Ex-MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[Spyk3r]

Well I'll beat him to it. I have done 165gb so far this month and probably another 60 over the weekend as it runs at full speed from about 9 on friday...

*sigh, typing on a phone takes too long. I didn't beat him

 

[Kosmik]

All this whining. It's friday people ffs, go have a beer, slap each other around and come back in a happier place.

 

[Fudzy]

But you could thumbsuck and say you are getting R200 more than what you were getting on Mweb right?

 

[Spyk3r]

@Fudzy - last month on mweb I only managed 180gb... I have done 15 less than that and we are now the 10th of the month...

 

[milomak]

(FYI: I deleted those posts because I was fed up with conversing with someone as rude as you; tail between my legs; wow you're a clown!)

run that logic by me again?

for three reasons
1. My usage is irrelevant - I don't download 24/7 - I get 300+ KB/s when ever I want to download.
2. My account does not record usage - as per the Openweb feedback thread - which should actually be the case anyway, as its an UNCAPPED account.
3. I don't feel the need to provide you with my statistics.

exactly. if it is working as intended and how i expect it to, what use are usage stats?

 

[xrapidx]

But you could thumbsuck and say you are getting R200 more than what you were getting on Mweb right?

My whole issue with MWEB was not being able to download when I wanted, so if I suddenly saw something I wanted that was 12GB - I had to schedule it to download over about 5 days.... and would only get speeds above 0-50KB/s after 1am till 6am on some days... and even then - it wouldn't go near line speed. So to me, the product shaped or not, was not a 4MB product, because if it never achieves that speed - it can't be a 4MB product... I couldn't even stream lowdef video's from youtube with MWEB - they buffered for minutes.

With Openweb, if I see something I want, I schedule it up and it immediately downloads at 300KB/s+... even at 5pm.

So yes, the R200 more for a 4MB shaped product is WELL worth it.

 

[SabreWolfy]

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exactly. if it is working as intended and how i expect it to, what use are usage stats?

If the roles were reversed and I didn't post usage stats on my new ISP, this thread would fill up with "EPIC FAIL" posts, that's all I'm not actually interested in usage or other ISPs really, so I don't really care any either way.

 

[xrapidx]

Oh - I can gladly post stats from the files I've chosen to download - which so continuous high speeds at any hour... I just won'y see the need to provide those to an MWEB troll.

 

[milomak]

With Openweb, if I see something I want, I schedule it up and it immediately downloads at 300KB/s+... even at 5pm.

So yes, the R200 more for a 4MB shaped product is WELL worth it.

I ran SABnzb on my computer. I have set it up so I can access it even when I am not at home. I have seen many instances where I think of something, queue it up and have seen it run at 300kB/s+ mid-afternoon. That is what i want my internet experience to be.

It got so bad with M-Web at times that on a public holiday, I would still be getting crappy speeds during the day. I really wasn't enjoying the 4Mbps line I was paying for. So in order to enjoy my line, i decided to pay that bit extra to another ISP, so that it performed to the level that I know my line can.

That is why you can compare the two services even if they do not cost the same.

 

[milomak]

If the roles were reversed and I didn't post usage stats on my new ISP, this thread would fill up with "EPIC FAIL" posts, that's all I'm not actually interested in usage or other ISPs really, so I don't really care any either way.

Actually all I would want to know from you is whether you can download from torrents or usenet at 2pm in the afternoon and get 300kB/s+ speeds without using SSL?

I would want to know whether if you download consistently over SSL, whether you run a chance of being seen as violating the AUP?

edit: i doubt whether i am doing much more than 200GB per month. So for me its not a case of absolute numbers as I know there are people on MWEB doing far more than that.

 

[gregmcc]

I would want to know whether if you download consistently over SSL, whether you run a chance of being seen as violating the AUP?

Depends on how much data were talking about - but if its gigs imo this would be against the AUP and you would get a email from Mweb.

 

[Necuno]

dead horse not even have billtong left...

...mil which isp you are with again ?

 

[Anthro]

At this very moment i am tempted to get a second line, with openweb running on that - and then comparing side by side results
Sitting on roughly 110+gb for the month sofar (don't know what to download - otherwise would be more)

 

[Spyk3r]

Anthropoid - what is your means of downloading? http, nzb, torrent? Also are you based in jhb? (on my phone so I can't see location)

I battled to do 180gb with mweb last month.

 

[milomak]

Depends on how much data were talking about - but if its gigs imo this would be against the AUP and you would get a email from Mweb.

And that goes to my point. On Openweb Gold there is no SSL issue.

 

[MJ INC]

Hahaha schumi.

I have mweb capped now, so technically, I'm still a mweb subscriber, but no longer an uncapped one... I am however a happy openweb gold uncapped 4mb subscriber... 105gb in december and counting

I can almost guarantee that no mweb 4mbps shaped customer is even close to that... Anyone gonna prove me wrong?

How bizarre! I haven't had a month where I've done less then 400GB. This is what Mweb say is my current usage:
ADSL Usage - (December, 2010)
You have used 151.46 GB so far this month.
Last Session: 10 December, 2010, 06:34:20

 

[Anthro]

Anthropoid - what is your means of downloading? http, nzb, torrent? Also are you based in jhb? (on my phone so I can't see location)

I battled to do 180gb with mweb last month.

South Coast,KZN - Uvongo to be exact.
Looking at my download machine logs:
Using combination of:

• Paid NZB Servers (80%)
• Private Tracker Torrents (10%)
• HTTP Paid For Rapidshare / etc (10%)

 

[Spyk3r]

@MJ INC - ah yes, I was at 105 a few days ago. I'm now at 180gb

 

[biometrics]

So, anything to report on biometrics?

I'm super happy so far. It just works.

Keep in mind I'm not downloading 24x7, there's no need to as when I want something I can get it quickly.

So at R248/month/connection this is an awesome deal. (R496 for 4 Mbps uncapped for 2 connections)

 

[xrapidx]

Gotta love this - sitting at 420KB/s stable... and MWEB is having issues AGAIN... conveniently on a weekend AGAIN... I am so glad I got out when I did. Openweb FTW!