Axxess IS uncapped accounts

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4 meg uncapped for 496 a month.

Anyone used it? The figures they have on their website indicate 600gb is easy.
 
No stay away from them :P stop making threads for them:P
 
You should really stipulate in your blog which uncapped products you test, because it is very ambiguous, uncapped, uncapped express, uncapped express+?
 
semaphore said:
You should really stipulate in your blog which uncapped products you test, because it is very ambiguous, uncapped, uncapped express, uncapped express+?
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Yes, good advice. Makes sense. Going to update it quickly. Thanks!
 
rogerwe said:
Yes, good advice. Makes sense. Going to update it quickly. Thanks!
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While i agree that its a good blog, the account name is fail. firstly the Axxess Express is not R496, that is the Uncapped Shaped Product. The uncapped Express is R899, where as the Express+ is 999. Furthermore i am using express+ and achieving full download speeds.
 
@semaphore - your basic premise is correct. but i can't help but feel that people would initially think the similar products are being compared. but yes it should be clear.

Natedogg - semaphores account (i think) are the ones that run full 4Mbps from roughly sometime after 19h30 (but definitely at 20h00) to 08h00 (and maybe a little bit over).. I had one of those for about a year. But because I do somewhere between 200GB and 300GB a month; the Mweb account is a far better option for me. Even with all the disruptions that have been experienced in the last 3 months or so.

The Axxess line described above has a far higher reliability level as per the T&Cs (I think).
 
milomak said:
@semaphore - your basic premise is correct. but i can't help but feel that people would initially think the similar products are being compared. but yes it should be clear.

Natedogg - semaphores account (i think) are the ones that run full 4Mbps from roughly sometime after 19h30 (but definitely at 20h00) to 08h00 (and maybe a little bit over).. I had one of those for about a year. But because I do somewhere between 200GB and 300GB a month; the Mweb account is a far better option for me. Even with all the disruptions that have been experienced in the last 3 months or so.

The Axxess line described above has a far higher reliability level as per the T&Cs (I think).
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@Milo - You can easily pull that amount of traffic with the Axxess Express+ accounts. And its full speed until threshold has been reached. If you calculate the speed of mweb from 19:30 to the morning you will not get the same amount of traffic a day. This i have already prooved over the weekend.

@Natedog - those speeds where recorded yesterday morning when i made the post.
 
semaphore said:
@Milo - You can easily pull that amount of traffic with the Axxess Express+ accounts. And its full speed until threshold has been reached. If you calculate the speed of mweb from 19:30 to the morning you will not get the same amount of traffic a day. This i have already prooved over the weekend.
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I had an Axxess Express+ account so if you use it to its max overnight, i suspect you could download more than on the mweb accounts on a normal torrent/nntp basis. however as i state you have to be a heavy downloader (haven't done the break-even numbers but I suspect that it is somewhere north of 600GB). If you are not a heavy downloader, the the Express+ accounts are relatively more expensive. And I suppose that is the cost of getting the surety of connection. But even though I could afford it, the MWeb account still seems much better on a cost/benefit analysis. Even with this kind of break we are dealing with.

edit - this article i think goes some way to proving my point
 
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@semaphore. Only if you are not using the internet from 8am to 8pm on Weekdays is the Express+ account superior to Mweb uncapped. I had Axxess Express+ before Mweb came along. Paying R460pm more for an account you can barely use for 60 hours of the week doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Gatecrasher said:
@semaphore. Only if you are not using the internet from 8am to 8pm on Weekdays is the Express+ account superior to Mweb uncapped. I had Axxess Express+ before Mweb came along. Paying R460pm more for an account you can barely use for 60 hours of the week doesn't make much sense to me.
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but look at the numbers:

uncapped seacom breaking account - 643GB @R0.77
express satellite - 633GB @R1.42 (Express+ will be slightly more expensive)

effectively you have to do around 1.2TB to match Mweb. Probably allows me 2 weeks of no internet access on MWeb before the top Axxess accounts make sense on a cost/benefit analysis.

edit2: going for one of these seacom accounts is a no brainer for a household in the long-term even if you buy one 3GB WA package a month as backup i reckon.
 
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Gatecrasher said:
@semaphore. Only if you are not using the internet from 8am to 8pm on Weekdays is the Express+ account superior to Mweb uncapped. I had Axxess Express+ before Mweb came along. Paying R460pm more for an account you can barely use for 60 hours of the week doesn't make much sense to me.
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Agreed, but in the evening when i want to download something and i get pathetic speeds of 40kB/s i then am not getting my monies worth, i am paying for a 4mbit account and getting 512K speeds. Then its oh its a bandwidth pool priority. Thanks ill pay the extra few rands and have the speed i want in the evening and weekend, furthermore it suites me fine as i don't use the internet at home during the day. It took alot of justification to get it. But i am happy so far.
 
Well i can do roughly 8-10gb a day on mweb uncapped. So i could pull 300gb with no problems if it working :D. I suppose if you want like 500+gb's mweb's cheap uncapped is not for you and then axxess express looks superior.
 
killadoob said:
Well i can do roughly 8-10gb a day on mweb uncapped. So i could pull 300gb with no problems if it working :D. I suppose if you want like 500+gb's mweb's cheap uncapped is not for you and then axxess express looks superior.
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When i first had mweb i could do that aswell, and then it went down to 4gb a day. And its not about being a heavy downloader or wanting to-do 50gb a day. Its about the speed. WHEN and IF i want something i want it fast.
 
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