Um, hello

Hi,

Still alive. Been locked out of most internet sites since Friday night. Very strange. I could get on my local weather, FB (until accidentally logged out, then could not log in) and even my bank. I could not, however, get on most sites, including my EMAIL. That is very bad.

Turns out for the first time since we acquired ADSL we we ran out of bandwidth - so only local sites were we permitted access, too. This is made stranger because some seemingly local (Book SA, for example) are not local due to their host, but others, like Youtube, are due to some weird google thing. So at first we thought something was broken and wasted a lot of time fooling around with techy stuff when it was just a matter of bandwidth.

I am still in the penalty box regarding bandwidth and have borrowed back my 3G connection. 3G can be all well and good, but my house seems to have a love-hate thing going on with getting a signal. Such a pain.

To all my UK and USA peeps - it is very difficult / expensive to have regular ol' broadband in this country. There are packages, and this gives me hope, that operate like everywhere else in the world. However, even the nicely priced packages are not as affordable as they should be due to Telkom's stranglehold on the whole deal, thus you still owe them a cut before you can pay the other guy and...

So for the rest of us little people, you buy how much bandwidth you think you need per month. Thus, a video takes up lots, text a little, and various things in-between. Of course, if it is local, it is free, but not always. Confused? That's because it IS bloody confusing. To be fair to us, we've managed to "behave" ourselves on the same package for a full year, which is rather amazing.

In the meantime, I'll spare you my morning chaos of trying to get my 3G up and running again. To give you a glimpse: I left the house at 9am, I got the 3G operating at 1pm. 

Pain-in-the-arse does not begin to describe.

Comments

[Damaria Senne]

hey
Maybe you should look into buying bandwidth from Afrihost (afrihost.co.za). I think you can get 2Gigs for about R29, and it's pay as you go. It can help cap your allocation from you own provider.