Watch it Telkom!

[dojob]

I found this on the update TelkomSA website

"ADSL is targeted at the small business and higher end of the residential market that has a moderate volume of Internet traffic and requires an always available service. That is what Telkom ADSL offers. The service is not designed to offer bandwidth intensive communications such as peer-to-peer applications (e.g. fasttrack, gnutella, napster, kazaa, e-donkey etc.) for downloads, which incidentally are the applications used by most of people who are complaining about the service,"
said White

How can they state that people who use peer to peer applications are the only ones complaining. What proof do they have???
Have they been monitoring their users?

Piss of Telkscum

 

[Xyber]

k, I use NONE of those - no p2p software.
I do download development packages as I'm a software developer and need updated libraries of php, sql, etc. I also want to keep my system updated with latest releases from microsoft, symantec, etc. And I obviously want to enjoy my free time and play some online games (also need to be kept up to date)

I held out pretty well through the month and reached my cap only yesterday.

and, yeh, I'm complaining so it's not just the p2p users that complains

 

[ItalicBold]

Well until telkom changed the way they calculated the cap (now they include outgoing bw), i never hit it :/, now it looks like i will with 5 days left in the month.

 

[martin]

I think a lot (if not the majority) of ADSL users are gamers, developers and designers.I remember Telkom advertising ADSL as a super-fast gaming connection and targeted at the small business market. The people mentioned above fall in these categories. A lot of developers and designers work for small companies (myself included).

These people do not use moderate amounts of bandwidth!! Gamers connect to international gaming servers, download patches, updates and mods. Developers download documentation, patches, libraries, updates, distrubtions (ex. linux) and do a heck of a lot of research on the internet.

Go do your homework Telkom, you're missing it at the moment!

 

[leonardharley]

Our ADSL in not used for gaming, P2P or any such like - we are BUSINESS users who REQUIRE PERMANENT and QUALITY internet connectivity to earn a living - if our line is unusable we CANNOT WORK!

Telkom is using the gaming community etc as a scapegoat! Simple! The perception is that gamers are kids / students and dont deserve a serious voice and are a small community! BS!

EVERY user has the RIGHT to use their connection FOR WHATEVER THEY WANT based on the fact that they are paying for a service. Port capping / limits etc are purely methods being used by Telkom to sqeeze the most out of their pisspoor infrastucture to maximise profits. It reminds me of the censorship days! WHO IS TELKOM TO DICTATE WHAT TRAFFIC IS ACCEPATBLE AND WHAT NOT!

"The Great Deregulation War has begun! For the good of our country & people Join the fight NOW! Let your voice be heard!"