Yeah dude I totally photoshopped that speedtest result of mine at 16:48 yesterday. It was actually showing 1 byte per year.
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Yeah dude I totally photoshopped that speedtest result of mine at 16:48 yesterday. It was actually showing 1 byte per year.
Mike Hoxbig
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Speedtest is HTTP, hence my reference to being a heavy downloader. Let us know if you're lucky enough to get that speed at 16:48 on Usenet, P2P and one-click hosting sites.
Heavy downloaders don't download torrents directly, it's extremely risky and inconvenient. Although Steam is always at full speed as well, that's classed as p2p last I checked.
Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
I'm still not sure what your point is. "Heavy downloaders don't download torrents directly, it's extremely risky and inconvenient." - what does that even mean? Are you exclusively equating downloading with torrents? What about Usenet and one-click hosting?
Mweb is now kak for downloading. Fact. Your point was about some HTTP speedtest result at 16:48, mine was about downloading. You will not get full speed on all protocols on Mweb for more than 6 hours a day. You will get full speed on all protocols on Openweb gold uncapped for most of the day.
Steam is specifically not shaped due it it being a legitimate, popular P2P service. The same with Skype. And in the same way, one-click hosting services such as Rapidshare are shaped despite using HTTP.
Are you trying to avoid conceding that you may have misinterpreted a post, and are now trying to defend yourself by selectively stating what you do get full speed on?
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The point is you're just bashing MWEB because you might have had a bad experience with them. Fair enough, some people do. But saying they're "kak for downloading" is just not true. Just because you say "fact" doesn't make it one. Your experience with any ISP is not guaranteed to be the same for someone else, wether for HTTP, lusernet or whatever.
You know perfectly well what I mean, running a torrent app on your pc leaves you open to tracking. The examples I gave you are merely the ones I use most, not selectively anything. And yes, you could say I'm a heavy downloader. I didn't misinterpret your post, you said:
No mention of any specific protocols. You said heavy downloaders, that's it. I don't use those, and like I said I download quite lot, for a 384k account which I had before.
Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
This thread doesn't seem to indicate that their problems only affect some users mate. In fact it seems to be the majority of users, and yes I was one of them. Having been a loyal subscriber since their uncapped was launched, it was highly irritating to watch the service degrade each month, with Mweb being unable to offer any useful explanation. Lately it's not even just the usual protocols, but valid HTTP traffic too.
So yes, I'll stand by my point that if you're a heavy downloader, Openweb gold uncapped is better for the R150 extra. In practise there's no discrimination based on protocols, you will get full speed most of the day, and your connection won't die when Seacom inevitably goes down.
So yes, I'll stand by my point that if you're a heavy downloader, Openweb gold uncapped is better for the R150 extra. In practise there's no discrimination based on protocols, you will get full speed most of the day, and your connection won't die when Seacom inevitably goes down.
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NeonNinja
Neon Resident
My uncles torrents on MWEB at around 80-90-100-110KB/s.