MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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RogueRunner said:
Nope! Your employees use normal ADSL at home to connect to their employers servers!
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They'll probably get told the same thing. If it's work related or requires unshaped protocols then you'd need a business account.

People will be pissed, but they have marketed it as an account for the average home user who doesn't want to worry about being capped.
gdiza said:
I was told yesterday by "The MWEB guy" to use the business package if I'm a power user... :rolleyes:
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Soon there should be no need to, young padawan ;)
 
Sorry to hijack the thread - I'm currently on Afrihost's capped service and want to upgrade to uncapped on my 4mb line. Afrihost seems to have lost it - is mweb uncapped any good? If so, when do they start to throttle connection speeds and by how much? Thanks ;)
 
gdiza said:
4MB lines can DOWNLOAD 400KB/s ±
4MB lines can UPLOAD 50KB/s ±
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Ah soz, missed the part of how it was from your server to theirs ( your link being 4mb business at the office and not a server in a IDC somewhere I'm assuming ).
 
Smooth Criminal said:
Torrent users should get themselves a vpn account. I suspected initially that a vpn connection might not work around the shaping, but tested it last night and it does work.

Note that might change though if Mweb decides to start shaping PPTP.
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Where should we get a vpn acc from?
 
Kosmik said:
Ah soz, missed the part of how it was from your server to theirs ( your link being 4mb business at the office and not a server in a IDC somewhere I'm assuming ).
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Yeap.
No funny server at MTN or anything so basically, if we were to have gotten full speed, it would've been 50KB/s but notice my face when bam, I start getting 400KB/s.
Then my boss explained it to me and it made sense.
 
The quality has certainly dropped, trying to remote into a PC using Mweb uncapped, normally very smooth, lately incredibly crap
 
I have a question, why is online gaming so bad atm? I know its not a priority for mweb, but surely playing onlinegames like wow, gw, co etc is less than downloading via http even
 
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So, here is my problem currently:




These tests should never be shaped, UNACCEPTABLE!

Torrents at MAX 20Kb/s, News at Max 22Kb/s.

Gaming, not functioning. Wii, impossible to connect even. Possibly because of ping (okay, although it could be better).




Anyone else getting speeds like this on shaped protocols? I realize its shaped, but this is not okay.

More distressed about my browsing speeds. Whats wrong MWEB? :mad:
 
Same here, but its worse, I can hardly load websites and mweb won't help me, they tell me to delete my cookies...BULL! all the trace routes i do have MASSIVE packet loss and high latency international and local.
 
D34M0n7 said:
Same here, but its worse, I can hardly load websites and mweb won't help me, they tell me to delete my cookies...BULL! all the trace routes i do have MASSIVE packet loss and high latency international and local.
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Gaming sites are also affected with time-outs, 25% packet loss and 'unreachable' errors. Even their own games.
 
hambone said:
So, here is my problem currently:




These tests should never be shaped, UNACCEPTABLE!

Torrents at MAX 20Kb/s, News at Max 22Kb/s.

Gaming, not functioning. Wii, impossible to connect even. Possibly because of ping (okay, although it could be better).




Anyone else getting speeds like this on shaped protocols? I realize its shaped, but this is not okay.

More distressed about my browsing speeds. Whats wrong MWEB? :mad:
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I find that if you have a torrent open - any torrent - your web browsing experience suffers a lot. It's NARROW BAND that's what it is.
 
Tanya35 said:
I find that if you have a torrent open - any torrent - your web browsing experience suffers a lot. It's NARROW BAND that's what it is.
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Actually that sounds like your throttling your own up pipe. I wonder how many users of torrents realise that you need to actually limit your upload speed globally to 80%? :whistle:
 
Tanya35 said:
I find that if you have a torrent open - any torrent - your web browsing experience suffers a lot. It's NARROW BAND that's what it is.
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Well if you're uploading at full speed then it's going to be very difficult to send requests to websites.
 
been averaging under 30KB/s since the morning on astraweb.
its now shot upto +- 80KB/s. (i have a 4mb line)

when does it go full speed?
 
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