Where do your gigabytes go?

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Just out of interest, what are your reasons for needing large amounts of GBs a month?
 
Research. Given the nature of some research, downloadable material is essential for focussed off-site perusal and digestion, and can consume many gigs...
 
Downloading movies and series from overseas TV channels. I'm honest. You rely on SABC, MNet & DSTV to broadcast it, you'll be waiting two years down the line. Eg, Lost Season 2, due for broadcast on MNet only middle next year.
 
I download Telkom's entire site every day and use an automated program to look for changes.
 
I use it for skype and video conferencing. We also do cross branch off-site backups which chow bandwidth. Local hard cap is going to force us to go back to ISDN..
 
What on earth are telkom going to do will all the extra bandwidth available to them, I know many many people who make extensive use of the bandwidth available to them after they are capped.

Maybe they doing this so they will have lots of local bw to roll out their movies service with multichoice?? Even more ways to screw the consumer...
 
Fudzy said:
Just out of interest, what are your reasons for needing large amounts of GBs a month?
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ADSL is a "broadband" connection - intended for high speed data transfer of video, audio, or any kind of data no matter what the source

ADSL is an "always-on" connection - intended for, amongst others, streaming of video, audio, etc. for any length of time up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

With a 512K ADSL line you can download 64 kBytes of data per second (not taking into account any uploading). This equates to 3840 kBytes per minute and 230 400 kBytes per hour (or 225 MB per hour).

Therefore , by utilising an ADSL connection as intended, you can use up your 3GB cap in under 14 hours (less than one day).

The full capacity of a 512K ADSL line is about 158 GB per month so Telkom are restricting you to using only about 2% of the potential capacity.

If you only need to access e-mail and browse web pages you have no need for an ADSL connection - a normal dial-up connection is more than sufficient.
 
Thanks Alkazar, but if I needed to find a definition of ADSl I would've used Google :P. I just asked what you people download, I'm looking at getting ADSL in the next couple of months and the only aspect that I can see anyone (outside of a legitimate business) needing more than 3gb is to download illegal material such as movies, series etc. I'm not trying to get on my high-horse here or anything, just wondering what other sort of high bandwidth forms of entertainment there are out there.

Ps. I've used dial-up for the past 10 years, its fscking slow and I want to move on :D
 
Well you can pay exorbitant prices for telkoms phone lines, or you can pay exhorbitant prices for their adsl lines and use skype to make a truck load of international calls for next to nothing, then there is always streming audio (Tuks FM doesn't get to far) and video and game demos, and gaming, and email (with photos this can get beeeg), etc, etc, etc..
 
Trent242 said:
Downloading movies and series from overseas TV channels. I'm honest. You rely on SABC, MNet & DSTV to broadcast it, you'll be waiting two years down the line. Eg, Lost Season 2, due for broadcast on MNet only middle next year.
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got a point there. if you don't mind me asking,where about do you get these? thanks
 
Does it matter? I am the consumer and if I want more, give me more! No excuses! Who the hell is Telkom to tell me what I should do and not do? Bugger them!
 
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