Why 30GB?

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desraid

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Many high cap providers offer 30GB as a maximum package..
But why it has to be 30GB?
Oh I get it, with TelkomADSL you can't go over 30GB... right? ;)
 
I think we should take the current offerings and multiply by 10GB. So instead of 3GB, 5GB, 10GB, 20GB and 30GB Gigs. We should start with 30GB, 50GB, 100GB, uncapped...Now that would be much better
 
telkoms arguement is what exactly does that 100gb consist of? remember downloading movies, games etc is illegal, and you surely wont need 100gb of linux iso's a month. sending 100gb of email and browsing 100gb of websites would be insane.. so if you remove all the illegal activities 30gb is a fair amount of traffic a month. do any of the serious gamers hit 30gb on just gaming alone?

*shrug*
 
well .. just because u downloading movies, does not mean it is illegal. There are sites that you can pay to watch TV online etc. so that argument is a farce. Anyways, telskum is trying to push tv over adsl with mnet, so I don't c how they can even use that argument anymore :)
 
Yeah you try streaming a free tv station or free radio station and see what your bandwidth stats start to look like...
 
xanex said:
telkoms arguement is what exactly does that 100gb consist of? remember downloading movies, games etc is illegal, and you surely wont need 100gb of linux iso's a month. sending 100gb of email and browsing 100gb of websites would be insane.. so if you remove all the illegal activities 30gb is a fair amount of traffic a month. do any of the serious gamers hit 30gb on just gaming alone?

*shrug*
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Telkom really isn't supposed to be interested in what we do with the bandwidth, just in making money. If there's enough interest to warrant a 100GB cap package, and they can profit from it, then I can't see any reason for them not to make it available. The obvious reason would be that there's not currently enough ADSL users, or users that would be interested in such large caps to make it available. I certainly don't believe for one second that their hearts are bleeding for the poor software or movie companies losing money.

Besides, why are you allowed to buy 3 x 30GB accounts then (for example)?
 
desraid said:
Many high cap providers offer 30GB as a maximum package..
But why it has to be 30GB?
Oh I get it, with TelkomADSL you can't go over 30GB... right? ;)
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The same question goes for why they sucked 3GB out of their thumbs in the beginning. I still say someone who knows absolutely nothing about the internet thought long and hard and came up with 100MB should be more than enough per day. Moron. I guess their thinking is the same in this case. 1GB per day is more than enough for advanced users.

I've said all along that 30GB should be the standard. Most people will never reach 30GB but at least now we won't have to count every byte we use. For the first time I'll be able to listen to online audio streaming without worrying about being capped.
 
xanex said:
telkoms arguement is what exactly does that 100gb consist of? remember downloading movies, games etc is illegal, and you surely wont need 100gb of linux iso's a month. sending 100gb of email and browsing 100gb of websites would be insane.. so if you remove all the illegal activities 30gb is a fair amount of traffic a month. do any of the serious gamers hit 30gb on just gaming alone?

*shrug*
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Asumption is bad. :)
 
VQuest said:
I've said all along that 30GB should be the standard. Most people will never reach 30GB but at least now we won't have to count every byte we use. For the first time I'll be able to listen to online audio streaming without worrying about being capped.
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Any chance that Telkom will likely block those high cap providers?
 
TMoose said:
Telkom really isn't supposed to be interested in what we do with the bandwidth, just in making money. If there's enough interest to warrant a 100GB cap package, and they can profit from it, then I can't see any reason for them not to make it available. The obvious reason would be that there's not currently enough ADSL users, or users that would be interested in such large caps to make it available. I certainly don't believe for one second that their hearts are bleeding for the poor software or movie companies losing money.

Besides, why are you allowed to buy 3 x 30GB accounts then (for example)?
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ZA will probably soon go uk/us way with regard to piracy etc once our broadband infrastructure becomes more of a household item. what most people dont really understand is broadband doesnt really make tons of money, take for example a 512k line, uunet will probably charge you around R20-R25k? (incl telkom charge, could be wrong but its somewhere there abouts), lets say you have uncapped DSL 512k, you could sit on that adsl 24 hours a day maxing it out moving 100gb a month and you pay R1500? see the difference, yes I know it has no guarantees or static ips but you're still moving heavy traffic. if bandwidth was so cheap, why dont they just decrease the price of diginet at the same time..
 
RIGHT - TMOOSE hit the nail on the head - why can you buy n x 30GB accounts.

If we had 100GB for the same price as 10GB is now, then the following services would be able to find a market:
- Home security streaming / control (View your home security cams on streaming video, talk to visitors, control your gates, lights and other stuff as well...)
- Free Streaming Traffic - (With Adverts).
- Free Community Video Streaming - (See whatz happening at club a, b, c ...)
- Educational Video Streaming.

Bottom line is - the streaming video market could open up, but - 30 GB is a tight noose , and people will think twice about paying R 100 a month for a maximum of 30 GB of streaming video.
 
I use video chat to contact my family in overseas.
This communication hits few hundered megs easily.
There are many things you can do on internet that requires bigger capacity.
 
stoke said:
RIGHT - TMOOSE hit the nail on the head - why can you buy n x 30GB accounts.

If we had 100GB for the same price as 10GB is now, then the following services would be able to find a market:
- Home security streaming / control (View your home security cams on streaming video, talk to visitors, control your gates, lights and other stuff as well...)
- Free Streaming Traffic - (With Adverts).
- Free Community Video Streaming - (See whatz happening at club a, b, c ...)
- Educational Video Streaming.

Bottom line is - the streaming video market could open up, but - 30 GB is a tight noose , and people will think twice about paying R 100 a month for a maximum of 30 GB of streaming video.
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Although they are good ideas, it hasn't really taken off in the UK as of yet. And if it doesn't take off there, it won't take off here either.

Hell the average South African probably doesn't have a computer at home.
 
Um - have you seen the crime rate in SA ?
Um - have you seen the traffic - WITH NO ALTERNATIVE - in SA ?
Um - have you seen the need for alternate EDUCATION in SA ?

But you're probablee right - but only up to a point.
 
TMoose said:
Besides, why are you allowed to buy 3 x 30GB accounts then (for example)?
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Capping bandwidth is just an excuse to make you pay more. This is just another monopoly stunt...

swede
 
VQuest said:
The same question goes for why they sucked 3GB out of their thumbs in the beginning. I still say someone who knows absolutely nothing about the internet thought long and hard and came up with 100MB should be more than enough per day. Moron. I guess their thinking is the same in this case.
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Exactly, isnt that the problem everywhere though? The guys making the decisions know nothing about what they are deciding on.
 
with the price wars going now, i think they will increase caps to get users!!!
 
"We believe 3GB per month is more than adequate", Steven White.
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What a jerk! If I get an account with a 3GB cap, it is almost not worth the extra cost of getting DSL over dial up or ISDN.
 
true
think steve white must have his head stuck in the ground like an ostrich
or maybe up his arse
beacause he doesnt have a clue of what is happening in the real world
 
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