Fscking HELL! I know where our bandwidth is going!

lewstherin · Jul 22, 2004

i think the actual communications protocols are decently secure (although some techie could have forgotten a back door). If abuse has been taking place it would be in the form of tapping into the towers directly or through "inside jobs" - getting 512K account 4 free. ppl I've spoken with have suggested that such hacked accounts are being resold ISP style, and hence are being continuously maxed out - imagine 10 x 512K connections (that are not on Sentech's books, hence not budgeted bandwidth wise) in permanent use!

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

kbentz · Jul 22, 2004

im actually too nervous to say any more, i need to change my username, they know who i am..... and what the hell is free speech anyway... maybe rodent and proasm are lying in a ditch somewhere.... lol

gripen · Jul 22, 2004

what do you fear they can do to you?

kbentz · Jul 22, 2004

it sounded like they thought i was the hacker or knew them

Kai · Jul 22, 2004

stoop to what level!? ex-fsking-cuse me! are we below you Dr. Potgieter!?! we pay your FSKING salary!!!

that's it!! I hope this fscking company crashes and burns!!! I hope this turns into the biggest media hype of the year!

<hr noshade size="1"><div align="right">i haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disk somewhere...
tower12.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s

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kaspaas · Jul 22, 2004

Only in Africa:

If they don't steal the telephone cables, the pinct access to the radio waves!

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That is if the rumour of the cracking is true [

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South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.

CapTnCruncH · Jul 22, 2004

Dang news travels fast![:0]

There must be truth behind the rumour them .....[}

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The truth is out there ....... [

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The devil made me do it!

koosbeer · Jul 22, 2004

Chil Kai... but I also hope they get burnt a little. They need to learn the lesson that every company in SA refuses to learn. If this starts as high up (the governments a55) as this, everyone will learn to. The customer is important and customer service is the most important element of a business. Without customers you do not have a business!! These people need to learn and RoDent seems to have done the trick!

We need more INFO!!!

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All souls of the living
dead shall be banished
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Sucktech, be warned!!
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CapTnCruncH · Jul 22, 2004

Seems big brother is monitoring us .......[}

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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2004/0407221213.asp?S=Telecoms&A=TEL&O=FRGN

The devil made me do it!

kickass72za · Jul 22, 2004

Dear DOC......

Just a quick thought for everyone in your organisation to think about......

Blaming the demise of mywireless on this forum is rather pathetic.....(and thats us being kind)

The current speed problem (and all the others that you are having) has absolutley NOTHING to do with any of the USERS of the service that you are selling. The problems do not exist on the USER SIDE AT ALL and trying to spin doctor the blame on to us is rather low.

Let me point out the commitments that you have made......serviced fixed statements made repeatedly with given dates. Up until now , nothing has been fixed and the problem exists.

The biggest problem though is not the technology at all, its your lack of interaction with all clients and being HONEST with them. I honestly believe that everyone that has purchased the service has done so to embrace a NEW ISP, NEW TECHNOLOGY etc. Yes they are the technically advanced, and yes they are going to push it to the limit, and they have the right too.

If you think that the current situation on myadsl is going to KILL MYWIRELESS, how about you change your attitude and engage with this forum. This is not a "mickey mouse" group at all, as you have admitted that you monitor it, and if something is mentioned here (eg:the fixed IP) you guys run off and fix it.

Please just admit that the system is faulty, stop billing the customers, and engage with the users to ensure that it becomes a GREAT SOLUTION....as i am sure it has the potential.

NB..... if you think this forum is not the place to "manage" the problem, please dont blame it for anything and open up your forum for the HONEST USER FEELINGS to be viewed.

kickass72za · Jul 22, 2004

LMAO @ITWEB article.........NO comment is my opinion...need to do some work!!!!

Wireless2 · Jul 22, 2004

They seem to forget if they fix the problem we will push new users to them and show everyone how
much better this service is than any others available.

If they would only fix it !!

arf9999 · Jul 22, 2004

I wonder if this is me..

"We have placed these people on a ‘baddie' list, and we monitor them separately."

I thought I saw a car with tinted windows following me this morning [;p]

MW128, Tower 50 (Northpark Plaza), Signal:12%,S-N-L: 5, BER: 40% (f@#$ing reflector broke)

buffalobill · Jul 22, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by malec
 what I was trying to say is, I wondering what field she has her doctorate in?
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I knew a Dr in PR once and preferred being referred to as Dr. Of course the fact that his doctorate was in Medieval Dutch Literature, took a bit away from the gravitas.

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I have an inferiority complex. But it's only a little one.

kbentz · Jul 22, 2004

geez there is no doubt im on marcels baddie list.... if the damn marketing gm is phoning me coz im too loud... "It is only a few people complaining, but they have been very vociferous. We have placed these people on a ‘baddie' list, and we monitor them separately."

Oh sheet im going down fast....

buffalobill · Jul 22, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I wonder if the mywireless user network scans that have been reported are related to the hackers?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I'd also like to know about these scans which are every 2-10secs from multiple IP addresses but all destined for 66.18.83.177 (which, incidentally has 0 m/s ping time). Surely that would also chew bandwidth? Or could it be a DoS attack? I don't know enough about these things.

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I have an inferiority complex. But it's only a little one.

pmik · Jul 22, 2004

From IT Web article:

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According to user information gathered by the company, the average consumer uses approximately 1.2GB per month, while excessive consumers are using up to 90GB per month.
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90GB a month?? That would be around 3GB a day, or 128MB an hour, or 2.13MB a minute, or 36.4kB a second, or 291kb/s.

Right, who the hell is getting an average 291kb/s?? Hardly likely given the current state of affairs, even on a 512k package. On my 128k package I'm lucky if I get 40kb/s. [

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Kai · Jul 22, 2004

that the hell is the difference between "capping" and "cut(ting) off users who exceed prescribed bandwidth usage"

come on!!!!!

<hr noshade size="1"><div align="right">i haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disk somewhere...
tower12.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s

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Kai · Jul 22, 2004

1.2 Gigs a month!?!? to do what? read emails?! that's BS! I play CoH, download the odd file here and there, and surf - and I do 4 Gigs in two weeks!!!

don't give me this crap! the original drawing card of MyWireless was that they would NOT restrict use of the product. The only guidelines they set was that you should not stream video/audio, host websites etc etc. Now they're introducing the limitation on bandwidth usage as well?

That is breach of contract!

PS: "vociferous" - wow, big words being used... they must have quite a nifty dictionary there!

<hr noshade size="1"><div align="right">i haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disk somewhere...
tower12.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s

</div id="right">

anakin · Jul 22, 2004

Audio streaming against AUP?

How can my listening to 16k or 32k audio streams be worse than high speed multi-threaded downloads?

Fscking HELL! I know where our bandwidth is going!

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