Mweb 4mbps Premium Uncapped and Gaming

[DarshanN95]

Hi Guys

On a bit of a budget and Im really looking for an ISP who can support my Heavy downloads and Xbox Live and PSN and all the streaming from YT and twitch. The Mweb 4mbps Premium Uncapped really looks good for me?! I use roughly 200GB a month and I'm asking about the premium account because I don't want to be throttled and as far as i can tell Mweb has most of the gaming servers?

Does anyone have experience with this account?

 

[phoneJunky]

I have the 4mbps Standard Uncapped

There is only one difference between the two. The threshold limit for being throttled. The threshold limit for me is 110Gb and for you it will be 400 Gb.

My gaming experience has been good so far. Two years ago there were some problems, but after they sorted that out it worked flawlessly till now. I mainly play Dota 2 and some other steam games online. Haven't had a problem in the last 2 years. I also must add that I mostly play after hours and over the weekend. Don't know how it will be during a week day.

I also stream 2 Netflix sessions simultaneously while I can still game fine. My netflix however is the largest part of my data usage. I do have some PSN stuff updating every now and then.

Also remember the trottle threshold is your download amount and not combined amount. My combined amount is about 150Gb every month.

I think you will have to go premium with your usage.

Hope this helps.

Oh and P2P gets shaped during the day

 

[Qrox]

I'd also like to know from some of the users about this package. I'm quite likely moving to MWEB next month to this same package.
How are torrents during normal hours these days? I know that torrents get low priority on the network, but in general what are the speeds you guys get from well seeded torrents during the day?

As far as I know the gaming is pretty much the same as Afrihost's in terms of ping.

 

[Glingfram]

I'd also like to know from some of the users about this package. I'm quite likely moving to MWEB next month to this same package.
How are torrents during normal hours these days? I know that torrents get low priority on the network, but in general what are the speeds you guys get from well seeded torrents during the day?

As far as I know the gaming is pretty much the same as Afrihost's in terms of ping.

Torrents are shaped quite heavily during the day on both the Premium and Standard account types. You will only start getting decent speeds from around 22:00.

Latency is stable if you have a decent exchange - I get around 190 ping to european servers - and streaming works well if you don't go through congested VPNs.

Depending on your usage, I'd recommend the standard package at R240 p/m. it's pretty cost effective for gaming. For downloading heavily you'd want the premium, as they throttle you down to more or less a 1mb line speed once you exceed your limit (which is still fine for gaming, as latency is not affected).