Yes it has, but in the sense that was expected to be after 17h00 as is normally the case.
My problem was overall throughputs during business hours on normal browsing and emails.
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I understood your comments though re the Windows Updates, but as some have commented - other ISP's are not as critically affected during these occurances.
I don't buy the Windows Updates excuse at all. Windows updates run every month - and yes sometimes there's more to download than other times. But I've never heard of an ISP being run to the ground because of it. And its funny that as soon as the clock hits 17:00 everyone seems to stop their updates and the network comes back! Weird that....
WRT shaping, I can understand things like P2P/Torrents being shaped to allow HTTP/Mail etc to work. But currently there's none of that either. Gmail times out, Websites timeout, its like there's just no bandwidth available for anything.
Today I needed to download a set of XP drivers for a Toshiba laptop, around 250MB in total. After watching them come down at between 5-10KB/s and deciding I actually couldn't wait hours for them, I went across to my cousin who has an Mweb uncapped account and got them all. When I got home with them, my downloads here were still at 10%. Do Mweb clients not download windows updates then?
As much as I hate Mweb (spawn of the devil), in the time I was with them I had no such problems. HTTP downloads and email ran at full speed all day, as it should with decent shaping.
In the 2 months I've been with Openweb, I've had nothing but problems. I've had my account changed, worked for a few days and then back to ****. They gave me another new (BCSNET) account to try earlier this week, but it was even worse than the current one, so I gave up on that.
I'm afraid that from what I've seen so far, there's something seriously wrong with Openweb's network, if not oversubscribed then something else. I've resigned myself to the fact that its only good for night use, so I've gone and got myself a 10GB Afrihost account to use during the day when I actually NEED my internet to be workling. If there's no fix by month-end, than I'm going back to the satan ISP unfortunately.
And MrBeep, I really appreciate the personal service and being online here and everything, but that doesn't make up for the constant problems unfortunately.
, nice. Gamers king account.
