Mweb uncapped ADSL thresholds and throttling

Jeez is this still a thing? Incidentally my Afrihost performance is quite poor this evening. Anyone else in the Durban area having issues?
 
Why did MyBroadband take such a long time to publish an article like this? We had established the threshold quite a while ago.
 
nice article, been a while

unfortunately proceeding with ICASA has a minor complication because of a conflict of interest that could arise with my having accepted a directorship of an ISP
 
Paul Hjul said:
nice article, been a while

unfortunately proceeding with ICASA has a minor complication because of a conflict of interest that could arise with my having accepted a directorship of an ISP
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With DJ...?
 
Fudzy said:
Why did MyBroadband take such a long time to publish an article like this? We had established the threshold quite a while ago.
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We don't always see everything happening on the forum, but in this case the article was mainly about the ISPA complaint being dismissed with the thresholds mentioned as it was one of the desired outcomes of the complaint.

That said, I did drop the ball on the ISPA complaint outcome as that info has been on the forum since the end of April and I only recently "rediscovered" it. Rather a bit late than never, though.
 
So my Premium Uncapped 1meg MWEB acc is actually a 100gig capped account?

Surely they should be advertising it as the latter?
 
Petec said:
So my Premium Uncapped 1meg MWEB acc is actually a 100gig capped account?

Surely they should be advertising it as the latter?
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You don't get capped after you hit the threshold, but your speeds get throttled.
 
Petec said:
So my Premium Uncapped 1meg MWEB acc is actually a 100gig capped account?

Surely they should be advertising it as the latter?
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the issue isn't that 100 gig is a cap - it isn't your connection persists - but rather that MWEB actively claimed "we will never throttle" and were making that statement repeatedly in order to garner customers. More importantly they claimed that subscribers were abusers on the basis of quantity of data use.
it is better to call an FUP policy that sees a line heavily throttled based on usage a softcap - which Telkom Internet do wonderfully.
Moreover MWEB were absolutely refusing to disclose that there were actual thresholds in place (it isn't a monthly figure but a daily average that works like a quota system).
 
I just cry at the regulators being so useless, that these ISP's consistently get away with this cr4p.
 
Fudzy said:
Why did MyBroadband take such a long time to publish an article like this? We had established the threshold quite a while ago.
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Many next year there will be an article about the account sharing and disappearing of openweb.
 
so the rumours might be true then, mweb don't have the capacity
 
Those numbers are BS. I get throttled at around 50 gigs - then I can't even stream youtube. On a Premium 4mb account (not getting the 400 they claim).
 
phiber said:
Those numbers are BS. I get throttled at around 50 gigs - then I can't even stream youtube. On a Premium 4mb account (not getting the 400 they claim).
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Of course the are bull**** because it's approximate. Mweb has revealed nothing and only a fool would believe so...
 
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