MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[Wag]

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?

Last week

 

[Positively Negative]

hi guys ,
please could i get some advice. im currently with TI and they are coming to install the line next week. i still have a 24 month contract with them that i would like to cancel and then i want to join MWEB uncapped ( i dont care about the speeds to be honest,i just download abit and mainly browse). what is the best option to cancel and can someone shed some light on what the costs are for cancellation?
The fact is im on 384 and il be paying the same with MWEB as i am with TI

 

[Mypro-D]

HAha, two very well seeded Torrents and Im getting 15Kb a sec.
This sucks badly

 

[Nerhzelok]

4 torrents, decent amount of seeds, max 170KB/s ^_^

 

[Wag]

HAha, two very well seeded Torrents and Im getting 15Kb a sec.
This sucks badly

That is normal

 

[Mypro-D]

I used to get around 120 during the day and full at +- 12 at night. I was happy with this. Looks like the end might be near for me and uncapped. Im not itting with 15kb on a 4meg line. F%^* that!

 

[xrapidx]

What are you guys getting on Astraweb downloads? I'm getting around 6KB/s on 512 free account (so glad its free)

 

[dazzazzad]

Since the Q&A thread isn't shedding much light...

Just switched to MWEB 4mb uncapped. Too soon to have any opinion but have tried to use their news server with grabit and am not having any luck. Is it down or am I screwing something up? I just changed the server details from the IS ones to news.mweb.co.za at 119. But it won't connect. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[medicnick83]

Don't bother with the MWEB news server.
Get yourself an astraweb / giganews account and use that!

 

[dazzazzad]

Well I'd still like to be able to grab tv shows locally, even though I could use torrents or international/pay servers. After all these years I'm still in a bit of a "why waste international bandwidth if I don't have to" mindset. But if the mweb server doesn't work...

 

[Gordon_R]

Since the Q&A thread isn't shedding much light...

Just switched to MWEB 4mb uncapped. Too soon to have any opinion but have tried to use their news server with grabit and am not having any luck. Is it down or am I screwing something up? I just changed the server details from the IS ones to news.mweb.co.za at 119. But it won't connect. Anyone got any ideas?

You probably need to use the MWeb DNS server to point to news.mweb.co.za. Make sure it resolves to IP address 196.28.78.229. Rebooting your ADSL modem may solve this.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Don't bother with the MWEB news server.
Get yourself an astraweb / giganews account and use that!

I've got Astraweb, but to be honest, I've been getting better performance from Mweb's news server. At least, on anything that is locally cached.

 

[Maveric12]

Shoo when they gonna sort out the speeds...13hrs and only 114Mb downloaded this sucks

 

[OtakuD]

Shoo when they gonna sort out the speeds...13hrs and only 114Mb downloaded this sucks

FTPES much?

 

[Rosaudio]

My speeds are improving. Now getting 27kB/s on torrents (384 acc)

 

[dazzazzad]

You probably need to use the MWeb DNS server to point to news.mweb.co.za. Make sure it resolves to IP address 196.28.78.229. Rebooting your ADSL modem may solve this.

Under the DNS tab I've got it set to "use user configured dns servers only". Then I have a preferred DNS setting and an alternate. For years I've been out of bridged mode so I could use route sentry, so I can't even remember where the hell these ip addresses come from. Should I just plug 196.28.78.229 in there?

 

[Nerhzelok]

250KB/s, oh yeeeeah. \m/ >.< \m/

 

[Gordon_R]

Under the DNS tab I've got it set to "use user configured dns servers only". Then I have a preferred DNS setting and an alternate. For years I've been out of bridged mode so I could use route sentry, so I can't even remember where the hell these ip addresses come from. Should I just plug 196.28.78.229 in there?

You should let your ADSL modem pick up its own DNS server from the MWeb network, rather than selecting it manually. 196.28.78.229 is the IP address when you ping news.mweb.co.za, NOT the DNS server.

The MWeb DNS servers are currently 196.28.80.139 and 196.28.80.140, but rather don't set these manually. If you have any other DNS server IP address, then it's not Mweb...

I can't answer about bridged mode or route sentry.

 

[Rodent-Boy]

150 KB/s on Giganews at present. 4096 line.

 

[dazzazzad]

You should let your ADSL modem pick up its own DNS server from the MWeb network, rather than selecting it manually. 196.28.78.229 is the IP address when you ping news.mweb.co.za, NOT the DNS server.

The MWeb DNS servers are currently 196.28.80.139 and 196.28.80.140, but rather don't set these manually. If you have any other DNS server IP address, then it's not Mweb...

I can't answer about bridged mode or route sentry.

That did it. Much appreciated.

Seems it can only handle 2 connections, is that how it always is? Speed isn't too bad considering a torrent is also running, but still a long way off full speed.