Advice please

dirkieman

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

I need advice/comment please. I have decided to switch to MWEB uncapped at the end of the month, away from WA.
I had a MWEB uncapped trial account and it performed very well during the trial period,
at the time outperforming my WA account, where I pay extra "skoens" to get "PRO" bandwidth. Go figure.

I work from home 4 days a week, note I do not run a business, just have the privilege of working from home.
Mostly for:
1) Connecting to office network via a VPN connection
2) Connecting to SQL servers on the office network and copying files to the office
3) Using Lotus notes to connect to a Domino server for mail
4) Skype

All of the above works quite well, and I never have an issue.

The rest is pretty much standard interwebz stuff, at this point not engaged in any torrent or news server downloads etc.
Although I admit I might dig into the news server business eventually.

I have 2 concerns:
1) I have seen a lot of people making negative performance comments the last months or so related to MWEB, albeit I must admit mostly related to torrent downloads, and lately some Gmail issues which I acknowledge might not be due to troubles at MWEB per se)

2) The MWEB trial accounts are given priority, specifically aimed at giving a user a good experience.
(This fear has been addressed by the MWEB person that helped me with the trial account, but I still have doubts, and even now with all the complaints I see lately)

My main reason for moving away from WA and not just switching to their uncapped product is WA's lack of returning a request for info, and the fact that I pay extra money every month for "PRO" priority, but I have a connection performing the same as most people not paying the extra charge.

I also have to add that I cannot really afford more that the 899 I will be charged for a MWEB uncapped 4M account

Very much appreciate your advice and comment.
 
was going to suggest Openweb GOLD, but then you said this:

I also have to add that I cannot really afford more that the 899 I will be charged for a MWEB uncapped 4M account
 
I am with MWeb on an uncapped account, admittedly it is an unshaped account as well, which makes it a bit more difficult to compare to a normal one, and so far I am extremely happy with it. I have had some weird thing happen, but it seemed to be Telkom related as my exchange was marked as 10 meg when all my issues start and then suddenly my exchange was 4 meg again and no problems. (And no my line speed was 4 meg the whole time from Telkom)

And also you don't have to sign a contract, if you are not happy with them, move somewhere else.
 
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