MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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Gordon_R said:
My point is that if an ISP changes their conditions of service, they should at least test it on their existing users, or explain what the minimum system requirements are. (Microsoft are infamous for doing this...)

All that we were told was 'leave the proxy on automatic', and everything will be fine. NOT!
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Err. The proxy server is only used if you actually want to point at the caching server. "Modern" day browsers still have this option they do not do transparent proxying in the background. It has nothing todo with the ISP why your pages are loading slowly, the simple fact is you are running an extremely dated operating system, with an extremely dated browser which uses a very dated core ("Gecko"). Simple fact is change with the times or get left behind. You have your reasons for running 98 fair enough. But dont try to blame an ISP , if you are in fact at fault.
 
semaphore said:
Err. The proxy server is only used if you actually want to point at the caching server. "Modern" day browsers still have this option they do not do transparent proxying in the background. It has nothing todo with the ISP why your pages are loading slowly, the simple fact is you are running an extremely dated operating system, with an extremely dated browser which uses a very dated core ("Gecko"). Simple fact is change with the times or get left behind. You have your reasons for running 98 fair enough. But dont try to blame an ISP , if you are in fact at fault.
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It's not about me, or fault. Its about trying to understand why several people (including myself) on this forum are complaining about poor international surfing. Why should something that worked fine in February 2010, suddenly go slow when the ISP changes their setup in March 2010? And that MWeb has provided no information on ths subject of browser or operating system compatibility...

FYI: Netscape9 was released in 2008. According to the log files on my website, 84% of users are still on IE7.
 
Gordon_R said:
It's not about me, or fault. Its about trying to understand why several people (including myself) on this forum are complaining about poor international surfing. Why should something that worked fine in February 2010, suddenly go slow when the ISP changes their setup in March 2010? And that MWeb has provided no information on ths subject of browser or operating system compatibility...

FYI: Netscape9 was released in 2008. According to the log files on my website, 84% of users are still on IE7.
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FYI: Netscape Navigator 9 was released on October 15, 2007(just by the by,2years+- for a browser is EXTERMELY long). IE7 is still newish, not alot of people have moved to IE8 yet. Because mweb have not given information is simply the fact that an operating system does not determine how fast your internet is, that is your telephone line and the exchange. What happens on your machine is your own responsibility i.e. malware, hijacked browsers etc..
and ill reiterate you are only assuming they changed there setup, unless you have access to documentation from mweb itself claiming the different changes in their network topology, its all best guess. And the other people having slow browsing i can bet are using up to date browsers.

And im downloading netscape now, so i will report back (scratch that, way to many dependencies to resolve on linux will try on windows later)
 
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semaphore said:
FYI: Netscape Navigator 9 was released on October 15, 2007(just by the by,2years+- for a browser is EXTERMELY long). IE7 is still newish, not alot of people have moved to IE8 yet. Because mweb have not given information is simply the fact that an operating system does not determine how fast your internet is, that is your telephone line and the exchange. What happens on your machine is your own responsibility i.e. malware, hijacked browsers etc..
and ill reiterate you are only assuming they changed there setup, unless you have access to documentation from mweb itself claiming the different changes in their network topology, its all best guess. And the other people having slow browsing i can bet are using up to date browsers.
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It's not a problem with my browser being hacked, since local sites go at full speed for me. It's the international ones with long latency that go slowly (due to the lack of background or proxy caching).

I don't what Mweb's setup is, but it has definitely changed. Firstly because they no longer use SAIX proxy servers, and because they no longer cache content like SAIX used to (this is a fact, not an assumption).

The MWeb representative says they have 'state-of-art content caching technology'. This has not been borne out my experience.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...cial-Q-amp-A&p=3711012&viewfull=1#post3711012

Update: I have just found that FTP via HTTP goes full-speed in Netscape9, but not in IE6 (server timeouts and very slow ~15Kbyte/sec).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/drkarl
 
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yep - was down here too.... approx 5 min

whats going on ?? Why is it so unstable ????
 
Let me guess mweb, power failure in turkzachistan?
 
My stepdad is complaining that we're using the uncapped service too much. What in MWEB's views is deemed as abuse. ie. how much do I need to download for internet usage to be deemed so bad that I will get my internet revoked?
 
I asked the same and some dude said they used over 340gigs and nothing happened so i dont know whats the story!
 
MWEB have stated that they will not specify an "abuse" amount, or fair usage limit.

A "state of the art" management system merely limits you to package speed and allows the system to "act" as if unthrottled when there is less load.

When there is load, you will merely be getting slightly reduced speeds.

You are never stopped from using full line and package speeds, as per the load on the system.
 
Can anyone else ping my server at [208.109.108.125]
Since the short international outage 30min ago I can access it at all anymore via my mweb uncapped, but afrihost account works fine. :(
 
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