OpenWeb - How are the uncapped preparations coming?

[ColinR]

I'm looking for an account, High speed un-shaped 2G

1. 384KBS ADSL During office hours, 4MBS ADSL evenings& weekends.
2. 2G Data, pay for Data used thereafter.
3. UN-SHAPED
4. No filtering, fire-walling or caching.
5. Incoming connections allowed.
6. One fixed IP, facility to update my domain DNS entries.
7. 2 concurrent connections.(fixed & mobile)

I would rather have quality and speed, and pay a reasonable price <R100 per Gig for data. Can Open Web help me, quanto costo ?

Nothing special about anything you require, except perhaps the fixed IP.
you're talking about a measly 2GB capped account?

 

[Kaleb]

Can anyone tell me what are axxess express throttled speeds in the daytime compared to the openweb 64K .

 

[Yuu]

A step in the right direction, well done Sir

 

[Gundam]

64Kb/s is absolutely ridiculous. The guys from overseas must be ROTFLMAO at this.

Reminds me of a song by Prince that has this line: "Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999".

Only difference is that I had a 128Kb/s Dual-channel ISDN connection back then.

 

[Mokusei]

Hey Friends

Thank you for the feedback.

We will definitely try and make the After Hours time from 18:00pm until 06:00am, as I believe this will suit users better.

Please understand, we are launching it with a 64k daytime speed. This is slow, and a slight step back, however, if all goes well, we will increase this speed if the network can handle it.

This package will not suit all, but there are many users that would like the freedom of Uncapped for under R600.

If an all day speed of 384k is what you need, then I would suggest you consider the 384k - 10GB ADSL package for an estimated R349 per month.

As for larger accounts, we will be looking at these in the near future. We are also considering Local / International split accounts from the first MB, but these will not be part of the initial offering.

Kind regards

I will definitely be using one of these services as both are much better than what I have for an excellent price. However, I need my home and business to use the same ADSL connection and they're on different premises, i.e. two concurrent routers connected. Will it be possible for either of these?

 

[MrXSpekta]

For R300 to R400 more, you'll get at least 3 times the speed during the "working/business hours" and 4Mb speeds after hours and on weekends...

384 users might benefit from this so called uncapped account, but the 4Mb users (who's not even real DSL users), doesn't benefit at all so far from Seacom. Seeing that you said this packages runs from on the Seacom network.

Gotta love it! :no:

EDIT - You can also get 10Gb international bandwidth for R490 that's a shaped account but at least you'll be able to achieve 4Mb speeds.

Disappointing!

 

[Srack0verflow]

I will definitely be using one of these services as both are much better than what I have for an excellent price. However, I need my home and business to use the same ADSL connection and they're on different premises, i.e. two concurrent routers connected. Will it be possible for either of these?

i doubt any uncapped account would offer more than one connection at a time

 

[Fudzy]

MrBeep.

How does Axxess offer their uncapped service at such a good price?

 

[MrBEEP]

Fudzy,

How does an R899 account relate to one that costs R599?

These are two different products on two different networks. Im not sure I see the link.

MrBeep.

How does Axxess offer their uncapped service at such a good price?

 

[Zyzzyva]

Fudzy,

How does an R899 account relate to one that costs R599?

These are two different products on two different networks. Im not sure I see the link.

Well he does raise an interesting point. The potential bandwidth usage on the 4meg R899 accounts is 10 times that of the 384k R599 accounts.

Why is it you only pay roughly 30 to 40% more for an account you could get 10 times more gigs with? R599 ---> R899

It seems like a fair point, and perhaps a small "insider fact" by you could make it understandable to someone who from afar has no idea how networks work.

 

[milomak]

While I commend OpenWeb for offering bigger packages at better prices, the extent of the offerings leave me quite underwhelmed to be frank. If this is true post-Seacom pricing, broadband in this country will not be getting anywhere near international averages anytime soon.

 

[MrBEEP]

Hi

R300 more is alot of money for the average individual. Thus, the R599 account is focused on a totally different market.

If you have the extra money, you would not consider a slower package, as you have the money to pay for the faster one.

But for the folks that would like to have the freedom of Uncapped, R599 might just be in their budget.

Well he does raise an interesting point. The potential bandwidth usage on the 4meg R899 accounts is 10 times that of the 384k R599 accounts.

Why is it you only pay roughly 30 to 40% more for an account you could get 10 times more gigs with? R599 ---> R899

It seems like a fair point, and perhaps a small "insider fact" by you could make it understandable to someone who from afar has no idea how networks work.

 

[Zyzzyva]

Hi

R300 more is alot of money for the average individual. Thus, the R599 account is focused on a totally different market.

If you have the extra money, you would not consider a slower package, as you have the money to pay for the faster one.

But for the folks that would like to have the freedom of Uncapped, R599 might just be in their budget.

Yes R300 is alot of money, and i for one can't afford the extra costs associated with the 4meg uncapped. So for me the new uncapped offering do sound promising, but you must understand from the laymen's perspective, the gap between the R599 and the R899 offering does not seem proportional.

A good analogy would be:

R599 ---> i'll give you a toyota (I'm glad im atleast getting a toyota)

R899 ---> i'll give you a ferrari

I'm not blaming you for this, i'm just wondering what the reason for this is? If you can't explain this without giving away to much business information i'll understand, but you have to realise from our perspective it doesnt make much sense.

I was hoping you would say something like.

IS offer us those 4meg accounts at a set price with idea of using up their spare capacity at night.

Openweb on the other hand is building this new uncapped offering itself and can't waste it's capacity in the way IS can.

If i'm right, then a response like that would have gone a long way to solve peoples frustration with the disparity between accounts.

 

[alkit]

Well he does raise an interesting point. The potential bandwidth usage on the 4meg R899 accounts is 10 times that of the 384k R599 accounts.

Why is it you only pay roughly 30 to 40% more for an account you could get 10 times more gigs with? R599 ---> R899

It seems like a fair point, and perhaps a small "insider fact" by you could make it understandable to someone who from afar has no idea how networks work.

lol, and don't forget that the line rental is ALSO more than R300 extra for 4mb as opposed to 384k.
So now we looking at over R600 price dif for the extra speed...

 

[Zyzzyva]

lol, and don't forget that the line rental is ALSO more than R300 extra for 4mb as opposed to 384k.
So now we looking at over R600 price dif for the extra speed...

Sure, but that has no bearing on the isp's costs and their ability to offer the gigs for R899, so its a non issue.

 

[jeppe777]

why not offer a 4MB R500 after hours uncapped and no net during the day. Il take that asap.

 

[Necuno]

how to get cheap uncapped ?

easy solution:

1) buy cap for head
2) put cap on head
3) take cap off
4) throw away

now you are uncapped at cheaper price !

 

[PDonut]

How many people can actually afford to continuously subscribe to a R1000 per month uncapped service? plus how much are you going to spend storing 500+gigs per month? Axxess has a target market with their product and so does Openweb

it does boil down to a specific target market and that happens to be someone probably in the 10-20gig per month range.

 

[PDonut]

why not offer a 4MB R500 after hours uncapped and no net during the day. Il take that asap.

Thats really not that much different to a throttled service during the day when u work out the proportion of data downloaded.

 

[Budza]

Yes R300 is alot of money, and i for one can't afford the extra costs associated with the 4meg uncapped. So for me the new uncapped offering do sound promising, but you must understand from the laymen's perspective, the gap between the R599 and the R899 offering does not seem proportional.

A good analogy would be:

R599 ---> i'll give you a toyota (I'm glad im atleast getting a toyota)

R899 ---> i'll give you a ferrari

I'm not blaming you for this, i'm just wondering what the reason for this is? If you can't explain this without giving away to much business information i'll understand, but you have to realise from our perspective it doesnt make much sense.

I was hoping you would say something like.

IS offer us those 4meg accounts at a set price with idea of using up their spare capacity at night.

Openweb on the other hand is building this new uncapped offering itself and can't waste it's capacity in the way IS can.

If i'm right, then a response like that would have gone a long way to solve peoples frustration with the disparity between accounts.

I'm with you on this one.

I was looking forward to something that proportianately (should ) cost a lot less. Then this 64k during the day thing came up... Explanations are needed.

You're dealing with the bottom end of a tech savvy market. We're misers, but know it should be possible to get what we need...