Does telkom cap u or not...

[StaticS]

I've heard so many times about ppl who go over there cap limit (3gb cap in this case) and don't get capped! Is this true and if it is then why do the other isp cap u?!

[{lostmarble}]

I have been capped at 3.2 Gig
I have also NOT been capped at 8.7Gig

Telkom is my ISP...

[Askari]

I have consistently gone over my alloted 3 Gigs for the last 6 months. I am now on 5,2 Gigs. Mostly I go over by 2-3 gigs a month and have never been capped. You take your chances but it would seem that with Telkom ISP you will get more that 3 Gigs whereas others will cut you on 3 Gigs

[Alluvium]

look , most ISP buy from telkom, so they cant afford to let you off caps, telkom controls all the bandwidth...

they do what they want, they have some sort of system, where by if the average user base reaches a cap, those who exceed their cap get HARD capped. or they have made a mistake with the capping system.


at least thats what i acn figure, this might only apply to people who have premium acounts or somthing like that

i have 2 premium accounts such that i am unshapped ect, they are 'capped' at 3 gig, and if i go over i get slow local, but as it seems at the moment no capping is ahppening, and has eben so for the whole year now....


have a look over at www.mybroadband.co.za

[JAWS_Firefox]

There is a certain capacity of bandwidth. If this starts getting to be exceeded, all those over 3G will get soft-capped. (Softcapped: you can still access the internet but at dial-up speed) The other ISPs, as far as I'm concerned, want your money: If you want more than your 3G, you have to pay. That why you get hard-capped. (Hard-capped: Absolutely NO access to the internet, not even to get your mails.)
Hard to believe from Telkom but the facts speak for themselves...

[StaticS]

So if one is with telkom as an isp and go over 3G then do u pay for how much you have gone over 3G? (Taking imaginet as an example u pay R6 for 100mb after going over ur cap)

[TG]

No, you don't pay.

[Alluvium]

you dont pay, although i did get hard capped at 10gigs one month

[JAWS_Firefox]

So if one is with telkom as an isp and go over 3G then do u pay for how much you have gone over 3G? (Taking imaginet as an example u pay R6 for 100mb after going over ur cap)

That money would not go to Telkom.

[StaticS]

Wow 10gb's ?! Thnx Alluvium u just helped me make up my mind! :bow:

[Alluvium]

well like the way i see it, you buying your line from them, so who better to buy your bandidth from , one account, and if they change things other people who are effectivly middle men, cahnge thigns too,(niote telkom is already tecknically a middle man tho)

[Ga5can]

Directly from Telkom marketing ....
"NEWS!! DSL 1024 becomes DSL Up to 4MBPS trial" ... :hmmm: ... Maybe competition is actually doing something for us, eventually. :rolleyes:

[gus]

I have 1Mb (now 4Mb for the past month or so) line. The speed is not actually that high. For example, from the telkom speed test:
Results:

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 3.406 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1197.9 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 146.8 (kiloBytes/second)

I heard other people see better speeds. I guess it might depend on the exchange's capacity, or maybe my line is the limiting factor. My line originally tested good up to 7.5Mb, but things might have changed since, for example when they dug up the road close to my house and severed the trunk cable to the exchange. The router however claims the connection is 4Mb, so I do not know if the line would be the problem, because I thought the router would fall back to a lower rate if there are problems on some of the channels.