MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[milomak]

my main complaint with this service is that they don't open the pipes earlier. not train smash territory, but would be nice.

 

[TonyA]

I was going to agree with you, until I looked at the CINX graph:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/showtotal.php

When MWeb switched existing users to their new network, they centralised all the traffic, so Cape users accessing sites based in CT now go through Telkom and JINX.

The CINX traffic has halved in the last 6 months. So you can't compare the figures at all...

Perhaps that why we suffer with slow response times and high latencies. I see what you mean about CINX, which isps are on that, do you know?

 

[william riker]

now http has dropped to 160 kb/s...

*sigh* only 2hrs ago i was averaging 500 kb/s and feeling good in general...

i was downloading torrents and have done 10 gb from 6am to 5pm...

EDIT: it's even worse now...60 kb/s

 

[Gordon_R]

I see what you mean about CINX, which isps are on that, do you know?

Mostly very small stuff, very few hosting sites. (Current traffic of 40-80 Mbps is less than an Ethernet home LAN).
http://stats.cinx.net.za/ (bottom of page)

 

[MazerZA]

My speeds are ridiculously pathetic on both national and international.

Examples:

 

[milomak]

getting 300kB/s on astra

http at 430kB/s

 

[milomak]

Joburg : 3.31 / 0.40 / 33ms
London: 3.18 / 0.30 / 370ms
NY: 3.01 / 0.37 / 311ms

Speedtest stats

 

[Beetman]

seems like you guys are getting good speeds?
CS has had enough of me pushing 100gbs a month on there 384kbps on there "uncapped" package and are booting me end of the month.
I'm thinking of upgrading to MWEB 4 mb/s.
Would you recommend it?
What speeds are you getting on torrents off-peak and peak?

 

[Moodtec]

seems like you guys are getting good speeds?
CS has had enough of me pushing 100gbs a month on there 384kbps on there "uncapped" package and are booting me end of the month.
I'm thinking of upgrading to MWEB 4 mb/s.
Would you recommend it?
What speeds are you getting on torrents off-peak and peak?

My torrents are pathetic at the moment, on my 4mb line and MWEB package I am avg. +-30KB today. Just switched to my Axxess R19 for 1GB to test, getting +-200kb (also not that great though considering they are advertising it as unshaped!!)

 

[sand_man]

My torrents flying this morning, 366KB/s average, done 331MB of 2.3GB file, 16 minutes in...

 

[Beetman]

My torrents are pathetic at the moment, on my 4mb line and MWEB package I am avg. +-30KB today. Just switched to my Axxess R19 for 1GB to test, getting +-200kb (also not that great though considering they are advertising it as unshaped!!)

you using utorrent by any chance?

 

[Rosaudio]

I'm using utorrent

?

 

[Vince0]

For the first few days I had 3.6Mbit with around 400kBps down (according to speedtest.net and speedtest-rba.isdsl.net). After which, speed tests show only 1.46Mbit with around 180kBps down. My router says it is connected at 4096k downstream, 512k upstream. I've tried the recommended router setting on MWeb's ADSL page and every other combination without any speed increase. I email MWeb's technic address earlier this week but have heard no response. Hopefully they will respond tomorrow. I will post any findings here.

 

[Beetman]

utorrent 2.0 and later is supposed to be more "ISP-friendly" as it is supposedly throttles it self depending on network congestion.
http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-2-0-to-elimininate-the-need-for-isp-throttling-091031/

On a unshaped 384 line utorrent 2.0 was performing at lest 10kb/s slower then Vuze.....
I imagine on a more heavily shaped line like at MWEB uncapped the internal shaping from Utorrent might even be worse. I'm thinking that might be why people are getting mixed torrents speeds and blaming mweb for shaping when it is in fact there own utorrent who is shaping them.

For interest sake do a test download in Vuze or Bitcomet and see how the speeds relate to those you are getting in Utorrent.
Maybe you can then prove or disprove my theory above

 

[Rosaudio]

For the first few days I had 3.6Mbit with around 400kBps down (according to speedtest.net and speedtest-rba.isdsl.net). After which, speed tests show only 1.46Mbit with around 180kBps down. My router says it is connected at 4096k downstream, 512k upstream. I've tried the recommended router setting on MWeb's ADSL page and every other combination without any speed increase. I email MWeb's technic address earlier this week but have heard no response. Hopefully they will respond tomorrow. I will post any findings here.

Have exactly the same problem. Speedtests shows as 1.50Mbps all the times whereas before it would show full speed

 

[Rosaudio]

utorrent 2.0 and later is supposed to be more "ISP-friendly" as it is supposedly throttles it self depending on network congestion.
http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-2-0-to-elimininate-the-need-for-isp-throttling-091031/

On a unshaped 384 line utorrent 2.0 was performing at lest 10kb/s slower then Vuze.....
I imagine on a more heavily shaped line like at MWEB uncapped the internal shaping from Utorrent might even be worse. I'm thinking that might be why people are getting mixed torrents speeds and blaming mweb for shaping when it is in fact there own utorrent who is shaping them.

For interest sake do a test download in Vuze or Bitcomet and see how the speeds relate to those you are getting in Utorrent.
Maybe you can then prove or disprove my theory above

Wow :wtf: I'll have to give another client a try then and let you know Thanks

 

[Lucas Buck]

I've been using mweb since this month and I have to say that I don't have any serious complaints yet. I'm on a 4mb account, great for browsing and downloading. I just had a problem when using rapidshare, my speeds never went above 100KB/sec.

 

[william riker]

Wow :wtf: I'll have to give another client a try then and let you know Thanks

i have found that Bitcomet better to use in this shaped enviroment...

when i was getting speed of 7kb/s on utorrent, i was getting 8-10x that using bitcomet during office hrs.

give bitcomet a try!

 

[Rosaudio]

i have found that Bitcomet better to use in this shaped enviroment...

when i was getting speed of 7kb/s on utorrent, i was getting 8-10x that using bitcomet during office hrs.

give bitcomet a try!

Will do, thanks

 

[Kosmik]

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