Mweb and Astraweb

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torakza

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Hey everyone,

I was connecting to Astraweb SSL and downloading at quite high speeds towards the end of last year. Since then i disconnected the service as I had to move to a new flat, etc.

Got my Mweb 4Meg account yesterday again and when i connected tonight I was rather disappointed to see that the download speed has not exceeded 30kb/sec... Are Mweb throttling Usenet accounts like Astraweb or what is the story?

:p
 
Hi Torakza

Astraweb does fall under our shaping policies.

Regards
MWEB Guy
 
torakza said:
Got my Mweb 4Meg account yesterday again and when i connected tonight I was rather disappointed to see that the download speed has not exceeded 30kb/sec... Are Mweb throttling Usenet accounts like Astraweb or what is the story?
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Its throttled to about 0Kbps during the day - see this thread for many many unhappy NNTP users.
 
torakza said:
Hey everyone,

I was connecting to Astraweb SSL and downloading at quite high speeds towards the end of last year. Since then i disconnected the service as I had to move to a new flat, etc.

Got my Mweb 4Meg account yesterday again and when i connected tonight I was rather disappointed to see that the download speed has not exceeded 30kb/sec... Are Mweb throttling Usenet accounts like Astraweb or what is the story?

:p
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Home accounts are shaped and using SSL to bypass shaping protocol is a nono ;)
 
Home accounts are shaped and using SSL to bypass shaping protocol is a nono
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I understand what your'e implying - but at the end of the day, I don't see what's wrong with using a common SSL port to connect safely to a paid resource. I'm not showing some lack of respect to a SLA / T&C unpurpose. What you are implying is that I'm using SSL to bypass a shaping protocol? That's a bit unfair ;)
 
torakza said:
I don't see what's wrong with using a common SSL port to connect safely to a paid resource. I'm not showing some lack of respect to a SLA / T&C unpurpose. What you are implying is that I'm using SSL to bypass a shaping protocol? That's a bit unfair ;)
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Haha I did consider this ;) I just wanted to be clear since you specifically mentioned the SSL port and speed that using it doesn't make the speeds you may have achieved the norm :)
 
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