Free 10 GB Web Africa ADSL trial kicks off [Archive]

astrauss

01-10-2009, 12:56 PM

I know WA said "The length of the account trial may be subject to change and the 10GB cap for both local and international access is only valid during the trial period." but does anyone have even a vague idea of how long the trial will run for? I will be out of the country for two weeks in Oct, so I might miss out.

AcidRaZor

01-10-2009, 12:56 PM

are we THERE yet?!?!?!!

porchrat

01-10-2009, 12:59 PM

are we THERE yet?!?!?!!

Don't make me come back or heaven help you I will turn this car around!

Garyvdh

01-10-2009, 01:05 PM

Test Failed

TelkomUseless

01-10-2009, 01:07 PM

Test Failed
what?

I haven't received my user+pwd for trail!

10 gig for free... always good. I just hope they drop their prices after this...

SlyFly

01-10-2009, 01:17 PM

I think I was number 845 or something... Still havent received any news... But I think current WA users will get it first?

Gaz{M}

01-10-2009, 01:21 PM

8001st? :/

roberst? :/

Guntree

01-10-2009, 01:22 PM

10gb

What r u gonna do with it?

R13...

01-10-2009, 01:25 PM

Muhahahahahah

kung-fu master?

Tegnik

01-10-2009, 01:36 PM

Well with my luck I am somewhere between 8001 and 1 000 000.

P.S. that would suck.

kilobits

01-10-2009, 01:50 PM

Hey.. I just got my login details!

Will be testing it now...

I will let you know how it goes!!!

Edit: How may of you rushed to check your mail... relax... I am lying. Nothing received yet. :)

porchrat

01-10-2009, 01:58 PM

Hey.. I just got my login details!

Will be testing it now...

I will let you know how it goes!!!

Edit: How may of you rushed to check your mail... relax... I am lying. Nothing received yet. :)

and so it begins. Yay

EDIT: No!!! curse you and your edit...I did indeed rush off to check my email..good one :D:D

Kompete

01-10-2009, 01:58 PM

So whats this all about? Is it just so WA can test their new network before they migrate everyone over? or will my monthly 1GB bundle be upgraded to 10GB for the same price??????...if not...yawn

HideInLight

01-10-2009, 02:01 PM

First thing I did when I saw title was rush to my email address.
Nothing...

porchrat

01-10-2009, 02:02 PM

So whats this all about? Is it just so WA can test their new network before they migrate everyone over? or will my monthly 1GB bundle be upgraded to 10GB for the same price??????...if not...yawn

They claim there will be big price changes as a result of this, but then again SEACOM claimed the same thing and look what happened.

Keep your fingers crossed though.

hopefully the whole "people flocking to Afrihost" thing has been noticed by WA and they realise that if they drop their prices they will benefit. The market is not static, we will move to the ISP that offers the better deal.

fluKe

01-10-2009, 02:06 PM

I moved to Afrihost from WA, time is ticking if the other ISPs r gonna catch up...

Stickfigure

01-10-2009, 02:11 PM

Between the 1-7 of October people. You could all still be waiting next week ;)

porchrat

01-10-2009, 02:15 PM

Between the 1-7 of October people. You could all still be waiting next week ;)

Then I have a feeling a lot of forumites will be found dead over the weekend after having starved to death. Stuck in an endless loop pressing "refresh mailbox" over and over.

I hope the eulogy will be nice.

_TrXtR_

01-10-2009, 03:06 PM

Then I have a feeling a lot of forumites will be found dead over the weekend after having starved to death. Stuck in an endless loop pressing "refresh mailbox" over and over.

I hope the eulogy will be nice.

:D:D:D lol

Tns

01-10-2009, 03:50 PM

will have to see what happens here.

Just_Ice

01-10-2009, 03:55 PM

Murphies law states: Just_Ice will receive his details on 7 October 2009. Trial ends 7 October 2009.

Vegeta

01-10-2009, 06:51 PM

Google now has push email....... so

/cartman voice "screeew u guys.... i'm going home"

cyberarmy

01-10-2009, 07:11 PM

I am waiting for my details too.

waroop

01-10-2009, 07:42 PM

Hi All

Thanks for the feedback. Everyone should receive their details over the next 7 days.

The trial is expected to run for roughly 2 weeks, but this could be highly variable.

gregmcc

01-10-2009, 08:21 PM

Then I have a feeling a lot of forumites will be found dead over the weekend after having starved to death. Stuck in an endless loop pressing "refresh mailbox" over and over.

I've got a piece of prestick holding down my F5 key :)

sallyspencer

01-10-2009, 08:45 PM

I've got a piece of prestick holding down my F5 key :)

:D:D:D

Captain Solo

01-10-2009, 09:38 PM

These guys claim to have just received the details:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=3196754#post3196754

Garyvdh

01-10-2009, 10:35 PM

I just got mine

ebii

01-10-2009, 10:37 PM

Just got mine aswell:D

faksyk

01-10-2009, 10:38 PM

I just got mine

Of course YOU have! :D

I rest my case of earlier today. ;)

Garyvdh

01-10-2009, 10:40 PM

Of course YOU have! :D

I rest my case of earlier today. ;)

:p

night or day... you know where to find me.

Wogan

01-10-2009, 10:43 PM

Webafrica, I'm real happy for you, and imma let you finish, but IS Fibre Uncapped is the best internet of all time! OF ALL TIME!

geezer

01-10-2009, 10:48 PM

Whoot! Whoot! Just got my login details and posting this using the Web Africa trial account!

Rosaudio

01-10-2009, 10:49 PM

ldmelsa

01-10-2009, 11:03 PM

:(

don't worry man :D

Batches of accounts will be activated over the period of Oct 1st - Oct 7th.

drukkie

01-10-2009, 11:03 PM

Something tells me people will not be using their afrihost gigs......................................yet

waroop

02-10-2009, 12:09 AM

Webafrica, I'm real happy for you, and imma let you finish, but IS Fibre Uncapped is the best internet of all time! OF ALL TIME!
Indeed an internetical post Wogan, worthy of at least over 9000 :D

waroop

02-10-2009, 12:10 AM

Whoot! Whoot! Just got my login details and posting this using the Web Africa trial account!
Great stuff geezer :) how are you finding it?

Tweak

02-10-2009, 12:55 AM

did somebody say "FREE?"

Tns

02-10-2009, 06:39 AM

did somebody say "FREE?"
as in yes you pay for it :D

.Matthew

02-10-2009, 06:46 AM

I GOT MINE!!! YAYA!

Khodi

02-10-2009, 07:53 AM

Waiting for mine :-(

DjStyles

02-10-2009, 08:07 AM

mmm, still waiting for my details! :(

czc

02-10-2009, 08:12 AM

Don't worry they'll come. I got mine at 11:49 yesterday night.

CorneN

02-10-2009, 08:23 AM

I think I just saw a tumbleweed roll accross my inbox :( lol

Krayon

02-10-2009, 08:31 AM

Roughly 400 people have been activated for the trial so far and we will be sending out another batch of logins this morning and evening.

In the past 12 hours over 140gb's have successfully been used by trial users :D

semaphore

02-10-2009, 08:37 AM

still waiting for my details ----> gief:<

Just_Ice

02-10-2009, 08:59 AM

Tries to be patient....

wizecrack

02-10-2009, 11:34 AM

My word, but they are taking their sweet time!

I am sure I was one of the first 100 people who signed up, but I haven't received the details as yet. :confused:

Messugga

02-10-2009, 11:37 AM

My word, but they are taking their sweet time!

I am sure I was one of the first 100 people who signed up, but I haven't received the details as yet. :confused:

Obviously you weren't as accounts are issued on a first come, first served basis. I think you vastly underestimate the amount of interest this trial garnered!

wizecrack

02-10-2009, 11:43 AM

Obviously you weren't as accounts are issued on a first come, first served basis. I think you vastly underestimate the amount of interest this trial garnered!

I am sure I was, as I signed up very shortly after the news was leaked the Friday evening, instead of the Monday morning when they officially announced it.

wizecrack

02-10-2009, 11:48 AM

I see they only have 367 users active on the trial at the moment according to their Website.

If they only activate that amount every day, they are going to have 2,569 users active by the end of the trial which falls way short of their apparent 8,000 signups.

Nerfherder

02-10-2009, 11:48 AM

I am sure I was, as I signed up very shortly after the news was leaked the Friday evening, instead of the Monday morning when they officially announced it.

Yes but are you a WA customer ?

I'm sure WA is going to give to their existing customers first.

I'd be peeved if i was their customer for years and then they give out free data to non customers first.

wizecrack

02-10-2009, 11:49 AM

Yes, I am a WA customer and have been from day one they existed.

Krayon

02-10-2009, 12:12 PM

We are starting off slow and ironing out the major issues before adding bulk users to the trial. Increments will be around 1200 per day once we are sure our network is capable of these loads.

Regarding WA customers first, unfortunately we are not able to differentiate between our customers and non customers because some used gmail or other accounts so we decided to go first come first serve.

At the moment the 367 trial users have burned through 200 Gigs :cool:

Nutty Grandad

02-10-2009, 12:27 PM

Thank you Web Africa.

I am online and it's going pretty well.
Had a bad lag spike about 3 hours ago, but it quickly reverted back.
Now I get this :) (normally an average above 300ms)

Pinging google.com [74.125.45.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 74.125.45.100: bytes=32 time=281ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.45.100: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.45.100: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.45.100: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 74.125.45.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 281ms, Maximum = 282ms, Average = 281ms

rrh

02-10-2009, 12:38 PM

Received an SMS (and email) at 22h30 last night with the trial shaped account login details. Started a download (from the Microsoft MSDN site) and achieved a tad under 2Mb/s

NB: WA do say that the current speeds are in no way indicative of the final product.

Slobber

02-10-2009, 12:46 PM

semaphore

02-10-2009, 12:47 PM

Really pathetic to see web africa making excuses about not prioritising existing customers and then making even more pathetic excuses about it.

Come on, lets give free bw to all the download kiddies first rather than the folk that pay the bills.

I tend to agree there, i for one signed up to the trial with my client email address. And pay outa my ass for unshaped with WA each month.

Slobber

02-10-2009, 12:52 PM

Yeah same. And I'm practically their alerting system for ADSL auth being down (Hint hint, maybe you should sort this issue out once and for all WA).

semaphore

02-10-2009, 12:54 PM

Anyways no point in whining, we will get our turn, i guess..

porchrat

02-10-2009, 01:02 PM

semaphore

02-10-2009, 01:09 PM

I cannot believe there are people moaning about the implementation methods a company employs to provide some free internet. What is wrong with you guys?

Is there anything MyBB forumites won't be unhappy with?

It is free, who cares if you don't get it straight away. Unless you would prefer not to have it at all?

if you read what we said it is pretty clear, why.

"paying customers" do not get first priority perhaps?

where as the internet leeches seem to be getting it first?:)

porchrat

02-10-2009, 01:17 PM

if you read what we said it is pretty clear, why.

"paying customers" do not get first priority perhaps?

where as the internet leeches seem to be getting it first?:)

I know why he is complaining, I am in fact literate, but honestly people... it is free! :p

At that point there is nothing to say to WA other than "thank you" regardless of your position with them as a customer and how long it takes to get your 10GBs. Anything else is just an insult to the company providing this to you.

Peppercorns

02-10-2009, 01:28 PM

Well my 10gig trial account was just capped at exactly 10gigs....big thanks to Webafrica for the free bandwidth, hopefully my downloading served as some type of value to you guys :D

semaphore

02-10-2009, 01:28 PM

Slobber

02-10-2009, 02:32 PM

porchrat and how can they afford to give out free bw? Oh wait all their existing paying customers that's how.

While I do agree that what WA are doing is great, I just find it pathetic that they're more interested in generating publicity from this, than rewarding loyal clients.

Krayon

02-10-2009, 02:59 PM

Hi Slobber,

I understand what you are saying, but please bear in mind that we did send out our September newsletter to our customers before we announced this to the general public to give our customers a head start.

Due to the leak, many non WA customers jumped the queue and we even increased the number of trial users from 5000 to 8000 to accommodate our WA customers who were calling in saying they did not sign up in time.

Slobber

02-10-2009, 03:05 PM

Yeah totally as a client it's my fault it was leaked. Way to pass the buck.

Wag

02-10-2009, 03:06 PM

porchrat

02-10-2009, 03:11 PM

Slobber

02-10-2009, 03:29 PM

Yeah I'm sure you're both with WA. Leechs for the win.

kilos

02-10-2009, 04:10 PM

Just got mine now gateway 41.185.65.1
DNS Server should be on different networks & geographic locations, that will change later on
196.220.59.188
196.220.59.189

porchrat

02-10-2009, 04:38 PM

Yeah I'm sure you're both with WA. Leechs for the win.

Damn blood-sucking parasites how dare you filthy people take advantage of a free offering that the Divine Right of Kings clearly reserves for your Lord and Sovereign Slobber!

You can't see it but I'm bowing Lord Slobber I assure you it is very respectful.

Why can't you all be more like Slobber and complain about the free offering! :rolleyes:

You people act like you are grateful for free things, what is wrong with you!

The_Missing_Link

02-10-2009, 04:39 PM

I know why he is complaining, I am in fact literate, but honestly people... it is free! :p

At that point there is nothing to say to WA other than "thank you" regardless of your position with them as a customer and how long it takes to get your 10GBs. Anything else is just an insult to the company providing this to you.
Not sure I agree porchrat, there is something called customer loyalty, that's a two way street, why be loyal if you aren't being looked after.

Quick question, other than being literate are you a WA customer or are you pretending to understand what the real issue is here!

porchrat

02-10-2009, 04:43 PM

Not sure I agree porchrat, there is something called customer loyalty, that's a two way street, why be loyal if you aren't being looked after.

Quick question, other than being literate are you a WA customer or are you pretending to understand what the real issue is here!

I agree with the whole customer loyalty thing and I could understand where you guys were coming from IF you didn't get a piece of the free 10GB action, but you DID. Only WA customers who won't be receiving a free 10GB can complain. The rest are complaining about nothing as they haven't suffered at all.

If you guys could point out how you have been negatively affected then great and I'm sorry for you. Otherwise don't complain. I mean you are really going to tell me that you are complaining because someone who isn't a WA customer is getting their free 10GB before you get your free 10GB? How petty is that, just be happy that you have a free 10GB that you didn't have before.

To answer you question I am most definitely not a WA customer, I go where the bandwidth is cheapest and feel no sense of loyalty towards my ISP. WA is neither the cheapest nor the most reliable and therefore I avoid them.

kilos

02-10-2009, 04:49 PM

Speedtest is way off very erratic 4.5 - 12 Mb/s on a 4Mb line
http://www.speedtest.net/result/580920904.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Abit more consistent with line speed
http://www.speedtest.net/result/580922810.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Slobber

02-10-2009, 04:51 PM

Oh wow porchrat. You've failed to gasp the issue at hand. Perhaps should look into that literacy you seem to think you have, as clearly it's not all there.

cyberarmy

02-10-2009, 06:07 PM

The website which only loads 10% on IS backbone (Openweb uncapped & Afrihost), also only loads 10 % on WA trial.

detritus

02-10-2009, 06:22 PM

Yeah totally as a client it's my fault it was leaked. Way to pass the buck.

Oh suck it up, you whiny little twit.

Elfreako

02-10-2009, 06:30 PM

Giving mine a bash, browsing seems a little slow so far

Pr⊕phet

02-10-2009, 06:37 PM

Free 10 GB ADSL trial kicks off (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/ADSL/9829.html)

Web Africa will begin testing their new ADSL network today

what i think so far :D

impressive so far but i wonder if the contention ration is either non existent or lower than IS/SAix is.

Leathal

02-10-2009, 07:22 PM

WA you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D

My latencies are amazing and bandwidth is always hitting full speed on my line!

I just hope the latencies stay this low and I will pay any price for the bandwidth.

Sub 200ms overseas to my favorite int sites.

LeathaL <3 WA

:cool:

HideInLight

02-10-2009, 07:36 PM

HoN latency's

JPN 240-260
USE 360
USS 253
EU 350-360
USW 480

Impressive for shaped.

hj2k_x

02-10-2009, 07:37 PM

Been going well for me since last night. :)

feo

02-10-2009, 07:43 PM

Speed is decent for me too.

I think this weekend will be the real test of how well WA's new network holds up to the pressure. Some pretty awesome demos up on XBL so I'm sure those 360's will be grabbing those. Here's hoping it all works like it should.

Sting

02-10-2009, 07:44 PM

Logged in around 5pm today. 1 minor lockup (probably my own fault!) but since then - a huge thumbs up!!

To the Telkom trolls --> raise your game or your ISP will lose even more customers!

Wag

02-10-2009, 07:45 PM

Oh suck it up, you whiny little twit.

+1. In Afrikaans roep ons hulle Martie Martelgat

MidnightWizard

02-10-2009, 08:08 PM

Just got mine now gateway 41.185.65.1
DNS Server should be on different networks & geographic locations, that will change later on
196.220.59.188
196.220.59.189

Using Telkom ADSL line I am having problems with the DNS

Used IPCP DNS request -- which gave me the numbers you mention above

DNS & Gateway

BTW -- does WA have a proxy that one can use ????

Need to check once the WA DNS is working if SAIX will allow access to their Proxy from the WA IP pool.

However using those WA DNS servers does not resolve ANYTHING for me ???

IF I use an IP address -- OK everything works

Did an NSLookup but it appears that the WebAfrica domain is not reflected anywhere -- well at least not at IGUBU -- unless I am doing something wrong

Went back to the DO Broadband and all is working.

Hard to download when you cannot resolve any web sites :confused:

Anyone else with Telkom broadband having problems ?????

MW

flarkit

02-10-2009, 08:15 PM

Wadddya know, I got a login too! :D

gregmcc

02-10-2009, 08:16 PM

Still nothing :( Hope they haven't forgotten about me!

Napalm

02-10-2009, 08:20 PM

ye, still haven't received my Login/Pass either.

Maybe WA forgot about me.

:((

Rosaudio

02-10-2009, 08:27 PM

Only like a quarter of the accounts have gone out yet so dont worry. /runs off to download more stuff

feo

02-10-2009, 08:54 PM

Haven't tested my Afrihost account but Youtube videos ain't starting up for me using the trial account.

gregmcc

02-10-2009, 09:15 PM

Wayyaaa - got my account.

Can't get any news server to work though :( Gonna be tough to actually download 10GB of stuff :(

Pyro

02-10-2009, 10:30 PM

Haven't done any complicated tests yet.

Steam downloads at full 384K speeds, and web pages work 100%. Also managed to play a few HON games locally without a hitch. Pings were higher than 626 bandwidth, but allways under 100ms locally.

So far so good.

feo

02-10-2009, 10:31 PM

AcidRaZor

02-10-2009, 10:37 PM

Test Youtube please.

YouTube's quite fast, but they're currently having a problem with it not loading, walan is looking into it now so hopefully will fix it.

feo

02-10-2009, 10:40 PM

YouTube's quite fast, but they're currently having a problem with it not loading, walan is looking into it now so hopefully will fix it.
Yeah...pretty much NO video loads for me on Youtube.

I PM'ed walan and hopefully it'll get sorted.

wamatt

02-10-2009, 11:12 PM

Youtube was giving issues with the proxies. It was working for 80% but 20% nothing. Alan's turning it off now. I know the engineers are a bit exhausted pulling all nighters and are getting some zzzz's

Just a few things as well:
- Unshaped/shaped profiles are the same at this stage (this will change)
- Over the next month and ongoing we'll be making a lot of optimisations (especially on local) in terms of routing and will continue to do so. However these take much longer than caching/routing etc tweaks we currently doing.
- Further on into the trial we going to do full stress testing, where we want to overload the network and see how it performs (esp shaped vs unshaped)

Thanks for all the feedback. The guys will follow up tomorrow with the outstanding forum posts.

Wogan

03-10-2009, 01:51 AM

Indeed an internetical post Wogan, worthy of at least over 9000 :D

Haha, sorry man, couldn't help myself :P

hj2k_x

03-10-2009, 08:53 AM

My youtube vids went from loading superfast last night to not at all and now are back at slooooow :p

Kloon

03-10-2009, 08:56 AM

Youtube working for me and loading very fast

Loopin

03-10-2009, 09:17 AM

HoN latency's

JPN 240-260
USE 360
USS 253
EU 350-360
USW 480

Impressive for shaped.

unshaped:

iGame: 80+
EU: 180 - 250
USX: 300 - 350
JPN: ??

Globetrotter

03-10-2009, 09:39 AM

Yeah...pretty much NO video loads for me on Youtube.

Feo,
Are you logged IN with a Youtube account when you try to view the videos? If you are, just log out and try and view the video again. If that works, post it here.

Yesterday I couldn't view any Youtube videos but it worked when I logged OUT of my Youtube account and viewed the videos as a guest user. When I log in to my Youtube account, the videos give me that error again.

Quite weird since I only get this problem on the WA trial account. When I switch back to my normal adsl account, then I can watch Youtube videos when I'm both logged in and out of my Youtube account.

feo

03-10-2009, 11:09 AM

Feo,
Are you logged IN with a Youtube account when you try to view the videos? If you are, just log out and try and view the video again. If that works, post it here.

Yesterday I couldn't view any Youtube videos but it worked when I logged OUT of my Youtube account and viewed the videos as a guest user. When I log in to my Youtube account, the videos give me that error again.

Quite weird since I only get this problem on the WA trial account. When I switch back to my normal adsl account, then I can watch Youtube videos when I'm both logged in and out of my Youtube account.
Nope.

Just tried that now and videos don't load in either case...when logged in or not.

kilos

03-10-2009, 12:34 PM

Tested my HD Video of the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe steam train and it starts loading and just stops or it says its cached the whole 164Mb file.
Sorry Youtube not working for me, yesterday and today, watch in HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPOnrCIqbI

Just_Ice

03-10-2009, 01:24 PM

ye, still haven't received my Login/Pass either.

Maybe WA forgot about me.

:((
You're not alone...
Only about 1500 thousand accounts have gone out so far. And Im in the 7000's! So I (and possibly you) will be waiting quite a while still

krycor

03-10-2009, 05:00 PM

Got mine midday.. brother went mad, no problems with rapidshare apparently :D

mikkelz_za

03-10-2009, 05:35 PM

This is sounding really promising so far, albeit with a small number of users on this network during the trial.

Looking forward to eventually getting my login details... :)

hj2k_x

03-10-2009, 05:37 PM

Yeah - hard to tell with so few users using it....but all good so far :)

feo

03-10-2009, 05:43 PM

One of the posts from a WA rep (think it was waroop) did mention that even with the full 8000 trialists maxing out their lines, the network would be able to handle it without much of a problem. :D

FrancTheTank

03-10-2009, 06:17 PM

Yipee, got mine today :)

Gonna be testing the network with my downloads, Thanks a bunch WebAfrica :)

mikkelz_za

03-10-2009, 06:18 PM

31 minutes later and I just got my login details. ;) Should've posted in this thread sooner... :D

wamatt

03-10-2009, 06:25 PM

One of the posts from a WA rep (think it was waroop) did mention that even with the full 8000 trialists maxing out their lines, the network would be able to handle it without much of a problem. :D

Hah. Think waroop might be getting carried away there. Assuming average of 500kbps (384, 1mbp, 4mps lines) that's a 4gbps link that would be required for a 1:1 contention ratio. (far more capacity than we have). The whole idea behind contention is that different users pull content (at presumably max speed) at different times. Typical ADSL is between 20:1 contention.

Another thing to keep in mind though is that contention typically is different for directly local (DSLAM), local (SA), and international.

gregmcc

03-10-2009, 06:38 PM

Hah. Think waroop might be getting carried away there. Assuming average of 500kbps (384, 1mbp, 4mps lines) that's a 4gbps link that would be required for a 1:1 contention ratio.

I was going to say - your seriously pushing it there. No way you could handle 8000 users all maxed out.

Thats why there's contention ratios.

HaNsA

03-10-2009, 08:34 PM

Still nothing :( Hope they haven't forgotten about me!

me2 me2 :( :o

Krayon

03-10-2009, 08:38 PM

Hey HaNsA, gregmcc,

We are only 34% complete with releasing accounts, I am sure we have not forgotten about you :)

HaNsA

03-10-2009, 08:42 PM

Hey HaNsA, gregmcc,

We are only 34% complete with releasing accounts, I am sure we have not forgotten about you :)

I would hope so :p been a WA client for quite a while hehe and see many non clients already got their details

thanks though for the free bandwidth :D people arent thanking you enough for it

fxit_man

03-10-2009, 08:45 PM

Account just got really slow and unusable. On the unshaped ones.

Had to switch back to telkom internet account for now..

feo

03-10-2009, 08:47 PM

I'm on the "unshaped" one and it has slowed down a bit.

Tegnik

04-10-2009, 03:34 AM

Nice can't wait to get my login details. ISP's need constructive criticism though. Don't all be saying OMG free interwebs. Look for problem and report them, so that WA can remain one of the best ISP's.

Gekco

04-10-2009, 07:30 AM

My speed was down last night on unshaped but is right back up again this morning. :D
Thanks WA :D

kilobits

04-10-2009, 09:54 AM

I have a shaped account... and no problems so far... except for the already mentioned youtube glitches.

Perhaps due to contention ratios etc... but my speed with WA is faster than Cybersmart. It very really drops below max on WA, where CS is around 10-18KBs slower.

Torrents are also flying and no bottle-necks either with WA, I can still do the browsing thing, unlike CS where everything grinds to a halt while torrenting.

WA at the moment is very impressive! Followed by Afrihost. Cybersmart has much catching up to do at the moment, speed-wise and cost wise. I doubt I will keep them beyond next month (was much hoohaa about new 4GB packages October, still 3GB with me... no changes in cost or cap).....

The_Librarian

04-10-2009, 10:08 AM

Got mine this morning, and is busy trying it out.

ProAsm

04-10-2009, 10:23 AM

Well I most certainly cannot complain.
Browsing is twice as fast and international downloads are faster than local.
Last time I had a connection like this was in 2003 when I first got adsl :)

RoloTomasi

04-10-2009, 10:34 AM

Downloads were slow last night but seems to have picked up this morning.
Youtube videos only play when I log out of my Youtube account, as others have mentioned on this forum.

BobJones

04-10-2009, 10:38 AM

Just came across this... (http://www.macworld.com/article/142874/2009/09/comcast_cap.html?lsrc=rss_weblogs_macuser) makes me want to cry.

wizecrack

04-10-2009, 11:16 AM

Did the network just came to a halt?

I have more than half the cap left and it all of a sudden just stopped dead.

feo

04-10-2009, 11:17 AM

Did the network just came to a halt?

I have more than half the cap left and it all of a sudden just stopped dead.
Same here.

flarkit

04-10-2009, 11:18 AM

Yep, sad :-(

ponder

04-10-2009, 11:18 AM

Did the network just came to a halt?

I have more than half the cap left and it all of a sudden just stopped dead.

Yip. It was fooked last night as well.

fxit_man

04-10-2009, 11:18 AM

same here..

feo

04-10-2009, 11:20 AM

SIDENOTE: All these 10GB trial threads need to be merged...it's hard to keep track of all of them.

The_Librarian

04-10-2009, 11:28 AM

Ja, mine also died all of a sudden...

feo

04-10-2009, 11:29 AM

It's back up now..

wizecrack

04-10-2009, 11:36 AM

It's back up now..

Ditto.

Krayon

04-10-2009, 12:04 PM

Yeah feo I agree, a thread merge would be great.

Mods, if you see this please look at the following threads:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=195227&page=5
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=194959&page=10
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=194865&highlight=webafrica&page=21
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=189108&highlight=webafrica&page=17

theStudent

04-10-2009, 06:24 PM

I was sent my trial account today. Speeds thus far are very slow :(
Would take all month to use up 10gb... hehe

Just_Ice

04-10-2009, 06:27 PM

Yea, its crawling at the moment so Im back on my SAIX account which is fine.
They probably just making adjustments, so its ok

gregmcc

04-10-2009, 06:35 PM

Looks like its completely broken ATM. WA account not working at all now.

Wag

04-10-2009, 06:44 PM

Looks like its completely broken ATM. WA account not working at all now.

Same here, but it's a trial and we have to live with that. Thanx WA, received logon details this afternoon

gregmcc

04-10-2009, 06:47 PM

Same here, but it's a trial and we have to live with that. Thanx WA, received logon details this afternoon

Don't get me wrong - I love the trial! Big up to WA :)

BobJones

04-10-2009, 07:39 PM

Browsing is just fine. Local speeds vary from good to fantastic, international a lot more erratic.
The connection stays up, but international downloads can crawl.
Seeing some symmetrical results on international tests.

ToxicBunny

04-10-2009, 09:30 PM

I've found one issue that is intermittent at best...

My browsing works just fine, but MyBB will vanish for 30 mins to an hour.. then just reappear.

Grimspoon

04-10-2009, 10:26 PM

Yeah I am also using my WA account, it sux. COD4 pings have doubled and net is dog slow.

fionab

04-10-2009, 10:45 PM

Got my account details only to find my router dead......! Gonna have to get a new one tommorow or see if this one is still under warranty.

CrzWaco

04-10-2009, 11:00 PM

Yeah I am also using my WA account, it sux. COD4 pings have doubled and net is dog slow.

Same here, my download is going about 11kB/s :( cod local OMW your joking right. Should be getting 40+
My speed test it fine just when I try to play my pings are crazy.

Messugga

04-10-2009, 11:38 PM

Connection's running nicely at the moment and have been since 10, so it seems like not everyone's being affected by whatever the problem is.

ProAsm

05-10-2009, 06:43 AM

I think they have high contention ratios as there is a huge difference in performance between 6 am and 6 pm on a normal day.

Gekco

05-10-2009, 07:01 AM

International improved but still slow.
64 kB/s on a 4 MB/s line.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/583187107.png

a-person

05-10-2009, 06:56 PM

I'm in peeps... using it right now. Does anyone know how long the trial will last for?

COMPUTEK

05-10-2009, 07:00 PM

I'm in peeps... using it right now. Does anyone know how long the trial will last for?

The details are all in that mail they send ya with your login details :confused::confused::cool:

Sting

05-10-2009, 07:01 PM

2 weeks?

porchrat

05-10-2009, 07:08 PM

I haven't experienced any problems with it yet. I haven't experienced the issues that others seem to be experiencing. Nothing but smooth sailing.

Haven't noticed a difference with international speeds, but then again I am on a 384kb line so my bottleneck is not exactly the IS backbone :p

My down is still running at around 40kbps on speedtest to jo'burg.

Sting

05-10-2009, 07:11 PM

Same here. Am very happy with the trial thusfar!

EDIT: Also 384 - maxing out...

a-person

05-10-2009, 07:13 PM

The details are all in that mail they send ya with your login details :confused::confused::cool:

I can't find anything that states how long the trial will last for, only that the 10 gig cap "is valid only for the trial period."

7 days? 2 weeks? A month?

COMPUTEK

05-10-2009, 07:24 PM

We estimate that we will require about 7-14 days to collect adequate data to fully optimise the network. We do however reserve the right to extend or shorten the trial should the need arise.

this is from a previous mail from them ;)

Bosvark@

05-10-2009, 07:58 PM

Same here. Am very happy with the trial thusfar!

EDIT: Also 384 - maxing out...

same here...

TheRoDent

06-10-2009, 01:06 AM

Well, I managed to smoke my entire 10 gigs in a single day.

Well done webafrica :) Sorry for being such a quick triallist ;)

porchrat

06-10-2009, 11:00 AM

OK downloads have been a little slow today (20kb and under).

Sting

06-10-2009, 12:17 PM

WA - have you guys just changed something? Shaped trial account on 384 was DL'ing @ around 6 kB/s all day then jumped to around 28 kB/s a few minutes ago.

Globetrotter

06-10-2009, 12:30 PM

Everything was flying throughout the morning but now Youtube videos have stopped working again.

Just_Ice

07-10-2009, 05:29 PM

So far on 6.64 gigs used :) On a 384 line its not bad!

Stalin

09-10-2009, 10:33 PM

Very impressed with the free trial account. Downloading torrents were a bit slow today, 6-7 KB but are running faster now, 17-22KB.

If we have issues to report where do we report them, or is this just a cleaver marketing ploy. How many trialists will sign up for accounts?:cool: