Actually if I left my line running full speed downloading all day I'd be able to theoretically achieve around 700 gigs oer month. But I am in no way interested in doing so. As already pointed out in this thread which clearly you haven't read, I expect my usage to max 70 gig per month. That's an expectation of getting 10% utilisation out of my line. Axxess appear to take issue with that. Even if I wanted 15% utilisation of my line, how is that in any way abusive?
You never said you used 70 gigs a month, in fact you complained that when they told you that you might get 60 to 70 gigs a month before they even START to manage your account. You are not cut off from the internet when you are managed you simply won't be getting good speeds on downloads.
I didn't say that. Read the fscking thread before jumping on your assumption bandwagon...
With the utter outrage you displayed at the fact that you can only use 15% of your effective line capacity during a month before Axxess will start to manage your account, you implied that you expect around 200gb a month on a 2mbps line. The only way you are going to do that is if you run it all day for extended periods of time.
You're averaging more than double what I've EVER used in a month. EVER! Read the fscking thread...
Yes I am and I am paying for that. My line is 5 times as fast as yours and together with line rental and ISP it also costs me double what yours is costing you. So in short, and on the same ISP, I am getting what I am paying for.
Good for you. I can only get a 2MB line here so I'm also expecting to get what I pay for, which so far is atrocious management based on a ridiculously vague AUP, absurdly low limits, and no network transparency...
The fact that you can only get a 2mbps line is not my fault nor the fault of Axxess. And here is the bit you have to understand. They need to have vague AUPs, the same as any other ISP, because of exactly situations like the one we are in at the moment. Seacom is down, Eassy is have technical problems so Wacs is handling most of the traffic, and it is not only South Africa, it is handling traffic for a very large portion of Africa. And that is why it is impacting MTN. If it was only Seacom that was down then it would not have impacted MTN so badly. If they have have very specific AUPs they will not be able to manage traffic like they HAVE to do at the moment. Why do they have to do it ? Because there are people and business that pay large sums of money to have a certain amount of guaranteed bandwidth at low contention ratios. With the current problems they have to guarantee the same contention ratios and with more traffic it means they have to sacrifice somewhere and the ones who feel it the most will be average users.
Now how they likely came to the conclusion to manage your account has likely very little to do with the fact that you pulled 36 gig in the month so far. It probably has more to do that the algorithms the systems run selected your account because you were downloading a large torrent or two. Since the problems started they would have focused specifically on people who were downloading larger amounts than what the average person is managing at the moment. Because of the network problems the average amounts would have been much lower than it is normally. So what you saw as normal usage looked, when put in perspective to the situation and the current averages, to be excessive.
Because of people like me who want to do 70 gigs a month? Pull the other one.
Again you never said you only use 70 gigs a month, you were outraged by the fact that they said you can expect 60 to 70 gig a month before being manged.
And read the fscking thread...
I actually did read the thread before I made that post. So now please go and have a drink or a smoke or something and relax. Put things in perspective and realize that nobody is getting full line speed at the moment. We just all have to sit and wait, patiently. We understand that the business must cater to all their customer's needs and at the moment those needs are not downloading torrents; which to begin with is probably illegal content in the first place. And that is why services such as netflix, youtube and similar sites using similar protocols are not being throttled because it is largely legal paid for services and the services that will suffer are the P2P ones and the file sharing site (large http downloads) and NNTP traffic.
Also a word to the wise if you want to download large files such as blu-ray movies use newshosts you will get better speeds and more consistent speeds. The Afrihost news server is pretty good as well, 5 concurrent connections but the retention ratio is not as impressive as giganews or astraweb. It is also local traffic not international so you will not feel the impact of the seacom so much on your download, and your downloads would not have been targeted for being managed because it wouldn't have been international traffic which is what they are trying to manage.
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