OpenWeb ADSL Account

[zll]

Residential internet is always sluggish during the day on all the uncapped accounts I've tested. If you want maximum speed during the day get capped gigs and then switch during the evening, or pay the massive premiums for a business uncapped account.

Not much you can do about it really.

 

[Wackyza]

Guys and Girls, i will pose a new question to you on the over subscription topic. (just to think about)

We have monitored the OW Site the past few days, i urge you to do the same.

Go to OW Web Site, and you will see how many accounts they still have available, every day, there is 300+ available.
Yes it has "come down" during a day, but check the next day ...... then again the next day, they have some how got more bandwidth from somewhere and they opened up more accounts ??

Does this seem right ??

When i bought/paid for my 4MB Uncapped, UNSHAPED account in Nov 2012, they said they will only have 700 of these accounts, how many do you think they have sold ??

I have to agree that they advertise some accounts as X amount and sell that X amount and a few weeks/months later might sell another X amount. However, you do understand that they cant update their website in real time to reflect the exact amount of accounts left every time someone buys one. In my experience they update the number to reflect the correct number closer to the end when the accounts start running out. It is just not feasible for a company to daily upload a new version of the special page unless we talking about a development company. And in when it is feasible, in cases that the site has a management interface that can update such values, the company might just consider it silly to have someone take the time to update the values constantly. I can only assume their thinking process is that they will post when it starts to run out and when it is out its out. Just some food for thought

 

[Gboss]

Ye I have to agree. It must be great to have unshaped 24/7. As stated I for one do not download much, so perhaps Telkom Internet would work well for me. One of the main reasons I have stuck with OpenWeb is because they meet all my basic requirements and I am happy with the service I have received. One of the main contributors is the fact that OpenWeb is on the IS backbone and due to this I get 190ms ping in games to EU etc. What are the international pings like on Telkom Internet for interest sake?

When I run an international speedtest my pings are always around 220ms, I've never seen a sub 200ms ping since I have been with TI. I dont play online much so I cant comment on the gaming latency or issues but I do believe that the IS backbone does have the lowest latencies out there.

I guess if you a big gamer then Latency is King for you.

For interest sakes here are 2 speedtests done as of right now:

LOCAL:
Test conducted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:34:12 PM

Download Speed: 1637 kbps (204.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 240 kbps (30 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 42 ms

INTERNATIONAL:
Test conducted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:35:34 PM

Download Speed: 1669 kbps (208.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 190 kbps (23.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 217 ms

EDIT: I stay in Durban (to put it in perspective geographically)

 

[Chevron]

Well wow.

Just read the whole thread. Guess I will be doing some testing this evening.

I'm on GOLD btw.

 

[Gboss]

Residential internet is always sluggish during the day on all the uncapped accounts I've tested. If you want maximum speed during the day get capped gigs and then switch during the evening, or pay the massive premiums for a business uncapped account.

Not much you can do about it really.

Uhm not entirely true......

TI = full speed all day albeit with a usage throttle cap (in the region of 250GBs on a 2MB line)

 

[Gboss]

Well wow.

Just read the whole thread. Guess I will be doing some testing this evening.

I'm on GOLD btw.

Sorry to hear that

 

[BlankMan]

ISP's purchase new capacity all the time. The whole business model is about maximizing capacity utilization, matching supply and demand. An oversubscribed network is going to fail over time. An under-subscribed, under-utilized network is going to fail financially. Its a fine balance that ISPs have to juggle with to survive and profit. It's pointless trying to second guess how ISPs are balancing the supply and demand. Because we will never know. The only thing we, as consumers, have to worry about is that the products we buy perform in the manner they were marketed. And if they don't, take our money elsewhere.

I agree with you comment and that is what I have done.

The the thing that is most upsetting, is the user/customer that is not very "IT Savvy", that does not know better, and believe their ISP.