MWEB explains transit link cuts

Big ups to MWEB and Rudi. Vodacom has already cracked, when MWEB has more gaming servers up nobody will care about Telkom so really we just have MTN to deal with.
 
Well, we all knew well in advance that MWEB wanted the open peering and they did say before they started cutting of the transit that they will cut it. When was the first time they threatened to cut paid transit links?
 
I am fully behind mweb on this one, even if the motive is financial rather than to improve things for the consumer. The current situation where local links are more expensive than the international ones is ridiculous and needs to be remedied. At the end of the day open peering is good for competition.
 
I think the explaination for the various issues thrown at Mweb is understandable, and they make sense. Most importantly, I think he is correct in saying that if the other ISP's were given more time, they would have just delayed. I would not be surprised if Vodacom, even though saying they were negotiating and accepting the free peering, were actually dragging their feet on the issue with Mweb.
 
Shayd said:
Big ups to MWEB and Rudi. Vodacom has already cracked, when MWEB has more gaming servers up nobody will care about Telkom so really we just have MTN to deal with.
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When did Vodacom crack?
 
...more than sufficient international capacity to cater for the change in traffic routing.
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Guess that explained why they've shaped 4MB uncapped to oblivion.
 
Go Mweb! Go Mweb, regardless of the motives behind this, an open peering policy will stimulate the hosting of local content, Gaming Services, IPTV and a host of other things. Imagine all the international hosting revenue coming back to SA!!!! Local is lekker! Imagine our own World Of Warcraft Services because it's affordable! (only reason why blizzard has not done it is because of the cost of hosting here, there certainly is more than enough wow players in SA to warrant our own realm!) 60MS Battlegrounds FTW!
 
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This nonsense about MWeb not giving local ISP's sufficient warning is rubbish. I can remember MWeb stating their policy of free and open peering many months ago. If someone who logs onto this site once or twice a day to check up on news knows about it, how can large ISP's not?

You go MWeb.
 
xrapidx said:
Guess that explained why they've shaped 4MB uncapped to bliss.
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Fixed it for you. Most Mweb users seem to be getting good speeds out of their 4mb accounts, me included :)
Mines still excellent, just last night i was happily torrenting and playing cod with just a 10ms increase in latency, and the torrents were pulling in at the limit of 75kbps i set them.

If you're really that unhappy with your mweb uncapped then cancel it and stop moaning. jeez
 
Boomstomp said:
Fixed it for you. Most Mweb users seem to be getting good speeds out of their 4mb accounts, me included :)
Mines still excellent, just last night i was happily torrenting and playing cod with just a 10ms increase in latency, and the torrents were pulling in at the limit of 75kbps i set them.

If you're really that unhappy with your mweb uncapped then cancel it and stop moaning. jeez
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I have cancelled it - JEEEZ... and while I'm getting 10KB/s and paying for a broadband I will continue to complain - so get over it.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/221840-MWEB-Uncapped-Subscribers-Feedback/page143
http://www.facebook.com/MWEB

Where are your 'most' users? Seems 'most' users aren't getting good speeds.
 
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xrapidx said:
Guess that explained why they've shaped 4MB uncapped to oblivion.
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You might want to check your exchange, I had a problem for months blaming any IS based account, after eight months and a 150 service tickets problem resolved, the Power supplies in the Exchange were too close to the E1 cards in our mini-exchange, since the fix its 412Kb/s speeds, 24/7 anytime all the time!
 
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Hellboy said:
You might want to check your exchange, I had a problem for months blaming any IS based account, after eight months and a 150 service tickets problem resolved, the Power supplies in the Exchange was to close to to the E1 cards in our mini exchange, since the fix its 412Kb/s download 24/7
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works fine with every other ISP I've tried.
 
This decision from MWEB has been slated by companies like Telkom, Vodacom Business and MTN Business, who are accusing the ISP of not playing open cards with other service providers and putting local Internet users at risk.
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Would these other ISPs be the same guys who a few months ago were charging us R 70 - R 100 for a gig of pre-paid shaped, throttled and generally nasty data?

The situation is completely crazy here, our local bandwidth is so expensive that even Zoopy who were backed by VC had to move overseas. And as far as the other providers not knowing, 90% of the people on mybb knew about this, maybe they should hire a few us as an early warning system.

Good on you Mweb, you had the financial backing, you had the content and you also had the balls. This is the type of stuff we were expecting from NeoTel years ago, but they obviously came here on an extended holiday and not to run a telco.
 
“Fact is MWEB will peer with any ISP big or small at no cost. It is however each party's responsibility to get to the peering point. "

So, they want other ISPs to pay to get to MWEB POP, yet they say its free. What a shame!

If you in financial trouble, deal with it, don't try and bring everyone down with you.
 
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