Alright i know this has been asked before but i can seem to find anyone with an exact number of how many gigs one can use before receiving a warning from mweb. I do alot of FTPing and can clock about 200gigs easy on this account ,when i phone into sales they unsure and give me ridiculous answers like 500gigs but reading here i find different stories.so what's correct number i should be looking to stay under especially on the 1meg.:wtf:
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Kosmik
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If you stick to bulk protocols you should be fine ie: news, ftp, P2P etc. It's when you do major downloading via port 80 ( web traffic) or 443 ( https ) that their shaper can't control, that you will get whacked.
It could very well be. Sure it's ftp, and ftp is a legit protocol, but it is bypassing what you would normally be using for p2p....
Not a chance. A 1Mb line maxes out around 270GB download in a month. Expecting 200GB out of 270GB is 74%.... One of Mweb's guys mentioned that their 4mb accounts are good for 250GB a month (that they're happy with), which is approximately 25%.
The most guys I've spoken to do around 120GB a month on their Mweb 1mb accounts.
Yeah, I have been averaging around 100 gigs a month since the 1 meg release but I don't download 24/7.
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Hi gson
There is no set number that will cause you to receive warnings from our side as long as you stay within our AUP and do not bypass our shaping then you should not have trouble.
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MWEB Guy
Kosmik
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Ftp is not bypassing as it is a recognised protocol and can be shaped.
Fair enough.
Probably questionable... but running torrents on port 8080 (if it still works) would be seen as such. Some people say SSL, but in their defence I would say what's wrong with using nntp on :443, since it's more secure...
Kosmik
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Because it doesn't allow packet inspection and hence the shaper cannot apply rules to the packets. Also it's pretty much treated as a business critical protocol so its never "impeded" if you will on a network. 8080 is pretty much recognised as proxy traffic which is sub for port 80 hence why they'd hammer you for that.
If you leave those alone, you should be fine. Mweb have their own steam server as well so game downloads are not an issue ( pulled Alan Wake ( 9+gigs) on Sunday in about 5 hours ). Just keep it fair.
Most of my friends who have Mweb accounts and news server access (giga/astra/etc) make good use of the SSL ports - but have yet to be warned for using it, not to bypass shaping but more as a secure method - privacy is the objective.