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I don't like the 3GB cap imposed by Telkom on their DSL connections.  I've been a ADSL happy user and still is, I have had no issues with our DSL service apart from getting it installed in the first place and then the 3GB cap.

So, people like screwing the system. It's something in our nature and people will go out of their way if they can feel they can somehow beat it.

So to get that extra bit of bandwidth freedom from Telkom see last line, leave just a little bit of you cap for the last day. I started this morning with 30mb's left which is OK, ideal would be 1MB left for maximum satisfaction.

AFAIK Telkom only starts restricting you at midnight once you've reached your cap, so it's open download season for the whole day to cram in as much as possible before midnight when the cap will reset again for the month and the day's downloads is basically void.

[Update - Heard that it's not a nightly thing but works in 24hr cycles so it depends on when you're router/modem last logged in]

Started a bit late today, will start at 00h01 next month to ensure I squeeze every possible byte out of the system before my cap is reset.

Hopefully the stats will reflect the total somewhere so I can get a little high-score table going, the goal would be to get at least 3GB extra in the last day to get double the allowed cap. That will be consumer satisfaction :p

Now if my theory is seriously flawed and today's downloads somehow count for next month's cap, I can imagine them doing something like that, then I won't be spending much time online next month :P

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# Roger Fraser said:

I tried that but somehow missed the window of oppurtunity and ended up on next month so I had to borrow some time from the office adsl account! Learnt the best bet is to load up on the 27-29 and by the time the 24 hour period comes up (delayed accounting)even if you go over you are already in the next month so you still have a new 3gb . Also you may notice that the download speed gets very very slow and certain port numbers keep timing out arround the end of the month,not sure if this is a telkom restriction or due to large amount oftraffic.Still with all the bad I could never go back to dialup again just wish telkom would drop the limit and introduce 8mb adsl ;).

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:04 AM
# Senkwe said:

So how do you guys use up 3GB of bandwidth? Is it all the MSDN stuff?

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:46 PM
# Matt said:

I just submitted my application for ADSL and I'm getting Prolog Plus through Telkom Internet with a 4GB cap for R269/month.

Ofcourse I'll have to wait until January before it is installed. (they're busy, you see)

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:03 PM
# Pieter Jansen van Vuuren said:

Roger, 8MB? or did you mean 8GB?
I'm on the DATAPRO Business ADSL, no cap, but it costs me R1345pm excl telkom charges which is an additional R700 odd, so in total just over R2000 for unlimited cap.
Senkwe, I use about 20-30GB a month, no porn, no mp3, no pirate software, some msdn, lot's of sourceforge downloads and a hell of a lot of email, as well as terminal services, I also do a lot of remote development, which also chows up bandwidth, especially data transfers, I also keep offsite backups, and just my dev backups are over 40GB of data. granted 80% of it is SQL databases, but still, 40GB is 40GB. :D

Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:29 AM
# Andre said:

I have the 384 home account, and don't get anywhere near my cap. In the past if I needed to download something I would do it at work and take it home. Now I check what I want to download at work and wait till I get home to do it.

Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:10 AM
# fagmeda said:

Hi there could you please send me a manual on how to set it up on the modem

Friday, December 03, 2004 1:21 PM
# Iwan said:

How's this for a getting them back :-)
9.5502 GB used in one month

Saturday, December 04, 2004 11:20 AM
# dieJaxmeister said:

Oh where, oh where could Armand be? Are you on holiday or already capped?

Friday, December 10, 2004 12:17 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

holiday.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:33 PM