MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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Sillicur said:
Dont say your using SSL, they will know you using a port you should not use on NNTP and they will cancel your account. Cause getting speeds you paid for in an account in any way possible will get your account cancelled.
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no need to worry ssl is shaped on the normal 2 ssl ports, and get treated as shaped speeds :)
 
Sillicur said:
Dont say your using SSL, they will know you using a port you should not use on NNTP and they will cancel your account. Cause getting speeds you paid for in an account in any way possible will get your account cancelled.
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Correction: Intentionally bypassing the shaping to achieve full line speed on a shaped account is considered a contravention of the AUP and the T&C.
 
hereticangel said:
no need to worry ssl is shaped on the normal 2 ssl ports, and get treated as shaped speeds :)
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Paid news servers using SSL use port 80 and they bypass the shaping cause those ports are not shaped. Aka if someone says something like SSL with Astraweb or newsdemon then its almost 100% that they using a port that bypasses the shaping.

So saying your getting full speeds on a paid server that has port 80 SSL is not something you should do here.
 
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StNick said:
Will, I'm not really sure what is left to troubleshoot... I am well past any notions that the speeds I am seeing have anything to do with my account and/or my line. It has been an exhausting three days of investigation on my part, having worked closely with 8 friends of mine who are also MWEB subscribers, and the result of that investigation is clear. I'm really not interested in jumping through the usual troubleshooting hoops of local speed tests and logging faults with Telkom when I have long-since eliminated these things already. In fact, I am SO brazenly confident of my test results and that it is NOT in any way related to my own personal situation, that I will go so far as to issue a challenge!

I challenge ALL 4MB MWEB Uncapped users in the Durban area who have either a Dropbox account (or similar) or Web Hosting in Europe or the States, to try and download a file of 20MB or more at an average rate of more than 75KB/sec using a single connection (so no download managers). Time your download and work out what the average speed was at the end (don't look at the realtime speed). Once done, rename the file to bypass any possible local caching that has taken place, and then give the URL to a Cape Town user. I suspect you will find that the user in Cape Town will get the same file at least two to three times as fast.

From the comments here, I'm pretty sure that JHB users can do the same tests as JHB / DBN traffic all seems to go via Midrand. However, I have not personally tested the speeds in JHB so I only have the DBN / CPT comparison to go on.
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Dropbox is classed as one-click hosting as far as I'm aware which falls into the p2p group so you won't get full speeds on this on a shaped account.
 
Will@MWEB said:
Dropbox is classed as one-click hosting as far as I'm aware which falls into the p2p group so you won't get full speeds on this on a shaped account.
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Will, just curious, there has been allot of talk of what people will not get full speed on. What should we get full speed on? Is there anything?
 
fbman said:
Well for me life has returned to normal for me on mweb..

I am currently downloading with astraweb with an SSL connection.. at normal speeds for this time of the day.

Thanks Will and Mweb Guy for sorting things out.
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Glad to hear that fbman. On that note I have just received my astraweb test account from the man with the purse strings so I can now do some more extensive testing on the experience with commercial news feeds and get a better understanding of how it fares against other types of p2p.
 
Will@MWEB said:
Dropbox is classed as one-click hosting as far as I'm aware which falls into the p2p group so you won't get full speeds on this on a shaped account.
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:( That's a shame. What a pity that this has the be the case because otherwise it would just be (ab)used as a file-sharing system. What about the many "legitimate" users of DropBox. I guess the "legitimate" users would only be moving "small" files? Even so, if I upload a large file "at the office" to work on at home, having DropBox classified as p2p means that I'll wait ages for the file to download at home.
 
Sillicur said:
Paid news servers using SSL use port 80 and they bypass the shaping cause those ports are not shaped. Aka if someone says something like SSL with Astraweb or newsdemon then its almost 100% that they using a port that bypasses the shaping.

So saying your getting full speeds on a paid server that has port 80 SSL is not something you should do here.
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astraweb dont support it , or when i used wa sonl the 2 normal ones that was shaped , though nice and stable.
 
I ran out of cap so purchased a voucher at Engen, Axxess512 for R149 (uncapped). Sounds exciting... NOT!?

Well, on Speedtest.net I get D: 0.10Mbps and U: 0.42Mbps and Ping: 54ms. I do not like/play any games. But browsing at times appears to be incredibly slow. For instance, tried to print pages off "www.noseweek.co.za" which would hang...

I am on a 4mb line, but capped to 9gb with Telkom (I enjoy youtubes!)
This does not seem to work for me, I wonder how 1mb line would be, if only, double (0.2 / 0.84 Mbps) - not a significant difference.

What I am really saying is I wonder how Mweb 1mb line would be as I am thinking seriously of switching over. Any comment please?

EDIT : ACTUALLY CAN NOT BEGIN TO IMAGINE HOW PATHETICALLY SLOW 384kb MUST BE????
 
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Redsbaron said:
I ran out of cap so purchased a voucher at Engen, Axxess512 for R149 (uncapped). Sounds exciting... NOT!?

Well, on Speedtest.net I get D: 0.10Mbps and U: 0.42Mbps and Ping: 54ms. I do not like/play any games. But browsing at times appears to be incredibly slow. For instance, tried to print pages off "www.noseweek.co.za" which would hang...

I am on a 4mb line, but capped to 9gb with Telkom (I enjoy youtubes!)
This does not seem to work for me, I wonder how 1mb line would be, if only, double (0.2 / 0.84 Mbps) - not a significant difference.

What I am really saying is I wonder how Mweb 1mb line would be as I am thinking seriously of switching over. Any comment please?

EDIT : ACTUALLY CAN NOT BEGIN TO IMAGINE HOW PATHETICALLY SLOW 384kb MUST BE????
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that vouchers is justsurf uncapped, litterly you can just surf on it , its throttled to death .
 
So I got DarkSpore today and now I am downloading a +-1GB patch at 20KB/s. THANKS MWEB! :D
 
Yipee!! For the first time in over a week I am finally able to download my iTunes updates at speeds between 350KB/s and 460KB/s! (Although sometimes the speed does dip to 100KB/s or so but only for shortish periods.) So far (cross fingers real hard) things seem to be doing MUCH better as far as http downloads goes. Havent tried streaming video yet but im hoping for similar results. IF this can hold out for several more days then things are looking better. Not quite back to the way things where 2 weeks ago.......but almost there.
 
Can't say the same. Im trying to download ipad apps/games and am downloading at a whoooping 50kb/s
 
Adrenalin said:
News server dead as doornails???
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I gave up even trying. A waste of breath and time with [-]Telkom[/-] Mweb. I am waiting for the WA announcement!

Thanks Will and party for at least trying, unfortunately your engineers or management need some training!
 
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