MWEB Uncapped ADSL Feedback - Part 2

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How can the whole world still be dependent on what is essentially one massive cable and why does it keep breaking?
 
No international for me the entire day. Had to buy a prepaid Afrihost account to work. Not great premium service :(
 
Where the actual #$% is the backup lines we keep hearing every ISP have? So many articles have mentioned the abundance of backup lines and how the ISPs will simply switch over to that. WACS, EASSY, etc.

I don't like complaining, but this appears to be all talk and no service when push came to shove. My long weekend got interrupted constantly with companies calling, unable to use their Mweb Internet. (Which I recommended to them as the best ADSL ISP in the country)

Guess I'll be using Afrihost this weekend and very strongly reconsider my Mweb account especially after the very poor experience I've been having as far as video streaming is concerned for a couple of months (like the rest of everyone here since the throttled accounts were released).

Premium wasn't a good name for the existing accounts... :confused:
 
Conack said:
Where the actual #$% is the backup lines we keep hearing every ISP have? So many articles have mentioned the abundance of backup lines and how the ISPs will simply switch over to that. WACS, EASSY, etc.

I don't like complaining, but this appears to be all talk and no service when push came to shove. My long weekend got interrupted constantly with companies calling, unable to use their Mweb Internet.

Guess I'll be using Afrihost this weekend and very strongly reconsider my Mweb account especially after the very poor experience I've been having as far as video streaming is concerned for a couple of months (like the rest of everyone here).

Premium wasn't a good name for the existing accounts... :confused:
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I have already downgraded to the 1meg package, which is still more expensive than the competition...who don't seem to be affected by SEACOM being down...
 
Just reset my router for the sixth time today, still no connection to local or international.
 
Its worth looking at a map of undersea cables serving Africa: http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
(This site did load for me, so it must be cached on MWeb by now).

SEACOM may only be a single cable, but it has never broken yet (AFAIK). Unfortunately SEACOM only goes as far as the Middle East, and that's were most of the problems occur. There are 4 separate cables in the Mediterranean, but reports are that all of them are broken today.

There are lots more cables planned for 2013/14 (linking east and west coasts), so we may eventually get full redundancy.
 
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Gordon_R said:
Its worth looking at a map of undersea cables serving Africa: http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
(This site did load for me, so it must be cached on MWeb by now).

SEACOM may only be a single cable, but it has never broken yet (AFAIK). Unfortunately SEACOM only goes as far as the Middle East, and that's were most of the problems occur. There are 4 separate cables in the Meditteranean, but reports are that all of them are broken today.

There are lots more cables planned for 2013/14 (linking east and west coasts), so we may eventually get full redundancy.
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Are these all physical undersea cables?

What are they made of?

How can they just break all the time? :(
 
All that works is local websites.
Everything international is pretty much useless.
How inconvenient, I have been down due to a lightning strike that destroyed almost everything, today was the first time in 2 weeks I got internet again, only to find SEACOM is as useless as a worn out tyre
 
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