I'm currently using MWEB as my ISP, with a 3GB account. What I'd like to know is what happens if you upgrade your cap from 3 to 6 or 9 GB. If you are capped but managed to get say 4 GB before being capped, and then upgrade to 6 GB, does that extra 1 GB you got count towards the new 6 GB limit. AFAIK you use the same username, so it is not a seperate account. Anybody had experience with this.
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Rather buy another acount from someone else, use the capped account for local stuff (not that theres much) and use the other for international. I have a nice system set up at home, a proxy server with international, for the browsers, and connection on each pc for the rest, local. Most programs can be set up to work with a proxy if you need to.
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Hello Roland,
I have the 6 gig option from MWeb.
It is basically a phone call and 1 hour later the account will be upgraded. If you wish to downgrade later back to 3 gigs, that is also possible.
The 6 gigs, is as it says, 6 gigs. They only reset at the end of the month so in your case the 1 gig will be included in your stats.
Same user name, account.
If you are capped, you might have to reset the modem to get back international.
RolandD said:
Hello Roland,
I have the 6 gig option from MWeb.
It is basically a phone call and 1 hour later the account will be upgraded. If you wish to downgrade later back to 3 gigs, that is also possible.
The 6 gigs, is as it says, 6 gigs. They only reset at the end of the month so in your case the 1 gig will be included in your stats.
Same user name, account.
If you are capped, you might have to reset the modem to get back international.
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BTTB said:
An hour is abit much but the 1 phonecall is true.used to be that u could upgrade online but that was removed as there was to many !@#$ nuts around that were usin it as free adsl.
so yeah like our friend here was saying its quick and hopefully easy.
Thanks, I also learned that. Upgraded on monday and all it took was a phonecall and a few minutes. For the cost and easy of use I think it was the right way to go. I was wondering why the online upgrade didn't work !
I must also say that last week I tried 2 other ISPs to get a second account and their service sucked bigtime. It is as if they don't want my bussiness. The one was of course telkom (I didn't expect to get good service and wasn't really surprised when it sucked), the other I won't mention now.
I must also say that last week I tried 2 other ISPs to get a second account and their service sucked bigtime. It is as if they don't want my bussiness. The one was of course telkom (I didn't expect to get good service and wasn't really surprised when it sucked), the other I won't mention now.
I had a look and it seems that Mweb still lets you upgrade from the ADSL console.One strange thing I noticed is that Tiscali - now owned my Mweb - offers a top-up option called ADSL Booster for when you need more capacity but only for a single month. Mweb's site, on the other hand, makes no mention of this facility.
One would hope that they decide to offer unlimited access in the near future too! They said that the service is too new to the market to be offered at this time. I wonder if things might have been different if they had stayed with UUNET instead of switching over to IS.
One would hope that they decide to offer unlimited access in the near future too! They said that the service is too new to the market to be offered at this time. I wonder if things might have been different if they had stayed with UUNET instead of switching over to IS.
BTTB, well I don't really know since I'm at 2.8 of 6 GB at the moment.
I was at Tiscali before I joined MWeb (switched because of the 12 month contract at Tiscali), and it does seem strange that although MWeb acquired them , most services are still seperate, and the website is still largely the same except for the logo.
A lot of people don't get why people pay for a "premium" service, but I think it's worth it. Okay, enough advertising.
I was at Tiscali before I joined MWeb (switched because of the 12 month contract at Tiscali), and it does seem strange that although MWeb acquired them , most services are still seperate, and the website is still largely the same except for the logo.
A lot of people don't get why people pay for a "premium" service, but I think it's worth it. Okay, enough advertising.