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I sit here and read about people paying R249 and using 60gigs, 80gigs, 130gigs and I, like a fool, have paid well over R400 for 7 gigs this month.

The question here is, is it worth it? To be loyal to an ISP, for who’s sake? Is it worth going through the time out sessions every 3 hours? Some having to reconnect every hour?

Nope it is not, if ISPs act this way, where are we heading? Back to Telkom?

As far as I am concerned the best way to deal with this right now is to purchase 1gig for December and take it from there. If the time out sessions do not improve I am afraid a lot of people will give up on ISPs and call Telkom.

ISPs if you want our business do something about those ridiculous time outs.

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Things that make you go hmmmmm ... :D
 
R249 for 60gigs?!?!?! I would switch there right now. Please paste links if you got any.
 
TELKOM ADSL as your isp.

PPL are getting these huge amounts of downloads on their telkom line but most don't state if it's local or international.

The crapper is that the isp's have to hardcap their clients because of the cost involved that they have to pay telkum. where as telkum don't have to pay anybody after their customers reach their cap.

TRULY UNCOMPETITIVE telkom once again.

You should not for any rhyme, reason or thought move to the demon's isp.
 
zerofocus said:
R249 for 60gigs?!?!?! I would switch there right now. Please paste links if you got any.
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riggs_9mmp said:
Well, after doing about 130Gb on my TelkomISP account, it appears that I've been hardcapped (I think). My account fails to connct every time with a bad username/password error. Is this how hardcapping is enforced? Will edit this post if I find another explanation.

Frack. :mad:
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Yeah I think Telkom is just making the ISP's squeal a bit because Telkom feels the ISP's were underhanded in selling the 30GB packages. They're saying to the ISP's, now this is what Big Brother can do if you try any of that sh*t again. I say come 1st December, Telkom is going to say, eish, we made a mistake, our management system was screwy and everything will be back to normal.

This is all speculation of course!
 
With these amounts that are being downloaded I can see that this is NOT going to stay. Telkom is going to have fire power agianst Dotco, because of the bandwidth pigs that are downloading 160 gigs.

Catch a wake up people. Do you think Telkom is being kind and letting you do this all for free. Surly you must know Telkom by now!!!
 
You hit the nail on the head sunsoffun, they've been looking for ammo for the upcoming Dotco case. They needed justification for changing to the new system, and I suppose they've now got it. Regardless of whether what Telkom is expensive or not, we have played right into their greedy little hands.
 
In one of my earlier posts I criticized a guy that had downloaded 80gigs and the response from fellow MyAdsl members was that I had been brainwashed, and I had lost touch with reality ... well ... Telkom now has all the ammo they needed ....



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I am on leave for 3 weeks over Dec/Jan. What I would like to do is get a TelkomInternet 3Gig account to *RAPE* over this period, and keep my WA account as a back-up or for when I get hard-capped.

My question is, how easy is it to sign up and then cancel an account with TelkomInternet? Would this be easily done for one month? I don't want to run into the nightmare situation of fighting Telkom for months, trying to cancel the account.
 
@ sunsoffun & HellTel

Please explain (so that I might understand) the relevance between Dotco's case and somebody downloading 130 gigs from Telkom's ISP.

Do you actually know what Dotco's case is about?
 
The relevance is that Dotco disagreed to the changing of Telkoms pricing structure and took Telkom to court. The result was that Dotco would not be forced to use the new pricing structures until the matter was heard further in court (which is some time in december I think). Telkoms justification for the new pricing structure and management system was that ISP's were underhanded in selling the 30GB accounts (according to Telkom, there was never a 30GB cap, and obviously there was a loophole in there management system), and that there is the 4% of users who use 50% of the bandwidth. They wanted to stop the abusers. The fact that Telkom can now justify to a court that people are in fact abusing the system (buy a 3GB account and download 100GB) means that have a case. A court is not going to study ADSL prices from around the world and see that we are the most expensive in the world, thats the government's job. All the courts is worried about is the relevance in South Africa's market.
 
so instead of it being 4%, if everyone abused their account and downloaded 100gigs, then they would have no case, so come ppl, START DOWNLOADING!,lets get 100%
 
I don't think that the results from this would be accurate to use against Dotco because people are just downloading for downloading sake because they know that they will not be able to do so for long. So if we all have a max 30 gig or unlimited local I don't think that there would be as many spikes in bandwidth usage, higher average yes, but lower spikes in max usage... I mean, barring that this person is a SMME, how long can he/she keep downloading 130gigs of data per month? 1 maybe 2 months and then get over it?
 
I think they could go on downloading 130GB every month, how many of you guys have 100's of movies you haven't watched, tv series, games you haven't played etc. I think its very possible.
 
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