MWEB upgrades ADSL network; increases capacity

burn said:
My connection is pretty shoddy today. This site is struggling to load while facebook flies... Guess they helping out the masses again ;) Oh and I know it is shaped and all but my well seeded South Park torrent is shaped to non-existence (1-2kbps). Let's hope these upgrades help...
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off topic but South Park 1403 is the ****..no doubt,I fell off my chair...you will throughly enjoy it...:D
 
Regardless of whether this is an april fools or not, I am just wondering how long Mweb will keep throwing money at this. They are going to get more and more of the high bandwidth users and not so many of the low usage users as they don't need uncapped.
 
Abe said:
Regardless of whether this is an april fools or not, I am just wondering how long Mweb will keep throwing money at this. They are going to get more and more of the high bandwidth users and not so many of the low usage users as they don't need uncapped.
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As long as the money keeps rolling in, I guess. The bigger it gets, the more sustainable it becomes, because economies of scale and massive wholesale bandwidth discounting kicks in. And the more sustainable it becomes, the more popular it will become. And it won't be long before EASSY and other underseas cables are here and wholesale prices drop further. Low usage users are being told via blitz advertising that this is something they can't do without. Per gig pricing will die, and thereafter it will be a simple race for market share. Mweb have seen the future.
 
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Abe said:
Regardless of whether this is an april fools or not, I am just wondering how long Mweb will keep throwing money at this. They are going to get more and more of the high bandwidth users and not so many of the low usage users as they don't need uncapped.
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Anyone that was paying R217 or more for their MWEB bandwidth has been switched over automatically, thus only 2GB or less users need to ask to upgrade to uncapped.
 
supersunbird said:
Anyone that was paying R217 or more for their MWEB bandwidth has been switched over automatically, thus only 2GB or less users need to ask to upgrade to uncapped.
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Absolutely not true for all users, perhaps for 384K packages.

I am on 4Mbps capped to 5GB, paying R579pm all-inclusive. I have not been switched, since it would cost R899pm.
 
Gordon_R said:
Absolutely not true for all users, perhaps for 384K packages.

I am on 4Mbps capped to 5GB, paying R579pm all-inclusive. I have not been switched, since it would cost R899pm.
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Ja, you are right. I meant if you are paying more per GB than your speed of uncapped would have cost..
 
Tornalca said:
Should have not tried to save money and not have paperwork. Instead signed up throuh openweb who apparantly re-sells MWEB...this is not the case they are running on IS backbone.

I am trying to get this cancelled and if I win I will sign up with MWEB either in next week or @ the end of the month. I agree they are definitely more prepared than AfriToast and the others on the unc(R)apped bandwagon.
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I also signed up with OpenWeb, because I thought it would be exaclty the same as Mweb. So you're saying that Mweb would be faster? I'll go over to Mweb then as well.
 
Tornalca said:
Should have not tried to save money and not have paperwork. Instead signed up throuh openweb who apparantly re-sells MWEB...this is not the case they are running on IS backbone.

I am trying to get this cancelled and if I win I will sign up with MWEB either in next week or @ the end of the month. I agree they are definitely more prepared than AfriToast and the others on the unc(R)apped bandwagon.
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what paperwork?

I signed up with mweb, it took 5 seconds, and no paperwork required?
 
“We have cut over our IPC [IPConnect] from Metro-Ethernet to Next Generation SDH, with additional bandwidth as well,” said Hershaw.
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So they moved from Metro-Ethernet where you can dynamically change the bandwidth depending on what gbics you use (up to 10gbit nowadays on 72xx Ciscos) to SDH, which I recall to be 155mbit for STM-1.

I assume its not regular SDH but EoS (Ethernet over SDH) they moved to which seems to be the new thing according to the SONET/SDH article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking

If it is indeed that, thats pretty cool and looks like it can go pretty big considering it should technically be able to carry multiple Ethernet streams of different sizes.
 
Tinuva said:
I assume its not regular SDH but EoS (Ethernet over SDH) they moved to which seems to be the new thing according to the SONET/SDH article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking
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It's an assumption as they they are not very clear. However if they say NG SDH it is safe to assume it's EoS seeing Telkom has deployed that in their network. It could also be plain old SDH mind you. It's cheaper to use Ethernet than SDH interfaces though.
 
sutekj said:
I also signed up with OpenWeb, because I thought it would be exaclty the same as Mweb. So you're saying that Mweb would be faster? I'll go over to Mweb then as well.
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From what I am reading they seem to be the better connection the be on. I am currently happy with Openweb after the weekends downloading :) Let see how the rest of the month goes.
 
mister said:
what paperwork?

I signed up with mweb, it took 5 seconds, and no paperwork required?
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They sent me a 3 page fax letter from, I have to fax proof of residence, ID and send blood sample. How did you sign up, did you just call?
 
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