MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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You get the worst torrent download speeds if you have restricted, or do not allow torrent uploads, downloads become very erratic.
 
Lucidity said:
I have been unable to connect to usenetserver since yesterday. "Connection timed out". Is there a particular reason for this? I tried during office hours up to 1 am. If it's only supposed to connect between 1am and 7am I did not test in that time period.
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Me too, usenetserver support said there were issues. I promptly cancelled with them and moved.
 
That is strange, because I get full line speed to the server when I switch to my Telkom account. I have been with them for a year and never had issues.
 
Which leaves surfing at top priority and the rest on next to zero LOL
 
Like clockwork, every day 15:00-18:00 any p2p whatsoever be it DC++/nntp/torrents it times out
 
HTC_guy said:
you are all being shaped per connection

call it a day
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My news server downloads all completed over-night. It would appear that I am not shaped on my connection, but rather that there is less higher-priority traffic during off-peak times. Shaping appears to be general. YouTube runs fine while the news traffic gets squashed.

Give it a rest. Haven't you cancelled yet?

Juice
 
Kenny said:
Do you have any proof? Mweb claims that they dont shape per connection.
If we get proof, can we do something about it?
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best is to test it , both users download same arcticle, both use sabnz to download it and both connect to same data centre.

and same package
 
hereticangel said:
best is to test it , both users download same arcticle, both use sabnz to download it and both connect to same data centre.

and same package
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That still excludes SNR, Line Speed, Contention on the Exchange, Telkom backhaul capacity before it hops over to MWEB's IPC and then of course, which IPC it connects to geographically .....
 
hereticangel said:
best is to test it , both users download same arcticle, both use sabnz to download it and both connect to same data centre.

and same package
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I have, friend of mine on the same package, 500meters from each other (same telkom exchange) grabbing the same article using the same program can connect to news.mweb.co.za at a measly 5kb/s now but i cannot connect at all. For me as well as allot of other people NNTP is completely dead. This does not constitute shaping, this seems more like capping if its completely dead on that protocol.

Edit: It is also not my line / router or setup which was proven by me logging onto mweb unshaped package and getting full speed during the same time. This takes all the excuses of ICP, different routing on mweb bla bla bla out of the equation that they normally give when people say they connect to another ISP and it is flying. So in conclusion this is pure shaping and if we are not happy with being shaped to 0.0kb/s during the day we should apparently "look at other packages that suits our needs"
 
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Well WoW has been horrible for me lately with Mweb, I've been getting the 90% freeze on login, occasional DC's and latency spikes. I don't have any of these issues with the 2 other accounts I have so I know it's an Mweb issue. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with a firewall or shaping issue that they just can't seem to get right. I dunno why they don't just find out from pretty much every other ISP in SA how to sort this out because clearly they are doing something wrong here.
 
mmmmmmm even at 2.64Mbps I cant get to 100KB/s.... Any answer Mweb, Sheesh I just join and everything just seems to be colapsing

NM now I see why :(
 
Server at least connected again, at 6kb/s !!! Wolfy, they have made it clear to me that this kind of shaping will stay in place (if you are referring to news servers, torrents or 1click hosting that is) and if i do not like it i should look into other options.
 
Wolfy said:
mmmmmmm even at 2.64Mbps I cant get to 100KB/s.... Any answer Mweb, Sheesh I just join and everything just seems to be colapsing

NM now I see why :(
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Hi Wolfy
Please send me your MWEB details.

Regards
MWEB Guy
 
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