How can I use my local bandwidth without first using all my international up first?

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I have been wondering...

I have the Do Broadband 3 option... and what is quite frustrating is that in order to use my local bandwidth, I need to first use up all my international... atleast that is how I have understood it. I play only on local gaming servers so to waste my international cap on that is... well.. wasteful. Is there anyway that I can tell my connection to use local only via a proxy or something?

I have downloaded Route Sentry which seems cool but pointless if it is not possible with my do broadband account. If it can determine local and international traffic... why is it that Telkom don't have something similar that switches between the correct bandwidth accordingly. If I am wrong and there is something like that, then I apologize... but I have always been told that it doesn't happen...

At the end of the day, the local bandwidth is a bonus... but if I have to eat through my int cap to get to it and then it is for browsing only (it seems)... I may as well buy prepaid bandwidth and then local bandwidth, use a program like route sentry and save some money ;)

If anyone can help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ;)
 
u can't do it, but get yourself a 10Gb or 30Gb local only IS account from openweb or webafrica for R70/R130 and use that for gaming.
 
NOT POSSIBLE WITH TELKOM afaik. Best is to get sepperate local account only and use telkom just for international. You need to set up your router. There is threads specific for that.
 
The only way to use local data on a TI account before having used up the current month blended data is to establish your connection in the previous month once already capped and as long as that connection remains connected you will be using local only data in the new month over that connection. This is not a very practical solution as the chance of the connection remaining intact for any length of time is not very good. Also unless your setup allows multiple connections you will not have access to international data until you reset your connection. It is however handy to do this if you are busy with a big local download that will not finish in the current month and you wish to avoid it depleting your blended data cap.
 
mikef said:
The only way to use local data on a TI account before having used up the current month blended data is to establish your connection in the previous month once already capped and as long as that connection remains connected you will be using local only data in the new month over that connection. This is not a very practical solution as the chance of the connection remaining intact for any length of time is not very good. Also unless your setup allows multiple connections you will not have access to international data until you reset your connection. It is however handy to do this if you are busy with a big local download that will not finish in the current month and you wish to avoid it depleting your blended data cap.
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Nice tip thanks.
 
Just found a way to switch between local and international:

Kept the router connected to local only at the end of the month and dialled a new connection to the same Telkom account from the PC on the first of the new month. Now I have two connections on the same account. One blended and one local - at the same time - at least until the next power failure. (Edited, thanks mikef)

I can enable the dial up connection when I need it for international and disable it to use the router's connection for domestic.

Haven’t tried it but I am sure I could have 2 PC's connected, one local and one international at the same time.

Now if RouteSentry could switch between dial-up and the router....
 
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Playing said:
Just found a way to switch between local and international:

Kept the router connected to local only at the end of the month and dialled a new connection to the same Telkom account from the PC on the first of the new month. Now I have two connections on the same account. One blended and one international - at the same time - at least until the next power failure.

I can enable the dial up connection when I need it for international and disable it to use the router's connection for domestic.
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You mean - one blended and one local:)
I have found that I seldom manage to avoid dropping the local connection for much more than 72 hours.

Playing said:
Haven’t tried it but I am sure I could have 2 PC's connected, one local and one domestic at the same time.
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Yes you can
 
It looks like this is now possible.

My router has been up for 2d 09:11:00. I rebooted it late Tuesday night (on the 1st but 12 hours into the month).

I'm splitting local and international with routing.

My daily Telkom email shows this;

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A friendly notification that according to our records your online usage as at [2009-09-03 23:59:59] reflected the following:

ADSL bandwidth usage report

Blended Usage
Uploaded - 297MB or [0.29GB]
Downloaded - 2.48GB
Combined Total - 2.77GB
Percentage used - 55.47%
Status - Not Capped

Local Usage
Uploaded - 225MB or [0.21GB]
Downloaded - 258MB or [0.25GB]
Combined Total - 483MB or [0.47GB]
Local Bandwidth Allocated - 30.00GB
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So I'm definitely eating into both local and international and my connection is not active from the end of last month.
 
hilton said:
It looks like this is now possible.

My router has been up for 2d 09:11:00. I rebooted it late Tuesday night (on the 1st but 12 hours into the month).

I'm splitting local and international with routing.

My daily Telkom email shows this;

-----------------------------------
A friendly notification that according to our records your online usage as at [2009-09-03 23:59:59] reflected the following:

ADSL bandwidth usage report

Blended Usage
Uploaded - 297MB or [0.29GB]
Downloaded - 2.48GB
Combined Total - 2.77GB
Percentage used - 55.47%
Status - Not Capped

Local Usage
Uploaded - 225MB or [0.21GB]
Downloaded - 258MB or [0.25GB]
Combined Total - 483MB or [0.47GB]
Local Bandwidth Allocated - 30.00GB
-----------------------------------------

So I'm definitely eating into both local and international and my connection is not active from the end of last month.
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Can you confirm that your local usage is changing from day to day - otherwise I suspect the local usage of 0.47GB might relate to the period ended 12 hours into the new month.

When you say you are splitting local and international with routing are you implying that you are running two connections on one TI account - one on a local IP and the other on a blended IP?
 
mikef said:
Can you confirm that your local usage is changing from day to day - otherwise I suspect the local usage of 0.47GB might relate to the period ended 12 hours into the new month.
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[2009-09-01 23:59:59] reflected the following:
Local Usage
Uploaded - 99MB or [0.09GB]
Downloaded - 87MB or [0.08GB]
Combined Total - 187MB or [0.18GB]
Local Bandwidth Allocated - 30.00GB


[2009-09-02 23:59:59] reflected the following:
Local Usage
Uploaded - 158MB or [0.15GB]
Downloaded - 175MB or [0.17GB]
Combined Total - 333MB or [0.32GB]
Local Bandwidth Allocated - 30.00GB


[2009-09-03 23:59:59] reflected the following:
Local Usage
Uploaded - 225MB or [0.21GB]
Downloaded - 258MB or [0.25GB]
Combined Total - 483MB or [0.47GB]
Local Bandwidth Allocated - 30.00GB


When you say you are splitting local and international with routing are you implying that you are running two connections on one TI account - one on a local IP and the other on a blended IP?
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I am using only one account. I have however created two pppoe sessions with local IP routing over the second pppoe session (the way most guys do I think).

It may just be me though because I also discovered a while back that smtp.saix.net was accessible via local only bandwidth but no-one would believe me. :-)
 
hilton said:
I am using only one account. I have however created two pppoe sessions with local IP routing over the second pppoe session (the way most guys do I think).

It may just be me though because I also discovered a while back that smtp.saix.net was accessible via local only bandwidth but no-one would believe me. :-)
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And you are sure that both pppoe sessions were started in the new month - if so very interesting
 
mikef said:
And you are sure that both pppoe sessions were started in the new month - if so very interesting
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Well my router was only rebooted on Tuesday night.

My set-up is laptop => router => adsl modem => internet

So my router establishes the pppoe session and when the router is restarted the pppoe connection obviously drops.

Dunno, try it yourself?
 
hilton said:
Well my router was only rebooted on Tuesday night.

My set-up is laptop => router => adsl modem => internet

So my router establishes the pppoe session and when the router is restarted the pppoe connection obviously drops.

Dunno, try it yourself?
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Not currently in a position to test this.

I have been under the impression that TI usage gets allocated to blended or local based in the IP pool that you are allocated when connecting. The only way to be allocated a local only IP address is to connect when your blended allowance has been capped. :confused:

Based on the info you have provided this impression seems to be not accurate.

Maybe someone else who knows more than me would care to comment
 
BTW are you sure that no-one else is connecting to your account?
 
mikef said:
BTW are you sure that no-one else is connecting to your account?
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Good point, this has two concurrent connections so maybe the other one has been connected since last month.

Bugger, thought we were onto something.

Oh well sorry to get your hopes up.
 
im using telkom as my isp.
If im on local caps on the end of each month at the 1ste i must restart my router to active my international caps.

But i have not restart if on last month and on the 20th i was still on my local caps .
lol but it is not worth it,just used your inter' caps and then your local
 
Candleguy said:
im using telkom as my isp.
If im on local caps on the end of each month at the 1ste i must restart my router to active my international caps.

But i have not restart if on last month and on the 20th i was still on my local caps .
lol but it is not worth it,just used your inter' caps and then your local
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try what was reccomended here or on another thread and dont reboot your router... set it up in half bridge mode, dial a new connection and hey presto... international ... for local just disconnect the connection you dialled...
well thats the theory, still to try it out :D
 
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