I'm currently using a 4Mbps Gold Uncapped & Unshaped trial and it's performing really well. News and torrents downloaded equally well at midday. Could an existing user tell me how much normal Gold Uncapped differs from this?
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Budza
Executive Member
Silver.
News server + limited torrents (upload?). Not too sure- that month (Jan) may have been higher due to holidays or something being less congested as everyone chills at the beach...
Still sounds higher than the theoretical limit, so perhaps their measurements are off?
Zewp
Banned
Yes, but oddly all my other protocols run fine. NNTP and p2p run full-speed. It's just http that's affected.
Hi Zewp
The engineers have identified the problem. It should be resolved in the next 60 minutes
The engineers have identified the problem. It should be resolved in the next 60 minutes
akescpt
Honorary Master
what speed do you get on nntp during business hours?
I'm on standard, not even Silver, and I get full line speed on my 4Mbps during business hours if there is something that hasn't downloaded by the time I wake up. It downloads so fast that most of the things that sickbeard gets is already downloaded by the time I make my morning coffee. That said, I don't bother with HD, as I don't have the HDD space, but NNTP is fast in general.
Just went and checked my last few dls and they were all 390KBps - 420KBps.
Then again, the majority of my 100GB a month average usage goes towards Netflix, Pandora and YouTube
NeoNarchy
Senior Member
Any news yet MrBeep?
akescpt
Honorary Master
Damn! count yourself lucky then. My standard is shaped heavily during business hours.
Hi NeoNarchy
The fault has officially been resolved.
If you still experience an issue, please drop us mail on [email protected] so that we can investigate for you
The fault has officially been resolved.
If you still experience an issue, please drop us mail on [email protected] so that we can investigate for you
Slartibartfast
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Thanks, i may give this a try. The only thing that bothers me about openweb is this condition on the specials that you regularly have:
* Current clients cannot downgrade or cancel an account in favor of the promotional package, they can however add it as an additional package.
If i sign up for standard this month and next month you run a special on it for say R100 less per month, it will piss me off more than enough to cancel.......
MentalPONY
Active Member
I have a 2meg gaming special package and it is totally useless tonight, cannot play any game without constant disconnects, grooveshark does the same, it buffers a bit then stops and then continues when it wants to. I have opened a support ticket but the control panel says i dont have any tickets.
mika1000
Expert Member
Ah, yes. Cheers.
My History:
ACCOUNT HISTORY FOR@OPENWEB.CO.ZA SUMMARY [ DOWNLOAD ]
YearMonth Total Time Connected Total Megabytes Sent Total Megabytes Received Total Megabytes Sent and Received
2013-March 436:54:11 42039.92 79900.87 121940.79
2013-February 695:16:15 75231.07 199495.09 274726.16
2013-January 888:38:00 73420.49 237156.68 310577.17
2012-December 945:59:25 43124.33 220916.68 264041.01
2012-November 838:55:38 25246.15 188959.24 214205.39
Doesn't actually look too bad for a 1MB line.
EDIT: No throttling either. Telkom problems with the exchange are the frustration at this stage
1Mbps - 106.25KB / Per Second - 6.3MB / Per Minute - 382MB / Per Hour - 9.1GB / Per Day - 275.4GB / Per Month
this is the figures released by the Internet Service Providers Association of South Africa [ISPA] if your line is running at 100% speed for a month...
Can someone answer this question: why do we not receive full theoretical speed if our connection is slower than the speed that the line is capable of? Ie. what technical limitation is preventing me from receiving 4096kbps if I'm on a 6mb line?
Hi Mental'
Please send me your ticket number (PM or to admin@openweb) and i'll get busy with your issue.
akescpt
Honorary Master
hmmm see what you guys have done! chased away mr beep. now we have to deal with a normal rep.
kripstoe
Expert Member
You guys still don't do pro-rata billing, right?
kripstoe
Expert Member
You guys still don't do pro-rata billing, right?
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(double post)
sand_man
Honorary Master
They do!! Recently changed!!
Hi Kripstoe
Openweb offers the following, here is an example:
Pro-rata billing for March 2013: (We will deduct the following amount from your price for March 2013).
- 1 to 7 March 2013 - Full Price.
- 8 to 15 March 2013 - 30% off.
- 16 to 25 March 2013 - 50% off.
- 26 to 31 March 2013 - FREE!
Openweb offers the following, here is an example:
Pro-rata billing for March 2013: (We will deduct the following amount from your price for March 2013).
- 1 to 7 March 2013 - Full Price.
- 8 to 15 March 2013 - 30% off.
- 16 to 25 March 2013 - 50% off.
- 26 to 31 March 2013 - FREE!
wingnut771
Honorary Master
You are only working out the downstream part - that last column is the total of down and up
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