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snail112 said:
63 bottles of beer on the wall...

Paul, I'll give you one, if you are willing to pick it up here in Pretoria.
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for a trek up to Pretoria I will need both beer and the shots (alcohol and injections) to immunize me from Pretoria germs
 
Crystal Web said:
In the market there are a few options for capped:

Shaped and cheap. We can also whack on shaping profiles to capped. I honestly think it's backwards though.
Capped cheap: and enjoy capacity problems on the network for 6 months of every year
Capped Crystal Web: a sustainable price for what you get

And then you have capped from other ISPs that is more expensive than us as well. Our price goes down to R2.09 per gig on the larger capped deals which is where the market is headed in any case.
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I completely agree with you. Btw, from your "Capped Cheap" remark, I assume you've been reading the other threads
 
Aquiva said:
I completely agree with you. Btw, from your "Capped Cheap" remark, I assume you've been reading the other threads
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MyBB makes for good market research.
The other threads read like an obituary compared to CW...
 
we're basically all sheltered suburban white girls compared to the other threads...........
 
Paul Hjul said:
for a trek up to Pretoria I will need both beer and the shots (alcohol and injections) to immunize me from Pretoria germs
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snail112 said:
63 bottles of beer on the wall...

Paul, I'll give you one, if you are willing to pick it up here in Pretoria.
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Let me rephrase: Next time you are in the Pretoria area, I'll buy you a beer.

Pta is not that bad, much better than Jhb, me thinks. :whistle:
 
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What is the current situation on capped accounts? I can't find any info on your website.
 
bokka1 said:
What is the current situation on capped accounts? I can't find any info on your website.
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Available to those who go talk to an agent on live chat, and for mybroadband members and extended friends and family only.
 
I don't get the obsession with getting capped accounts when the CW uncapped works so great
/shrugs shoulders

Best bet is just get uncapped with a higher unshaped data portion that way you have a big cap and don't have to worry about being cut off because your cap is depleted :)
 
This month I plan on trying to use up all my unshaped data (new xbox titles out so this wont be hard) so I can get to "feel" the shaper and judge for myself how good/bad it shapes.

Sorry CW but this research has to happen :p
 
hi guys

moving houses next month. Currently using Afrihost business uncapped.

I use my connection to download via usenet and p2p, average about 250GB a month- but that included streaming a ***** load via youtube, netflix and popcorn time.

My questions to current Crystal Web users are:

1. Will I still be able to download via usenet and p2p without any problems?

2. Will popcorn time stream without any problems? As I understand it, it's basically a p2p client that streams as it downloads.
 
Spartaniz said:
hi guys

moving houses next month. Currently using Afrihost business uncapped.

I use my connection to download via usenet and p2p, average about 250GB a month- but that included streaming a ***** load via youtube, netflix and popcorn time.

My questions to current Crystal Web users are:

1. Will I still be able to download via usenet and p2p without any problems?

2. Will popcorn time stream without any problems? As I understand it, it's basically a p2p client that streams as it downloads.
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1. Yes, while within your unshaped data you should see line speed on p2p and nntp. I been purposefully downloading all my content using p2p to test this out and can confirm that if there's enough seeds I get between 400-420kB/s. (I plan testing out the shaper this month so I'll know how it affects downloads via p2p and nntp)

2. Popcorntime works great - I have it installed on my phone and on my tv stick. (I'll test this out too when my unshaped data is finished)
 
Gboss said:
1. Yes, while within your unshaped data you should see line speed on p2p and nntp. I been purposefully downloading all my content using p2p to test this out and can confirm that if there's enough seeds I get between 400-420kB/s. (I plan testing out the shaper this month so I'll know how it affects downloads via p2p and nntp)

2. Popcorntime works great - I have it installed on my phone and on my tv stick. (I'll test this out too when my unshaped data is finished)
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Great stuff. Keep us posted. :-)
 
Gboss said:
I don't get the obsession with getting capped accounts when the CW uncapped works so great
/shrugs shoulders

Best bet is just get uncapped with a higher unshaped data portion that way you have a big cap and don't have to worry about being cut off because your cap is depleted :)
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I need two concurrent connections.
 
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