Mweb BAN at what point?

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been searching the threads but i cant find anything, i know some guys here have been banned and im wondering at what point mweb bans? on a 4 meg line what seems to be the average monthly usage of those that have been banned thus far? or is it more focused on vpn users? if you were doing 500gb pm for example without vpns is that in the "top abusers" category?
 
I don't think it's purely a usage based decision. I think it's a case of if you've done a few hundred gigs, most of which were downloaded using encryption, seedbox etc., then you might be in trouble.
 
Yip, it has to do with contravening their terms of use. Trying to bypass the systems they have in place is obviously seen in a bad light and looks to result in termination or a suggestion to upgrade your package.
 
Seems to be quite a bit of speculation about what gets your MWeb account canceled. My account was canceled today and I have not violated any of the term in the policy though I do download alot, on my uncapped account (what a shocker).

Also during "the phonecall" they they said what flagged the account was that on average it had what they call high continuous usage, or something to that effect I can't remember it word for word from a few days ago.

Basically the only thing I've, apparently, done wrong is use alot of bandwidth on an uncapped account, thought this month wasn't much with the Seacom affair.

It's painfully obvious they are targeting high bandwidth users trying to come up with whatever excuse they can other than saying it's because of the high bandwidth usage (since they advertise it as uncapped). Unfortunately they cut me off after 5pm, at which point they don't answer the number given, so I haven't had a chance of calling them to hear what excuse they try give me before taking it further.
 
No seriously... they have a dart board with numbers on them... and you get the luck of the shot.
 
Angellus said:
PLEASE provide us with your monthly usage since you have been with mweb :) It's not like they can do anything to you for sharing it.
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I don't mind, and frankly I would like to see them try complain about it lol.

Note this also includes traffic over the LAN, ie not internet traffic so the internet bandwidth used will be a little lower than these numbers...
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                                                                          Downloaded     Uploaded     Both
MWeb                  07/01/2010 -- 07/23/2010          252.02 GB       30.87 GB      282.89 GB
MWeb                  06/01/2010 -- 06/30/2010          316.34 GB       83.65 GB      400.00 GB
BEFORE MWeb   05/01/2010 -- 05/31/2010          443.85 GB      107.85 GB      551.70 GB

edit, the bandwidth used by the other PCs connected to the router are at most negligible, with email browsing etc.
 
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Kosmik said:
How were you downloading Bowser?
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Mostly FTP, then HTTP and some torrents, though I upload more with torrents than I download, also I've always speed limited torrents via the software (50kb down/ 30kb up). Here I thought I was being nice not letting things run at close to 100% all the time and as thanks they've canceled the account.
 
Browser said:
Mostly FTP, then HTTP and some torrents, though I upload more with torrents than I download, also I've always speed limited torrents via the software (50kb down/ 30kb up). Here I thought I was being nice not letting things run at close to 100% all the time and as thanks they've canceled the account.
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Http direct downloads from sites or utilising hotifle etc? I don't think torrents are a concern as they are shaped heavily so even if you did peak it would be irregular.
 
Kosmik said:
Http direct downloads from sites or utilising hotifle etc? I don't think torrents are a concern as they are shaped heavily so even if you did peak it would be irregular.
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I rarely use sites like hotfile and despise rapidshare etc, over the past two months such sites have maybe contributed 10gigs, with far more bandwidth used on just browsing than them. This month I actually remember downloading only 1 file from such sites, hotfile, the majority of HTTP usage was with streaming videos and FileFront*.

gregmcc said:
I think they use the Magic 8 ball to decide.
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After they've run a filter for high bandwidth users maybe lol.



edit* meant FileFront not Fileplanet.
 
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strange how browser was cut off and i haven't been. joined when they announced. maxing at about 350GB in that period (not every month). but he after 2 months booted. and not I.


if mweb had an immediate cancel poicy I would take it and move to another provider.
 
milomak said:
strange how browser was cut off and i haven't been. joined when they announced. maxing at about 350GB in that period (not every month). but he after 2 months booted. and not I.


if mweb had an immediate cancel poicy I would take it and move to another provider.
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They do, just download 700gb and they will cancel your account :D.

Break their T and C.
 
Obviously MWeb is not going to advertize how much you can contravene the T&C before your account is closed. It's like a medical aid saying that you can buy groceries and holidays and claim them as medical expenses, in contravention of the T&C, but only up to R1000 per month. After that, they'll terminate your account. If MWeb said that you can pull, say, 99GB through a VPN tunnel at line speed -- in contravention of the T&C -- because they'll only close your account if you do more than 100GB, say, then of course everyone is going to pull 99GB and that itself will place additional load on the network. If you want that, buy the unshaped account.
 
SabreWolfy said:
Obviously MWeb is not going to advertize how much you can contravene the T&C before your account is closed. It's like a medical aid saying that you can buy groceries and holidays and claim them as medical expenses, in contravention of the T&C, but only up to R1000 per month. After that, they'll terminate your account. If MWeb said that you can pull, say, 99GB through a VPN tunnel at line speed -- in contravention of the T&C -- because they'll only close your account if you do more than 100GB, say, then of course everyone is going to pull 99GB and that itself will place additional load on the network. If you want that, buy the unshaped account.
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We are not interested in your opinion as you always sing the same tune - defend MWEB's behaviour.
 
PeterCH said:
We are not interested in your opinion as you always sing the same tune - defend MWEB's behaviour.
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We are not interested in your opinion as you always sing the same tune - attack MWEB's behaviour.
 
well i pulled 450 gigs the first month. Then went on Mweb, but through openwebs "gold account", and done about 500 gigs.
 
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