MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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MWEB Operations said:
Hi Fasman

Please attempt renaiming your news server name from news.mweb to 196.28.182.20. Please provide feedback once attempted.

Regards,
MWEB Operations
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It seems to just be stuck on "connecting" if I change it, but I can ping it "196.28.182.20" atleast


Edit: it gives "unable to connect, (Socket Error # 10060 Connection timed out.)
 
tardomatic said:
Anyone having problems with Steam? Trying to install / play Black Ops, and my steam just stays 'Connecting to steam account: ' forever. It's now been 20 minutes. I've restarted steam a number of times, rebooted routers + PC, turned off firewalls, all without luck.
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Are you perhaps running torrents at the same time?

I've had a problem consistently for a good couple of months now whereby if BitTorrent is running (even if there's just one download going - the speed doesn't matter), that Steam and a lot of other low priority items (such as gaming) cease to function correctly, either hanging or performing VERY slowly - in the case of Steam, exiting the BT client and restarting Steam about 10 seconds later will often result in it instantly logging in successfully.

Now in my mind, either one of two things are happening:

1) BT is saturating my router with UDP and TCP connections, essentially causing any other network services to "hang" while the router waits for resources. This is a possibility, though I don't remember it happening earlier this year.
2) BT is saturating a limited amount of allowed connections per user on M-Web's side (potentially a limitation of the hardware setup they have for QoS), having a similar affect to the router situation defined above.

Either way there's something up, and if you ARE running Torrents at the same time, then it seems suspicious and it would be interesting to discover how many more people are having similar problems.
 
Does anyone here watch any live streaming? The GSL finals are on, I bought a 1 day pass to watch the finals on gomtv, play the stream (tried sq and hq) and it ****ING LAGS!!! I thought to my self that it's probably coz there are so many people on the stream. So I tried some of the other live streaming providers, Ustream, Livestream, JustinTV. EVERY SINGLE ****ING STREAM LAGS. WTF???!?!?!?

I have a 4MB line and all I am getting on streaming is 30-40KB/s, ****ING SIGH!
 
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uTorrent was running. I've shut it down, rebooted router just in case, same result. Steam just never connects.
 
WoW latency this weekend: 5000ms and climbing while using WTFast.

Torrents peaking at 50Kbps on a 4Mbps line.

Who has a cancellation form handy?
 
MWEB Operations said:
Hi SSung

Please try renaiming the new server name from news.mweb to 196.28.182.20, please provide me with feedback once attempted.

Regards,
MWEB Operations
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VJB 449 said:
Not working:
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Raz00m said:
My downloads are fine, i peak at 1.2kb/s :sick:

196.28.182.20 doesn't work for me at all, unable to connect
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SSung said:
NGs still down -'unable to connect'.
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FaSMaN said:
Is the mweb news server working , Ive been having problems connecting for about a month now, it keeps giving me "unable to connect to news.mweb.co.za :119"
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MWEB Operations said:
Hi Fasman

Please attempt renaiming your news server name from news.mweb to 196.28.182.20. Please provide feedback once attempted.

Regards,
MWEB Operations
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FaSMaN said:
It seems to just be stuck on "connecting" if I change it, but I can ping it "196.28.182.20" atleast


Edit: it gives "unable to connect, (Socket Error # 10060 Connection timed out.)
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Pattern of repetition. :rolleyes:
 
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Why is it people are happy to download thousands of rands worth of items but make won't make use of a service that costs maybe 80 rand depending on who use you?

Is it because some people do not have 80 rand to spend? I bought newzleecher :eek: and pay for a service to download a stuff every month so it costs me 12 dollars a month for newzleecher and uncapped news bandwidth. R 84.00 a month roughly, why do you want to struggle with the mweb news server for 84 rand a month? I can understand if you do not have uncapped but so many people have uncapped but insist mweb must supply them with a great working news server :D. Why is that?
 
This is brilliant! Since Friday night torrents has 440kb/s after midnight and 180kb/s during the day. Last router reboot was Friday morning.
Also streams 128kbit/s ETN.FM music for hours.

Thanks Mweb!
 
RPG_Fan said:
Just a question, why is everyone going on about a news server? Is it not just news like www.news24.com?
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A HEA EHa eh ahea eA EHa eha EA ehAH E, I was there once.

Rouxenator said:
This is brilliant! Since Friday night torrents has 440kb/s after midnight and 180kb/s during the day. Last router reboot was Friday morning.
Also streams 128kbit/s ETN.FM music for hours.

Thanks Mweb!
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Touch wood, Quickly.
 
Adrenalin said:
Touch wood, Quickly.
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Can't avoid it actually - my desk is made of wood :
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