MWeb Uncapped: Is it supposed to be this hideously slow?

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dionysus

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I just got my MWeb uncapped up and running yesterday, and I'm irritated as hell with the slow speeds.

I know it's shaped or whatever so maybe this is normal, I don't know.
I've tried downloading like episodes and stuff from utorrent and my torrents won't download at more than like 5kp/s and that's if I'm really lucky. What the deal is? Can someone tell me if it's supposed to be like this or is there something I can do?

Thanks y'all
 
Torrents are shaped heavily on Mweb consumer uncapped, so don't expect more than that!

Try news servers or VPS services like AeroVPS.
File hosting sites like RapidShare/MegaUpload/etc. are also shaped, but perhaps not as bad as Torrents.
 
Same here, being throttled to 20k/s for newsgroups! Used my vpn and now back up to full speed.

Yes I know I may get kicked...
 
Dear MWEB Customer
It's been a frustrating couple of weeks with the ongoing upgrades to our network. We've had significant challenges with Telkom and how they route traffic between our two major IPC nodes, but it looks like the worst of that is finally behind us!

The Telkom issues have unfortunately delayed the upgrade of some of our international capacity, as we had to divert resources to sort out the national routing issues. The first planned increase will now take place this weekend between midnight on Saturday and 06h00 on Sunday morning. During this time normal browsing and e-mail will operate as per normal, but bandwidth-heavy applications such as Peer-2-Peer will not be available.

The good news, however, is that we have decided to bring the next international network upgrade forward by a good couple of months, to be completed in the latter half of October.

By then we'll have increased the size of our network by just over 50% and considering that less than 30% of our base was previously using the SAIX network, that should give you a fair idea of how much additional capacity you'll have at your disposal.

We do apologise again that this has all taken slightly longer than anticipated but at the same time we think you9re really going to enjoy the improvements we're making.

If you require any further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards
Derek Hershaw
CEO: MWEB ISP
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that should explain it!
 
Since there's a problem with congestion where I live I have also been affected by the Mweb problems... it has made my speeds a lot faster! :D Keep up the good work Mweb.
 
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