power failure). As I personally do not do much downloading I have not really tried to keep it going much longer.

It works quite well if you set the ADSL router/modem into half-bridge mode and establish a PPPoE connection directly from the modem. As long as this session is commenced after you have been capped and you then ensure that you do not reset it after monthend that session will stay on local. Whenever you need international start an additional PPPOE connection from the individual PC.

 

[Kaufies]

TI is actually quite robust and I have frequently had a session spanning over 10 days before resetting (other intentionally by myself or due to a network error or power failure). As I personally do not do much downloading I have not really tried to keep it going much longer.

It works quite well if you set the ADSL router/modem into half-bridge mode and establish a PPPoE connection directly from the modem. As long as this session is commenced after you have been capped and you then ensure that you do not reset it after monthend that session will stay on local. Whenever you need international start an additional PPPOE connection from the individual PC.

Thanks for the advice. I just got a secondary Afrihost account so this should work well for me

 

[Drunkard #1]

This may be a bit of topic but how did you use your local before your blended?

See this thread for Mikrotik and a few others for Linksys, IPCop, and so on.

I got 20 days this month, but I disconnected manually to avoid being charged for excess local data.

I suspect that they have made the change to bring the usage notifications in line with their current practice of no longer allowing a joint threshold.

I would be surprised if they start deducting excess blended usage from the next month as such usage is totally outside the customers control and if it occurs would be as a result of their systems not working efficiently.

The joint threshold was done away with a few months back, and they removed any reference to it from their emails shortly after that. I also doubt that they'll deduct excess usage from next month, it's not my fault that they don't cap me quickly enough. I'd actually prefer to be capped at exactly 5 gigs, because if I'm not capped before month end, I can't use my 30 gigs of local for the next month. We'll have to wait and see.

Edit: Afrihost has said that any usage over your cap will be deducted from next months cap. Telkom isn't Afrihost, so it's anyones guess.

 

[mikef]

The joint threshold was done away with a few months back, and they removed any reference to it from their emails shortly after that. I also doubt that they'll deduct excess usage from next month, it's not my fault that they don't cap me quickly enough. I'd actually prefer to be capped at exactly 5 gigs, because if I'm not capped before month end, I can't use my 30 gigs of local for the next month. We'll have to wait and see.

The joint threshold was reportedly done away with some time ago - however my usage emails received until 9 Oct still referred to this joint threshold. The usage email received today was the first email not to contain such reference.

 

[snobee]

Yes, mine hasn't appeared this whole month, except today.

 

[Drunkard #1]

The joint threshold was reportedly done away with some time ago - however my usage emails received until 9 Oct still referred to this joint threshold. The usage email received today was the first email not to contain such reference.

My mistake, it does appear on the 9 Oct email. But there was definitely a change compared to earlier (June) emails, I just can't remember what.

 

[Underworld]

They will not charge you for "exceeded data"/leakage, I think the reason why they inserted it was to indicate your exact capping value. Telkom has never billed for leakage, if you TopUp it adds the exceeded data then adds the TopUp on top of that. Like this one month I used 5.3 GB on my 5GB package...after TopUp of 1 GB my new cap value turned to 6.3. I know other ISP's actually deduct leakage from the new month which I feel is unfair as it's not the consumers fault.

Telkom will however charge you for local bandwidth used over and above the free bandwidth they allocated to you, so be aware.

 

[chutzpah44]

I suddenly got a usage report yesterday, the first time this month. It looks like they did some changes and it took 3 weeks to implement

 

[FlyingPika]

Does telkom charge you pro rate over your local limit, or is it quantized in R15 charge soon as you start using another gig?

I always go like 0.04gigs over my limit and wonder if I should get my monies worth for the full gig or just leave it?

 

[waynegohl]

also missed mine for a few weeks now but then when i start getting them again i start getting a few a day. i also see they have a blended data amount now which we never had before.