Mweb Shaping aka throttling

Huge difference between shaping and throtteling...

They only shape as far as I know. And yes FTP has a lower priority than say HTTP etc...
 
During the day, expect this to happen to mostly everything minus web browsing and e-mails.

When they open the pipes is another story because one day it's at 8pm, next it's at 10pm, next it's at 12... *sigh*
 
Unshaping is very erratic, over the weekend i was maxing out my trial account on giganews, now its shaped to hell and back.
Its not a mater of unshaping after buss hours, its a matter of how much load is on the network at the time.
 
The network is NEVER unshaped, when the network has excess capacity they all the low priority protocols will increase in speed. They don't sit on a reservoir of bandwidth and then randomly at night decide ok, open the floodgates. The more people are trying to download during, the longer it takes before it feels unshaped. My feeling is eventually P2P and other bandwidth intensive services will almost never run at full speed when the network is at full capacity.
 
Also remember that people are going wild with their accounts as having uncapped is still very new to them so expect the server to be raped for a while. Should settle within a month or so
 
MWEB are also wating for additional bandwidth capacity from Telkom which should be in place on 1 April 2010. Once they have this in place the shaping should be less severe during the day, although according to the MWEB rep this will not mean full line speed all the time.
 
Throttling: My Mweb 384kbps uncapped is throttled at 384kbps max - eg. when I try to use it on a 4mbps line. My normal Afrihost 2GB account it not throttled at all - Unless you see the line speed limitation as throttling.

Shaping: My Mweb Uncapped account is always shaped. eg. priority is given to the most important web protocols like HTTP - my torrents run slower than HTTP browsing or downloading. My Afrihost 2GB on the other hand is only shaped during business hours and after hours there is no shaping on the connection at all - My P2P download gets the same priority over your HTTP download.
 
Think of the M1 during peak-and-non peak periods.

The cars can always go 120kph per hour (or more if you wish)- the speed is not dictated. But go on the M1 at 5pm and there's no way you're going to get that speed. Not cause the speed limit is any slower, but the traffic is high and there is only so much the highway can take.

All ISPs have the bandwidth vs usability problem, and they all try to manage it to offer the best service.
 
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