MWEB - Message from CEO - Acceptable Use Policy

Actually, this raises an actual legitimate question I'd love the answer to.

@Mweb Operations - I take a helluva lot of photographs and I have close on 100k saved on drives (and backed up on other media). I'd like to start using Amazon S3 for my offsite backups though and would dearly love to store all my photos there. If I do this am I going to get tanked and cut off by MWEB? 100k photos should run somewhere close to 550GB worth of traffic.

from the official stance, we would have to believe that should be fine.
 
Hi SSung, for what. It is not like i did not pay for it or stole it. As per TV ad said "as many data as you like". This is exactly what i'm going to do with out breaching the rules. Any way would like to hear MWEB official response.
 
Actually, this raises an actual legitimate question I'd love the answer to.

@Mweb Operations - I take a helluva lot of photographs and I have close on 100k saved on drives (and backed up on other media). I'd like to start using Amazon S3 for my offsite backups though and would dearly love to store all my photos there. If I do this am I going to get tanked and cut off by MWEB? 100k photos should run somewhere close to 550GB worth of traffic.

Good question for example i'm using Sony Vaio. I've a option to backup it up on to Sony servers in the States. Would that be o'k 250Gb data just that. Once a month.
 
Good question for example i'm using Sony Vaio. I've a option to backup it up on to Sony servers in the States. Would that be o'k 250Gb data just that. Once a month.

how long would that take to upload?
 
First, would be o'k with Mweb T&C and their CEO if i order a home uncapped shaped R.539 account and i start downloading only over http protocol (port 80) the whole month 600-800Gb+ depends my needs. Will not use any VPN, torrents, streaming ... etc nothing just pure http and i will use it from home at my residential address. Is that going to be all right with their precious network ...

Hi Mr restaurant manager! would it be ok if i came into your buffet restaurant and ate all the food before anyone else could get near it? i won't bring friends to help me eat, it will all be according the rules, but i am a glutton and i WILL eat everything and leave some gravy for your other clients? Would that be ok in your precious restaurant? I mean, you did say all i can eat right?

For every buffet offering, there will be a glutton. And I'm afraid that unless the restaurant wants to go out of business, they have to put the gluttons out.
Im sorry, but anyone who needs 800GB a month and assumes that's kewl on a cheap home account needs some serious therapy.. or a snot klap.
 
Hi Mr restaurant manager! would it be ok if i came into your buffet restaurant and ate all the food before anyone else could get near it? i won't bring friends to help me eat, it will all be according the rules, but i am a glutton and i WILL eat everything and leave some gravy for your other clients? Would that be ok in your precious restaurant? I mean, you did say all i can eat right?

For every buffet offering, there will be a glutton. And I'm afraid that unless the restaurant wants to go out of business, they have to put the gluttons out.
Im sorry, but anyone who needs 800GB a month and assumes that's kewl on a cheap home account needs some serious therapy.. or a snot klap.

no desert :cry:
 
xrapidx said:
Next the guys doing unattended downloads are going to be crying when they get booted.... its in the T&C after-all.

They'll start pruning the high data users first, and then slowly make their way down to the folks who check their email once a week.

It's all in the T&Cs, remember!

.. I'm almost at a loss for words. Why would MWeb kick everyone off its network just because they can according to their T&C's? You have to use just a tiny bit of common sense and realise that they would only do this if it affects their network negatively, and also that they do not want to kick anyone off if possible. Stop being idiots, really.

No, you'll be skinned & mounted at MWEB's convenience.

You have the entire testimony of one random poster who apparently used only filesharing sites to download 500GB and got the call. Anything else at all that you base this on, seeing as you make as if it's a fact?
 
The restaurant analogy really doesn't work... your example needs to be updated to include:

1) Customer has paid for all the food that he/she is intending on eating
2) Manager tells customer that he/she can only have carrots and only when nobody else wants carrots

:D
 
mmm

I've been reading here and there about this whole thing and am pretty much certain MWEB have to notify customers when they make changes to their Terms and conditions?

From reading replies i Gather that Mweb has recently made changes to their "T&C's" in light of their recent venture to get rid of people who are hammering their systems and using VPNs etc to do so. Now if i read the Terms & Conditions 3 or 4 months ago, and something has changed since then? Surely one can't be held accountable for breaching T&C's when you didn't ***ken know about them in the first place?

At the end of the Day the response to MRudling was ****ing atrocious, and if they responded to me in that manner im not too sure how i would react, but doubt it would be good. For the moment its like pissing into the wind with them, hopefully wind direction changes at some point.
 
The restaurant analogy really doesn't work... your example needs to be updated to include:

1) Customer has paid for all the food that he/she is intending on eating
2) Manager tells customer that he/she can only have carrots and only when nobody else wants carrots

:D

i phear the shrimps are shaped as one is only allowed 8 at a time to fry...
 
The account purchased is shaped, stated clearly, in uneqivocable terms. Attempting to get around the shaping rules is a no brainer as cause to suspension or removal.
 
I've been reading here and there about this whole thing and am pretty much certain MWEB have to notify customers when they make changes to their Terms and conditions?

From reading replies i Gather that Mweb has recently made changes to their "T&C's" in light of their recent venture to get rid of people who are hammering their systems and using VPNs etc to do so. Now if i read the Terms & Conditions 3 or 4 months ago, and something has changed since then? Surely one can't be held accountable for breaching T&C's when you didn't ***ken know about them in the first place?

At the end of the Day the response to MRudling was ****ing atrocious, and if they responded to me in that manner im not too sure how i would react, but doubt it would be good. For the moment its like pissing into the wind with them, hopefully wind direction changes at some point.

while I am higly critical of the way mweb responded to mrudling (sp?), i am not too sure the T&Cs have changed at all.
 
If my speeds are anything to go by tonight, thankyou mweb for getting rid of the folks bypassing the shaping.
 
while I am higly critical of the way mweb responded to mrudling (sp?), i am not too sure the T&Cs have changed at all.

Don't think they have, although they can. Someone posted that the bit about unattended usage was actually removed because people complained about it.
 
The account purchased is shaped, stated clearly, in uneqivocable terms. Attempting to get around the shaping rules is a no brainer as cause to suspension or removal.

Telkom is also shaped.
 
Telkom is also shaped.

Yes.. what's the point of the comparison? Obviously having a shaped capped service and a shaped uncapped service are two very different things. Why we even needed shaping when all we had was low capped accounts I don't know.
 
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