I'm subscribed to Telkom's LTE network. What with school hols, there's continuous YouTube & Netflix streaming, online gaming, and now my wife is binge-watching The Vampire Diaries on Showmax.
Yesterday morning my service was being throttled to 2M download speed. I call 'em up and I was informed that my 300GB streaming cap was in the green, but the 50GB peer-to-peer cap had been reached. I had fallen foul of Telkom's Fair Use Policy. Speeds will be reset on 1 January. Now that's fair enough. But now I'm thinking that surely this is something I can control from my side? I also realise that it's not clear what qualifies as P2P.
So, my questions are:
1) Is there information available to clarify the definition of P2P and streaming data?
2) Are there tools available to inform me which - and how much - of these two kinds of data traffic is in use? (Either live or from a retrievable log).
3) Are there tools available to enable me to regulate consumption of the two data categories?
Please advise.
Yesterday morning my service was being throttled to 2M download speed. I call 'em up and I was informed that my 300GB streaming cap was in the green, but the 50GB peer-to-peer cap had been reached. I had fallen foul of Telkom's Fair Use Policy. Speeds will be reset on 1 January. Now that's fair enough. But now I'm thinking that surely this is something I can control from my side? I also realise that it's not clear what qualifies as P2P.
So, my questions are:
1) Is there information available to clarify the definition of P2P and streaming data?
2) Are there tools available to inform me which - and how much - of these two kinds of data traffic is in use? (Either live or from a retrievable log).
3) Are there tools available to enable me to regulate consumption of the two data categories?
Please advise.
