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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
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
HAha, two very well seeded Torrents and Im getting 15Kb a sec.
This sucks badly
That is normal
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?
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
Paramedic
Don't bother with the MWEB news server.
Get yourself an astraweb / giganews account and use that!
Get yourself an astraweb / giganews account and use that!
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
Honorary Master
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
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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.
Rosaudio
First Officer
My speeds are improving. Now getting 27kB/s on torrents (384 acc)
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?
Gordon_R
Honorary Master
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
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150 KB/s on Giganews at present. 4096 line.
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.
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