Openweb uncapped ADSL feedback

[MrBEEP]

Hey Friends,

Are you still having an issue with this?

If so, please email support@openweb.co.za with some tracert's so that we can log a fault with IS.

YES

bbc.co.uk/news videos don't work, neither does twitch.tv. Any youtube video not chached locally you can forget about

HTTP downloads and torrents maxing out my line easily though, pings to games servers 8ms.... weird.

Any ideas Mr. Beep?

[KoKaRoT]

Hi

Just providing some feedback on my weekend experience playing Dota 2 on a 1Mb Uncapped Gold, playing on EU server.

During gameplay i would experience major spikes, especially in gangs.
I then switched over to my FNB account, rejoined to the same game.. spikes were gone.

Youtube over this weekend was shocking, i had to literally wait 10min for a 1min video to buffer enough for me to watch it.
P2P was running fine, no issues at all.

^ when i play or stream youtube, the P2P downloads are completely off.

what is happening.. this time last year i remember i could stream 720p youtube off the bat, no pausing, nowadays its i gotta treat this account like its a 384kps.

[Hecate]

I am currently thinking about asking to change backbones but would first like to find out what backbones are still offered? There used to be altec, VB, web africa, bcs and Is. Which of these are still offered? I know that Openweb recently stopped offering VB accounts.

@KoKaRoT
When I first got my Openweb gold account I could also stream HD content without any issues but I have not been able to do that in a long time. Even normal 460p vids are touch and go.

[Zewp]

As far as I know, only IS, DSLHeaven BCS are still being offered. Having jumped between about 6 accounts in the last month, the only options I was given was one of those three.

The IS account I got last week is finally behaving nicely now, though. Haven't had any complaints about it all week. Didn't really use it over the weekend though, so I can't comment on its performance over the weekend. All in all, I'm pretty happy again.

[DrewChan]

Def a problem - I have been sub 50kb/s the whole weekend. Up this morning. [1mb account]

[MrBEEP]

Hello,

If you are experiencing a problem, please email support@openweb.co.za and include your ADSL username.

Def a problem - I have been sub 50kb/s the whole weekend. Up this morning. [1mb account]

[nihilist]

For those on the BCS network, can you talk about your experiences?

All we want is fast http, I've heard of ppl griping about Steam and other things like p2p.

We just want fast daytime http.

[Zewp]

I can't really remember what HTTP was like on BCS, but Steam rarely opened and p2p was pretty much dead all week long. I considered myself lucky if I got anything over 2kb/s on torrents. On weekends P2P ran fine for the most part.

[PearlJam]

I don't want to jinx myself ....but my account has been working flawless for quite some time now!

[ChrisJ]

Altech 4mb gold, no problem streaming 1080p tonight.

[StoneCold]

Altech 4mb gold, no problem streaming 1080p tonight.

I'm streaming 1080p on IS no problem as well

[nihilist]

Anyone in KZN having crappy IS speeds?

[StoneCold]

Have you guys seen these prices: http://www.afrihost.com/site/newsroo...ihost_upgrades

That 10mb uncapped looks might lucrative at R797 vs the R738 I'm currently paying for 4mb uncapped. I'm first and foremost for OW and have had nothing but exceptional service, but can OW perhaps also match something like this in the future ? Not that I want to jump ship, just merely wondering

[MrBEEP]

http://www.openweb.co.za/vanilla_uncapped.html

Have you guys seen these prices: http://www.afrihost.com/site/newsroo...ihost_upgrades

That 10mb uncapped looks might lucrative at R797 vs the R738 I'm currently paying for 4mb uncapped. I'm first and foremost for OW and have had nothing but exceptional service, but can OW perhaps also match something like this in the future ? Not that I want to jump ship, just merely wondering

[Zewp]

Have you guys seen these prices: http://www.afrihost.com/site/newsroo...ihost_upgrades

That 10mb uncapped looks might lucrative at R797 vs the R738 I'm currently paying for 4mb uncapped. I'm first and foremost for OW and have had nothing but exceptional service, but can OW perhaps also match something like this in the future ? Not that I want to jump ship, just merely wondering

Dude, you have to remember, you're comparing prices for a standard uncapped service with Gold Uncapped. Gold Uncapped is naturally more expensive because we get a lot lower contention ratios and other benefits.