Good Bye MWEB and Good Riddance

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So today is my last day on MWEB uncapped. It’s a bitter sweet goodbye but I think I’ve made the right decision. The throttling policy never affected me and my speeds of late have been near perfect but it’s the principal of it all that has led me here. Your motto used to be “Free the web” and now you’re throttling it. This is me taking a stand (however small it may be).

I would say Bon Voyage but I don’t wish you a good journey ahead. Thanks for the 4TB you allowed me to download over the last 2 years and for the great service you provided until late. Maybe one day if you get back to the MWEB of 2 years ago I might consider coming back, but for now…good bye.
 
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And today is also my last day with MWEB who I've been with for the past year.

Going to give Afrihost my money and hope I never have to look back.
 
I to am cancelling 4 of my 5 accounts with Mweb and going over to Afrihost,I had great speed over the last year except for the last month and I also feel like I should support a company competing against the multinational company Knows as Naspers. I feel if i dont we will have a monopoly of data as well if MWEB gets to strong like we have with Multichoice.
 
I moved just before they announced the throttling, TBH their attitude to people really put me off and at the time my 1 meg account was running at below 70KB/s so I rekon they were throttling me, mweb can go get knotted these days, infact any company owned by Naspers can go get screwed
 
Afrihost uncapped is a mess right now. As with Mweb. And my first experience with Openweb today is not promising.

And frankly, after reading the feedback threads here, I can't help but question the future of uncapped. The only way to not get shaped/throttled to death is to take out a capped/business account, it seems :(
 
KaMoS said:
So today is my last day on MWEB uncapped. It’s a bitter sweet goodbye but I think I’ve made the right decision. The throttling policy never affected me and my speeds of late have been near perfect but it’s the principal of it all that has led me here. Your motto used to be “Free the web” and now you’re throttling it. This is me taking a stand (however small it may be).

I would say Bon Voyage but I don’t wish you a good journey ahead. Thanks for the 4TB you allowed me to download over the last 2 years and for the great service you provided until late. Maybe one day if you get back to the MWEB of 2 years ago I might consider coming back, but for now…good bye.
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Damn - I was just going to say that :) Except I was going to add that I will be thorn in your side until common sense prevails .... because I can, just like you apply the AUP because you can :D:D Love you long time.....
 
I have to laugh here... Good luck finding an ISP that has an uncapped product where they don't throttle. If you think Afrihost don't throttle, I have a good handful of bridges to sell you. Today is my last day with Afrihost, and I can't say that I will miss having an uncapped account with them ever. Ever since they switched to MTN a year ago, I've had maybe 1-2 months where my ADSL ran 'OK', the rest of the time I've had to be content with being throttled to usually 1/16th of the speed I pay for. So yeah, to the unhappy Mweb customers... Good luck with Afrihost.

BTW, I'm considering switching to Mweb, although they are the most expensive of the bunch, purely because I'm tired of all the bull**** Afrihost has put me through.

A hint in case you do go with Afrihost. They have whitelisted OpenVPN in their throttling system, so if you're able to use OpenVPN to connect outwards, it's possible to get usable speeds on Afrihost uncapped that way.
 
new_in_za2 said:
I have to laugh here... Good luck finding an ISP that has an uncapped product where they don't throttle. If you think Afrihost don't throttle, I have a good handful of bridges to sell you. Today is my last day with Afrihost, and I can't say that I will miss having an uncapped account with them ever. Ever since they switched to MTN a year ago, I've had maybe 1-2 months where my ADSL ran 'OK', the rest of the time I've had to be content with being throttled to usually 1/16th of the speed I pay for. So yeah, to the unhappy Mweb customers... Good luck with Afrihost.

BTW, I'm considering switching to Mweb, although they are the most expensive of the bunch, purely because I'm tired of all the bull**** Afrihost has put me through.

A hint in case you do go with Afrihost. They have whitelisted OpenVPN in their throttling system, so if you're able to use OpenVPN to connect outwards, it's possible to get usable speeds on Afrihost uncapped that way.
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LOL - With OW myself, and as luck would have it, when I am home, I fly at 4Megs :D... And the price to me R299.:love: No ABUSER emails, fat downloads without the guilt, and a great rapport with my ISP, plus I can post on OWs FB page (persona non grata with MWEB - damned abuser me!!:wtf:..... oh ja and they answer my emails without those silly reference numbers that MWEB does that means squat.... :(

Good luck finding an alternate ISP.:)
 
I am sticking with MWEB

I am happy with my 200Gb soft (err ehhm) capped account for R300 :D try find better capped deal than that ;) bwahaha
 
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Too many peeps going to Afrihost. Looks like internet may suck for a bit for us AH peeps.

Hope AH have made provision for this.
 
So what I gather is that every ISP is crap and every ISP is great.
I would suggest that everyone who is satisfied with their ISP should stay put and everyone who is unhappy should shop around.
Oh, wait a minute, thats what so many are doing anyway.
Does that mean that all these Pro ISP / Anti ISP posts are actually a waste of time, as there is nothing to be learned/gained from them?
Just asking.
 
ColonelJAck said:
So what I gather is that every ISP is crap and every ISP is great.
I would suggest that everyone who is satisfied with their ISP should stay put and everyone who is unhappy should shop around.
Oh, wait a minute, thats what so many are doing anyway.
Does that mean that all these Pro ISP / Anti ISP posts are actually a waste of time, as there is nothing to be learned/gained from them?
Just asking.
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LOL - Every ISP is crap except the one that isn't and the one that isn't is crappier than other one that was not mentioned..... But crapiest of all is still my good old friend MWEB!!!:D:D:D:D
 
marine1 said:
Would love to know how many clients they have lost since Derek Hershaw decided to destroy that company?
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Likewise ... put an Insurance salesman into an IT job :wtf: Its that fine print that always catches you .....
 
marine1 said:
Yip but I cant understand how the powers that be are allowing this to continue???
I bet he will not last long there.
Hundreds if not more than that have cancelled.
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Illiteracy? Incompetence? Cronyism? Kop-in-die-grond?
 
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