What to do regarding my Internet Options

[Dareno]

Hi, and thanks in advance.

I need some advice regarding my Internet Options.

I have a 4Mb line and use MWeb's Uncapped 4Mb offering. This is a total cost of R1000

I play WoW, download games off Steam, download a couple of torrents, watch YouTube. My wife uses Facebook, streams a bit of music....the average Internet Household

Anyway, I am of the opinion that paying R1 000 for this is quite a lot and was wondering if I have cheaper alternatives, which will not affect my experience too negatively!

So, what to do?
Downgrading the line speed is tricky. The price difference between 4mb/s and 512 is only R100. However, form 4mb/s to 384 it is almost R400! Is it worth downgrading my line and package to 384?

Or, do I leave my line at 4mb/s and only downgrade my Data Service to 384 - which will only save me about R300?

The idea is to get the best saving without losing too much of the Internet experience. There is no point I downgrade X by latency goes up by 10 000 000. I need the sweet spot.

Any ideas?

 

[grok]

Telkom doesn't cater for a sweet spot i.t.o. line rentals. A 1 or 2meg option at a reasonable price would have been ideal, but your only options are either dead slow for peanuts or relatively fast for an arm & a leg. Personally I find 384 just too slow.

If your overall usage is low, you could possibly downgrade (or is that upgrade) to a 10gig capped offer. Or consider Cell-C's 5gig option?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

with 512k account on 4mb line you can just just stream 360p vids, you get about 62kbs bandwidth.

you wont be able to check vids without slowing down the other people etc, any higher resolution will have to buffer, which is irritating

i upgraded from 512k, because of youtube vids, while 4mb stream 720p no probs.

so no wont be any other waY if you want nice speed etc.

have to wait till telkom makes the 512k accounts like 2meg or something then it will be worthwhile.

 

[tom110584]

i pay R450 for 15gb a month with cell c (3x60gb data sims and 21.6mbps speedstick for R7 000). download speeds of 8mbps...

 

[beesknieg]

rather cut back on other stuff i would eat bread and drink water before i cut back from my internet costs

 

[Deep78]

rather cut back on other stuff i would eat bread and drink water before i cut back from my internet costs

LoL ... dont worry in a few weeks we might just have to ... net isnt getting any cheaper and food bill only getting higher so i can understand
Dareno wanting to save a few bucks but its really going to be hard cause ur gonna have to give up something.

U can get a good speed but have to consider capped (10gb - 15gb) or u can get uncapped and suffer with a slow line.
On Web Africa steam is free and some game updates as well so that really helps out.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Theres always that 10mbps 10GIG Smart data from WebAfrica? You will be capped but at least it is something like R399 for the first 3 months and R599 thereafter, they take care of your Telkom account which seems to be incuded. I just don't know if there are any limitations and what the quality of service is like.

 

[Dareno]

Cool tx guys. Yeah look luckily we arent cutting back (we just employed a domestic) BUT as with my insurance, I am constantly looking at where we can save...Internet is just one of those - damned if you do, damned if you dont... LOL

 

[kang]

I upgraded from 384 to 512 to 4mbit and back down to 384 within 3 months.
I loved the 4mbit line but realised it is more of a luxury and way too expensive for me. It didn't make sense to do the 512 so I'm back on 384 and quite happy.
Home internet is a must but not all the downloads I was doing. The rest of the fam enjoy their facebook and I enjoy my bicycle these days. So no more watching TV series after TV series.
...but that's just me.

PS. Season 15 of Top Gear is the shiz!!!

 

[Srack0verflow]

personally i'd go for the WA deal to take care of the steam and WOW. and also buy cheapie local for the YT and FB, and look into rather doing the downloading recent stuff via the free local news server instead of torrents.