Mweb uncapped 4mbps speed fail.

[DeadCore]

yep ,fail on my part.

 

[Hectic]

yep ,fail on my part.

Happened to all of us at some stage and will happen again, I reckon.

 

[marine1]

Just got off phone with phone with Mweb, they are apparently playing with the shaping on their side thats why the speeds are so crap.
I am getting really tired of this

 

[DeadCore]

Marine1 @ Would you take a local and INT speedtest? http://www.speedtest.net/

 

[marine1]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/820801808.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/820802969.png

 

[DeadCore]

but u get like 3mbps,how can that be slow?,They are def heavy shaping your ac.

 

[marine1]

Exactly, and this has cost me a lot of money over the last few days.

 

[DeadCore]

Try running your browser thru a proxy,i found this to be the only way to avoid the shaping but mweb has shaped some of the more well known proxy's.


http://www.freeproxyserver.ca/

 

[marine1]

Thanks bud will try but that wont help NZB's or torrents right?

 

[DeadCore]

nope.

 

[DeadCore]

wait a minute,something just occurred to me,when i was having problems with my ac a dude on mweb told me to download something called DRTCP,after i downloaded it he gave me a number to fill into one of the fields witch i did,it didn't help my connection because of my line but he didn't tell me what it was for.

http://www.dslreports.com/front/DRTCP021.zip
Choose your connection you are running and change the MTU to 1452.

 

[marine1]

Thanks man I changed it in my router, same thing, starts off at 400k drops to 20k

 

[DeadCore]

oh ok,if you are running windowsxp you can press alt-ctrl-delete and open the networking tab,you can see if anything else is feeding of your connection.

 

[marine1]

Just reformatted my machine, reinstalled win 7 64, no anti virus no firewall, just trying to test speed, system is bare.
I see its back up to 80k constant.

 

[marine1]

Maybe the MTU change helped?

 

[DeadCore]

ok,you should prob get a firewall and anti-virus going as soon as you can.make sure your router's firewall is on in the mean time and that your wireless connection is off,if you are using the wireless connection to your router then make sure it is using WPA and not WEP encryption.

 

[marine1]

Yeah got it thanks bud appreciate your help.

 

[DeadCore]

lol,i don't think i helped much.

the only things i can rule out that might still be wrong is that you PC's network card is slow or your router is slow but if those are not the problem then it's with Mweb,there is a guy on the forum who works for Mweb that might help you.

Think his forum name is Mweb,lol.

Edit:http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/member.php?81053-MWEB

 

[marine1]

Yeah I sent him a message yesterday, still waiting for feedback from the techies

 

[DeadCore]

goodluck,hope you get your speed problem solved.