<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I had no idea that the online gaming takes up so much .<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Well, before ADSL in SA, people used 56K or ISDN and who of them checked their Usage. An online Usage Tracker was unnecessary. Only when Telkom released ADSL was a Usage Tracker Implemented.
IMO, Telkom carefully thought out the 3 gig capping. They basically worked out that one person browsing and downloading a few files would use 2 or 3 gigs. That being said, the problem was that Telkom were greedy as they saw an opportunity to make more money out of ADSL which was already overpriced, by offering extra 3 gig accounts, quoting bogus "high costs of international bandwidth" for the R680.00 rental charge. And within this forum, everyone has clearly queried the Line Rental charge, saying that surely bandwidth should be an ISP cost.
Clearly Telkom has led the public on.
ADSL was designed as a Multi User Interface with easy to use Internet Connection Sharing Abilities to save on Dialup Costs etc. By allowing only 3 gigs of usage per account, Telkom has crippled an otherwise superb product. In other words, a family of four or a small office environment will easily use more than 3 gigs in a month and Telkom knows this.
The "Buy another account" scenario, also defeats the so called, bandwidth limitations Telkom speaks of as well. If Telkom cannot handle the throughput of ADSL on their network, they should be more honest and own up to their short fallings. If Telkom reaches their target of 500 000 ADSL customers, what would be the throughput then?
Perhaps Telkom's business model for ADSL was to restrict P2P etc, but they forgot that playing an online game like Counterstrike consumes 5 to 6 kbps per person from within the network. The nett result of about 15 to 20 Mb of data usage per hour. So if 3 people played Counterstrike for 2 hours per day, it would mean that you have consumed about 50 to 60Mb of your technically 100MB per day usage. Now add email and browsing and their is no ways you can download that SP2 file of 279Mb from Microsoft. You will be capped by the 15th or 20th of the month, just becase you like gaming. Pfft.
Lastly, ifs a rip-off that all local usage adds to the 3 gig cap.
Note: Telkom are well aware of the issues raised within these forums, but still fail to do anything constructive to make their product more useable. The 386kb ADSL offering was a step sideways and not forward. Certain people like myself have taken note of their (Telkom's)attitude and will be letting our feet do the talking when the time comes.
<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
