Telkom My Pet Hate

[Pap_sak]

Being a 68 year old IT challenged individual I am swimming in rather deep waters for me. The other three wireless connections in my house are used mainly for Face Book in two cases and the one for Gaia. The children attend school for most of the day so the time spent on the internet is limited as they are normally in bed by 10PM. The people around me do not have internet. At what distance can someone tap into my setup. My understanding is that you have to be very close. My gut feeling is that I am being had either by Telkom or some individual siphoning off my Gigs.

Facebook on it's own, hardly uses anything - even playing games on it. Not sure what Gaia is though. As someone said, for 1 month, turn of the wireless and go buy some cables. You can get pretty long cables - I use one that is 30m.

Just checked my useage: Both my wife and I use it. Emails, forums, facebook (for me poker!) - she is a graphic designer, so lots of photo's up and down. It's constantly in use. 1.34GB - even I thought it would be more... We've been very happy with our ISP - cybersmart.co.za.

[daveob]

Just checked my useage: Both my wife and I use it. Emails, forums, facebook (for me poker!) - she is a graphic designer, so lots of photo's up and down. It's constantly in use. 1.34GB

Wife and I at home all day, each with own PC. Running online data business. Rarely get above 3gb per month.

[tec0]

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