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renvilo

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certain times of the night you can get 400kbps. I got that from yesterday 1am to around 11am and then it died again going at 40kbps.... So they do shape us A LOT!

My friend has a 4mb line with Axxess account. Doing 750gb per month with 24/7 downloads. Last month I almost had 300gb but only for about 20 days.. not 30. This month alone I'm almost at 80gb with my 4mb line but I'm gonna downgrade for 2 reasons. 1. It's not truly uncapped. I am paying for fast speeds which is shapes MOST hours of the day... 2. I have 5 modules for my btech and I have to stop downloading, lol...
 
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renvilo said:
certain times of the night you can get 400kbps. I got that from yesterday 1am to around 11am and then it died again going at 40kbps.... So they do shape us A LOT!

My friend has a 4mb line with Axxess account. Doing 750gb per month with 24/7 downloads. Last month I almost had 300gb but only for about 20 days.. not 30. This month alone I'm almost at 80gb with my 4mb line but I'm gonna downgrade for 2 reasons. 1. It's not truly uncapped. I am paying for fast speeds which is shapes MOST hours of the day... 2. I have 5 modules for my btech and I have to stop downloading, lol...
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I usually get 440KB/s speeds during the day and night. For instance if I were to log onto MWEB NOW at home I would get 440KB/sec on HTTP for most sites outside of RS. I've tested it on 3 occasions as I've been off sick 3 times in April and my internet was fast at those times.

I could do >1TB on MWEB if I wanted to DL 24/7 at a much lower price than Axcess. BTW is Axess a bigger company with more money than MWEB? I think MWEB is far bigger and MWEB will offer a better product - to be honest I'm more than happy with MWEB. Now I know that RS is slow only goes up to 300KB/sec at around 3-4am but if you're downloading from nondescript HTTP hosts and FTP hosts you can
go 24/7 on MWEB at 440KB/sec (barring SEACOM outages).

However, as said I did 235GB on MWEB by only downloading in the evenings, never going past 2-3am and never (bar 1-2GB during the day on the 3 days I was sick).
At R899 incl line rental I am happy although it's still expensive. Definitely paying more for Axess to get the same speed would be illogical in my mind. Of course, if MWEB deteriorates siginifcantly,
I will go somewhere else but ATM I am happy with MWEB and believe that no-one else is able to offer the value for money MWEB offers ATM.
 
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Renvilo are you talking about HTTP speeds during the day or are you talking about torrent / newserver downloads??
 
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I am still waiting for an Mweb rep to reply to my PM. I sent it last night and still have not heard back from him. I am awaiting your reply!
 
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Hi All,

For clarity, let me re-itterate the correct MTU size for the MWEB network is 1492. This only needs to be set on the device creating the PPPoE connection to our network e.g. your ADSL router. Any value high or lower is likely to cause packet fragmentation leading to degraded performance.

Not sure if there was some misunderstanding, but 1452 is the correct value for the TCP MSS (maximum segment size) on the connecting PPPoE device, which should always be MTU minus 40 (i.e. 1492 - 40 = 1452). On most consumer orientated devices the TCP MSS is not setable as it will usually be altered automatically to match the MTU less 40 (tho there may be a setting like 'clamp MSS' which should always be enabled).

There is one exception; if you are running a router/firewall device behind the Cisco router that is bundled with our Business ADSL package. In this scenario it is recommended that you do not force MTU or rewrite MSS, rather let the Cisco handle it. If you must re-write MSS, ensure its 1352 or lower.

MWB.
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Thanks for the clarification. Seems like some earlier posts were causing confusion:

RogueRunner said:
You can test MTU sizes like this

ping -f -l 1500 ip-address

-f switch is not to fragment, -l sets the MTU size. Start at 1500 and you should get 'Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set' which means the MTU is too large. Start reducing your MTU value until the ping goes through. Viola, that is the correct value!
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The TCP stack adds on to this value, so it is NOT the MTU value your ADSL modem should use.

renvilo said:
Mweb guy said to use 1452... 52... not 92 :) But my router doesn't wanna save the MTU to what I say it should be. It defaults back.. :(
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Leave your ADSL modem at MTU 1492!
 
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randomguy

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Yeah thats the difference Ren.

HTTP isnt supposed to be shaped, hence full line speed, everything else pretty much, is shaped!
 
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william riker

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i've had some issues with http speeds today...

it was flactuating wildly between 30 and 150 kb/s but after turning the modem on and off a few times during the day, its okay now, 420kb/s average.
 
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but you can re-use that 20 gigs as many times as you want throughout the month.....
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Oh that makes a world of difference :D

So as long as you're torrent is under 20gb's you're sorted?

What happens if you download say a 15gb file from the 20gb account you have with them, (meaning you have 5gb left) then you try add a 10gb blueray movie (before the original 15gb file is finished downloading) ?
 
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yes, u download into their server, fill it up with 20 gb, watch or download via http....delete and download some more!

am VERY happy with it..

i'm at 30 GB almost since yesterday...

did that much in 3 days while i was using uTorrent and the likes...
 
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Sensou said:
Oh that makes a world of difference :D

So as long as you're torrent is under 20gb's you're sorted?

What happens if you download say a 15gb file from the 20gb account you have with them, (meaning you have 5gb left) then you try add a 10gb blueray movie (before the original 15gb file is finished downloading) ?
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as far as i know, the 15gb movie has to finish and be deleted before u can add the next 10gb.

u can add another 5 gb max while the other 15gb is downloading = 20GB
 
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still bloody ripp off. i paid R150 p/m for a 45 gig on the leach server with unlimited up/down p/m. a lot of cheaper options out there... though furk.net is not one of them anymore.
 
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i am quite curious as to the people who are jumping ship (the 4Mbps users):

Which is the problem:
1. The shaping means you can't do as much as you could on an Axxess Express+ (or Openweb's equivalent) - the 384/4Mbps line
2. You are not getting as much as you thought you can download on a 4Mbps line (please specify how much you thought you thought you should be able to download)
3. Seacom
4. Some other (please specifiy)
 
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milomak said:
i am quite curious as to the people who are jumping ship (the 4Mbps users):

Which is the problem:
1. The shaping means you can't do as much as you could on an Axxess Express+ (or Openweb's equivalent) - the 384/4Mbps line
2. You are not getting as much as you thought you can download on a 4Mbps line (please specify how much you thought you thought you should be able to download)
3. Seacom
4. Some other (please specifiy)
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Yeah please answer.
 
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