MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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I honestly can't see why some people suffer and others not other than exchange issues. My weekend I was gaming AND downloading on the same 4mbps,and my work lines have been flying. Only slowdowns are p2p during the day ( 40kB/s )
 
Rouxenator said:
Hi MWEB Operations

Please let me know what you guys are doing about your cache servers caching broken files. I have given MWEB a lot of praise over the last few months so I would not suggest that you ignore me. You never know when that praise turns into something else... especially with a loose cannon like me.

I have two more cache fails for you to fix :

Link URL : http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/30258733/AlexD_-_Tag_und_Nacht_neu_-_SMOKING.avi.part3.rar
Download URL : http://s36.filesonic.com/download/3...268d/125242d8df736f2f1c967451a491005084212b80
Filename : AlexD_-_Tag_und_Nacht_neu_-_SMOKING.avi.part3.rar
Expected byte count : 190,549,216
Fail byte count : 75,654,615

Link URL : http://ul.to/umepu0
File name : Alexl.part3.rar
Fail size : 21.3MB
Expected size : 184MB

Quick quick, I want answers post haste, quid pro quo, status quo and all that nonsense too.
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Hi Rouxenator

The network guys are looking into this and we should have it resolved soon.

Also note that the Cape Town caching solution will only be online later this week.

Kind regards
MWEB Operations
 
MWEB Operations said:
Also note that the Cape Town caching solution will only be online later this week.
MWEB Operations
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So what causes downloads to break 5 times in a row, every time at the exact same point?
I mean, how do you explain that? It's not random I can assure you, out of billions of bytes it breaks after the same single byte count every time.

Are you still claiming that you have no transparent caching servers?
 
Rouxenator said:
So what causes downloads to break 5 times in a row, every time at the exact same point?
I mean, how do you explain that? It's not random I can assure you, out of billions of bytes it breaks after the same single byte count every time.

Are you still claiming that you have no transparent caching servers?
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Maybe their upstream providers do if Mweb does not?
 
Kosmik said:
Maybe their upstream providers do if Mweb does not?
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Taking into account the size of Mweb, how many upstream providers do you think they have? My guess is about in the region of 0 to less than 1.
I downloaded the same files witn VodaCom HSDPA and it was not only a million times faster but it complete without any problems. It was so good on Vodacom that I did it all with IE - no download mangers or anything.
 
xrapidx said:
My weekend was code

Code: 
November 29, 2010	 8258.9
November 28, 2010	 16086.6
November 27, 2010	 19744.3
November 26, 2010	 10425.3
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code? good you mean ...

My usenet is still stuck at around 100 KB/s. An improvement over the 20 KB/s I got with Astraweb, but still pathetic. Just two more sleeps and I'm outta here.
 
PsyWulf said:
I honestly can't see why some people suffer and others not other than exchange issues. My weekend I was gaming AND downloading on the same 4mbps,and my work lines have been flying. Only slowdowns are p2p during the day ( 40kB/s )
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If you follow this thread and the MWEB gaming thread it becomes apparent that the CT users are having a far less satisfactory experience to the Jhb users.Read what you want into that.....
 
Another week, another promised 'fix'...what century will normal service resume? Torrents going at 0.3k, MWEB newsservers completely unconnectable for most of the day...all the same familiar problems are back for me...why can't one of them just work at 10/25k, since others are getting 10-400k during the day? Should I start investigating content from obscure http sources, or just cancel now? This is NOT how broadband internet should be, and last week I was praising MWEB for fixing my problems, but it only lasted ~48hrs, then it was back to the same crappy MWEB performance; so I retract all that praise now and will now go take a shower...

*rant over*
 
I just took me nearly 7 hours to download a 350mb file on my 4mb connection. What the@#%^ mweb?!
 
Rouxenator said:
So what causes downloads to break 5 times in a row, every time at the exact same point?
I mean, how do you explain that? It's not random I can assure you, out of billions of bytes it breaks after the same single byte count every time.

Are you still claiming that you have no transparent caching servers?
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i'd be daft and say that maybe it is time for a decent download manager ? :confused:. i'll try one of the links myself tonight ;)
 
I canceled my account. I just cant take it any more... Im going capped again :(
 
jouda said:
I canceled my account. I just cant take it any more... Im going capped again :(
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If I am not mistaken you also think the new Cell C mobile data packages are divine so are you planning on using one of those?
Pr⊕phet said:
i'd be daft and say that maybe it is time for a decent download manager ? :confused:. i'll try one of the links myself tonight ;)
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Can't really do these downloads with a download manager, they require session cookies and have redirects on the download links. 95% of the time they download fine but when one fails you can be sure it will keep on failing no matter how many times you download it again - each time at the same spot.

Let me know if you manage to get past the fail byte counts on your side.

Brenden_E said:
I just took me nearly 7 hours to download a 350mb file on my 4mb connection. What the@#%^ mweb?!
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That is because it comes for a shaped service and during the day time MWEB throttles you to 2.5% of your line speed for shaped services (about 10kb/s on a 4mbps line).
 
jouda said:
You are indeed mistaken. Stop being such a know-it-all.
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Sure, sorry if I offended you - just curios as to what capped solution you are looking at in case I also need to bail from Mweb.

Oh, and its Sir Know-it-all. Thanks :cool:
 
You can use download managers to download from these sites.... once the timer is up and it gives you the URL - copy the URL to the download manager. If it dies, or you pause it, just go back to the site, get a new URL, and replace the one in the download manager with this.

Obviously won't work for screwed cached.
 
xrapidx said:
You can use download managers to download from these sites.... once the timer is up and it gives you the URL - copy the URL to the download manager. If it dies, or you pause it, just go back to the site, get a new URL, and replace the one in the download manager with this.

Obviously won't work for screwed cached.
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Yes, some like filemonster and ORON works like that, but not FileSonic or FileServe or ul.to and those are the ones I have broken cached copies of. I have emailed Mweb about this 48 hours ago and still nothing.
 
Im looking at getting an Afrihost 25+25. I am not a fan of afrihost, not by a long shot. Maybe their capped solution will be better than their Uncapped solution
 
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