Sometimes theory and practice dont add up.
Wbs's packages as defined atm sound acceptable on paper but as we have seen its not working. The 64k after your cap is just simply too much of a variable given the bandwidth constraints that isp's in SA have to work under.
From wbs's point of view they will see certain users as abusing the 64k facility and as customers we will complain when wbs starts contending the 64k out of a usable range.
Further complicating this is that the throttle is not an effective solution. It appears that as setup atm the throttle is effective at keeping speeds into the throttled range, at the expense of "non cached" protocols ( ie https, irc, voip etc). This has major implications for wbs's userbase. For almost every business user internet banking is a given, if iburst cannot provide https, then they cannot expect any business users. As a home user most people have a "killer app" mine is voip, if voip does not work thats it for me, time to return the modem.
I would like to suggest to wbs that it is time to drop the 64k after cap idea.
Here is my proposal for iburst packages
Iburst lite 1gb - R299.00/month advantage to iburst - massive user uptake of the email and surfing brigade
Iburst standard 6gb - R599.00/month advantage to iburst - Significant advantage over standard adsl cap resulting in migration from adsl to iburst.
Iburst heavy 20gb cap R1200/month.
All prices excluding UTD/UTC
All these packages would be suspended after reaching the cap. A user can then buy futher access to the fast pipe per GB or Wbs could consider setting up a separate "slow" network that one could buy access too on a time basis eg R20/day 64k guaranteed speed.
All packages would be p2p shaped during business hours and unshaped after hours. This would effectively spread the usage more evenly over 24hrs.
Feel free to flame just an idea.
Wbs's packages as defined atm sound acceptable on paper but as we have seen its not working. The 64k after your cap is just simply too much of a variable given the bandwidth constraints that isp's in SA have to work under.
From wbs's point of view they will see certain users as abusing the 64k facility and as customers we will complain when wbs starts contending the 64k out of a usable range.
Further complicating this is that the throttle is not an effective solution. It appears that as setup atm the throttle is effective at keeping speeds into the throttled range, at the expense of "non cached" protocols ( ie https, irc, voip etc). This has major implications for wbs's userbase. For almost every business user internet banking is a given, if iburst cannot provide https, then they cannot expect any business users. As a home user most people have a "killer app" mine is voip, if voip does not work thats it for me, time to return the modem.
I would like to suggest to wbs that it is time to drop the 64k after cap idea.
Here is my proposal for iburst packages
Iburst lite 1gb - R299.00/month advantage to iburst - massive user uptake of the email and surfing brigade
Iburst standard 6gb - R599.00/month advantage to iburst - Significant advantage over standard adsl cap resulting in migration from adsl to iburst.
Iburst heavy 20gb cap R1200/month.
All prices excluding UTD/UTC
All these packages would be suspended after reaching the cap. A user can then buy futher access to the fast pipe per GB or Wbs could consider setting up a separate "slow" network that one could buy access too on a time basis eg R20/day 64k guaranteed speed.
All packages would be p2p shaped during business hours and unshaped after hours. This would effectively spread the usage more evenly over 24hrs.
Feel free to flame just an idea.
