[DSL] South African ADSL Spreading the word in General Questions http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19392299 en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:13:13 EDT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:13:13 EDT Re: [DSL] South African ADSL Spreading the word http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19402740 PickAName :
said by Vastro :

»mybroadband.co.za/news/ADSL/1862.html
and the usage regulations of DSL for our country:
»www.telkom.co.za/pls/portal/docs···0AUP.pdf
It's not that insane, when compared with common ISP practice in the UK (a fair usage policy that asks you to limit p2p use so it doesn't damage the the bandwidth on their network)

The article you linked to seems to be wrong. This bit...
Telkom points out that the downloading of files like movies, MP3s, games and software using applications such as Napster, Kazaa, E-donkey is not allowed.

... isn't true. I don't see anything saying mp3's and p2p apps aren't allowed, just asking that you limit your use of them. Isn't it just automatic download and search and download apps that aren't allowed (e.g. spidering, for example something like Black Widow - »softbytelabs.com/us/bw/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19402740 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:50:11 EDT [DSL] South African ADSL Spreading the word http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19392299 anon : I would like to spread a certain article I am extremely fond of to the rest of the world.

Hope it sheds some light on the insanity of the state South Africa's DSL is in:

»mybroadband.co.za/news/ADSL/1862.html

and the usage regulations of DSL for our country:
»www.telkom.co.za/pls/portal/docs···0AUP.pdf]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19392299 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:19:04 EDT