Mweb/Torrents

Saw M4dh4tt3r post this:
One thing I can say, My company is an Mweb account reseller/partner. Our Mweb accounts at the office are flying! Could it be that it is a business account but even our home uncapped clients have no complaints about international speed. Something tells me the resellers get higher priority?

At home using a personal Mweb account through mweb direct I have like 0 connectivity, I get a bit of connectivity after 12pm and before 8am but at the moment I am even battling to get local on the mweb account. Chuck a free afrihost account and it works perfectly.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/447207-MWEB-Uncapped-ADSL-Feedback-Part-2/page448
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The whole thing is so weird.
I'm not an IS customer and for some reason some MWEB customers are worse off than other SEACOM or EASSy customers.

I do feel for you guys though. We have all been through something like this at some stage.
 
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Facing same problem with torrent. Thought it might have been my port forwarding but guess its a Mweb issue. Going to go back to NZB's for now until all is back to normal.
 
Mweb has started doing something with torrents because I get tons of connection closed by peer errors, for a few months now.
 
ciscoyeti said:
Mweb has started doing something with torrents because I get tons of connection closed by peer errors, for a few months now.
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NZB's with SSL encryption = downloading bliss. Expect abuse notification shortly thereafter though.
 
Generally Torrents don't work well on MWEB's network - even before the SEACOM and EASSy cable breaks...

Just use NZB's and then you won't have any speed issues :)

My episode downloads went full speed (at 2Mbps) from the MWEB local news server.
 
Pada said:
Generally Torrents don't work well on MWEB's network - even before the SEACOM and EASSy cable breaks...

Just use NZB's and then you won't have any speed issues :)

My episode downloads went full speed (at 2Mbps) from the MWEB local news server.
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MWEB not currently throttling (?) connections to their news server?
 
Pada said:
Why would they throttle local traffic if SEACOM cable break just affects international traffic!?
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Even before the cable break I noticed rather poor speeds from mweb's news server for pretty much everything I tried to download :confused:
Since I started using supernews, *everything* I download runs as max line speed. Thought by default mweb limit the speeds at which you can download from their news server...
 
Regarding Torrents, I've been using MWEB for the last 6 months and have had full line speed downloads with torrents. Had to forward the port on my modem, but works like a charm normally. Been facing a few issues since the Seacom line went down/having issues, but seems like it somewhat came back this morning. Will be able to confirm later on the situation.
 
Change to Telkom if you want full speed torrents plus be able to do everything else without lag.

Also never goes down when seacom does unless its a major cable fault not related to seacom which takes the main cable away.
 
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