Mweb so slow

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Dr Who

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Hi All

I have a similar concern regarding mweb, I have a 4mb line which sync's at full speed. When I first opened my mweb account all my downloads ( http, p2p, media ) were fast and near max speed ( 422kb/s slowing down to 200 - 300kb/s ).

My total downloads were April 100gb's, May 100gb's, June 40gbs , July 40gbs so I am in no way a heavy user. the problem I now have is as follows

All my P2P stuff is very heavily shaped, even after hrs I am lucky to get 70kb/s but it averages 30 - 40kb/s. This does not concern me as I can wait for stuff to download the problem is this throttling seems to be across all media formats.

Http takes ages, speed tests max at 0.45kb/s and youtube videos need to buffer for ages. I mean come on the reason I have a 4mb line is so that if a P2P is throttled at say 40bk/s at least the spare bandwidth is plenty for another user on the network to stream a video or browse internet FAST.

Does anyone else seem to have the same problems????
 
Yeh - I'm also not a heavy user, and I'm not getting anywhere near 4MB/s anymore, even on http - can't stream most video sites.

Thinking its better to start looking for an ISP that has line speed throttling tiers as opposed to this unusable BS.
 
So it looks like I am not alone. Well done Mweb,
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh - I'm also not a heavy user, and I'm not getting anywhere near 4MB/s anymore, even on http - can't stream most video sites.

Thinking its better to start looking for an ISP that has line speed throttling tiers as opposed to this unusable BS.
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Please let us know how that goes.

Mweb and google are not friends during the day that is for sure. Try openweb gold for us and see how it goes
 
killadoob said:
Please let us know how that goes.

Mweb and google are not friends during the day that is for sure. Try openweb gold for us and see how it goes
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giving MWEB till the end of this month (considering the calender month notice) - and if I'm still sitting with the same speeds and issues - I'll be moving...
 
Ok now that I have seen I am not alone, does anyone have the following comparatives which they have already tested or are using:

My costs are R413 for 4mb line + 539 for Uncapped mweb. How can I better use this splitting it between 2 accounts.

Assuming I obtain the 384k uncapped option what is the best capped option to make use of my high speed line. I don't want to spend more than I currently am.
 
Dr Who said:
Hi All

I have a similar concern regarding mweb, I have a 4mb line which sync's at full speed. When I first opened my mweb account all my downloads ( http, p2p, media ) were fast and near max speed ( 422kb/s slowing down to 200 - 300kb/s ).

My total downloads were April 100gb's, May 100gb's, June 40gbs , July 40gbs so I am in no way a heavy user. the problem I now have is as follows

All my P2P stuff is very heavily shaped, even after hrs I am lucky to get 70kb/s but it averages 30 - 40kb/s. This does not concern me as I can wait for stuff to download the problem is this throttling seems to be across all media formats.

Http takes ages, speed tests max at 0.45kb/s and youtube videos need to buffer for ages. I mean come on the reason I have a 4mb line is so that if a P2P is throttled at say 40bk/s at least the spare bandwidth is plenty for another user on the network to stream a video or browse internet FAST.

Does anyone else seem to have the same problems????
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I'm having the same issues. Mweb seems to think I'm paying for a 512 line and not 4meg. Sigh.

I upload faster than download.
 
Generally my 384k line is ok and torrents are fairly decent up until midday. Afternoons are usually poor, switch off torrents and browsing feels like painful dial up speeds - like today!
 
But surly after kicking off the users that were abusing the network at the cost of others should have made the network better for everyone else.... Apparently not :)
 
mrudling said:
But surly after kicking off the users that were abusing the network at the cost of others should have made the network better for everyone else.... Apparently not :)
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No no - they still got to do the next set of banning.
 
Dr Who said:
Hi All

I have a similar concern regarding mweb, I have a 4mb line which sync's at full speed. When I first opened my mweb account all my downloads ( http, p2p, media ) were fast and near max speed ( 422kb/s slowing down to 200 - 300kb/s ).

My total downloads were April 100gb's, May 100gb's, June 40gbs , July 40gbs so I am in no way a heavy user. the problem I now have is as follows

All my P2P stuff is very heavily shaped, even after hrs I am lucky to get 70kb/s but it averages 30 - 40kb/s. This does not concern me as I can wait for stuff to download the problem is this throttling seems to be across all media formats.

Http takes ages, speed tests max at 0.45kb/s and youtube videos need to buffer for ages. I mean come on the reason I have a 4mb line is so that if a P2P is throttled at say 40bk/s at least the spare bandwidth is plenty for another user on the network to stream a video or browse internet FAST.

Does anyone else seem to have the same problems????
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Only on 384kbps, but I have to concur. When we started everything was optimal, but after a short-ish while, torrents are mostly bewteen 0.5 - 10kbps, tending towards the lower end, ..15-20kbps on rare late night occasions. Oh well but I accept that torrents are a controversial subject.
More to the point, there is plenty of regular down-time, and access to certain regions/sites are either super slow or time out on occasion.
I'm just happy when Youtube plays decently at 240 (video option available), then I only have to wait perhaps 30 sec - 1 min before I can play the video without it buffering. At 360 I have to wait between 5-10 min (8-10 minute video) to play the video without buffering.
It's bearable if you multi-task. Otherwise crucial stuff like email and most sites are relatively smooth.

What can you do, it's SA.
 
If you get full line speed (420-430kbps), you get accused of cheating and bypassing their shaping and T&C.
 
mika1000 said:
If you get full line speed (420-430kbps), you get accused of cheating and bypassing their shaping and T&C.
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Incorrect -- don't distort the facts and spread FUD. The correct fact is that if you constantly download at line speed for extended periods of time 24/7 month after month on a shaped account, you run the risk of contravening the T&C.

Edit: Of course, if you achieve 400+kbps by bypassing the shaping, then yes, will be accused of ... bypassing the shaping on a SHAPED account. I can't see how that can be a surprise.
 
I'm also not a heavy user (40-60GB/month) and the slowness an unpredictability of MWeb is starting to bug me, it's a pity because in April/May it was perfect. If things don't improve soon I'll reign back my usage to about 25Gb and go back to capped :(
 
Yar, im also pulling around 40-50gigs a month and mweb is much slower than it was at launch. Youtube buffers for ages and getting http speeds around 150-200 max, im on a 4meg line..
 
SabreWolfy said:
Incorrect -- don't distort the facts and spread FUD.
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Yeh - because you don't go around as the self proclaimed MWEB T&C expert doing exactly that. :rolleyes:

Considering there are no real facts... no clue where you're coming from.
 
Comparing M-Web to IS is like comparing day and night. M-Web's uncapped outperforms IS by a substantial margin.

That said, my connection has been pretty slow on non-priority protocols for a while now, and it is sometimes frustrating.

HTTP peaks at about 250KB/s, simple streaming such as Youtube works fine and is generally trouble free, though more complex stuff such as streaming TV doesn't always work great (your mileage may vary). I hope M-Web will eventually be able to improve the service to the levels it used to be (where it was possible to achieve max speed easily), but I have a feeling that right now they feel they've struck a reasonable balance between cost and performance, so I don't expect much to happen any time soon.
 
You're still lucky

Ever since the supposed upgrade, I have not been getting the speeds I have even before the upgrade.

I used to have a 2mbps line which synced at about 1.8 which is fair enough.

Since the free upgrade to 4mbps, I don't even get 0.5mbps. Speedtest shows about 0.3mbps on a good day, this has been going on for about 3 weeks now and I have tried to fix it along with MWEB which actually offered great support through the MWEB guy Facebook thing.

I do now know what I can try further because on their side it shows im syncing at full 4mbps. I even dropped to 2mbps today just to test and I got way better results back (1.5mbps).

Does anyone know of any possible causes for this?

Thanks in advance

PS, I have not changed anything on the router since I lost my log-in details :confused:
 
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