Why 30GB?

feverdj said:
with the price wars going now, i think they will increase caps to get users!!!
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Good point, they have to! However they will have to do more than just increase their caps and drop prices to attract users.
 
all we can do is wait and c what they "rollout" for us!
but i can asure u this is going to be an interesting period, from a price point of view!!!
 
Yes sir, it will be interesting ... maybe they are waiting for Aug 1st when they release the 1mpbs to drop their ISP prices.
 
feverdj said:
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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Nah, he's got his head stuck in an 800 pound gorillas arse, he was licking it so excessively, it sucked him in.
 
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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Apart from legal software, I watch video training presentations, I utilise my line for the international support of telcos. The last version of software downloaded from my company ftp in the US, is 872MB... And that is one product alone...
Then there is, http://www.apple.com/itunes/store...
I don't game nor pirate, and hit a 3GB cap in a little over a day.
 
Isn't this in line with taking away the local uncapped option by offering cheaper 30GB packages?
 
The internet consists of far more than just downloading stuff. Multimedia offerings include streaming video and radio. I do not want to sit and calculate to decide whether I can listen and watch something to detemine whether my cap will be reached or not, because I depend on the Internet connection for work purposes. I believe that when all is set and doen, all the effort spent on instituting the cap, ie monitoring,statistics, port shaping and the avoidance tactics used to bypass these are a serious waste of time. In the end this causes more problems in itself such as unnatural traffic peaks at the beginning and end of every month, even going to the extend where people download rubbish because they paid for it and have some capacity available at month end. Also when I use my ADSL for work purposes and I have a terrible remote desktop connection, one never knows whether it is because of port shaping or other Telkom induced problems. Anyways if anybody downloads a 100gigs a month over a prolonged period of time, he must have a major disk array setup. But it could be true that one month you need the capacity for that month only and now you are adversely influenced. In fact the more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that the cap is an unnatural problem and that if the same effort went into providing a proper service in the first place, in the end it would have cost far less. Think of all the time spent on posting here, the cost of the Icasa hearings and the cost of the Telkom PRO hot air such as mr White etc.,the cost of the monitoring equipment and software,at Telkom, the ISP and yourself. If we assume that all of Myadsl's members would like to download 100 gigs a month, is it really going to break the bank? What is 5000* 70gigs- I believe it is a drop in the ocean.
 
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