Mweb Mbps 2meg Prem vs Openweb Gold 2meg

[Murlin]

Hi Guys

Not sure if anyone has picked this up and it is quite alarming...

I have a 4meg ADSL line with a Mweb Premium 2Mbps account. I get 201Kb to 211Kb per second.
I was given a Trial Openweb Gold 2Mbps account. I get 240 Kb to 256Kb per second.

So it got me thinking and I did the calculations, Mweb are actually not giving me a true 2Mbps throughput...
If this is happening to every customer, can you imagine how much bandwidth is being "saved" by Mweb.

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi Guys

Not sure if anyone has picked this up and it is quite alarming...

I have a 4meg ADSL line with a Mweb Premium 2Mbps account. I get 201Kb to 211Kb per second.
I was given a Trial Openweb Gold 2Mbps account. I get 240 Kb to 256Kb per second.

So it got me thinking and I did the calculations, Mweb are actually not giving me a true 2Mbps throughput...
If this is happening to every customer, can you imagine how much bandwidth is being "saved" by Mweb.

MOrning Murlin, how did you complete these tests?

Did you do actual downloads or did you complete speed tests?

 

[Murlin]

MOrning Murlin, how did you complete these tests?

Did you do actual downloads or did you complete speed tests?

Hi Mweb Guy

I have monitoring tools on the network card. The tests ranged from torrents, newshost and game updates.

Some background info, I work with ADSL, Diginet and Microfibre links all day.

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi Mweb Guy

I have monitoring tools on the network card. The tests ranged from torrents, newshost and game updates.

Some background info, I work with ADSL, Diginet and Microfibre links all day.

Gaming content is prioritised on our Network, however the other two will be shaped.

 

[Seriously]

Hi Guys

Not sure if anyone has picked this up and it is quite alarming...

I have a 4meg ADSL line with a Mweb Premium 2Mbps account. I get 201Kb to 211Kb per second.
I was given a Trial Openweb Gold 2Mbps account. I get 240 Kb to 256Kb per second.

So it got me thinking and I did the calculations, Mweb are actually not giving me a true 2Mbps throughput...
If this is happening to every customer, can you imagine how much bandwidth is being "saved" by Mweb.

Interesting!

Gaming content is prioritised on our Network, however the other two will be shaped.

Sad fail [-]Mweb[/-]Naspers_Guy!

Hi Mweb Guy

I have monitoring tools on the network card. The tests ranged from torrents, newshost and game updates.

Some background info, I work with ADSL, Diginet and Microfibre links all day.

 

[Murlin]

Gaming content is prioritised on our Network, however the other two will be shaped.

Will I ever get full speed on the account for torrents or newshost? Bare in mind I am using news.mweb.co.za which I presume is local?

What tests can I do to get the true 256 kilobytes?

Are you able to do anything about the attached traceroute to the DGL5 Cs:GO server? On Openweb I get 35ms but on the Mweb Premium, I get 72ms as attached.

Thanks

 

[X-Gamer]

Will I ever get full speed on the account for torrents or newshost? Bare in mind I am using news.mweb.co.za which I presume is local?

What tests can I do to get the true 256 kilobytes?

Are you able to do anything about the attached traceroute to the DGL5 Cs:GO server? On Openweb I get 35ms but on the Mweb Premium, I get 72ms as attached.

Thanks

I cannot connect to news.mweb.co.za anymore. But when it was working, the best speeds I got were after hours, midnight till about 6-7am.

If I use the IP address, 196.28.78.229, I'm able to connect, but I'm not sure which server this is, is it Mweb?

 

[MWEBHelp]

Will I ever get full speed on the account for torrents or newshost? Bare in mind I am using news.mweb.co.za which I presume is local?

What tests can I do to get the true 256 kilobytes?

Are you able to do anything about the attached traceroute to the DGL5 Cs:GO server? On Openweb I get 35ms but on the Mweb Premium, I get 72ms as attached.

Thanks

Torrents and news speeds tend to increase late evening or early morning, when the network is relaxed (the demand for high preference traffic is low)

Please provide me the comparative trace route with your secondary account

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

But ... In MWEBS defense ...

MWEB accounts are fairly consistent throughout the 24 hour day.
Openweb accounts are as slow as a snail on dagga during the day, and really only perform after 5pm.

Then again ... Openweb have a eat as much as you can policy, while MWEB soft cap at their leisure....

 

[Murlin]

Torrents and news speeds tend to increase late evening or early morning, when the network is relaxed (the demand for high preference traffic is low)

Please provide me the comparative trace route with your secondary account

comparative tracert on Openweb to the dgl5 server

 

[MWEBHelp]

comparative tracert on Openweb to the dgl5 server

Morning Murlin, the trace routes you've provided are not that much different.

When the traffic is on the MWEB network, compared to your alternate ISP. The latency seems similar (hop 3 to 6)

 

[Murlin]

Morning Murlin, the trace routes you've provided are not that much different.

When the traffic is on the MWEB network, compared to your alternate ISP. The latency seems similar (hop 3 to 6)

Hi Mweb Guy

So nothing can be when connecting to the DGL servers via Mweb? I tried last night and my latency ranged from 45ms to 85ms.

On the Open Web account, it went as low as 25ms and peaked at 42ms. I'm being dead serious here...

Chow
Murlin

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi Mweb Guy

So nothing can be when connecting to the DGL servers via Mweb? I tried last night and my latency ranged from 45ms to 85ms.

On the Open Web account, it went as low as 25ms and peaked at 42ms. I'm being dead serious here...

Chow
Murlin

There is something we can try.

Can we enable monitoring on your account to see how we are classifying the traffic on our side?