Bar_Rat
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What is this WACS we are on? Why don't we get routed through SAT3?
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cybershark
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I understand Seacom is down. But that does NOT explain the long list of websites timing out, twitter just to name one...
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Fudzy
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Errr... Why not? Have you tried doing a trace route?
Brilliant timing... I went and bought 4 games on Steam last night. Still have about 20GB to download. Not gonna happen anytime soon it seems, sigh...
Time to find my old afrihost or webafrica details to try get something going.
Time to find my old afrihost or webafrica details to try get something going.
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I think mweb made it up. I can't connect to anything on International traffic. Mweb doesn't have any redundancies but it doesn't stop them from trying to grow there customer base like a fat kid stuffing it's face. Like the hidden quote says "Best effort service" Should be the slogan under there logo
cybershark
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And find what? MWeb still routing traffic onto Seacom?
DragonMolester
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Cool, thanks for the tip.
Lino
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Glad I moved from MWEB; its cheaper for me to be with Afrihost now with a business account than to have stayed with MWEB on my premium account
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Good Luck MWEB Guy
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For all the guys toting Afrihost as the solution:
Does Afrihost actually have redundancy?
As far as I'm concerned they are 100% dependant on MTN and could easily suffer the exact same issue if MTN had a network failure.
Does Afrihost actually have redundancy?
As far as I'm concerned they are 100% dependant on MTN and could easily suffer the exact same issue if MTN had a network failure.
XennoX
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Oh? Please tell me how MWEB or SEACOM are being incompotent? SEACOM had a cable break and are trying to repair the problem, in the meantime they're finding alternative capacity for their customers - MWEB being just one of them. MWEB is also trying to mitigate the fallout by finding alternative capacity for its users. MWEB does have redundancy, but it isn't 1:1. The costs of 1:1 redundancy would be ridiculous for most end users to afford.
The SEACOM issue is beyond MWEB's control, thus how are they being incompotent? SEACOM experienced multiple cable breaks so each break has to be repaired. How are they being incompotent? To be honest I think you're just over reacting for the sake of it. If you're listening to a call centre agent who probably has no expertise in the matter of cable repairs then its your own fault.
Don't get me wrong you need to call out bad service when its there, but as far as I'm concerned this isn't bad service its more like crisis control and mitigation of adverse effects.
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Diplos
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I'm thinking of Afrihost prepaid while Mweb is having issues but I see a notice on Afrihost's site about slow international services.... can anyone confirm whether Afrihost is working OK or not?
I just got some Afrihost gigs. Works like a charm. international sites, gaming, bliss compared to mWEsuck, i cant wait for cancellation to go through....
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Working ok for me here
Mephisto_Helix
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Which happened recently, like within the last 2 weeks ......
see above ..... chop
Diplos
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Thanks - was being dof, just claimed my free gig and all looks well
AfricanTech
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Dammit, I switched to my free gig and forgot to tell the rest of the house to stick to low bandwidth activities - just ploughed through a gig today 
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