MWEB Uncapped ADSL - Official Q & A

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Been away for a while, go home yesterday and had major issues with the internet. I had a quick look at some of the previous post on this thread.

Just to confirm the issues are as a result of the seacom work being done?
Any idea when the fixes on seacom will be done?
 
4.4 If you signed up after the 15th of the month, your first bill will include half the subscription for the first month and the full subscription for the following month.
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(From http://www.mweb.co.za/legalpolicies/ProductsServices/ADSLTerms2010/tabid/1918/Default.aspx)

So if I sign up on Friday the 30th, will this still apply? Seems a bit much for what wont even be a full day. I guess I should rather wait until Saturday to apply, if that's possible with Saturday being a public holiday?
 
Maddmatt said:
(From http://www.mweb.co.za/legalpolicies/ProductsServices/ADSLTerms2010/tabid/1918/Default.aspx)

So if I sign up on Friday the 30th, will this still apply? Seems a bit much for what wont even be a full day. I guess I should rather wait until Saturday to apply, if that's possible with Saturday being a public holiday?
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Yes, if you sign up Friday or before you pay for half a month. Perhaps phone them and ask the sales person if it's possible to list your activation date as Saturday 1 May? They did offer me that, but I can't guarantee they still do.

Then you can get the paperwork and such sorted out before the weekend.
 
My torrents from private trackers aren't working at all since around Monday [?] ('connection closed by peer' error).

Is MWEB blocking access to private trackers, or is this only a side-effect of the cable problems?
 
SSung said:
My torrents from private trackers aren't working at all since around Monday [?] ('connection closed by peer' error).

Is MWEB blocking access to private trackers, or is this only a side-effect of the cable problems?
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Getting the same on all my public trackers. I will wait until SEACOM comes back up first, though.

A quick tcpdump shows the SYN/ACK handshake, a single data packet flowing, containing the torrent info, and then immediately a RESET is received.
 
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Valerion said:
Getting the same on all my public trackers. I will wait until SEACOM comes back up first, though.

A quick tcpdump shows the SYN/ACK handshake, a single data packet flowing, containing the torrent info, and then immediately a RESET is received.
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They are killing the packets while this downtime is on. If you have exisiting peers they will still talk although at a very slow rate ( well dependant on seeds ) but if you lose your peers you will not receive more from the tracker.
 
Mweb and telkom line speeds

Ok so i am pretty sure this question has been asked b4 but for the life of me i cant find it so again my apologies.

i got the 4096Kbps uncapped offering form mweb and the 4096Kbps ADSL line from telkom obviously. now i am new to mweb and hear from a friend that sometime in the past they bumped up users speeds.

so wat i wanna know is say i upgrade to telkom 8mb line will mweb 'bump' me up or will there be a new option for me to choose from?
 
5mbezchr said:
Ok so i am pretty sure this question has been asked b4 but for the life of me i cant find it so again my apologies.

i got the 4096Kbps uncapped offering form mweb and the 4096Kbps ADSL line from telkom obviously. now i am new to mweb and hear from a friend that sometime in the past they bumped up users speeds.

so wat i wanna know is say i upgrade to telkom 8mb line will mweb 'bump' me up or will there be a new option for me to choose from?
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There will most likely be a new package aimed at the 8Mbps users.
 
TonyA said:
Depending on how Telkom realigns present speeds, you may find that 8mb is the equivilant of todays 4 and todays 4 is 512 etc. Que Sera, Que Sera!
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What do you mean by this? The speed you get is the speed you get, unless you are comparing packages relative to one another?
 
What I'm suggesting is that TELKOM drops 384 and bring in 512, drops 512 and brings in 4mb, drops 4 Mb and brings in 8mb. MWEB will have to realign with those speeds as thats all there is, but who knows what TELKOM will do:)
 
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Looks like we back in business... cable fixed...

Or maybe not. Was basing my enthusiasm on a rapidshare download that resumed successfully for the 1st time in about 3 days... but it's stalled now... so... sorry...
 
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sandmanm34 said:
Looks like we back in business... cable fixed...

Or maybe not. Was basing my enthusiasm on a rapidshare download that resumed successfully for the 1st time in about 3 days... but it's stalled now... so... sorry...
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SAT-3 BLA BLA 2676535672 cable?!
 
well it is now 20h56 and my rapidshare is still going. so i am going to assume seacom cable is operational again....
 
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I need to find me a premium *cough* RS a/c... it works so well when i have to reboot and then resume the download... doesn't happen with the free one :/
 
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