Uncapped ADSL acceptable use policies compared

In theory, Telkom's Do Uncapped offering looks the best by far.

In practice, who knows. :confused:
 
Personally like the look of WebAfrica's offering...

Usage between 00:00 and 07:00 doesn’t contribute to overall usage.
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mmmmm....
 
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I also like the look of Telkom's FUP. I don't need a 4Meg business account though so will wait for the 4meg home account.
 
I'm not opposed to WA's offering, the FUP daily limits are more than fair, but the weekly limits are set a little too low for my taste. They're still a tad vague on their throttling/shaping policy. I'm sure everything will be great for people that jump on the WA Uncapped wagon early, but what's gonna happen a few months down the line when everyone else jumps in?
 
Yayyy thanks for listening to my suggestion and doing this article :D
 
And the inability to constantly get the speed you pay for concerns no-one...

What happened to the good 'ol days where "Uncapped" meant "Uncapped"... ?

Telkom could release a "20MB Uncapped" offering where you get 20MB speeds - For 50MB a day, and then it drops you to a 128k line for the rest of the day - Yes, you have a 20MB Uncapped line - But good luck trying to DO anything with it :D
 
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Web Africa is just silly for 384k. You want to download that 400mb update for BF3, now after the 3 hours it took to download, you still have to wait for the 6-hour period to pass to play the game. Remember, anything throttled on 384k is unusable.
 
dont bother with telkom and any other isp running on the IS backbone.
 
The true cost of uncapped

Here is what goes into providing uncapped:

- International IP transit with tier 1 provider
- International hosting space a international exchange point
- International cross connect charges at international exchange points
- International submarine cable charge
- International and local cross connect charges at landing stations
- Redundant international submarine cable charge
- Local backhaul bandwidth charges
- Redundant local backhaul bandwidth charges
- Local IP transit charges with the local bandwidth cartel
- Local bandwidth charges to connect to the local bandwidth cartel
- Local hosting space at local exchange points
- Local cross connect charges at local exchange points
- Local bandwidth charges to local exchange points
- Local hosting space for ISP core
- Redundant local host space for ISP core
- Bandwidth charges to interconnect core
- Bandwidth charges to connect to broadband access medium
- Broadband access medium charges
- ISP core equipment and maintenance charges
- ISP transmission equipment and maintenance charges
- ISP access equipment and maintenance charges
- ISP customer provisioning charges
- ISP customer service charges
- ISP billing charges
- ISP collection charges
- ISP customer acquistition and marketing charges
- ISP staff charges
- Stakeholder revenue and investment return
- Regulatory taxes and charges

(and maybe something else that I have overlooked...)

If you estimate what each of the charges are for 1 Mb/s, add them all together, then you have the true cost of 1 Mb/s uncapped. AND IT IS NOT A COUPLE OF HUNDRED BUCKS. The only way to make it affordable is an AUP. However, the AUP must be crystal clear!
 
Once again, everyone is ignoring the fact that the only remotely "fair" Fair Use Policy is MWEB, the only one on the list that gives you actual uncapped. But like they say, haters gonna hate. Or in this case, haters gonna ignore.
 
FUP = F***ed Up Product. Especially from Afrihost or Axxess.
 
Right now nobody does uncapped as well as mweb at the same price point.

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very good article. Should be stickied to the ADSL forum IMO.

I'm on Axxess: their AUP is ok And I get 200 Gb per month on 1 Meg line, so It is very good in practice.

On paper I'd say that the Telkom and Webafrica one's are also very good. probable be able to get 250 Gb on the Telkom account as Axxess basically slows my internet down so that it doesnt work any more during the day.
 
Tns said:
dont bother with telkom and any other isp running on the IS backbone.
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Ignore this guy. He keeps telling people the Telkom one uses the IS network. Everyone with a brain knows that Telkom has the largest capacity network in SA. She makes Mweb look like a kid in a skirt.

So far on the Telkom feedback thread, they have had only good things to say as no one is shaped.
 
Great work MBD! This is the kinda article we want to see.

Telkom and MWEB seem to have the most high user, consumer friendly FUPs.

I've been doing on average of 200GB-250GB a month with Mweb, and its still running at full speeds (besides office hours shaping).

Well done to Telkom though, from a history of spat of expensive 3GB offerings to "500GB is probably excessive".

I dont know why the ISPs are offering those uncapped solutions. What a why to jump onto the product band wagon just to look good.
 
You forgot that MWEB will also boot you off the network.
 
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