MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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Zebatshu said:
There are a number of sites from which we can view the event:

http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/e3-live.html

http://e3.gamespot.com/live-show/?tag=masthead;e32011;video;live-show

http://www.ign.com/events/e3/2011/live-video

http://www.youtube.com/e3

All of them were unplayable last night, constant buffering. :mad::mad::mad:
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Try justin.tv, I found 2 good HD streams that were working well most of the time. Although it did seem to buffer at the worst times... like when a gameplay demo is being shown. F*@king irritating...
 
SabreWolfy said:
But you shouldn't have to. My understanding was that shaped accounts are shaped precisely to ensure that HTTP downloads, SSL connections and time-critical throughput works correctly. If these do NOT work correctly despite the shaping, then there is a problem somewhere on the network. I'm on a 384kbps account, so I expect to buffer streaming video, but for MWEB not to be able to deliver streaming video to those on 4mbps+ lines is very poor and actually not acceptable.
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THANK YOU!
Everyone's like "try this try this" how about mweb GIVES US WHAT WE GOD DAMN PAY FOR!
I could have 384 uncapped and have the EXACT same as i have now, for a fraction of the price.
I have gone from suggesting Mweb to telling EVERYONE to STAY AWAY from this horrid excuse of an ISP
 
rambo919 said:
better to just buy nag at the end of the month, most vids will be on the dvd
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How, in what way is it better to buy a silly magazine for this? I can view it before you and save it to my pc, show it to friends family without having to wait for a few weeks. I pay for a 4Mb line, I pay for uncapped, I expect from these companies to DELIVER what I pay for. If they can't then they should up their game and stop with all the lies and excuses.

@ Nerhzelok
Ill try this tonight, thanks.
 
MWEB. I'd really like to watch the Nintendo E3 conference today.

Pretty please with a cherry on top.
 
Hi

I am in the process of getting my ADSL line installed and with a line speed of 4Mb, but reading whats going on here with Mweb and how they "raping" the 4mb uncapped subscribers, what other ISP do you suggest with an uncapped solution, so i can avoid paying R899 a month to get a 384 speed..

Thanks in advance
 
KoKaRoT said:
Hi

I am in the process of getting my ADSL line installed and with a line speed of 4Mb, but reading whats going on here with Mweb and how they "raping" the 4mb uncapped subscribers, what other ISP do you suggest with an uncapped solution, so i can avoid paying R899 a month to get a 384 speed..

Thanks in advance
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If you want uncapped Openweb GOLD is the only option.
 
What does the shaping/throttling structure look like with Openweb gold uncapped?

I dont torrent alot, its mainly my gf's series and the odd movie...
we do game online, mainly Dota and WoW, so will this package provide me with a decent gaming experience

I dont do more than 50gb Month.. so will i be throttled for this total bandwidth?

Thanks guys
 
KoKaRoT said:
What does the shaping/throttling structure look like with Openweb gold uncapped?

I dont torrent alot, its mainly my gf's series and the odd movie...
we do game online, mainly Dota and WoW, so will this package provide me with a decent gaming experience

I dont do more than 50gb Month.. so will i be throttled for this total bandwidth?

Thanks guys
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GOLD doesn't throttle. Your p2p speeds will depend on what backbone you are on.
 
I don't want to jinx it guys, but it looks as though they have fixed it (for now).

No more per-connection throttling in Durban!!!
 
Hi All

Our more technically inclined customers may be aware of a buzzword doing the rounds at the moment which is IPV6. IPV6 is the new addressing scheme that will be used on the Internet and it is designed to solve the shortage of IP numbers (the addresses assigned to devices on the Internet) that has come about due to the vast growth of the network. Changing over to this new addressing scheme is a massive undertaking that will keep everyone on the Internet busy for the next few years.

Tomorrow is an important milestone in this change and has been dubbed “World IPV6 Day”. On IPV6 day Many of the major international websites, such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo will be testing IPV6 on their servers, effectively allowing anyone who is able to communicate on IPV6 to use the new addresses to talk to their servers. We don’t anticipate that this will have any impact on the average customer, but there is a very small chance that if you are running any IPV6 equipment on your local network that you could be impacted by this. MWEB is actively running a project to prepare for IPV6 and our network is already IPV6 aware, but currently there is no way to assign these addresses to ADSL customers in South Africa.



You can read more about IPV6 here : http://www.worldipv6day.org/

Regards
MWEB Guy
 
MWEB Guy said:
Hi All

Our more technically inclined customers may be aware of a buzzword doing the rounds at the moment which is IPV6. IPV6 is the new addressing scheme that will be used on the Internet and it is designed to solve the shortage of IP numbers (the addresses assigned to devices on the Internet) that has come about due to the vast growth of the network. Changing over to this new addressing scheme is a massive undertaking that will keep everyone on the Internet busy for the next few years.

Tomorrow is an important milestone in this change and has been dubbed “World IPV6 Day”. On IPV6 day Many of the major international websites, such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo will be testing IPV6 on their servers, effectively allowing anyone who is able to communicate on IPV6 to use the new addresses to talk to their servers. We don’t anticipate that this will have any impact on the average customer, but there is a very small chance that if you are running any IPV6 equipment on your local network that you could be impacted by this. MWEB is actively running a project to prepare for IPV6 and our network is already IPV6 aware, but currently there is no way to assign these addresses to ADSL customers in South Africa.



You can read more about IPV6 here : http://www.worldipv6day.org/

Regards
MWEB Guy
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sorry cant, internet is broken
 
MWEB Guy said:
Hi All

Our more technically inclined customers may be aware of a buzzword doing the rounds at the moment which is IPV6. IPV6 is the new addressing scheme that will be used on the Internet and it is designed to solve the shortage of IP numbers (the addresses assigned to devices on the Internet) that has come about due to the vast growth of the network. Changing over to this new addressing scheme is a massive undertaking that will keep everyone on the Internet busy for the next few years.

Tomorrow is an important milestone in this change and has been dubbed “World IPV6 Day”. On IPV6 day Many of the major international websites, such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo will be testing IPV6 on their servers, effectively allowing anyone who is able to communicate on IPV6 to use the new addresses to talk to their servers. We don’t anticipate that this will have any impact on the average customer, but there is a very small chance that if you are running any IPV6 equipment on your local network that you could be impacted by this. MWEB is actively running a project to prepare for IPV6 and our network is already IPV6 aware, but currently there is no way to assign these addresses to ADSL customers in South Africa.



You can read more about IPV6 here : http://www.worldipv6day.org/

Regards
MWEB Guy
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Hi MwebGuy

Are we allowed to make use of ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers on the mweb network?
reason why i am asking is because tunneling using these brokers are similar to the methods used to attempt to bypass your shaping.
contacted your Abuse department, and only response i got was

"Any indication of shaping bypassing will be investigated and analysed on a case by case basis.
If you use a VPN connection in order to obtain download speeds in excess of what MWEB's shaping allows for, that would constitute abuse."


this doesn't answer my question, which is : are we allowed to use ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers to test and play and work with ipv6 networks?
without raising any red flags etc :)

regards
Vaalpens
 
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dont know who reported this as fixed but yeah

:::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 431 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 6 MB)
Download Speed is:: 54 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/LT2JbmY
Test Time:: 2011-06-07 08:44:24
1MB Download in 18.96 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~5 Minutes - 8X faster than 56K
Tested from a 6 MB file and took 116.788 seconds to complete
Running at 93% of hosts average (co.za)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 [!]
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vaalpens said:
Hi MwebGuy

Are we allowed to make use of ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers on the mweb network?
reason why i am asking is because tunneling using these brokers are similar to the methods used to attempt to bypass your shaping.
contacted your Abuse department, and only response i got was

"Any indication of shaping bypassing will be investigated and analysed on a case by case basis.
If you use a VPN connection in order to obtain download speeds in excess of what MWEB's shaping allows for, that would constitute abuse."


this doesn't answer my question, which is : are we allowed to use ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers to test and play and work with ipv6 networks?
without raising any red flags etc :)

regards
Vaalpens
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Hi Vaalpens
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. We are well on the way to being IPV6 ready. Our address allocation has been secured and our core network is already enabled for IPV6. At this stage we are not 100% ready to resolve IPV6 from our DNS servers, but we are working on this. As you know there is no capability to provide native IPV6 addresses to end users yet. Our engineers have also established a V6 tunnel for limited testing tomorrow, if you’d like to play around we can DM you the login details?

Regards
MWEB Guy
 
vaalpens said:
Hi MwebGuy

Are we allowed to make use of ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers on the mweb network?
reason why i am asking is because tunneling using these brokers are similar to the methods used to attempt to bypass your shaping.
contacted your Abuse department, and only response i got was

"Any indication of shaping bypassing will be investigated and analysed on a case by case basis.
If you use a VPN connection in order to obtain download speeds in excess of what MWEB's shaping allows for, that would constitute abuse."


this doesn't answer my question, which is : are we allowed to use ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel brokers to test and play and work with ipv6 networks?
without raising any red flags etc :)

regards
Vaalpens
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Vaalpens the straight up answer to this is by all means test whatever you'd like to. We don't have any rules against tunneling and VPN usage, but if you start piping your torrents through an IPV6 tunnel then I'm sure you will understand if it hits the radar with the abuse team :) I know you don't torrent so this should not be a concern for you. Our engineers will have an IPV6 tunnel up on our network tomorrow for limited testing as well, drop MWEB Guy a PM and he'll forward you the logon details if you'd like to play.
 
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