MWEB 9gig package

[Steve1]

I am confused. I phoned MWEB today and enquired whether their ADSL services are shaped or unshaped and was told firstly that it is definitely unshaped. On a second phone call, I was told that it is shaped. I am interested in using their 9 Gig package and primarily with Bittorrent as I am currently using Telkom's 4 Gig unshaped service and find the speeds acceptable but 4 gigs not being enough.
It is important though that MWEB's ADSL must be unshaped.

Can someone please advise me whether MWEB's service is shaped or not and the sort of speeds they are encountering if using Bittorrent.

 

[freeek]

with the normal adsl you get speeds up2 50k on bit torrent. My friend downloaded a 300mb file in 2½ hrs using a normal saix connection. The torrent was extremely new and there were like 10 000 peers but 50k!

..- dot dot dash

 

[Tharaxis]

Shaping is not as big an issue as many have made it, in fact, most ISP's offer some form of prioritization on bandwidth (it's all under the blanket of bandwidth management). As long as the priority for specific protocols is not unfairly reduced it should be okay. In many cases you should be capable of getting full speed on ADSL on nearly all protocols (or all protocols). The only exception to this that I've been able to find is during work hours when more "high priority" activities are taking place such as browsing, etc.

For me, prioritization is a non-issue. It's just the price and capping that rubs me the wrong way.

 

[BTTB]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">For me, prioritization is a non-issue. It's just the price and capping that rubs me the wrong way.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Me too.

Except in the day time if you need to upload some files to the hosting server.

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">

 

[TheVoice]

Steve1: MWeb's offering is quite expensive, seeing as most other ISPs would be cheaper for the equivalent 9GB, especially an ISP such as Imaginet.

 

[Perdition]

To answer the initial question, the 9 gig MWeb account is shaped as it's basically just 3 normal accounts stuck together. I agree with the others that you don't need the unshaped account to get fast speeds with P2P, your money though.

 

[KoRnontheCob]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by freeek</i>
<br />with the normal adsl you get speeds up2 50k on bit torrent. My friend downloaded a 300mb file in 2½ hrs using a normal saix connection. The torrent was extremely new and there were like 10 000 peers but 50k!

..- dot dot dash
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The more people that are connecting to the same torrent as you the faster it is going to be. especially if they are very fast seeds.

 

[Strobemeister]

I see that using p2p clients such as bittorent will become a bit of an issue with the XP SP2, which goes on Auto Updates next week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1285516,00.html


Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

 

[Perdition]

There are patches/cracks out already to adjust the TCP connection limit.

The following article will tell you how to create a Windows XP installation CD with SP2 slipstreamed and you can include the TCP patch with the latest version of nLite :

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

 

[Dean_Henstock]

Ok, you must remeber that all ADSL accounts come from SAIX, and people like myself, mweb, worldonline etc resell them, so they are all from the same pool !.

Keep Surfing

 

[Karnaugh]

Save your money - Buy the movies/music/games (porn is still free)

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett

 

[Karnaugh]

Dean_Henstock

MWeb actualy have a special arangement with SAIX to route their customers differently, I dont have the details of how but they are the only one which isnt the same (because MWeb have all those "customer only" sections so their customers need specific IP addresses).

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett