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MWEB Uncapped ADSL - Official Q & A
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davemc
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Basic questions:
- What is the contract term/length for the uncapped services?
- What is the termination notification period and penalties (if any).
- Do these products utilise a "base cap" (As specified in your T&C)?
- Do the uncapped products utilise the IS backbone? If YES, are websites hosted at IS data centres free from bandwidth usage charges from this connection?
- What is the contract term/length for the uncapped services?
- What is the termination notification period and penalties (if any).
- Do these products utilise a "base cap" (As specified in your T&C)?
- Do the uncapped products utilise the IS backbone? If YES, are websites hosted at IS data centres free from bandwidth usage charges from this connection?
Some protocols are given priority. E.g. email, voip, ssh, http traffic
Some are left unprioritised, E.g. ftp, peer-to-peer, news servers
So basically business / common use protocols get priority so that people pulling down torrents don't stop the rest of the users from using skype.
That is still very vague.
Your terms and conditions effectively bar any form of downloading, what is the point of uncapped then.
Hi silkman,
In a manner of speaking. MWEB has deployed its own news infrastructure and any access requests to news.saix.net on the new MWEB network are redirected to our own servers (same 2 connections limit applies).
MWB.
Without some guidelines, how are we, as end-users, supposed to know when our activities are affecting the user-base as a whole?
phoneJunky
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You connect to the internet using different protocols example http stands for hypertext transfer protocol, and if you play games it uses another protocol. People browse more than people play games, so they will give web browsers a higher priority in peak teams than games etc.
Suppose that would be inevitable given the group that MWEB comes from, however at this stage we are not releasing any information in this regard ... but what this space.
MWB.
i would also love to know ...
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Fudzy
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So the shaping rules change between during the day and after hours?
Nope SAIX news does not work. news.mweb.co.za however works which is actually the IS news server.
I am currently a mweb subscriber and I use Saix news server with no problems
yes but that's NOW- these accounts are different
R219 sounds great but just look at the restrictions in the T&C. Specifically 5.6/5.7/5.9/5.10
edit: also no mention of contention ratios.
You mention tha we should schedule downloads into offpeak times yet your own T&C say there will be no automated downloads.
edit: also no mention of contention ratios.
You mention tha we should schedule downloads into offpeak times yet your own T&C say there will be no automated downloads.
I agree the T&Cs are a little scary, but worst case you sign up month-to-month, use it the way you want to and get shouted at for abuse.
Not much risk of anything terrible happening.
I'm curious about why the email coming from Mweb, for the free 512K uncapped in April, comes from this address?
MWEB Connect <[email protected]>
Seems a bit unusual, I would think Mweb should use a @Mweb address?
MWEB Connect <[email protected]>
Seems a bit unusual, I would think Mweb should use a @Mweb address?
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