Openweb openbrowse ......question?

[headstrong]

Hi

On the openweb website it says that for R139 you can get 30 gig local and for R30 more you can add openbrowse to it

My question is if I can add openbrowse to a 10 gig local?

This would be a great help for surfing once capped!

Hope you can help, MrBeep!

Thanks

 

[eremos]

It's a good deal, the only limitation is it's literally browsing only. Downloads are blocked by file type (exe, zip, etc), so only useful if you're really not going to do any downloading.

 

[headstrong]

I only want it for browsing because I have lots of pc's on my network and they all browse 24/7!!!!

If I can reduce my port 80 traffic on my normal adsl account, I can reduce the cost of a higher end cap!!!

 

[Brenden_E]

It's good when it works. And if you complain then they fix it pretty quickly when it doesn't work. The problem is you have to constantly complain.

Mine's not even opening sites again (only half loads - then times out), but I'm tired of moaning. Getting a seperate web africa account for intl bandwidth next month.

 

[eremos]

I only want it for browsing because I have lots of pc's on my network and they all browse 24/7!!!!

If I can reduce my port 80 traffic on my normal adsl account, I can reduce the cost of a higher end cap!!!

Just want to make sure you understand that traffic going to OpenBrowse will still affect your cap. Any traffic whatsoever coming over your line, whether it's going next door or to the other end of the world, count towards that cap. As such OB is only useful between 3 and 30GB.

 

[headstrong]

But if i've got a 10 gig local account with openbrose ( hint hint, MrBeep) then I will have 10 gigz of international surfing!

 

[Wisemansa]

openbrowse is not a good option for surfing full time....IMO......it is quite slow......i use it to browse once my international 3gig is used up, which is for a few days only so for me its fine.......

 

[Brenden_E]

openbrowse is not a good option for surfing full time....IMO......it is quite slow......i use it to browse once my international 3gig is used up, which is for a few days only so for me its fine.......

Slooow, and unreliable. Not good if you plan to use it for business.

 

[headstrong]

hmmmm..I'm having second thought about openbrowse

 

[general_koffi]

It's great for personal use, but I definately wouldn't use it for conducting business. Rather get prepaid from Web Africa for R75 per gig.

 

[vampirotoothus]

It goes through IS, so international is slow, limited at 192kb/s nogal and IS lately has a lot of problems with international connectivity.

 

[Gnome]

I used to have Openbrowse and NEVER experienced the advertised speeds. Some of the time you'll have 56k speeds but slower than 56k speeds are not uncommon. That was my experience, might be different for others but most people I spoke to experienced the same results. It's also plagued by problems such as web-site's that don't finish loading completely (ie. the web-site is still half-way then suddenly the browser reports the page is done loading), or the page is blank but the browser reports done (as if it's done loading but nothing is showing).

I don't know if it was my PC's (3 in total) or Openbrowse but Internet worked perfectly with other ISP's including IS international(although sub-par to SAIX) just fine.

/waits for someone to insult me because I am "bashing openweb".

 

[Brenden_E]

I used to have Openbrowse and NEVER experienced the advertised speeds. Some of the time you'll have 56k speeds but slower than 56k speeds are not uncommon. That was my experience, might be different for others but most people I spoke to experienced the same results. It's also plagued by problems such as web-site's that don't finish loading completely (ie. the web-site is still half-way then suddenly the browser reports the page is done loading), or the page is blank but the browser reports done (as if it's done loading but nothing is showing).

I don't know if it was my PC's (3 in total) or Openbrowse but Internet worked perfectly with other ISP's including IS international(although sub-par to SAIX) just fine.

/waits for someone to insult me because I am "bashing openweb".

That's actually my exact experience - thought I was the only one. Guess not...

 

[jippo]

I used to have Openbrowse and NEVER experienced the advertised speeds. Some of the time you'll have 56k speeds but slower than 56k speeds are not uncommon. That was my experience, might be different for others but most people I spoke to experienced the same results. It's also plagued by problems such as web-site's that don't finish loading completely (ie. the web-site is still half-way then suddenly the browser reports the page is done loading), or the page is blank but the browser reports done (as if it's done loading but nothing is showing).

I don't know if it was my PC's (3 in total) or Openbrowse but Internet worked perfectly with other ISP's including IS international(although sub-par to SAIX) just fine.

/waits for someone to insult me because I am "bashing openweb".

You couldn't have put it any better..I hate to agree but thats spot on what i've been experiencing

 

[killadoob]

well i signed up for the 30 gig local

hope this was a good idea

 

[Brenden_E]

well i signed up for the 30 gig local

hope this was a good idea

The local 30GB is pretty sweet - And I've managed to almost reach my 30GB for the month. So I'm happy.