MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[MFour]

My point MFour is that something has changed. Before Wednesday the situation was bad, since they sent out the upgrade e-mail things have got worse. Not progressively worse, or a little bit worse, I mean so bad that P2P is no longer functioning at all. As stated in my previous post, if MWEB knew that this total degradation would occur then why did they say that P2P will only be unavailable during the upgrade i.e. from Saturday midnight to Sunday morning. What they should have said is, P2P will be unavailable until the upgrade is completed, which is not what they said, ever. Is that really so hard to understand?

Can you see the problem now?

I do, and trust me I do sympathise with you. I have been unable to do any sort of downloading on NNTP since all this started a couple of weeks ago. I have made my fair share of "what is going on", "I am disappointed" post here. It is impossible for my service to have degraded even more, seeing that you can't get lower than 0 kbps, and to me 1.5 kbps = 0 kbps, not worth the effort.

I think those who have indeed been able to do P2P / NNTP downloads should count themselves lucky and accept it as that. Any degradation in what they are used to, or have been getting over the past couple of weeks, should be expected in light of MWEBs announcements and posts.

If things are as bad come Monday evening, I probably won't be so understanding of the situation, in fact, my Caps Lock key will probably get stuck

 

[gregmcc]

Gonna be really interesting man.

Two things can be predicted with certainty for Sunday morning: The sun will rise and this thread will be at the top of the active forum list....

lol You can bet on that!

 

[Malachi]

.. probably just a minor glitch, sure they back to 1-5kbps

For what it's worth saw 20kb/s for 90 minutes on uTorrent from 2:30am this morning. Was sitting at 5kb/s at 7am..
Normal browsing has been seemless.

 

[RanzB]

I'll ask again.

The first planned increase will take place this weekend, we have also decided to
bring the next international bandwidth upgrade forward by a couple of months, and we
expect this to be completed by the end of October.

What does this mean for our news server access? Will it be more of the same until the end of October, or will we have proper speeds from this weekend as advised earlier?

 

[MWEBHelp]

I'll ask again.

Hi Randhir

Things should improve after the weekend, please hang in there.

Kind regards
MWEB Operations

 

[Rouxenator]

What sort of speeds can we expect after the upgrades are done at the end of October?

 

[xrapidx]

lol me thinks myBB should offer reading lessons. MWEB has repeatedly said that speeds will be bad until the upgrade work is completed this weekend. Why are so many people still moaning about the poor speeds and demanding something be done immediately or they "cancel". Nothing has changed and nothing will change until Sunday / Monday, it really is not that hard to understand.

You do know this has been going on since April?

 

[hambone]

Things are looking decidedly better now, spikes up to 340Kb/s... let lunchtime prevail!

 

[xrapidx]

Yip - I started a download last night at 6pm - its taken till now to download what it should be able to do in two hours.

Things are looking decidedly better now, spikes up to 340Kb/s... let lunchtime prevail!

Glad it is for you - I've downloaded less than 100MB since my previous - great for 4MB

 

[DCBloodHound]

What sort of speeds can we expect after the upgrades are done at the end of October?

I hear 50% faster speeds.

Been having bad speeds and pings for most of the week so far.

 

[AntiThesis]

Downloads working
Data flowing
Soon my TV will be glowing.

I'm tired dammit but yay! Dunno why, don't care.

 

[Shahysteria]

AXXESS i get 850kb/s on my torrents

 

[xrapidx]

Glad it is for you - I've downloaded less than 100MB since my previous - great for 4MB

Picking up slightly - done 800MBs since the above post.

 

[RanzB]

Hi Randhir

Things should improve after the weekend, please hang in there.

Kind regards
MWEB Operations

Thanks for the response. Glad to hear that the new upgrades won't hinder the promised deadline for improvement.

 

[AntiThesis]

Bouncy. 0.5, 30, 0.3, 27 poor MWeb, poor consumers

 

[acidrain]

Bouncy. 0.5, 30, 0.3, 27 poor MWeb, poor consumers

Soon to be poor MWEB Operations if Monday comes and everything is the same... hope its not the case, i miss my odd online game

 

[Adrenalin]

Picking up slightly - done 800MBs since the above post.

Dammit i want a 4mb line!!!!

Date / Time            Incoming   Outgoing      Total    Conn. time 
2010/10/08 12:00 AM     75.5 MB     5.7 MB    81.3 MB 57 min 11 sec 
2010/10/08 01:00 AM     28.1 MB     3.9 MB    32.0 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 02:00 AM     50.2 MB     8.4 MB    58.6 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 03:00 AM     77.1 MB     6.1 MB    83.2 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 04:00 AM     75.6 MB     8.2 MB    83.7 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 05:00 AM     73.6 MB     9.5 MB    83.1 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 06:00 AM     61.7 MB     7.9 MB    69.6 MB 57 min 34 sec 
2010/10/08 07:00 AM     72.4 MB     7.2 MB    79.6 MB 58 min 10 sec 
2010/10/08 08:00 AM     77.4 MB     4.9 MB    82.3 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 09:00 AM     58.6 MB     5.0 MB    63.5 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 10:00 AM     59.8 MB     4.1 MB    63.8 MB 57 min 11 sec 
2010/10/08 11:00 AM     99.9 MB     4.5 MB   104.4 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 12:00 PM    106.8 MB     4.5 MB   111.3 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 01:00 PM     76.9 MB     6.3 MB    83.2 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 02:00 PM     55.9 MB     6.0 MB    61.9 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 03:00 PM     85.6 MB     5.7 MB    91.3 MB          1 hr 
2010/10/08 04:00 PM     60.9 MB     5.5 MB    66.4 MB          1 hr

 

[aubreyk]

I am having a BALL of a time! D/L @ .7kb/s U/L @ .4kb/s - Shows you haw fast MWEB's UNCAPPED 4MB corporate account is!

Marvelous... NOT!!!

Allthoug, speedtest shows to NEWLANDS (I am in cape Town)

and to MADRID it shows:

 

[phiber]

I am having a BALL of a time! D/L @ .7kb/s U/L @ .4kb/s - Shows you haw fast MWEB's UNCAPPED 4MB corporate account is!

Marvelous... NOT!!!

Allthoug, speedtest shows to NEWLANDS (I am in cape Town)

and to MADRID it shows:

Yea, they are shaping... no matter what lies they tell you.

 

[Malachi]

I am having a BALL of a time! D/L @ .7kb/s U/L @ .4kb/s - Shows you haw fast MWEB's UNCAPPED 4MB corporate account is!

Averaged 2kb/s for the day till now, just touched 11kb/s. 350mb DL @ 70% completion - started nearly 24 hours ago. Not complaining because it's the 08/10 7:00pm, not 10/10 7:00pm