Are you satisfied with your Crystal Web account?


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Two questions:

1. What is the cap on the 10Mb/s accounts. 200MB?
2. When is "We also offer a free premium news server, with 2000+ days retention, 99,5% completions, SSL, and 15 concurrent connections. For free" available. I have asked three times now but was ignored the 1st time, told Friday morning to 2nd time and sometime over the weekend the third time.

There's no cap. We simply only start shaping after 200GB on 10Mbps.

The new authorisations are going out tomorrow morning for the news server access.

BTW, live chat support is always best for quick responses.
 
I feel like we all got cheated out of the previous thread as we never got to hit the 10K mark.
 
Want feedback. Here it is. I'm looking for an ISP that is stable 24/7. However my internet has stopped working twice this month so far (connected but no data). Also midnight to 7am is not "after hours" IMO. 6pm to 6am yes. Streaming and http has been good during day as advertised though. Will be cancelling and testing other ISPs till one satifies me.
 
Want feedback. Here it is. I'm looking for an ISP that is stable 24/7. However my internet has stopped working twice this month so far (connected but no data). Also midnight to 7am is not "after hours" IMO. 6pm to 6am yes. Streaming and http has been good during day as advertised though. Will be cancelling and testing other ISPs till one satifies me.

So what you're saying is you want to p2p from 6PM and me that streams legally from Netflix and Hulu must take a backseat while you consume all the bandwidth? Riiiight. :p Yeah my internet also stopped working once, I contacted support and was reconnected within 5 minutes.
 
So what you're saying is you want to p2p from 6PM and me that streams legally from Netflix and Hulu must take a backseat while you consume all the bandwidth? Riiiight. :p

Do you live in America or Europe?

If not your Netflix is illegal as well, therefore your argument is invalid.
 
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The problem is that ISPs created this distinction between business and home accounts many years ago, and subsequently business hours and home hours were used. The internet has changed since then. After hours is after peak hours to an ISP, which used to tie with business hours, but not any longer.

The internet has evolved into a streamer's paradise, and peak usage is not only between business hours any longer - ask any ISP. It's colloquially known as Netflix time, and consumes massive amounts of bandwidth on networks. You purchase capacity based on peak load as an ISP, and is by far the bulk of your cost.

So if you want everything from 6pm unshaped then fine including all streaming services, but it costs more to provision and will drive retail pricing up as well - that's simply the reality. If you want to evolve with the internet in usage, then you need to evolve with the repercussions thereof as well. One of which is that business hours no longer dictate peak periods on a network.

We didn't simply arbitrarily pick a time window - it was carefully calculated. Networks QoS manages the capacity by allocating priorities to protocols in major use or demand at certain times, to keep it within total capacity constraints. So if you want those priorities to change in what is now a peak period as well, while still getting flawless streaming at peak streaming times, to include all download protocols like http, p2p and nntp, then you need to be prepared to pay a little more for that. The relationship we like to have is one of sustainability - in order to do all of the cool things we do, and for the network to run as well as it does, costs a certain price-point.

I reckon uncapped accounts are spectacular value for what you get - no shaping for hundreds of gigs, then shaping applied only to large downloads thereafter. Simple, easy to understand, and easy to manage your downloads thereafter when shaped on your side to fire off at midnight if need be. And it means the network runs well for everyone day and night.

BTW dualmeister - the disconnect issues have been resolved on our end - the fix rolls in on the 29th of this month on to the network to ensure it doesn't happen again.
 
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I love my Crystal Web account. Only problem is - I can't utilize my account to its max potential due to Telkom screwing me around. Been having ADSL problems for over a month now... Anyways, thanks for the amazing account Crystal Web team :)
 
Anyone else's internet down at the moment? I can connect to my CW account but I'm not getting any throughput, local or international.
 
Anyone else's internet down at the moment? I can connect to my CW account but I'm not getting any throughput, local or international.

PM me with your details and I'll check it out for you.
 
Anyone else's internet down at the moment? I can connect to my CW account but I'm not getting any throughput, local or international.

Nothing wrong here on my end with your account. I see a port error that closed the connection last. Give it a reboot or power cycle and it should resolve itself. I've reset it on our end for you as well just in case.
 
Just rebooted and reconnected, unfortunately when it connects, it's still putting me onto a 10.x.x.x IP range.
 
Just rebooted and reconnected, unfortunately when it connects, it's still putting me onto a 10.x.x.x IP range.

When CINX went down we ended up with an old config put back on, and it caused one or two routing issues. We're testing the fix right now, actually, for deployment.

But your account has been reset and will connect back up 100% now.
 
Hickory, Dickory, Dock... as the clock hit 12am nntp download speed strikes sub 100KB\s. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Spiking to 200KB\s and see-saw between 150 & 200KB\s.

Please let loose the juice?
 
At 12am two things happen - Telkom's network gets hit as shaping releases on all ISPs. Our network gets massive incoming connections per second, and the nntp server gets a little hit as well. It settles down thereafter and all is well again. Could be a combination, or one of the above.
 
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