Mweb Local Uncapped Trial

SplaT said:
They stab you in the back with the Pay per Meg option.
If you chose Buy Booster option BEFORE you were capped and turned OFF autobooster, then you would have local-only directly after you have exceeded you cap.
You can switch anytime from Buy Booster option to Pey per Meg option, but not Vice Versa. Because you have to wait until the start of the next month before it switches back to the Buy Booster option.

This is just a filthy, greedy way to milk the users by forcing them to use at least R100 of cap (500Mb).

So summing up, if you have local-only and you want international, then you HAVE to pay R100, no matter what option you choose. So it makes the Pay per Meg option pointless and twice as expensive.
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I rang their customer support today, all i got was that since i was on the pay per mb, all access including local is billed for until you reach your safety lock. I just got screwed out of R113. So for anyone wanting to use these accounts for local, do what SlpaT said, enable the booster before you get capped, and then disable it straight away. Then once you are capped, it will go straight to local access.
 
Mine went straight to local only access without me doing anything, I had never enabled anything else on the account.

10 Gigs downloaded in the last 24 hours! :D

I wish more was cached locally though! ;)
 
Garyvdh said:
I wish more was cached locally though! ;)
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Now that local bandwidth is more available, local filesharing might improve aswell.

Some kind of open local FTP site would be brilliant.
UUNet would have been awesome if it didn't hide everything.
Well, I guess hiding it keeps the legal issues to a minimum, doesn't it?
 
Mweb Local Only Access

I've been on mweb for years, saying that they are no to poor a broadband provider i capped myself to see how the new trial local service is, well i can say so far its pretty good. and you can see its a trial they have a few glitches yesterday i was totally uncapped yeah lol they got suckered in i pulled some 2 gigs today i am local only again, i must say they seem to be throttling bandwidth so dont be as happy as yet local torrents are pulling fine but upload is a bit poor. so keep it going mweb thanks for the local....
 
hj2k_x said:
What kind of speeds are you getting?
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very nice speeds at home! I am on the fastest ADSL and it lives up to its name. The only reason I am not getting more is cos it keeps finishing and then I have to go and download some more... and the server I am downloading from keeps getting too busy. Otherwise it would smoke. I'll try and post some screen shots when my Intnl gets up again.... are there any local image hosting sites?
 
Garyvdh said:
very nice speeds at home! I am on the fastest ADSL and it lives up to its name. The only reason I am not getting more is cos it keeps finishing and then I have to go and download some more... and the server I am downloading from keeps getting too busy. Otherwise it would smoke. I'll try and post some screen shots when my Intnl gets up again.... are there any local image hosting sites?
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Can post pics here on myadsl. At the top, between Reviews and General.
 
I had to fork out R100 bucks too (set the cap to minimum). No I'm capped (so it says, cant browse international my ip is 165.146.x.x).


I just don't hope for they bill the crap out of me for the <server> usage
 
i guess by the 1st/2nd of next month we should know where mweb/saix stands with this free local.

only 1 more thing - its on "trial" - as is at Ti
 
hj2k_x said:
Yip, and then they'll tell us all how unfeasible it is and just cancel the whole thing.
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Too bad February is the shortest month of the year, Or I might have pulled 150 Gigs rather than the 100 or so Gigs I am headed for right now. ;)

Based on my contribution to the study they should conclude that there is a lot of DEMAND for local bandwidth :D
 
Garyvdh said:
Too bad February is the shortest month of the year, Or I might have pulled 150 Gigs rather than the 100 or so Gigs I am headed for right now. ;)
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Damn this 384 connection, otherwise I could also have gotten 100s of gigs, I am seriously losing out :D

Garyvdh said:
Based on my contribution to the study they should conclude that there is a lot of DEMAND for local bandwidth :D
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There's a lot of demand when local is FREE ;) Start charging for it and the demand will wane.
 
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