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I jumped because I was getting bad customer service and streaming was so bad (2meg Business uncapped). I also jumped because their pricing seems a bit high right now compared to everyone else.

I left MWEB prior to that because my household (I share a house with a uni friend) averaged 150GB a month and we would be utterly destroyed by the AUP.

I am looking for a new ISP by next week, I have been looking at Telkom Internet. I have tried a Web Africa trial account and at the time it was not as good as MWEB (in my brief trial anyways)

As for my internet habits I Torrent/NNTP during graveyard hours and during the day I watch streams (YouTube Twitch). I wouldnt say that I'm an abuser but I own 2 mobile devices, a laptop, a pc, and a microserver. My housemate owns a PC and a laptop and a tablet. So there are many things sucking up my home WiFi.
 
Had heard a lot of good things about TI until recently when a large portion of the userbase exploded with complaints, I would read up on that before further consideration. Swtiched to OpenWeb myself and it's probably as good as it gets, even if it not perfect.

Essentially outside of business hours all the taps flow full on everything everywhere, during business hours they run a silly script that shapes ALL YOUR TRAFFIC if it finds you downloading during each hour, if you avoid any business hour downloading at all however, streaming and browsing are fullspeed during business hours as well.

I personally feel the script is incredibly retarded, could probably be worked around (I was part of the lot that broke iBursts soft capping system using a custom script and this seems easier to be honest) and a little pointless, but the untapped after hours are good enough for me not to kick up a fuss about it.

OW are probably your best choice for an overall positive experience.
 
Basjohn said:
Had heard a lot of good things about TI until recently when a large portion of the userbase exploded with complaints, I would read up on that before further consideration. Swtiched to OpenWeb myself and it's probably as good as it gets, even if it not perfect.

Essentially outside of business hours all the taps flow full on everything everywhere, during business hours they run a silly script that shapes ALL YOUR TRAFFIC if it finds you downloading during each hour, if you avoid any business hour downloading at all however, streaming and browsing are fullspeed during business hours as well.

I personally feel the script is incredibly retarded, could probably be worked around (I was part of the lot that broke iBursts soft capping system using a custom script and this seems easier to be honest) and a little pointless, but the untapped after hours are good enough for me not to kick up a fuss about it.

OW are probably your best choice for an overall positive experience.
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Afaik the complaints where around the time of line upgrades? I think busier exchanges were affected more than others since I barely noticed a bump, in fact all I noticed as double line speed upgrade baby! :D
 
Basjohn said:
Had heard a lot of good things about TI until recently when a large portion of the userbase exploded with complaints, I would read up on that before further consideration. Swtiched to OpenWeb myself and it's probably as good as it gets, even if it not perfect.

Essentially outside of business hours all the taps flow full on everything everywhere, during business hours they run a silly script that shapes ALL YOUR TRAFFIC if it finds you downloading during each hour, if you avoid any business hour downloading at all however, streaming and browsing are fullspeed during business hours as well.

I personally feel the script is incredibly retarded, could probably be worked around (I was part of the lot that broke iBursts soft capping system using a custom script and this seems easier to be honest) and a little pointless, but the untapped after hours are good enough for me not to kick up a fuss about it.

OW are probably your best choice for an overall positive experience.
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What do you mean by 'downloading'?

ie does it exclude http downloads and youtube?

'cos if that is so, looks like it might be good.

which Openweb package are you on?

what qualifies as 'after hours'
 
I pulled 1TB last month with OW. No abuse emails, no unusual shaping and no throttling whatsoever.
 
iJasper said:
I pulled 1TB last month with OW. No abuse emails, no unusual shaping and no throttling whatsoever.
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Just think how sad it would have been if you were stuck with look-over-your-shoulder internet.
 
AfricanTech said:
What do you mean by 'downloading'?

ie does it exclude http downloads and youtube?

'cos if that is so, looks like it might be good.

which Openweb package are you on?

what qualifies as 'after hours'
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MrBeep was a little unclear when I asked him about this myself, it seems it does NOT exclude HTTP downloads of large sizes (he used 40mb+ in the example I read) but it most certainly does exclude youtube and from personal experience it also excludes Steam and a large number of MMO clients. On the bright side: If you do get randomly shaped to death for a daytime download, just wait an hour and things are normal.
 
I was with OW on their gold 6mbps package. They never complained about my high usage - but damn did I complain about day time usage. After 11 my connection would slow to a crawl and become hardly usable. This just with simple web browsing. Yet NZB downloads would continue like normal. I left for AH Business Uncapped 6mbps and never looked back.
 
It's too bad Afrihost didn't work out for you. My 4Mbps business connection is unshaped 24/7, streaming is fine and I've never received a warning letter. My household does 500-600GB a month.
 
Well, I was on Openweb Gold until about May last year. While after-hours and weekends were great, daytime performance was extremely painful. Moved to Afrihost business. I have no complaints (well, hardly any) since. It performs well 24/7.
 
Mike Smit said:
I was with OW on their gold 6mbps package. They never complained about my high usage - but damn did I complain about day time usage. After 11 my connection would slow to a crawl and become hardly usable. This just with simple web browsing.
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It's strange, I had the exact same experience in 2012 on Openweb Gold. Like clockwork, my internet would keel over and die at 11AM and then only recover at night-time, any time from 7PM onwards, but some nights only at 11PM. During the day I would be unable to do much more than browse. All downloads ran slow ( < 10kb/s) and even loading images was a pain in the ass.

After numerous complaints and eventually throwing my toys out of the cot, MrBeep fixed something for me and I've had no complaints since then. Near perfect experience on my account, aside from the daytime shaping, which is rarely harsh.
 
Zewp said:
It's strange, I had the exact same experience in 2012 on Openweb Gold. Like clockwork, my internet would keel over and die at 11AM and then only recover at night-time, any time from 7PM onwards, but some nights only at 11PM. During the day I would be unable to do much more than browse. All downloads ran slow ( < 10kb/s) and even loading images was a pain in the ass.

After numerous complaints and eventually throwing my toys out of the cot, MrBeep fixed something for me and I've had no complaints since then. Near perfect experience on my account, aside from the daytime shaping, which is rarely harsh.
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They fixed my connection most times I complained but a few days later it would start acting up again. I got so tired of nursing my internet and eventually just gave up and moved. Oh well...
 
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