Uncapped local

I am on TELKOM ASDL 3GIG (+1.5) soon to be 5. I get a daily report on my usage where local is always zero. I sort of understand I have 30gig local which kicks in after my 4.5 gig is used up, which has never happened.

Firstly what really is local? Is it sites that end .za only?

Secondly why all the fuss about how much local you get? In my case I never get to it so its meaningless.

Thirdly why can't the international and local run at the same time, so if I am on this site its part of my local and say Youtube its part of international.
 
I was kinda hoping there'd be someone offering uncapped local. I mean there exists uncapped international for around R800 (with some restrictions). One would expect there to be an uncapped local for far less.:confused:
 
chutzpah44 said:
Firstly what really is local? Is it sites that end .za only?

Secondly why all the fuss about how much local you get? In my case I never get to it so its meaningless.

Thirdly why can't the international and local run at the same time, so if I am on this site its part of my local and say Youtube its part of international.
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1. Local refers to sites which are hosted in South Africa.
2. There are ways to use it, trust me.
3. I don't know, maybe someone else can answer that. But what you can do is split local and international using two accounts.
 
chutzpah44 said:
Firstly what really is local? Is it sites that end .za only?

Secondly why all the fuss about how much local you get? In my case I never get to it so its meaningless.

Thirdly why can't the international and local run at the same time, so if I am on this site its part of my local and say Youtube its part of international.
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1.) Servers that are hosted in South Africa - be it .za or .com. One can get .co.za servers based in America = international or .com servers hosted in S.A = local.

2.) If you are more on the heavy downloading side of big files (i.e 3gb+) you are gonna need alot more than 4.5Gb. If that file happens to be hosted on local server you can use ur local cheap (30gb can be as cheap as R130) traffic to do this.

3.) They can. Search for a app called Routesentry.
 
TheRidDlerX said:
1.) Servers that are hosted in South Africa - be it .za or .com. One can get .co.za servers based in America = international or .com servers hosted in S.A = local.

2.) If you are more on the heavy downloading side of big files (i.e 3gb+) you are gonna need alot more than 4.5Gb. If that file happens to be hosted on local server you can use ur local cheap (30gb can be as cheap as R130) traffic to do this.

3.) They can. Search for a app called Routesentry.
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1.) And things that are transparently proxied, like www.nasa.gov or certian updates.

2.) No comment

3.) There is a method one can follow the force a single account to have both the blended and local only sessions active at once. Routesentry won't help make that happen though
 
Splitting Intl/Local is easy and has been gone over hundreds of times. I wrote a how-to guide for Windows Vista/7 (Check the sig)

I'm not quite sure how to use a blended account to split though.

As for local downloading... With the Mweb uncapped trial, members went to 900GB+ on a 384k line in a month... There will always be something someone in South Africa wants from another someone in South Africa and this will happen relentless.

Bottom line and sum up of thread: There is currently no ISP who offer uncapped Local-only bandwidth.
 
stroebs said:
I'm not quite sure how to use a blended account to split though.
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Dunno what is THE way to do this, but I tried this:

Make sure your account goes to local-only before the end of the month, so you have a local-only connection active. Then beginning of the new month, make a new ppp connection on the same ISP account, and you have one local-only and one blended connection you can use to split on. Course, this assumes that you are able to make simultaneous connections on your account, and that you never disconnect, otherwise you lose your local-only connection.

Doesn't work on my IS-based account, as I get disconnected every 24 hrs on it. Actually dunno if it will work on IS at all?

On SAIX at least you get a different-looking IP address when you are local only; something you can use in your firewall to make sure you don't accidentally use your blended account for downloading (unnecessary) local stuff ...
 
flagfox for Firefox tells you where the site that you are visiting is hosted... nice little app.

cept firefox is crashing a lot on me lately :/
 
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