MWEB thinking about 10Mbps uncapped ADSL pricing

Not that it in any fashion nudges my 1Mb line, but I'm glad that they are looking at it.
 
Suvesh said:
Mweb are charging R1,999, Afrihost already announced they charging R997. HUGE difference!
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But the threshold on Afrihost is remarkably lower and the shaping rules remarkably stricter than Mweb's....
 
Hershaw explained that almost all their competitors have some form of throttling on their 10Mbps uncapped products while MWEB does not do throttling on any of their products.
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The implication here is their R1999 10mbps offering will run at full speed. If that is true then,
WTF is the point of this:

Unbeknownst to many people, MWEB did already reduce the price of their uncapped, unshaped 10Mbps product – from R3,499 to R2,811 per month.
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Mouse said:
The implication here is their R1999 10mbps offering will run at full speed. If that is true then,
WTF is the point of this:
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They are just taking advantage of people who dont know that there is a difference between throttling and shaping. They make it sound as if they dont have restrictions, by highlighting one restriction which they dont have.

I'd rather be throttled during business hours while I'm not home, and then unshaped and unthrottled at night time when I am home (how telkom uncapped works) than the Mweb way of shaping at all times. Whats the point of going with Mweb unthrottled if I can only download at 13Kb/s on a 10mb line because of shaping.
 
inferno said:
They are just taking advantage of people who dont know that there is a difference between throttling and shaping. They make it sound as if they dont have restrictions, by highlighting one restriction which they dont have.

I'd rather be throttled during business hours while I'm not home, and then unshaped and unthrottled at night time when I am home (how telkom uncapped works) than the Mweb way of shaping at all times. Whats the point of going with Mweb unthrottled if I can only download at 13Kb/s on a 10mb line because of shaping.
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+1 Semantics seem to be the in thing with ISP marketing strategies these days.

“They are not all ‘apples for apples’,” said Hershaw.
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IMHO none of them are even close to being apples at all, supposing that apples = true uncapped.
 
froot said:
But the threshold on Afrihost is remarkably lower and the shaping rules remarkably stricter than Mweb's....
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Mmmm, not so sure about that. I been trialing a 10mb uncapped through Afrihost since Tuesday and there is no shaping or throttling at this stage in time. Done about 25gb so far.
 
sand_man said:
Mmmm, not so sure about that. I been trialing a 10mb uncapped through Afrihost since Tuesday and there is no shaping or throttling at this stage in time. Done about 25gb so far.
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call me when you reach 70gb...

@10mb, you should easily do 25gb per day. you usage isnt excessive.

also, what speeds are you getting
 
zeely said:
call me when you reach 70gb...

@10mb, you should easily do 25gb per day. you usage isnt excessive.

also, what speeds are you getting
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I trailed AfriHost and Mweb for about 2 months each, I stopped my Afrihost, they are at the mercy of IS, MWeb isn't, so my usage model was better suited to Mweb, I do about 10gb every second or third day.
 
zeely said:
call me when you reach 70gb...

@10mb, you should easily do 25gb per day. you usage isnt excessive.

also, what speeds are you getting
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Yeah, I know, haven't opened up on it yet.

Speeds are maxed. 3.64gb per hour...

Don't game but speedtest showing reasonable pings, sub 20ms local and sub 300ms international.

Torrents checking now... Will revert...
 
MarthinusSwart said:
I trailed AfriHost and Mweb for about 2 months each, I stopped my Afrihost, they are at the mercy of IS, MWeb isn't, so my usage model was better suited to Mweb, I do about 10gb every second or third day.
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How recently though? The Afrihost uncapped accounts were horrendous pre April 2012 but have since been revamped.
 
sand_man said:
Yeah, I know, haven't opened up on it yet.

Speeds are maxed. 3.64gb per hour...

Don't game but speedtest showing reasonable pings, sub 20ms local and sub 300ms international.

Torrents checking now... Will revert...
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yoh... nice speeds... my 4mb uncapped seems rather inadequate now..
 
That is alot of money for internet. Especially if you use it at home.

I'm still pretty new here, but what would a person actually use a 10MBPS uncapped line for at home? I can understand a business using it, but not even gaming needs those speeds. The only thing I can think of, is unfortunately piracy...
 
Unimpressed with torrents...

Same torrent, 1st one on 10mb uncapped, 2nd one on capped account...

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Macethy said:
That is alot of money for internet. Especially if you use it at home.

I'm still pretty new here, but what would a person actually use a 10MBPS uncapped line for at home? I can understand a business using it, but not even gaming needs those speeds. The only thing I can think of, is unfortunately piracy...
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I have a 10Mb line at home, albeit not uncapped but I would definitely move to uncapped once it is affordable.

Get off the heavy users are pirates bandwagon.

I work from home mostly so the speed is nice when you need to get things done quickly.

Heavy traffic usage that I do normally is: Video conferencing, downloading new software releases to test(Easily 2-4GB per product), transferring databases to and from remote sites, streaming video, downloading legal games(SWToR: 22GB, D3: 8GB).

There's many other high traffic uses people use at home, I use between 70-100GB each month easily. Just because you're a heavy user doesn't mean you're a pirate.

Nevermind all the software updates for my 2 PC's, Laptop, Phone, Tablet, Xbox and all the software installed on them.

Stop blaming piracy for heavy usage.
 
grim said:
I have a 10Mb line at home, albeit not uncapped but I would definitely move to uncapped once it is affordable.

Get off the heavy users are pirates bandwagon.

I work from home mostly so the speed is nice when you need to get things done quickly.

Heavy traffic usage that I do normally is: Video conferencing, downloading new software releases to test(Easily 2-4GB per product), transferring databases to and from remote sites, streaming video, downloading legal games(SWToR: 22GB, D3: 8GB).

There's many other high traffic uses people use at home, I use between 70-100GB each month easily. Just because you're a heavy user doesn't mean you're a pirate.

Nevermind all the software updates for my 2 PC's, Laptop, Phone, Tablet, Xbox and all the software installed on them.

Stop blaming piracy for heavy usage.
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+1

Not to mention youtube and streaming radio.
 
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