MWEB Slashes ADSL Prices

[Pierneef]

Hi Guys

As I have said previously Mweb only wait for my birthday before they announced their price reduction.
2MBPS as from 1 february 2013 R449-00 uncapped.
4MBPS R689-00 uncapped.
So mweb did not wait for two months as they did it always when Telkom reduced their prices. Mweb only repsond only when telkom reduced prices and not when the small piggeninkies reduced their prices. Once and mweb subcriber always a mweb subscriber. Now I consider to increased my line speed to 4MBPS and wil phone mweb tomorrow.

 

[MickeyD]

You missed all the other threads and comments?

You need to compare apples with apples. These new products are throttled, i.e. uncapped lite.

 

[Ryansta]

I read the Telkom one is the same though... Also throttled??

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I read the Telkom one is the same though... Also throttled??

I understand that telkom is dropping the throttling, can someone confirm / deny / tinfoil this for me ?

 

[Stefanmuller]

Noob question, but what does throttled/unthrottled and shaped/unshaped mean in layman terms and from a practical use term. For example dowloading a 800mb file using each of the types?

I am not a heavy downloader so for example if one type takes 30minutes and the other 15minutes to download said file I can live with it, but 15minutes vs 2hours is a different story.

 

[MickeyD]

Chaps, all your questions are debated and answered here... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/501102-MWEB-launches-new-cheaper-uncapped-ADSL-packages

 

[Pierneef]

Well throttled or not I believe it is for those members who go overboard and cause a crash of servers o the net. Maybe next year mweb will make it unthrottled. But who care if I can have faster line speed for my stuff to download like my son's playstation downloads.

 

[Archie1]

I understand that telkom is dropping the throttling, can someone confirm / deny / tinfoil this for me ?

It is only the daytime restrictions that are being dropped. Apparently Telkom can still throttle users. It is somewhere in their AUP.

 

[GouKi]

does anyone know what the mythical point is, at which your account is throttled, for each respective, 1MB, 2MB, 4MB and 10MB offers?

 

[Slartibartfast]

personally i call BS on these 'premium' and 'throttled' packages from mweb. i think it is a knee jerk reaction to try and save some face for not anticipating market trends and i fully expect the 'premium' packages to quietly disappear in the next few months.

 

[Space_Chief]

does anyone know what the mythical point is, at which your account is throttled, for each respective, 1MB, 2MB, 4MB and 10MB offers?

It could be percentage based. If you're in the top 10-15% (?) you get throttled.

 

[GouKi]

so i guess its hope and pray you don't get into that percentile. It would be great if there was something under your account interface that could always plot your current position amongst the averages.