Mweb Uncapped vs Uncapped Premium

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erickza

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Hi,

I am currently on a 4meg Mweb Uncapped Premium account for R539. My line has been connecting at 6meg for a while now and I was thinking of upgrading.

The Mweb does not clearly explain the differences between the Uncapped (normal) and the Uncapped Premium options. I know the premium offers prioritized game traffic but I mainly play on Xbox so I head to international servers anyway. I doubt they can improve the lag much :-)

Anyone here know the main differences without the sales talk? I'd love to save some money but I've been pretty happy with the service thus far.

Thanks,
Erick
 
The threshold on which the throttle you is higher on the premium accounts.
 
Is is really that big a difference? Lately on Mweb even legal torrents can't be downloaded during the day.
 
It's about double the data before you get throttled. For what it's worth, I recently downgraded my 4Mbps Premiun uncapped to a 10Mbps capped account. Its abou R200 cheaper and more than double the speed. 75GB normal data + 75GB Night time data. Way more than I avg per month.
 
erickza said:
Is is really that big a difference? Lately on Mweb even legal torrents can't be downloaded during the day.
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Torrents/p2p receive/s lowest priority on the network, which is great.

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erickza said:
Hi,

I am currently on a 4meg Mweb Uncapped Premium account for R539. My line has been connecting at 6meg for a while now and I was thinking of upgrading.

The Mweb does not clearly explain the differences between the Uncapped (normal) and the Uncapped Premium options. I know the premium offers prioritized game traffic but I mainly play on Xbox so I head to international servers anyway. I doubt they can improve the lag much :-)

Anyone here know the main differences without the sales talk? I'd love to save some money but I've been pretty happy with the service thus far.

Thanks,
Erick
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The difference is the thresholds(How much you can download before being throttled).

if I remember correctly the 4Meg it's 400GBs and 6meg standard 150GBs.

So it's all about how much you need to download in a month.
 
who the hell still torrents?

@OP, from what I've seen, mweb offers the lowest latency network for international.
 
Chevron said:
So it's all about how much you need to download in a month.
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Thanks well last month was a record month for me at 190gig. This month its closer to 50gig. So I might be safe to downgrade. Thanks for the input.
 
erickza said:
Hi,

I am currently on a 4meg Mweb Uncapped Premium account for R539. My line has been connecting at 6meg for a while now and I was thinking of upgrading.

The Mweb does not clearly explain the differences between the Uncapped (normal) and the Uncapped Premium options. I know the premium offers prioritized game traffic but I mainly play on Xbox so I head to international servers anyway. I doubt they can improve the lag much :-)

Anyone here know the main differences without the sales talk? I'd love to save some money but I've been pretty happy with the service thus far.

Thanks,
Erick
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Hi erickza

The difference is the threshold. Uncapped has a lower threshold than Premium. e.g. 4MB Premium threshold is in the region of 400GB whereas 6MB Standard 150GB

4MB Standard threshold 110GB

You need to ask yourself do you want speed or Data

Gaming receives priority on our Network and not based on the the type of account you on.
 
MWEB Guy said:
Hi erickza

The difference is the threshold. Uncapped has a lower threshold than Premium. e.g. 4MB Premium threshold is in the region of 400GB whereas 6MB Standard 150GB

4MB Standard threshold 110GB

You need to ask yourself do you want speed or Data

Gaming receives priority on our Network and not based on the the type of account you on.
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I am using 4Mbps standard and I am quite happy with this. the problem is that 2 of my brother will move in with me and they are serious internet users that stream a lot. So we will easily find ourself streaming 3 videos at the same time or live TV. That is actually impossible with my actual line spec. I would like to know whether upgrading to 4Mbps uncapped, as it's a business line, will allow more users at the same time without really feeling it. I remember few years ago my work had a 4Mbps business line with smart village (before upgrading to 20) that allowed 12 developers to go crazy on it. We could all download stuff at the same time and even stream content without any issue.

I am willing to upgrade to 4Mbps premium but I would like to know whether the above will be possible.

thank you
 
sedigo said:
I am using 4Mbps standard and I am quite happy with this. the problem is that 2 of my brother will move in with me and they are serious internet users that stream a lot. So we will easily find ourself streaming 3 videos at the same time or live TV. That is actually impossible with my actual line spec. I would like to know whether upgrading to 4Mbps uncapped, as it's a business line, will allow more users at the same time without really feeling it. I remember few years ago my work had a 4Mbps business line with smart village (before upgrading to 20) that allowed 12 developers to go crazy on it. We could all download stuff at the same time and even stream content without any issue.

I am willing to upgrade to 4Mbps premium but I would like to know whether the above will be possible.

thank you
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Hi sedigo

From what I understand in your post is the following:

2 brothers are going to be moving in ( heavy users ) and you are currently on the 4MB Standard package with a threshold in the region of 110GB.

I would like to know whether upgrading to 4Mbps uncapped This is the current 4MB Standard package you on.

You asking about a Business product or the 4MB Premium.


The 4MB premium has a threshold in the region of 400GB. The Business packages plus pricing can be viewed here plus contact number: http://ow.ly/JA8Nn


With the information given above you need to sit down with your brothers and discuss what package you'll be going on and affordability.

I can say the 4MB speed will do but you also need to ask yourself, what are we all going to be doing online and what speeds is reasonable for our house hold.
 
MWEB Guy said:
Hi sedigo

From what I understand in your post is the following:

2 brothers are going to be moving in ( heavy users ) and you are currently on the 4MB Standard package with a threshold in the region of 110GB.

I would like to know whether upgrading to 4Mbps uncapped This is the current 4MB Standard package you on.

You asking about a Business product or the 4MB Premium.


The 4MB premium has a threshold in the region of 400GB. The Business packages plus pricing can be viewed here plus contact number: http://ow.ly/JA8Nn


With the information given above you need to sit down with your brothers and discuss what package you'll be going on and affordability.

I can say the 4MB speed will do but you also need to ask yourself, what are we all going to be doing online and what speeds is reasonable for our house hold.
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I have just upgraded 4Mbps premium. my concern is not really the threshold but rather what we can do simultaneously. whether it's 300GB or 400GB that we use per month we need to be able to burn it simultaneously. this is in term of sharing the line than data consumption. at work we used to be 12 using a 4 Mbps line without any issue but my 4 Mbps standard could not do 3 people streaming. I hope 4 premium can do
 
sedigo said:
I have just upgraded 4Mbps premium. my concern is not really the threshold but rather what we can do simultaneously. whether it's 300GB or 400GB that we use per month we need to be able to burn it simultaneously. this is in term of sharing the line than data consumption. at work we used to be 12 using a 4 Mbps line without any issue but my 4 Mbps standard could not do 3 people streaming. I hope 4 premium can do
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There is no difference in speed between 4Mbps Standard and 4Mbps Premium. Therefore your simultaneous experience will not improve. You will need to upgrade your line speed for that. 4Mbps is unlikely to handle 3x streams at 480p. Maybe 360p.
 
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