TI - Choosing between local and combined bandwidth?

Hey guys, I was busy thinking about TelkomInternet's capping policy, and realized how it's almost impossible for them to differentiate local from international because of their transparent proxies etc, which is why they put capped and 'combined usage' accounts on the different ip ranges.
What annoys me, and I'm sure most people, is how we can't choose WHEN we want to use the international, because it's combined with local until you actually get 'capped'.

WebAfrica has an awesome system for unshaped users where they can append a .s or .v to the end of their username when connecting, which will place them on either the saix or verizon unshaped ranges respectively (yes, i'm kind of stealing the multirealming idea, but at the same time im promoting/advertising WA, so if anything it compensates ). More info: http://www.webafrica.co.za/support/multirealmunshapedfaq.html

Surely TelkomInternet could do something similar for their users? - allow us to use the combined account (which is default if nothing is appended), or local-only by appending .l to the end of the username. This way, we can use local at the beginning of the month, and international later, etc. It's more dynamic.
It will also help balance the usage of their IP ranges, so that at the beginning of the month not all users will be on 41.240.0.0/13 and then by the end of the month everyone's on 165.146.0.0/24 or 165.165.0.0/24, etc.

Once this is done, people can then use routesentry or whatever method they prefer to split their single account into one for local and one for international, until Telkom can figure out a way to properly have separated 'local' and 'international' portions measured from their side, from the beginning of the month.

Hey I never knew that about the WA accounts. Thanks for the headsup.

Sounds like a good idea to me. But this is Telkom we're talking about... Their view of customers is similar to a fur-farmer's view of foxes.

general_koffi said:

Sounds like a good idea to me. But this is Telkom we're talking about... Their view of customers is similar to a fur-farmer's view of foxes.

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Haha yea... that, and the question: 'How do we get them (the techies that manage all of this?) to read this suggestion?', lol

Problem is, 99.9% of us need to use local and international at the same time.

e.g.
Login to a locally hosted online game requires a quick query to an international server to verify our CD key.

If WEBAFRICA (Whom you are punting for free) allows that little teensy weensy verification check to occur to selected international game authentication servers in local-only mode, then local accounts start looking a damn sight more useful.

e.g.
When skype logs on, it uses a teensy weensy little bit of bandwidth, and then you can make calls to local peeps using mostly local only bandwidth.

If WEBAFRICA (Again, whom you are punting for free) allows that little teensy weensy bit of data to pass through on the local-only account, then skype can be used as well.

I think that AXXESS is going to beat WEBAFRICA to this.

This is where Pure local-only is falling short.

BUT, thanks for the tip.

Are you obsessed with the word "punting"?

You call it freedom of choice and you should know that Fragtion has nothing to do with WA.

The international account will obviously not be restricted to international. It will still be a combined account, except now you can choose to dial in the local only part separately. Why should you be forced to use the combined amount at the beginning of the month? That's all i'm saying. It's silly.

CyberSmart has a similiar thing, that let's you switch between local and blended, except it's managed on their side, not a separate username. You go to your acc on their website and click local only or whatever. This obviously wouldn't work for RouteSentry...

*bump*
So anyone know if this is at all possible with TelkomInternet accounts yet?