Well I just hear beeping about "throttling", So I gave info from ISP side of things. Also hear more beeping about how no one is satisfied with fair usage limits? and whomever is to blame for enabling the throttling.
You used it (and not denying you used it), hence you are throttled. If you are unhappy that you are being throttled when @ 10GB where Telkommen should only start throttling @ 50GB then take it up with them? If you cant do that and they only give you a reply like "ehhh, I don't know" they change service provider and stop moaning? simple.
AFAIK its normally:
Total drawable on best case per month, divide that by half and thats in theory your MAX Cap before being throttled, or SOFT CAP in other words. Now normally ADSL based is minus few GBs depending on line speed.
Okay lets take 1meg line.. taking into account of 85% of the speed flatlined in a month to compensate for ESKOM being offline and telkommen exchange issues or whatever.
That gives you +- 275.4GB per month on a 1meg line.
Now ISP limit before throttle is half = 137.7GB thats the in theory limit before they throttle you for abuse. (Quick peek at page 1 - hmm 140gb average hmm 1 meg line. Sir you have Soft Capped yourself EVERY MONTH)...
Okay continuing. 137.7gb is now your max max max before throttle. Note some companies take overhead on that making it either 135gb or even 130gb. but never higher really (yet some have been renound to let you go wild unless their system / exchange is taking strain). So now your talking about +-10gb over softlimit everymonth on average. = Abuse
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Hitting Softlimit every month = Abusing line = Your throttled = WILL be watched for further abuse = Sipho will set your SOFT LIMIT to 125GB just to be aspris to see if you have learned not to abuse the line.
Now that you are what? 5-10-15GB over your soft limit MONTHLY. and Sipho has legally throttled you after you crossed the soft cap line, why are you complaining again?
Another metric. 400meg line, capable of 40meg per second / 2.4GB per min / 144GB per hour / 3.445TB per day /
98.8TB per month...
Half = 49.4TB Soft Cap
Usages
1 - 52TB
2 - 56TB
3 - 49.9TB
4 - 60TB
5 - 57TB
Now with that You are throttled. you have excessively used more that the soft cap / seen as non-abuse cap, and you are now on the watch list. Simple.
Questions are:
Is your service limited to under the SOFT LIMIT threshold? aka 80GB instead of 130GB?
Does your ISP give detail as to what their Soft Limit for your package is?
Does your ISP enforce the Soft Limit by the dot or by +- value or by when data stats are updated for either (which could be 1-3 days depending on monitoring systems and triggers)
Things to note = "unshaped" is an irrelavant term if you've hit soft cap as shaped is normally for day and night instances where day is slow and night is fast or vice versa, "unthrottled" is a term that should strongly be used as "no soft limit" BUT should ALWAYS be taken with one hefty pinch of salt as most will say unthrottled yet they will throttle you upon line abuse aka soft cap anyway but may not before that IN THEORY soft cap has been reached....
They dont care if you legitimately update 350gb of steam files on a line with total drawable = 400gb, thus making 200GB the soft limit for abuse thus making 350GB abusive...
So for those that can pull 270GB of the 275.4GB a month on a 1meg line and NOT be throttled or warned or hanged, you are the lucky few that have slipped through the cracks and either get away with it because you sliped through the cracks OR plain the ISP doesnt really care much until they're under strain then they will likely throttle you.
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Lol zoned out a little bit while typing. Lol must be the South Park playing in the background..
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