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Grievous

Grievous

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Hi

I feel a bit stupid asking this, but I've been wondering about this for a bit.

Ok... so my parents have a 10 gig 384 kbps account, which allows 2 concurrent logins. Now if i get a 1gig 4096 kbs account at my place .... what will happen when i use up my cap and switch to my parents account? Will my speed be reduced to 384 kbps?

thanks,
Gir!
 
McGuywer said:
Yes. Your speed will be reduced.
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Will it? Surely not?

I do this exact thing fom time to time. I have a 4mbps line at my place, and occasionally when I run out of bandwidth at the end of the month I jump to my parents Mweb 5GB account. They have a 384 line, but I still get my full line speed at my place on their account.

Unless you are looking at uncapped options, bandwidth packages have no bearing on your line speed.
 
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What Tinman said...

Your DSL accounts do not adjust themselves based on what the line is at the original users side... in other words there are no Line limitations on ADSL accounts... they do not pick up that you are using a 4mb line or a 384kbps but will try run at its best :)
 
Are you sure? Then why don't we all buy 386kb uncapped lines from our service providers and run it on a 4Mbps ADSL line from Telkom? Of course your speed would run at 386, no?
 
mcryan said:
Are you sure? Then why don't we all buy 386kb uncapped lines from our service providers and run it on a 4Mbps ADSL line from Telkom? Of course your speed would run at 386, no?
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If you have a 4mb ADSL line, but a 384k uncapped account, the ISP will throttle you tp 384, but as I said in my first post, this is only with uncapped offerings.

The thinking is that an uncapped 4mb line can do A LOT more bandwidth in a month than a 384 line. Therefore, it would be silly for 384 users to pay the same as 4mb users for an uncapped service.

With capped accounts this is different. You can't use more than your allowance, so ISPs don't care how fast you use it.

So, in summary.

UNLESS you have uncapped, your data package will have no bearing on your line speed.

A 5GB Mweb/WebAfrica/Axxess/Afrihost/Telkom etc bandwidth account will run at full line speeds regardless of whethere you are on 384,512 or 4mbps.
 
It depends on isp some isps like cyber smart even with cap accounts restrict you to a certain circuit . If you are on a 384kbps 1 gig account you aren't allowed to use that account on a 4mbps line. Its in their contract terms, along with quite a few other restrictions which is why I would never use them.

But for most isps you just pay for the amount of cap and they don't care what line speed you are using. Uncapped is slightly different and they throttle the speed if you are using a faster than agreed line speed.
 
Tinman said:
If you have a 4mb ADSL line, but a 384k uncapped account, the ISP will throttle you tp 384, but as I said in my first post, this is only with uncapped offerings.

The thinking is that an uncapped 4mb line can do A LOT more bandwidth in a month than a 384 line. Therefore, it would be silly for 384 users to pay the same as 4mb users for an uncapped service.

With capped accounts this is different. You can't use more than your allowance, so ISPs don't care how fast you use it.

So, in summary.

UNLESS you have uncapped, your data package will have no bearing on your line speed.

A 5GB Mweb/WebAfrica/Axxess/Afrihost/Telkom etc bandwidth account will run at full line speeds regardless of whethere you are on 384,512 or 4mbps.
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Ok, right I understand what you are saying. So that by default you pay simple for the amount of bandwidth you go through, no matter if its 4Mbps or 512Kbps. But with an uncapped account your speed will determine the price that you pay.
 
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