MWEB Uncapped - have you been warned/capped/disconnected

[mrudling]

ok so i think i will definetely be one of those who get terminated...ive been downloading around 50 gigs a month on 384 since starting.
im extremely happy with the package but if they terminate me im gone. Is Afrihost really gonna be able to compete with Mweb...i just see ALOT more complaints about Afrihost uncapped

I think that may be their intention

 

[PeterCH]

Ye that's not a great way of handling "abuse". But i think the system is better than having Afrihost's 200GB throttling limit or IS's top 40% shaping.

A 200GB soft limit would be great. Honestly if we had that then we could budget and not pull 300GB one month, nothing next mo, but do 200GB this mo, 100GB next mo. Or MWEB could just warn people they consider are abusing the service and tell them privately during the warning what they should be using instead of "Move over to addict or quit.".

 

[PeterCH]

Well this would be ideal, but it's obvious that this doesn't quite work yet in South Africa. If we had everyone on cheap uncapped it would work fine, but we have the majority of heavy downloaders jumping at cheap uncapped without enough people to subsidise them.

4Mb allows for around 1TB/month, and for +-R500 this isn't possible without enough "normal" users on the same uncapped accounts. Are there any other reasons why this would be possible yet in SA, compared to a few months back?

4Mb allows 1TB but who honestly does that?

That's why they should post a soft cap limit = eg 200GB or 150GB and if we download 24/7 for 5 nights and do little the remainder of the mo we won't get labeled abusers, because we can budget. .

 

[Chevron]

ok so i think i will definetely be one of those who get terminated...ive been downloading around 50 gigs a month on 384 since starting.
im extremely happy with the package but if they terminate me im gone. Is Afrihost really gonna be able to compete with Mweb...i just see ALOT more complaints about Afrihost uncapped

50gigs is nothing dude.

 

[mika1000]

They do not worry about 50gb on 384kbps, thats nothing, but 500gb to 1tb on a 4096kbps line, is something else.

 

[xrapidx]

They do not worry about 50gb on 384kbps, thats nothing, but 500gb to 1tb on a 4096kbps line, is something else.

You'd think with the line being 10x faster you'd be allowed 10x as much. I'd be happy if they just set a limit, say 200GB - (I have yet to break 80GB)

 

[racer]

You'd think with the line being 10x faster you'd be allowed 10x as much.

problem is, they're not priced 10 times as much. i rate ISPs are losing money on anyone who uses more than around 200GB... hence the accounts being closed etc.. they shoulda either priced it correctly from the start, or set a limit on the high speed accounts up front. i would have been more than happy with a 100GB account for that money after paying almost as much for 10GBs previously.

 

[BrokenLink]

Im using a mweb 4mbps uncapped standard account at one of our rental properties. They used about 1.7tb over the last 5months, no complaints from mweb. But they use it with a bit of common sense and understanding, downloading after hours and not during the day and not trying to bypass and shaping. Taking into account what Mweb and them actually pay per 1mbps link, I would understand them cutting of people who bypass the shapping and rape the accounts during the day. Who really needs 500gb of data per months that you cant download after hours.....

We would all like to backup the internet at home But if you use more data than a fairly large business and cant be bothered to do it after hours, then expect to pay the same. Mweb is saving me R3000 on my 2 uncapped accounts per month. They still got my vote.

 

[PeterCH]

Im using a mweb 4mbps uncapped standard account at one of our rental properties. They used about 1.7tb over the last 5months, no complaints from mweb. But they use it with a bit of common sense and understanding, downloading after hours and not during the day and not trying to bypass and shaping. Taking into account what Mweb and them actually pay per 1mbps link, I would understand them cutting of people who bypass the shapping and rape the accounts during the day. Who really needs 500gb of data per months that you cant download after hours.....

We would all like to backup the internet at home But if you use more data than a fairly large business and cant be bothered to do it after hours, then expect to pay the same. Mweb is saving me R3000 on my 2 uncapped accounts per month. They still got my vote.

The problem many of us have is that you can be banned for rather arbitrary and unclear terms. If MWEB was clear that what you describe was OK I think it would be ok but the issue is that MWEB won't just call you and say "Stop downloading this month", they'll phone and tell you "Buy Addict or leave immediately". So you could be next. Your people are using way more than I use for instance - I checked my stats - it's about 140GB pm - but your 1.7TB pm could be abusive.

As for raping, 50GB pm could be raping, heck 10GB pm could be raping too- it all depends on subjective definitions. Pumping the line 24/7 for a few weeks to get what you want and then using virtually nothing the rest of the month and downloading 50-60GB could be ABUSE but spreading it out and having a huge electricity bill instead is not? Too complicated this residential uncapped philosophy.

 

[BrokenLink]

The problem many of us have is that you can be banned for rather arbitrary and unclear terms. If MWEB was clear that what you describe was OK I think it would be ok but the issue is that MWEB won't just call you and say "Stop downloading this month", they'll phone and tell you "Buy Addict or leave immediately". So you could be next. Your people are using way more than I use for instance - I checked my stats - it's about 140GB pm - but your 1.7TB pm could be abusive.

As for raping, 50GB pm could be raping, heck 10GB pm could be raping too- it all depends on subjective definitions. Pumping the line 24/7 for a few weeks to get what you want and then using virtually nothing the rest of the month and downloading 50-60GB could be ABUSE but spreading it out and having a huge electricity bill instead is not? Too complicated this residential uncapped philosophy.

I agree its too confusing, would be nice if they could simplify it. But thinking about it from their perspective, if they were to say: At 200Gb per month u are abusing and will get cut off. They will be roasted on mybb within minutes and reported to ACSA (advertising commision, think thats what their called) for advertising as uncapped and then technically implementing a cap Personally i think they should just give a limit for downloading during the day, under which u wont be flagged as abusing. E.g. dont do more than 50gig in office hours. And after hours go nuts. But then ur back to technically not being uncapped....get reported.....issues.

I think we are at a turning point though in usage. Cutting through all the excuses, 95%+ of the high users download pirated video. When we reach a certain speed, it would just be not necessary to download 200gig of video a month in case u want to watch some of it. Give us a decent connection, where u can easily stream HD without buffering. An actual video on demand service. No offence to DSTV, but a couply of kids with a torrent site provides better quality video then your on demand. Then they simply wont download that much, if you have a library of 100`s of TB of top quality videos on demand you dont need to download tonnes of things u never watch. So you just download what u actually watch. Drop off a nice server in every major city and u immediately ease up the load on the network. Simple solutions hindered by copyright owners who do not understand the modern world and the market. South Africans pay R500 per month to download video content.....and R500 per month for DSTV, clearly we dont have a problem paying for entertainment. If you dont provide it legally we will continue building up archives pushing the download limits

 

[427 Driver]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/475498-MWEB-capped-%28uncapped%29-ADSL

 

[schumi]

Edit: replied but realised its a thread necro from 2010