MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[unwired]

anyone getting really low speeds on astraweb?
I have a 4mb line and all I am getting now is 50KB/s.

I used to get +- 80-90 at this time of the day.

 

[Playing]

Hi redheadfan,

Is this just via your browser or using a (multithreaded) download manager?

MWEB.

Browser, JDownloader, single or multithreading seems to make no difference.

 

[sand_man]

In my experience, a multithreaded browser doesn't help. Where a single thread would download at, say, 35kb/s, a multithreaded one would just split the bandwidth into 5kb/s // 5kb/s // etc...

Correct. Traffic to the rapidshare servers is being throttled. It's blatantly obvious but I thought this had already been established and confirmed

 

[Playing]

Hi Mr MWEB
You will of course never catch us saying we have enough bandwidth and speed, but let's give credit where credit is due: You are on the right track. Keep up the good works.

 

[keeffo2010]

i got mweb about a week ago, downloading at night time was fine, but now rapidshare is showing up on 0 kbps, whats going on there

 

[matrixweb]

i got mweb about a week ago, downloading at night time was fine, but now rapidshare is showing up on 0 kbps, whats going on there

also megaupload

 

[sand_man]

also megaupload

Also megaupload what?

 

[keeffo2010]

well obviously megaload is on 0kbps as well

 

[matrixweb]

well obviously megaload is on 0kbps as well

exactly , been happening off AND on for a while

 

[sand_man]

exactly , been happening off AND on for a while

mmm... That's odd, been getting 400+ consistently on Megaupload...

 

[keeffo2010]

i hope this doesnt last, i am upgrading to 4mb line at the start of may, want to download about 10 hd movies a month plus some series

 

[PeterCH]

i hope this doesnt last, i am upgrading to 4mb line at the start of may, want to download about 10 hd movies a month plus some series

This guy definately wants to pump his connection.

 

[sand_man]

mmmm.... Hoping this bubble isn't a going to burst, but I guess if one keeps pumping the bubble... it's got to burst... i burst...

 

[Blackhand]

I've tried Afrihost, Axxess and Mweb throughout this month, switching between accounts to give them all a fair chance. My conclusion, and this probably won't come as a shock to anyone, is that Mweb is the clear winner. They are like tiny bit more expensive, but they actually deliver the goods and quality of service.

Afrihost throttles the heck out of you. That's all you need to know really, once you hit what seems to be an ever changing (but unreasonably LOW) threshold, your wings will be clipped.
Axxess, seems to have serious capacity issues, I wasn't at any point using Axxess able to reach 400kb/s across any protocol. Latency, especially international was very unreliably, terrible spiking.

Mweb. Definitely shape torrents, news and rapidshare etc., but you will get 400kb/s on services that aren't among the primary engines of piracy. Even the services that are low priority get up to the full 400kb/s after hours. One thing I found very impressive, was that for gaming (tested with World of Warcraft international, Heroes of Newerth international, Bad Company 2 international/local etc.), the Mweb account was on par with an unshaped account with a 260ms latency to Europe and not just in a pingtest, ingame, no spiking. This is an area where Afrihost and Axxess just couldn't compete at all (not like they could really compete in any other area).

Basically, Mweb's uncapped offering is the real thing and the best all round uncapped offer at the moment. If torrents/news/rapidshare is all your concerned with, then you'll likely be happier with an Axxess Express+ account, but if you want an account that does everything and at a very good price, go Mweb.

 

[keeffo2010]

well on a 4 mb line i plan to download about 50gigs, not over excessive when its costing the bones of a grand

 

[renvilo]

I have a 4mb line with Mweb. I got around 150 kbps. So I got myself an astraweb account and it was WOW... Got like 250 - 380kbps dep. on the time. Now it's just like 75 - 120kbps no matter the time.. WTF

 

[keeffo2010]

i am not impressed with absdolutely nothing coming out of my rapidshare account, it is just stuck on 0, has this happened before, what about all the advertisements, downloading your favourate movie and you hit your cap ... get mweb blah blah blah, well at least leave us download

 

[sand_man]

Decent review Blackhand...

@keeffo 10 HD movies in mkv format will take you past 50gigs... Add your episodes to that and you looking at another 10gigs plus browsing emailing etc 3-5gigs. 70 gigs a month easy... Not bad and not abuse, well within pumping parameters..

Currently getting around 70kBps from Rapidshare, should improve after 10pm and then again after 11pm...

384kbps circuits a waste of time. If MWEB's throttling to 20% line speed all you could hope to get off Rapidshare is around 8kBps... that's awful.. But 0???!!!! Come on??!!! Surely not??!!!

 

[keeffo2010]

yeah ok thats true,
but i am getting nothing at all on rtapidshare all day, i reckon i downloaded about 8-9 gigs so far and now a download wont even start

 

[sand_man]

a download wont even start

Sounds like a bad file...