MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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MWEB Guy said:
I have your details and I will look into this for you.
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i know your looking into it. and thank you. jus want to update with my WA account that i have ( for wen i have telkom/mweb problems ) with my results. latency is perfect in wow. lower than with mweb generally due to sat3 vs seacom. but least it rules out anything on my side of the phone line if u know what i mean :) means it lies with mweb OR seacom.

regards Brad
 
nakedhousee said:


i know your looking into it. and thank you. jus want to update with my WA account that i have ( for wen i have telkom/mweb problems ) with my results. latency is perfect in wow. lower than with mweb generally due to sat3 vs seacom. but least it rules out anything on my side of the phone line if u know what i mean :) means it lies with mweb OR seacom.

regards Brad
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You assume that the copper between you and WA is the same quality and distance between you and MWEB - A mistake many make.

It's not your fault ( shouldn't be your problem either ) but often there's little that an ISP can do about it.
 
I cannot believe this. This is the worst my connection has ever been:

:::.. Download Test Results ..::: From Johannesburg on 10Mbps line using MWeb 4Mb uncapped
Download Connection is:: 404 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 6 MB)
Download Speed is:: 51 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/qsDI1YL
Test Time:: 2011-06-07 13:05:32
1MB Download in 20.08 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~6 Minutes - 7X faster than 56K
Tested from a 6 MB file and took 124.729 seconds to complete
Running at 86% of hosts average (co.za)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

I thought I was one of the lucky ones, but I guess when MWeb's throwing the party everyone gets to dance.
 
news servers cannot connect at all. have a paid international link which i have been using for months. 4 meg uncapped

:::.. Combined Test Results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 309 Kbps about 0.31 Mbps (tested with 2 MB)
Download Speed is:: 39 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 310 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 193 MB)
Upload Speed is:: 39 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Dallas, TX USA)
Test Time:: 2011-06-07 13:20:32
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/cNGb5Vh.ik72moa
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30 [!]
 
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Wow, things were looking up this afternoon for us Durban users. Speeds were almost back to "normal". Now my PSN downloads have gone back to 30KB/s. Got my hopes up to soon I guess. Thanks for nothing.
 
but WHY? mweb downloads were flying the last two weeks... now down to almost 0? astraweb is useless right now. Even the web is slower than usual.. mweb rep stop pretending, there's obviously a reason. Do I smell shaping?
 
Woah - just dialed up with FNB Connect - everything is flying - youtube, nntp, http.

FNB:
Download Connection is:: 1847 Kbps about 1.8 Mbps (tested with 3 MB)
Download Speed is:: 231 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/tcV2Hpz
Test Time:: 2011-06-07 13:48:54
1MB Download in 4.43 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Hours - 32X faster than 56K
Tested from a 3 MB file and took 13.626 seconds to complete
Running at 108% of hosts average (unknown)
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Mweb:
Download Connection is:: 238 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 3 MB)
Download Speed is:: 30 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/rUBHQFT
Test Time:: 2011-06-07 13:52:17
1MB Download in 34.13 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~10 Minutes - 4X faster than 56K
Tested from a 3 MB file and took 105.572 seconds to complete
Running at 51% of hosts average (co.za)
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MWEB Shaping

On monday I was bragging about my awesome download speeds on astraweb, and now it's the worst it's ever been. Are MWEB taking turns in annoying the various regions of SA? What is their official policy? My contract said nothing about how and when I'll get shaped. So i've done 16GB in 6 days, big deal, if that means that I'm considered to be abusing something, then tell me, and i'll be more selective of what im downloading, I just wanna know what the policy is.

Transparency MWEB, thats all im asking for!
 
HTTP download from PowerGUI.org running at 22Kb/s on a 4MB line...that to me is NOT on !!!
 
im in the cape, my downloads are normally ok this time of the night and increase in speed as it gets later but tonight torrents are barely moving at all, i hope mweb is not addressing the alleged discrepancy in speed between the different regions by making it crap for everyone...
 
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I think this speed problem has something to do with seacom again or mweb is just being funny by throttling/shaping everything to hell and gone.
 
Could MWEB issue any kind of statement on the terrible news server performance recently? Is it as a result of some network changes you're currently performing? Is it the new "shaping" policy going forward? Any information would be appreciated.

edit: This is with regard to international pay services.
 
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skoenman said:
I think this speed problem has something to do with seacom again or mweb is just being funny by throttling/shaping everything to hell and gone.
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I'm almost certain that the shaping has become so aggressive that some sites will not load during normal hours. Its obvous when switching between different ADSL accounts. Please can someone else with a shaped MWEB account try to connect to www.aerovps.com during the day and post feedback. It seems like they are shaping the entire network block.
 
Can now only use NNTP from 2am until 8am - the rest of the day I get 0Kbps. Does that mean I should only be paying a quarter of the price?
 
gregmcc said:
Can now only use NNTP from 2am until 8am - the rest of the day I get 0Kbps. Does that mean I should only be paying a quarter of the price?
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Would also like to know from MWEB if that "Golden Period" has been shortened.
 
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