4mbps Mweb uncapped vs Openweb Gold uncapped

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Hi

Just wondering if any1 has used both of these and can give some feedback, I have a line shared with a bunch of students, doing manual shaping now to prevent torrents and to much downloading the day. I am currently using the Mweb account but want to switch to the openweb gold to possibly get a bit better performance. Do you guys think its worth the extra +-R200pm? Ideally I would like to give them a better browsing experience and also some of the guys do gaming, so should work for that too.

Thanks in advance!

(Yes I know there are threads discussing both isps, but going through 3500 replies and comments for each isp seems like a bit much, would ideally like to know if there is a real improvement in speed when upgrading.) thx :)
 
I gotta say, I'm an OpenWeb whore :)

/fanboism

I've had excellent service from MrBEEP and my line is pretty much as good as (if not better than) any capped package.

Only thing is that depending on which (Gold Network) backbone you choose, torrents will be shaped to hell. Just ask MrBEEP to switch you to another.
 
If you are sharing the line you should upgrade to 10 meg if possible and either use capped accounts or a 10 meg account. Much better experience. Obviously this will be more expensive.

You do control their pc's right? So you don't allow one or two of them to max the line while the others struggle? Check with mrbeep perhaps you could try his service for one month, not sure if openweb is month to month but go for openweb or ask mrbeep if you could trial it for a month.

If you are not happy with mweb give them a go for sure but just ensure you know what you are getting with no nasty surprizes.

Cannot be fun trying to game when some chop is chowing majority of the bandwidth downloading :D. Get netlimiter and divide the line by the amount of people and then set a limit on each pc.
 
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I installed a mikrotik router today to start controlling the bandwidth. Unfortunately not 10mbps on the line yet, would have been awesome. Can you request upgrades from telkom? Techie told me the exchange at other place of ours has 10mbps, but the checker thing on telkom site said no....? The techie said i could phone them to bump up the speed if i wanted? Mweb is good, no complaints, but would like to get every bit possible from the 4meg line and if the gold uncapped gives a bit more speed then it might be worth it. Not really to bothered about shaping, actually trying to get them to cut down on the torrents anyway, shaping it on the router.

thx for the feedback so far :)
 
Go for openweb dude, seems like a great option. There is no harm in phoning telkom and requesting an upgrade. No point though if you have a 4 meg uncapped account.

perhaps mrbeep can give you a test account or something, speak to them. It would suck though if you get stuck for 2 months with a service that is worse so ask if the account is month to month. Speak to openweb and ask. You don't need to cut out torrents just make sure the speed is balanced and you don't have one or two chops chowing all the speed while the others must sit with slow internet.
 
Yes i agree the point is to make sure every1 has decent connection, but dont want to do direct split, will waste to much bandwidth in total. Will just have a torrent server that downloads after hours, then it should be fine traffic wise. If i can get a 10mbps line then i`l look at getting a 10mbps account or possibly one of those 4mbps daytime / 10mbps after hours accounts, since the usage is mostly in the evenings.
 
BrokenLink said:
Yes i agree the point is to make sure every1 has decent connection, but dont want to do direct split, will waste to much bandwidth in total. Will just have a torrent server that downloads after hours, then it should be fine traffic wise. If i can get a 10mbps line then i`l look at getting a 10mbps account or possibly one of those 4mbps daytime / 10mbps after hours accounts, since the usage is mostly in the evenings.
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Yea but as mentioned if someone is pulling a torrent at max speed the rest suffer so if you want everyone to enjoy the net split it and enforce it. Don't be foolish and think people will give a crap about the others when their hd porn is downloading :D.
 
Yea but as mentioned if someone is pulling a torrent at max speed the rest suffer so if you want everyone to enjoy the net split it and enforce it. Don't be foolish and think people will give a crap about the others when their hd porn is downloading .
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hahaha yeah true, and they wont use the download server to download their hd porn....hopefully! im gona set up a hotspot and give them user accounts etc, then i`l limit em all to some percentage of the line speed :D
 
I have used both accounts. Mweb was great for everything that is not on a shaped protocol. Gold is great for downloading. If you are based anywhere outside of jhb, the latency will be better on mweb as they have ipc connectivity in cpt which none of the gold accounts have. The Vodacom Business and IS accounts have a 40 odd ms ping to jhb servers and 70 odd ms ping to cpt from cpt. Openweb has far better one on one service. Keoma is really a wizzard when it comes to customer satisfaction. On average I download 350-400gb a month on openweb. Whereas mweb was on average 220gb
 
Spyk3r said:
I have used both accounts. Mweb was great for everything that is not on a shaped protocol. Gold is great for downloading. If you are based anywhere outside of jhb, the latency will be better on mweb as they have ipc connectivity in cpt which none of the gold accounts have. The Vodacom Business and IS accounts have a 40 odd ms ping to jhb servers and 70 odd ms ping to cpt from cpt. Openweb has far better one on one service. Keoma is really a wizzard when it comes to customer satisfaction. On average I download 350-400gb a month on openweb. Whereas mweb was on average 220gb
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My pings sit at mid 30's local on Openweb.

And i see you are using up our contention ratio benefit :)
 
yeah atm i kind like mweb for sat-3 backup, as seems seacom is more down then up :/

but you want loads of data go openweb.
 
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