Mweb Uncapped 384k Users

@Garies...

I feel your pain. I thought perhaps it was my PC and reinstalled w7 but it kept happening. Then I looked for updated drivers for my NIC and this didn't fix either.

I think that our Telco and ISPs did not expect that EVERYONE(the whole of SA) is going to jump at the oppotunity of getting unlimited capping and therefore the networks are not actually able or equipped to handle it.....but....instead of finxing current network and infrastructure probs our Telco is dead set on rolling out to the greater part of SA and Africa, ignoring the complaints of the existing customer base to fix infrastructure!

As a result, ISPs have to do "magic" and "tweaking" on their end to cover up on a mess that they SHOULD HAVE anticipated and expected. The flaw in the design is that they DID NOT call in someone like a "Scenario Planner"(something I do for small companies) to actually do a PROPER assessment of now, past and future. Instead, they saw $$ signs and thought, "what the heck! Lets get in, get the clientele and sit back before anyone else does!" Now, I could be wrong in what I am saying but I have spoken to a few Network Admins and a few of our local ISPs and guess what ....they have a "gagging order"

Anyways.... uncapped just means we can DOWNLOAD as MUCH as we WANT ....BUT the ISP GOVERNS at what SPEED they give it to.

I guess BEGGARS can't be CHOOSERS then?
 
Hey what about http downloading speed (Forget RS/MU)? Is it not at full speed all the time? If so, I will not consider getting this 384K uncapped.

I'm on 4Mb and the non-RS speed for http is fantastic. I consistenly get 440KB/sec (or even at bad times, in the high 300s).
 
Hi guys,
Got my uncapped account last week Friday and was REALLY dissapointed in the speed I got over the weekend, and also through the week.
Just got on this thread and saw most of you guys are olso struggling this mweb speed.
My speed is as follows:
Direct Download : 10-30 Kbps (Max with DAP) But the problem is that it crashes after 10 - 20MB (of a 350MB file) and have to restart but it keeps happening. No matter what time I try.
Torrent : 1 - 5 Kbps Through day and night.
Torrent : 20 - 25 Kbps Early morning hours.
My main problem though is that I can't do browsing, my browser crashes ever few minutes? any one else with this problem?

You may have Spyware on board. Do a scan with Malware Bytes install Comodo FireWall Pro and activate Defence+. Perhaps also do a live scan (from website) with a product like BitDefender, Kaspersky or ESET NOD32.
 
I did a clean install of XP on thursday night before I got the Internet, did indtall Comodo, really nice!! Just can't update the thing though, don't know why not...
But definitly not spyware/antivirus.
 
I agree that torrents are low priority but surely normal downloading should not be throttled that much?

MWEB has also applied an explicit throttle on all downloads from their news server (port 119) and allows downloads to run about 2-3hrs and then times out the connection.

It also appears that not all ADSL users experience the same probs. From reading and following the threads it appears to be users

- with <1MB ADSL lines i.e. 384k, 512k
- mostly Cape Town based users with above line speed

Anyone else agrees?
 
I think the telco infrastructure can handle this to some degree, but the main prob lies with the ISP.
 
@brad
The problem is more with the lower guys, the guys with the 4meg line doesn't gare because is already fast so if they drop some, "so what".
And I agree, throtling the normal downloads is really frustrating!!! I downloaded the new Mozilla Firefox and it took me about 35min to download
that 7meg file, thats absurd...
 
I'm having a deja vu moment of back in the day when we were still all on 33.6 or 56k dialup. Remember that?

We being screwed basically. Paying rental on a line that should deliver a connection you paying for but you getting about a 1/4 of it.
 
I signed up today. Until about 10am I got full speed at 40kbs. Since then it has been 20kbs max.

Strangely the shaping is the same on torrents as on usenet. I can't even seem to be able to bypass shaping using a ssl connection to a news server which worked well on my old account...

Torrents seem to max at 15kbs at the moment.
 
Just signed up today - connection sucks......but, I see most people are experiencing slow internet today (even with other ISP's)

Lets see how it goes tomorrow.
 
Just signed up today - connection sucks......but, I see most people are experiencing slow internet today (even with other ISP's)

Lets see how it goes tomorrow.

It will be the same and when Monday hits, the network will MAGICALLY be perfect again. I sense cheap tactics by ISPs.
 
Well - I tested Xbox live - that works fine....Quite pleased. NZB is also 40KBps....so is HTTP downloads. Just torrents are bad to be honest.
 
Well - I tested Xbox live - that works fine....Quite pleased. NZB is also 40KBps....so is HTTP downloads. Just torrents are bad to be honest.

what newsserver are you using. been getting 20kbs max with astra...
 
Never used NZB before I moved to MWEB, but I was connected to news.mweb - was working fine , mostly above 35KBps......

So far, 384K mweb seems to be going well.....we'll see what the daytime shaping is like when I get home.
 
Never used NZB before I moved to MWEB, but I was connected to news.mweb - was working fine , mostly above 35KBps......

So far, 384K mweb seems to be going well.....we'll see what the daytime shaping is like when I get home.

Dude when was this ..I can only seem to muster about 10 kbs on news servers im thinking of canceling.
 
Everything I qued last night finished by the time I got home today (Around ~2GB) when I checked this morning my DL speed was 42kb/s with torrents. So I'm pretty happy.
 
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