OpenWeb ADSL Feedback Thread

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Openweb must surely be having problems. Torrents are crawling on my 4Mbps Gold Uncapped & Unshaped trial. Yesterday they approached 300KB/s at midday.
 
And now this happens on the day I need a new Service Provider and was looking at OpenWeb - this does not bode well.
 
UPDATE:

Openweb is still having issues with its website, email and ticket system.

Good news is that a resolution is imminent.

ADSL connectivity is not effected by the above issues, if you do experience ADSL problems please PM me.
 
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SSL news is downloading at 81KB/s on Gold Uncapped & Unshaped. Something clearly up...
 
SSL news is downloading at 81KB/s on Gold Uncapped & Unshaped. Something clearly up...

I concur.. OpenWeb is investigating my account now apparently...

Speedtest results, South Africa:

Test conducted on Thu Mar 14 14:58:54 2013
Download Speed: 3563 kbps (445.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 296 kbps (37 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 66 ms

Speedtest results, International:

Test conducted on Thu Mar 14 14:54:49 2013
Download Speed: 43 kbps (5.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 269 kbps (33.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 309 ms
 
Maybe its only the new accounts from the specials? I dont know..
Using the silver special buy one get one free, Cape Town southern suberbs, all is very slow.

RONDEBOSCH (WRBS) Exchange, southern suburb happens to be viciously over subscribed. Hopefully you're not connected to it.

I'm on a 2mb gold uncapped account since October last year and all I can say is Openweb is truly a godsend.
 
RONDEBOSCH (WRBS) Exchange, southern suburb happens to be viciously over subscribed. Hopefully you're not connected to it.

I'm on a 2mb gold uncapped account since October last year and all I can say is Openweb is truly a godsend.

im in noordhoek, i went from a 1mb mweb to a 2mb silver openweb.

Feels like a downgrade.........
 
MrBEEP

Please can you tell me if the 4mb standard uncapped is throttled?
The reason i ask is that my downloads whether it be torrents or FTP is limited to 100kB/s

Thanks
 
Wow, seriously slow, currently download from Moddb at 4kb/s on a 10Mb line, also southern suburbs :(
 
I'm in Durban. My current daytime 10mb 'Gamer King' account performance (business hours, worst-case scenario) is as follows:

International HTTP download - 700kBps
1080p YouTube - 600kBps (No re-buffering)
NNTP (AstraWeb) - avg. 300kBps - 400kBps
P2P / Torrents - Max 300kBps, avg. 100kBps - 200kBps
Steam download - avg. 600kBps - 700kBps

Local (Durban) Ping: 39ms
UK (London) Ping: 198ms
US (New York) Ping: 264ms

Besides P2P, performance is pretty good for a shaped 10mb account if you ask me. After 7pm, everything is unshaped and I pretty much get 1.1mBps across the board :)
 
MrBEEP

Please can you tell me if the 4mb standard uncapped is throttled?
The reason i ask is that my downloads whether it be torrents or FTP is limited to 100kB/s

Thanks

It seems many people are having this problem...

MrBEEP
Ive done it countless times, all openweb "support" does, is blame it on telkom.
Ive tested with other accounts which are fine, its openweb that is slow. Not telkom.. I wish SUPPORT and everyone would get over that and just fix the issue.

Maybe Openweb should communicate with telkom and see if theres an issue there..
 
It seems many people are having this problem...

MrBEEP
Ive done it countless times, all openweb "support" does, is blame it on telkom.
Ive tested with other accounts which are fine, its openweb that is slow. Not telkom.. I wish SUPPORT and everyone would get over that and just fix the issue.

Maybe Openweb should communicate with telkom and see if theres an issue there..

I've just tried my Afrihost Uncapped 4MB account - streamed some netflix, browsed - all 100%

Back to OW and local is 100% but the International speedtest won't even start; OW silver 2 for 1.. something must be up.
 
I've just tried my Afrihost Uncapped 4MB account - streamed some netflix, browsed - all 100%

Back to OW and local is 100% but the International speedtest won't even start; OW silver 2 for 1.. something must be up.

^^^^^ This.
 
^^^^^ This.

I have access to quite a number of uncapped accounts at the moment.. so here's some tests:

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Openweb Vanilla 4MB Uncapped Speedtest:
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Test conducted on Thu Mar 14 16:27:15 2013
Download Speed: 2247 kbps (280.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 256 kbps (32 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 361 ms
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Openweb Silver 2 for 1 4MB Uncapped Speedtest:
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After 3 attempts and all 3 not going any further than "Preparing Download Test", I gave up.
Latency did respond @ 182ms
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Afrihost 4MB Home Uncapped Speedtest:
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Test conducted on Thu Mar 14 16:36:46 2013
Download Speed: 3398 kbps (424.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 389 kbps (48.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 181 ms
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Web Africa 4MB Home Uncapped Speedtest:
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Test conducted on Thu Mar 14 16:35:18 2013
Download Speed: 1566 kbps (195.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 318 kbps (39.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 271 ms
 
Downloads are shaped during peak hours, Thus torrents etc will be slower yes.

MrBEEP

Please can you tell me if the 4mb standard uncapped is throttled?
The reason i ask is that my downloads whether it be torrents or FTP is limited to 100kB/s

Thanks
 
All back to normal again, seems it was some hectic shaping going on.
 
I see you are in the capable hands of Leon. He will respond to your support ticket directly

I've just tried my Afrihost Uncapped 4MB account - streamed some netflix, browsed - all 100%

Back to OW and local is 100% but the International speedtest won't even start; OW silver 2 for 1.. something must be up.
 
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