MWeb Summery VS Afrihost or anyone else?

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Smokey_sa

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Hi Guys,

Now I am thinking of moving to a 4 Mbit line and am wondering whether Mweb is the way to go. I read about the shaping issue on Afrihost and it seems that it makes it less interesting.

Please give a feedback what you think about Mweb and whether there are other uncapped solution that I should consider.

Thanks
 
Why do people make so many spelling mistakes in headings... :sigh:
 
i have no complaints with mweb. Been using 4MB Uncapped for a week now, and for my purposes.....works B E A U T I ....wait for it.... F U L L Y ;)
 
I have been using MWEB since 18 March and have been very happy with them thus far.
 
IS (and by extension Afrihost and every other ISP that provides IS-based access) shapes their uncapped accounts HEAVILY during business hours (M-Web does the same, however whether to the same extent as IS, I'm unsure), and you'll find that things such as BitTorrent, etc. DO NOT WORK during business hours, though at around 5PM it all starts working again.

However, speaking from experience with IS and knowing how they run the ADSL side of things, I can safely say their network is RUBBISH, you can forget being able to stream video (don't bother with HD) at almost any time of the day and you can forget reaching top speeds on file transfers (that includes P2P, HTTP, etc.). Their ADSL is plain sub-par and has been ever since they rolled out their intl + 30GB local accounts, and it's worse with the added restrictions they've added (and before people get all uppity, I'm using Afrihost uncapped at the moment which is IS-based). IS has been synonymous with "cheap ADSL", but you ultimately get what you pay for.

As for M-Web, I'm not sure what their ADSL is like in comparison (though from the sounds of it, it does perform better), and from the sounds of it they are running a more carrier-grade network than IS has been (although uncapped performance remains far from perfect).

I'm still weighing up the options, though I'm tempted to sign up for M-Web next month to see what it's like in comparison, if only they took a page from the smaller ISP's and let one sign up online instantly without requiring a ridiculous amount of paperwork and red tape.
 
Tharaxis said:
if only they took a page from the smaller ISP's and let one sign up online instantly without requiring a ridiculous amount of paperwork and red tape.
Click to expand...

I signed up with Mweb online this Saturday and only had to fill in my address and banking details. That's it. They also asked me to email them a copy of my ID/Passport but they activated they account before I did so. The whole thing (from filling out the details to receiving and SMS with my username and passowrd) took under 5 minutes.
 
Netherlands:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/773297512.png

Took this just now. I can posts screenshots that I'm getting well above 200kbs with p2p. Mweb is the way to go. By the speedtests from afrihost users. Even when Mweb is really shaping the most is much faster than Afrihost. And Mweb doesn't have that nasty 60GB throttle amount.
 
As much as I wanted the Afrihost uncapped thingie to work is has not. Mweb on the other hand has exceeded expectations and then some...


 
I am not a fan of MWEB - see message below, however as far as consumer uncapped DSL goes, MWEB wins hands down!

It is currently the best offering available to consumers.

I do however suggest you use alternative DNS servers, see: http://cocacola.za.net/images/dns.txt and / or for a graphical illustration of response times see: http://cocacola.za.net/images/best_latest_dns_server_stats.png (red = cached domains; green = uncached domains and blue = .com domains) http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

"To whom it may concern:

Firstly, I wish to congratulate your company on releasing an affordable uncapped consumer grade DSL offering.

For the most part, I am rather impressed. (Excluding slow browsing and international connectivity issues at times – please don’t blame Telkom )

As I have never been a supporter of MWEB; due to poor client service, lacking “advanced” technical support, inflated pricing models and MWEB’s reliance on PR - instead of resolving the underlying issues, the product (current connectivity / pricing) has forced me to re-evaluate my opinion.

However, the “Uncapped” (hopefully it is truly uncapped and not another PR stunt) 4MB Connect product is one step in the right direction.

I do have one other concern and although you offer port “ADSL Protected Access” and web filtering your DNS server security settings appear to be lacking when compared to other servers. (Blocking ports to my home server is not an option)

One would think that as your network’s risk exposure has increase dramatically with the increase in the amount of new connections, you would have taken every precaution to manage this risk.

Attached, please find a document you might find of value from http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm.

Keep up the good connectivity."
 
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