As posted in another thread this has been an email telkom internet has sent out to quite a few consumers - seems it auto gets placed in JUNKMAIL folder though.
NEW!! TelkomInternet DSL TopUp and make sure to read about our exciting local bandwidth promotion!
Gone are the days that you had to purchase another username to continue surfing the Internet when you have reached your cap. With TelkomInternet DSL TopUp you can now purchase additional bandwidth (gigs) on your existing TelkomInternet AllAccess username.
TopUp is simple and easy with a MasterCard or Visa credit card. This TopUp facility will allow you to TopUp your account with Shaped Blended or Unshaped Blended depending on your current product.
What is Shaped bandwidth?
In layman’s terms, the shaped service prioritises keystroke activities - things you do while sitting in-front of your PC. So when you’re surfing your favourite site, doing your banking or checking your e-mail, this option will work best for you.
For those of you that need to know more, read on. The shaped service distinguishes between the various protocols used over the Internet. The main priority is HTTP. At present, all international HTTP traffic is transparently cached for ADSL users. All international un-cached data is shaped. The following un-cached protocols are prioritised on the network: HTTP (in certain cases HTTP is not cached due to website incompatibilities), HTTPS, FTP, Mail (POP3, SMTP and IMAP), SSH and TELNET. Any protocol not mentioned above will receive a lower priority on the network.
What is Unshaped bandwidth?
In layman’s terms, whichever activity you are doing or leaving your PC to do, while not there, all available bandwidth will be used for this application or protocol.
This service will offer you unshaped international bandwidth and a higher data transfer rate. The unshaped service will not shape the un-cached protocols. All protocols will therefore share the available bandwidth equally. Similarly, local bandwidth will remain as is with no shaping implemented. Keeping this in mind, this service is typically designed for a niche market including, for example, your typical Forex Trader, specific gaming applications, secure work from home options and VPN’s. All these applications can use unfamiliar protocols, which are not necessarily bandwidth intensive but require an unshaped service to work optimally.
What is Blended bandwidth?
Blended bandwidth is international and local bandwidth combined.
What is Local Only bandwidth?
Local only applies to servers that are hosted in South Africa. Please remember that this is not to say that .co.za is a local hosted server because anyone can purchase such a domain. TelkomInternet will suggest contacting the specific web master of that website to find out if their server is locally hosted.
What is “Gig” as used by Telkom?
In January 1999, the International Electronic Commission (IEC) introduced the prefixes kibi-(Kibibyte), mebi-, gibi-, etc., and the symbols Ki, Mi, Gi, etc. to clarify the ambiguity of binary prefixes which are often written and pronounced identically to the SI prefixes. On March 19, 2005 the IEEE promoted these binary terms in standard IEEE 1541-2002 (Prefixes for Binary Multiples), which now placed much more emphasis in the correct usage of binary terminology and prefixes. As of 2007, the IEC binary naming convention is still not extensively used.
When TelkomInternet establish their DSL line of products, binary terms such as Gibibyte and others were not common in the marketplace and ambiguity was still widespread when referring to KB, MB and GB. In order to not use unfamiliar language, TelkomInternet chose to incorporate the word “Gig” instead of “Gibi” in their product marketing. At the same time, the consequence of using this term and its associated ambiguity resulted in the decision to interpret a Gig as a Gibi, when actual calculations were performed. One gigabyte/GiByte is equal to 1024 x 1024 x 1024 Bytes, which implies that in 3Gig ADSL product indirectly implies that you are receiving 3 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 Bytes which is 3 221 225 472 Bytes of bandwidth in total. If decimal (base 10) and not binary (base 2) was used to calculate bandwidth, then a 3Gig product would result in you receiving 3 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 Bytes, which totals 3 000 000 000 Bytes, which is 7% less than 3 221 225 472 Bytes. TelkomInternet therefore calculates and bill bandwidth usage in such a manner, that should the ambiguity be disputed, it would stand to the benefit of you our subscriber. In theory, we are giving you 7% more value, than the IEEE standard stipulates.
In view of the IEEE standard which is becoming more familiar to the public, in conjunction with other top performing companies, TelkomInternet has an ongoing initiative to align with the standard. Hence forward we will be changing our calculation and reporting interfaces to more accurately reflect the IEEE standard’s interpretation and use of binary terminology.
To read more below is some references:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
How much will additional bandwidth (gigs) cost me?
Per Gig Excluding VAT
Per Gig including VAT
Blended Shaped
R 56.81
R 64.76
Blended un-shaped
R 99.42
R113.34
TopUp need to know!
An unshaped ADSL account can be topped up with additional unshaped blended only
A shaped ADSL account can be topped up with additional shaped blended only
All additional bandwidth purchased in a particular month will be available in the same month of purchase only and will be forfeited when the new calendar month starts. Therefore additional bandwidth purchased cannot be transferred from one month to the next.
Blended bandwidth (shaped or unshaped) will always be consumed first; thereafter you will be moved to the local only bandwidth, once you have reached your blended cap. This implies that should you be using your local only bandwidth and TopUp with blended bandwidth, upon the next login the blended bandwidth will receive priority (to be utilized first) and once consumed you will be moved back to your available local only bandwidth.
When you are using your local bandwidth and purchased additional blended bandwidth you will have to disconnect your Internet DSL connection and reconnect.
Additional bandwidth can be purchased in increments of 1 gig up to 99 gigs per transaction. There is no limit on the number of transactions.
Additional bandwidth purchased cannot be refunded or exchanged for cash.
Only the following realms will be allowed to make use of this top-up feature:
Realm
Network Shaping
telkomsa.net
Shaped
dsl.2gbsh.telkomsa.net
Shaped
dsl512telkomsa.net
Shaped
dsl512us.telkomsa.net
Unshaped
intekom.co.za
Shaped
tips
Shaped
Should you experience any problems please don’t hesitate to contact our TelkomInternet helpdesk at 0800 500 200
NOW for the exciting promotion TelkomInternet will offer from 1 February 2008…
We are giving away local only bandwidth for a limited time absolutely FREE!!! Yes, you heard us, for FREE!! Purchase any of our TelkomInternet AllAccess product ranges and get free local bandwidth at no extra charge for the promotional period. So now you can play those local hosted games online with your next door neighbour more often then before without feeling guilty if your threshold will be sufficient or not, or even transferring money via Internet Banking to buy that new awesome game that was launched and not worrying about if you exceeded your cap or not.
So I can hear you say, “tell me how much already”, so lets not waste more time…
Blended
Product
Local Bandwidth
Promotion
Price
1 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess
10 Gig
R 79.00
1 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Advanced
10 Gig
R 99.00
1 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess ISDN128K
10 Gig
R 149.00
2 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Standard
20 Gig
R 149.00
3 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Advanced
30 Gig
R 239.00
3 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Premium
30 Gig
R 259.00
3 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Business
30 Gig
R 284.00
4 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Unshaped Advanced
40 Gig
R 489.00
4 Gig
TelkomInternet AllAccess Unshaped Premium
40 Gig
R 519.00
As we will not cap you on local we reserve the right to bill you for anything exceeding the allocated local bandwidth that is on promotion. The charge for local bandwidth is R25,55 per gig
To read more please don’t hesitate to visit our website
www.telkomsa.net
Your Radical Team
*** in my opinion a load of bull **** ***
