MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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absk300 said:
during the day as well? when does mweb open up?
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Mwebs anyones guess. Thursday 7.45pm Mweb was flying, Friday 10pm was flying , the whole weekend flying, last night I don't know and tonight she's not...

Afrihost been running full speed the whole day. One needs to monitor and see how the week progresses...
 
Well it's way past 22:00 and it's still crawling. I must say, it's not looking very good at the moment.
 
blaaislaai said:
Mweb should explain tomorrow what happened tonight!!
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+1, they (Rudy Jansen, MWeb CEO) noted, and I quote: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/11819.html

Jansen however points out that the service will be completely unshaped during off-peak hours, and that the offering will be totally uncapped. Peer-to-peer traffic and large downloads are therefore allowed on the network, but this may be shaped during peak hours if it starts to affect web browsing and other standard protocols.

Jansen made it clear that shaping/port prioritization will be kept to a minimum and will only be applied during periods of particularly high traffic.
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I'd really like to know exactly when those times are since it's 22:30 PM and I really doubt that it qualifies as "periods of particularly high traffic" or "peak hours".
 
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2.5 KB/s to news.mweb.co.za and only 1 thread - This is not going to work

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The MWEB dude posted this in the Q&A thread earlier...
MWEB said:
Hi All,

I've received feedback from engineering.

We experienced an unexpected peak in demand for priority capacity this afternoon (related to the migration of our current base) which necessitated a temporary reduction in the size of non-priority bandwidth pool to prevent degradation of the service as a whole. We are expecting to have additional capacity online very soon (should have already been in but we are at the mercy of the provider) which should elminate the need to take such steps in the future.

Again apologies and appreciation for your patience.

MWB.
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It is probably still the case if speeds for torrents and news have not improved.
 
This is the problem that I have with MWEB, they need online support like WebAfrica has... one of the perks of WA that I like the most.
 
MWEB said:
Hi All,

I've received feedback from engineering.

We experienced an unexpected peak in demand for priority capacity this afternoon (related to the migration of our current base) which necessitated a temporary reduction in the size of non-priority bandwidth pool to prevent degradation of the service as a whole. We are expecting to have additional capacity online very soon (should have already been in but we are at the mercy of the provider) which should elminate the need to take such steps in the future.

Again apologies and appreciation for your patience.

MWB.
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lilDeath said:
The MWEB dude posted this in the Q&A thread earlier...

It is probably still the case if speeds for torrents and news have not improved.
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Maybe I'm being paranoid, but if they migrated a million(?) existing subscribers to the new backbone, that would explain the huge decline in capcacity noted by many users in this thread.

My understanding is that the highest 'priority capacity' is the business ADSL, and possibly the consumer pakages got lumped into a 'non-priority' pool..

If the extra capacity should have been in place before the migration was done, that sounds like a monumental screw-up...
 
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test3r said:
24h00 and still throttled. Time to go to bed.
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24h10, it's flying now! Don't know what took so long, unless midnight is officially "off-peak"... :P Let's hear from MWeb tomorrow (emm today)!
 
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OK so it's clearly not just me experiencing a crawl...I take it this isn't normal and there's something wrong? :P As I was getting rather depressed for a while considering this is my first use of Mweb lol. Hasn't been a good first impression.
 
...and this morning @ 7 they flipped the switch again on their NNTP...and I had to flip my switch to telkom FFFF this is not good...With telkom you get 5 + 30GB and you could actually use it. Now you get unlimited and you can't use it, which is probably worse and I was so close to cancelling my telkom account!
 
This is just sickening ... I am cancelling my account. Did a whole 3 gigs last nite on my 4096 connection.
Went brilliantly over the weekend and now the user base climmed on ...

Remember what happend to Digichilli? Same can be said for MWEB i recon they are shaping port 119.
Not worth it at this stage.
 
JvanD said:
This is just sickening ... I am cancelling my account. Did a whole 3 gigs last nite on my 4096 connection.
Went brilliantly over the weekend and now the user base climmed on ...

Remember what happend to Digichilli? Same can be said for MWEB i recon they are shaping port 119.
Not worth it at this stage.
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Just wait, see what the MWEB rep had to say about last night.

Hi All,

I've received feedback from engineering.

We experienced an unexpected peak in demand for priority capacity this afternoon (related to the migration of our current base) which necessitated a temporary reduction in the size of non-priority bandwidth pool to prevent degradation of the service as a whole. We are expecting to have additional capacity online very soon (should have already been in but we are at the mercy of the provider) which should elminate the need to take such steps in the future.

Again apologies and appreciation for your patience.

MWB.
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I started using mweb for the first time last night. I also got speeds of ~130KB/s from astraweb at about 8-9pm. Somewhere during the night it must have went a lot faster cos this morning I checked the download and the average speed was 350KB/s.

What I also dont like though about mweb is that they gave me a 41.x.x.x ip address and I'm guessing it's a private ip cos I couldn't open my web page on my home pc from my phone like I always could with my axxess account which gave me a 196.x.x.x ip.
 
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