Ex-MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[gregmcc]

This is an indication of whats possible with Openweb 4MB ADSL

Yikes!! Which package you on?

 

[xrapidx]

one large linux iso :erm:

I don't do Linux ISO's.

 

[xrapidx]

Gold... vb network.

 

[Fudzy]

This is an indication of whats possible with Openweb 4MB ADSL

 Date         Day              Downloaded       Uploaded           Both
 01/23/2011   Sunday             34.84 GB        9.94 GB       44.77 GB
 01/22/2011   Saturday           16.86 GB       19.20 GB       36.06 GB

You can't beat this product.

Well I could, and can but I won't mention my figures as I'll be labelled a troll or even worse, an MWeb employee.

 

[xrapidx]

Ok - congratulations! I see the guys are having a wonderful time in the MWEB feedback thread.

 

[Necuno]

Ok - congratulations! I see the guys are having a wonderful time in the MWEB feedback thread.

lol, i've not much to get this month since previous month i've cleaned out some of the internet i wanted. so far it's been ok, not issues except sunday. seems mweb was not the only ones suffering a bit

Hey Friends,

I do apologize for the havoc today on our ADSL networks. Telkom is very inefficient it seems.

We have now setup our 'OpenWebNetwork' twitter service, (excellent suggestion!) so that you can keep abreast of our network situation. We will update it as soon as we become aware of a network fault.

Kind regards
MrBEEP

 

[xrapidx]

Yeh... for some reason the outage didn't affect me that much... although a brief look at the MWEB thread shows a few people sending in their cancellations. That was one of my biggest gripes with MWEB, there was always some issue, Telcom, Seacom, etc, etc.

My issues with Openweb have been pale in comparison. Although my cancellation is still going through - I'll rejoin them in March, April or May - depending on when I'll be at home again.

 

[Necuno]

Yeh... for some reason the outage didn't affect me that much... although a brief look at the MWEB thread shows a few people sending in their cancellations. That was one of my biggest gripes with MWEB, there was always some issue, Telcom, Seacom, etc, etc.

My issues with Openweb have been pale in comparison. Although my cancellation is still going through - I'll rejoin them in March, April or May - depending on when I'll be at home again.

come now, we all know you are in the inner circle of gold clients whom are always excluded of most (all) issues .

i would have to wonder on the mweb part though that the level of competency is not related to the level of issues experiances. i would bet that openweb's issues would dramatically increase and mweb's decrease of the prices was swapped around for the respected products.

then there's the issue i've pointed out numberious times that it seems most of the issues is in parts of the coastal areas like CT. this would have me wonder if it's not just too congested there and that's why they get ****ty speeds. because i'm yet to experiance those level of speeds "up" here in PTA.

 

[xrapidx]

come now, we all know you are in the inner circle of gold clients whom are always excluded of most (all) issues .

Its only fair - I wasn't part of MWEBs inner circle

i would have to wonder on the mweb part though that the level of competency is not related to the level of issues experiances. i would bet that openweb's issues would dramatically increase and mweb's decrease of the prices was swapped around for the respected products.

then there's the issue i've pointed out numberious times that it seems most of the issues is in parts of the coastal areas like CT. this would have me wonder if it's not just too congested there and that's why they get ****ty speeds. because i'm yet to experiance those level of speeds "up" here in PTA.

AFAIK - Openweb also have "normal" (as in non-Gold) ADSL - and you don't see many complaints about this product.... I think if you find a ISP thats working for you, stick to it.

 

[biometrics]

Axxess Just Uncapped 4096 (with two concurrent connections):

Dec 2010: 233 GB
Jan 2011: 226 GB

 

[randomguy]

xrapidx may I ask which newserver you are using? I got a trial account on VB and it was AWFUL for newserver downloads. It was snappy for browsing and such but speeds were actually worse than my MWEB account was.

Also, there seemed to be an issue with SSL where speeds would drop to 0 and climb again and drop to 0 and climb again.

I emailed OpenWeb and they suggested I use DownStorm... Not exactly helpful feedback!

 

[xrapidx]

I was using Astraweb - sometimes over SSL - connecting to the EU server.

 

[randomguy]

I was using powernews and couldnt get a respectable speed, perhaps things have changed in the last 2 months?

 

[biometrics]

I'm really struggling with streaming on Axxess the past few weeks though usenet is ok. Even with Afrihost and WebAfrica though not as badly. Throttled I guess but then why is usenet ok! Damnit!

 

[Coldon]

i'm currently on mweb but i've about had it with the ridiculous speeds and page timeouts. I work from home and am not a heavy downloader i do around 60~75GB a month, mainly steam games and streaming... I do torrent a few episodes as they get released but I usually only download at night (on busy nights I'll pull around 1.5GB).

What I need is an uncapped package that offers good browsing, streaming speeds, http download speeds during the day. I was on afrihost uncapped and axxess uncapped and both limited my daily speed to 384k on my 4mb line. This is absolutely unacceptable for me.

So what are my options? openweb / openweb gold?

 

[Necuno]

i'm currently on mweb but i've about had it with the ridiculous speeds and page timeouts. I work from home and am not a heavy downloader i do around 60~75GB a month, mainly steam games and streaming... I do torrent a few episodes as they get released but I usually only download at night (on busy nights I'll pull around 1.5GB).

What I need is an uncapped package that offers good browsing, streaming speeds, http download speeds during the day. I was on afrihost uncapped and axxess uncapped and both limited my daily speed to 384k on my 4mb line. This is absolutely unacceptable for me.

So what are my options? openweb / openweb gold?

ask mr beep for a tryout of they are still available. openweb gold on vodacom specifically

 

[louisvd]

@Coldon
I am a fan of Cybersmart. For what you want, this is your answer: R799 per month (including your line rental) gives you up to 10 mbps line plus a 15 GB cap *AND* unlimited downloads each night from 2am to 5am (i.e. doesn't count towards your 15GB cap) - and they are UNSHAPED. In other words, you will get pretty close to line speed for all your traffic types.

 

[louisvd]

A comment for all:

I have just tendered my notice to MWeb because of slow speeds. e.g. my torrent downloads would max out at 180 kB/s at aroudn 5am - and I could do a simultaneous http download which would hit 250 kB/s without slowing the torrents. While this may sound impressive to some, it means my torrents are shaped heavily at night too! During the day they would be around 50 kB/s.

So based on the comments I thought I'd try out Usenet. There are two sites that give trials - Giganews was my first. Even with SSL I was unable to get a good speed. Again, talking in the 1xx kB/s window. So when the trial timed out I thought, nah. I was about to sign up Astraweb - because they are cheaper - but was looking on Usenetcompare and saw News Demon now has a trial, and a Demon Deal for $9.99 per month. I tried them, and used SSL on port 80. And would you believe it! I get speeds around 420 kB/s at night, and around 380 kB/s during the day. Kinda not sure if I should still cancel MWeb?!

So, FYI:
Running on Fedora 14
Usenet Server: News Demon, $9.99 per month, SSL, 50 connections, unlimited downloads, on port 80
Client: SABnzbd+ (which even supports RSS feeds!!)
NZB Index site: NZB Matrix (once off GBP 7 membership fee to use the good stuff)

 

[Gtx Gaming]

same her on usenetserver.com (15 dollars) on port 8080/ssl full speed, just remember your bypass shaping, so try to keep it in about 300gb-400gb a month , or they will notice you

im on 112 gb for the month, i try to download only after 12 till 7 and some stuff that i to need i will maybe download 7am-9am also like today.

i get constant 1.5gb a hour.

 

[xrapidx]

A comment for all:

I have just tendered my notice to MWeb because of slow speeds. e.g. my torrent downloads would max out at 180 kB/s at aroudn 5am - and I could do a simultaneous http download which would hit 250 kB/s without slowing the torrents. While this may sound impressive to some, it means my torrents are shaped heavily at night too! During the day they would be around 50 kB/s.

So based on the comments I thought I'd try out Usenet. There are two sites that give trials - Giganews was my first. Even with SSL I was unable to get a good speed. Again, talking in the 1xx kB/s window. So when the trial timed out I thought, nah. I was about to sign up Astraweb - because they are cheaper - but was looking on Usenetcompare and saw News Demon now has a trial, and a Demon Deal for $9.99 per month. I tried them, and used SSL on port 80. And would you believe it! I get speeds around 420 kB/s at night, and around 380 kB/s during the day. Kinda not sure if I should still cancel MWeb?!

So, FYI:
Running on Fedora 14
Usenet Server: News Demon, $9.99 per month, SSL, 50 connections, unlimited downloads, on port 80
Client: SABnzbd+ (which even supports RSS feeds!!)
NZB Index site: NZB Matrix (once off GBP 7 membership fee to use the good stuff)

MWEB will kick you off the network for using SSL on newsgroups - they consider it 'bypassing shaping'