MWEB explains transit link cuts

iCubed.Saajid said:
Hahaha. Dear Mr Kgokgo. Please go back to your bosses at MTN/Vodacom/Telkom and tell them that the MyBB community are not stupid. You registered on this forum only today, and your first post is to diss MWEB, with little to no clue what you are talking about.
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lol
 
mRsKu11 said:
I recieved an email from mweb stating that there is a soft cap of 45gigs on their "uncapped accounts"

Maybe you reaching that and being slowed by mweb?
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Rudi Jansen said there is no such thing. They don't throttle, and they don't cut you off unless you abuse. When I spoke to him he said that even with 60 gigs, which is what I do in a month, you're not on the radar. I also haven't experienced any slowdowns after a certain volume.
 
It's not my defense, I am just stating what he said at the MyBB conference and to me when I asked him about abuse.

What other things did he say that weren't true?
 
kgokgo said:
“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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Totally out of context comment!
 
rainynight65 said:
It's not my defense, I am just stating what he said at the MyBB conference and to me when I asked him about abuse.

What other things did he say that weren't true?
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Read the forums - really not going to look for it again.... (in fact - I think I've even seen some of it in someone's signature).
 
If I was a big player with lots of content on my network, I wouldn't want to subsidize small networks with free peering at my expense becuase they hold me to ransom. I would suggest what the cell phone companies do and introduce an Interconnect fee so that you pay for what you want from another provider and they pay you for what they want. So put in the nice big links and then only exchange monies for data used.
 
xrapidx said:
Read the forums - really not going to look for it again.... (in fact - I think I've even seen some of it in someone's signature).
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What Rudi said or didn't say is irrelevant. If people were getting emails about there being a soft cap, someone would have posted a copy of such a letter by now. The fact that no one has makes the statement about there being a soft cap at 45gb pure FUD.
 
I respect mweb for this move, I really do.
Sure it might be to save some costs, but them savings costs makes things like uncapped more viable which only benefits the consumer in the end.
Im just not sure how players like MTN business and telscum are going to budge with all the clout they have.

At the end of the day if it costs an ISP less per month then it gives them the option to lower prices to be more competitive. Mweb already showed that when they release uncapped at such low rates that everyone suddenly had to follow. If the peering becomes free then I would expect another shake up in the ISP industry.
 
xrapidx said:
Read the forums - really not going to look for it again.... (in fact - I think I've even seen some of it in someone's signature).
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LOL lazy bugger or lazy liar....

I'did 300GB plus every month for the past 6 months....no softcap or throttling whatsoever...only reason it's going down is that im running out of things to download....and space LOL

http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad320/drukkie/prrof.png

and 13Gb in the past two days....hell it's speeding up if you ask me!!!
 
Dam there are some negative people out there with nothing but $h1t to moan about, i suppose there is always one of them. I would say let the dust settle and we will see where we are in a month or two, if this change has had a good or bad impact, also, if you want to moan and groan there are other threads available where you can get 'support' for all your problems.
 
"A few industry players have also accused MWEB of trying to disguise a basic financial decision as a consumer centric strategy to ‘free the web.’"
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Sigh .. what many people don't understand is that what's good for the finances are often the same thing as what is good for consumers, why do people blindly believe the two are always at odds? Enough with the anti-capitalism brainwashing. That's why free markets work, it's a fundamental principle. The only time they're at odds is when the market isn't actually free, or effectively isn't free (e.g. colluding profiteering cartels like MTN/Voda). *Of course* it's a financial decision, but so what!? MWEB is trying to offer a new product to consumers - real broadband in SA - so anything that helps them offer that product to consumers is also good for their finances, because it means lots of customers sign up. EVERYONE WINS. (Except the profiteering cartels.) Go MWEB!
 
JStrike said:
I doubt they will use on site servers. It will probably be in a datacentre in somewhere. And MS doesn't own any datacentres in South Africa yet as far as I am aware
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So you mean the giant data center across the road in IS wouldn't be the logical choice?

I know this relates more to the post before you but I had to include your post as well.
 
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Stigmata101 said:
Dam there are some negative people out there with nothing but $h1t to moan about, i suppose there is always one of them. I would say let the dust settle and we will see where we are in a month or two, if this change has had a good or bad impact, also, if you want to moan and groan there are other threads available where you can get 'support' for all your problems.
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Not everyone is an immediate fanboy on the latest fad - get over it :rolleyes:
 
thesuspect said:
If I was a big player with lots of content on my network, I wouldn't want to subsidize small networks with free peering at my expense becuase they hold me to ransom. I would suggest what the cell phone companies do and introduce an Interconnect fee so that you pay for what you want from another provider and they pay you for what they want. So put in the nice big links and then only exchange monies for data used.
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And what about MWEB makes you think they are either a small isp or have little content? Have you heard of Naspers, please feel free to go to their site and decide for yourself?

Just to put things in context:
Telkom market cap as of earlier today R18.8 Billion
Naspers market cap as of earlier today R148 Billion

Wrap your head around this fact. Even though government owns a chunk on Telkom so the total value is somewhere near R30 billion they are still the small fish in this equation.
 
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