Uncapped packages have destroyed the network.

[D34M0n7]

Come now, lets not ruin a good story with facts. Telkom is the bad one. Telkom who had to help out carry this precious Seacom traffic. Telkom who is upgrading to 10Mb lines. lol. The problem is not with Telkom, but with the ISPs who could all magically pull an uncapped service out of the hat after Mweb.

Ofcourse they will throttle the service and make it perform "poor". Else all their previous lies about no bandwith would be exposed.

It is somewhat telkoms fault, as they own the LLU and that gives them the ability to charge epic amounts from the ISPs, this causes them to have less money to spend on a good connection that in turn harms the consumer.

If telkom released the LLU, we'd see much better internet access (especially after the new cables arrive) at considerably lower prices.

The main reason ISPs don't have capacity is because of telkoms prices.

 

[pARTY_pIRATE]

I am using Cybersmart 4Mbps with Night Rider and weekendeblahblahblahblahblah

There is your problem. Been with Cybersmart for years. Discovered Openweb in Jan and have since moved many hundreds of gigs with little or no hassle. Even the 'crap' uncapped Openweb/IS account outperforms my Cybersmart account in international speed and latency (not to mention that total traffic for last month exceeded 300 gigs)

Maybe try placing a call with their friendly and helpful support staff.

 

[cavedog]

I have a account that uses cybersmart bandwidth too and its SLOW!

I don't think its uncapped causing the problem here. I just think its people in high positions at the ISP trying to make more money by not having sufficient bandwidth.

And when one raises the problem they simply don't care.

I called and said the internet is slow. They told me to reset my router and said they will have to log a fault with Telkom.......

Now that is some really good advice from some one that knows **** about internet!

 

[pARTY_pIRATE]

Maybe try placing a call with their friendly and helpful support staff.

And when one raises the problem they simply don't care.

I called and said the internet is slow. They told me to reset my router and said they will have to log a fault with Telkom.......

Now that is some really good advice from some one that knows **** about internet!

 

[gwainw]

I just switched on Netlimiter and throttled down to 300KB/s giving you 25% of my bandwidth

 

[D34M0n7]

Exactly, its not the uncapped users fault, they pay for uncapped they get uncapped and they use their internet as they see fit.

If you are with an ISP that provides a slow connection then perhaps its time to move away from them.

And btw, people can't DL 100's of GBs a day, the max someone with a 4mb/s line can DL if their line is operating 100% efficiency all day is 42GB.

1024*4 = 4096
4096/8 = 512
512*60*60 = 1843200
1843200*24 = 44236800
44236800/1024 = 43200
43200/1024 = 42.1875 GB a day with 100% efficiency (which is impossible)

42.1875*30 = 1265.625 GB a month with 100% efficiency 24/7 (which is impossible)

 

[LazyLion]

no problems here... still running at full speed. Are you sure the problems are not related to network maintenance issues like the recent Seacom outage?

 

[LazyLion]

There is your problem. Been with Cybersmart for years. Discovered Openweb in Jan and have since moved many hundreds of gigs with little or no hassle. Even the 'crap' uncapped Openweb/IS account outperforms my Cybersmart account in international speed and latency (not to mention that total traffic for last month exceeded 300 gigs)

Maybe try placing a call with their friendly and helpful support staff.

Agreed. Last month I ran a test on the Axxess uncapped express and it seemed to average around 330 to 380 kbps. Switched back to OpenWeb again today and my speeds are back to 420 kbps.

 

[Schickelgruber]

Okay so in summary I should not blame the Users but the ISP (Cybersmart) ? Makes sense I guess.

 

[Sensou]

And btw, people can't DL 100's of GBs a day, the max someone with a 4mb/s line can DL if their line is operating 100% efficiency all day is 42GB.

Exactly, and by now, any 4mb uncapped user would know that just getting 10gb's a day would be the American dream come true!

Rofl @ the OP... 100 of gb's per day hahaha not in this country mate

 

[psichron]

Schickelgruber is a dumbass

Well I only download on the weekend with maximum 3 GB cap per month. I have every right to complain because I do NOT abuse the internet for free stuff. Seriously, if people still cannot afford Music CDs, movies etc then you should all get a better job or go back to school and try again for a better future so you can afford $15 DVDs instead of downloading them and ruining the network for most.

First of all, DVD's in Africa does not cost $15 like it does in New York City where you are from. Here it costs at least twice that amount and the vast majority of our countrymen cannot afford it. It seems that after three months of living here you still fail to grasp the reality of living in a developing country.

Second of all, South Africa has been so hungry for cheap bandwidth for so long that all of this is to be expected. There are so many streaming services we can now begin to enjoy like watching sports online, streaming radio stations and youtube videos that we couldn't really do in the past. We can even start buying Steam games and supporting other online game retailers.

Please don't deliver ignorant comments on forums where you don't understand the people, culture and history.

 

[The_Assimilator]

@ the OP:

/care

Not our problem if you choose to use a sucky ISP.

 

[psichron]

I am using Cybersmart 4Mbps with Night Rider and weekender 3. This effectively means I am able to download around 200 - 500 GB with my 3 GB cap.

Well I only download on the weekend with maximum 3 GB cap per month. I have every right to complain because I do NOT abuse the internet for free stuff.

Kind of contradicting yourself there a bit....... What -do- you use that 200-500GB for then?

 

[Riot2]

lol... cry more
contrary to what u may think u do not own the internet
i havent noticed any issues, my capped accounts run exactly as they did b4, my uncapped account maxes the line (as it did b4, express uncapped)
everyone pays for what they get
the "cheap" uncapped are throttled to the point that the only time they can do enough traffic to affect other users is at night....
and thats even only in theory
ur service is prolly exactly as it was b4, u just now have something to blame an imaginary problem on

 

[PeterCH]

Seriously, ever since this uncapped garbage has been introduced my Internet connection has gone from amazing to good to bad to absolutely suicide worthy. The answer is clear and simple! Telkom cannot handle the traffic and amount of bandwith being downloaded/uploaded on the current infrastructure.

I am using Cybersmart 4Mbps with Night Rider and weekender 3. This effectively means I am able to download around 200 - 500 GB with my 3 GB cap. Now this is feasible for the network traffic but since uncapped has launched, people are downloading 100s of GB per day! I mean WTF are you guys busy downloading?? this is pathetic and ridiculous by both users and ISPs. Users because they are inconsiderate and download 100s of GB per day effectively meaning some of us or most of us are left without any internet to use! And f------ ISPs because they rushed into this uncapped garbage without taking into consideration of how bad! the network will become due to lack of proper infrastructure!

My latency is 3x more than it used to be! I have not been able to use the damn internet during the day for more than a month now and something HAS to be done!

Enjoying your hypocritical rant? I'm on uncapped and I've done 235GB on MWEB in April. My speeds are fine BTW and HTTP goes at 440KB 24/7.

What should be done?
Maybe you should stop downloading.

 

[PeterCH]

Kind of contradicting yourself there a bit....... What -do- you use that 200-500GB for then?

Ignore him. He's trolling. Some people who thought were specialists for using certain high b/w packages are now upset because anyone can get an uncapped account (without various BS offers and digging around through obscure providers). Their secret is out - they want everyone else to use 2-3GB per month and pay R600+ for it so they can download 500GB pm cheap.

 

[Sensou]

I'm on uncapped and I've done 235GB on MWEB in April. My speeds are fine BTW and HTTP goes at 440KB 24/7.

And just FYI... Peter's tally of 235gb for april is a very healthy total done in a month, alot of 4mb uncapped users dont make it to 200gb's...

235gbs / 31 days = 7.5gb's a day (on average)

Not bad at all!

So where on earth you got the notion in your head that some of us do 100's of gb's per day... is far far beyond us

 

[undesign]

Hmmm...MWEB does seem to be the way to go. The Axxess uncapped is totally crap. Axxess Express is great, but R999. I do about 60-80gb a month - not excessive I would think, but we I need something I don't want to wait the whole day (especially on a weekend) to download 1.5gb on a 4 meg line - like Axxess atm.

 

[Schickelgruber]

Kind of contradicting yourself there a bit....... What -do- you use that 200-500GB for then?

Goes to waste. I only use 20 GB maximum in a month. In the USA, I used to use over 100GB every month because the speed was quick at all times.

 

[Schickelgruber]

Ignore him. He's trolling. Some people who thought were specialists for using certain high b/w packages are now upset because anyone can get an uncapped account (without various BS offers and digging around through obscure providers). Their secret is out - they want everyone else to use 2-3GB per month and pay R600+ for it so they can download 500GB pm cheap.

Why would I troll when I could be playing Killzone 2 or something else right now? the fact is that the internet is garbage and this is the only place to rant about it. I have anger issues and thank heavens I found a non-violent way to express my thoughts, ala this website. JAJA xD