Isp maxing 8mb line

[Cider]

Hey all

South africa monopoly telkom [url]www.telkom.co.za[url] which owns the cable lines which dsl runs on is upgrading to 8 mb in September.

Im very glad, its a huge step up for us. Must be because of the 2010 world cup that we are moving forward in the telecommunications area.

Just though I would share it with you

[nihil]

And how much will that cost?

Bandwidth limits?

[morganlefay]

How about throttling or traffic shaping....I believe ISPs call it "network management" in their contracts.

Yeah we will give you 8 megs but you cant use it

MLF

[oofki]

Well keep in mind that 8mb which = 1MB/s. Its what I have and its pretty decent, no fios tho :-S

[Cider]

Hey there

I have a 4 meg line atm. Get around 500 kb/s download.

anyway here are my charges.

Telephone rental - R110 incl vat (10 - 15 $) [you cant have an adsl line without a telephone line]

ADSL line - 4 meg @ R450 incl vat ($50 +/-)
ADSL account 3 gig int 30 gig local @ R300 incl vat (40 - 45 $)

There you go.

Expensive over here!

[t34b4g5]

It might be expensive, but different country's money equal different amounts, plus at least it's still a step in the right direction.
I mean if they want to do some huge sporting even then they really need to uprade everything as you carn't broadcast much on a rusted up 56k line now can you.

And just think now you can download your pr0n a lot quicker then before, and that's all that matters.