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Uncapped Express - 4Mbps After Hours

R1299



P2P and Torrents allowed!



Product details:

* The account runs at 256k during the day for both local and international traffic.
* The account runs at 4Mbps after hours (Mon to Fri between 20:00 and 08:30 and ALL weekend long), if your Telkom ADSL line supports this speed, for both local and international traffic.
* The account only allows for 1 concurrent ADSL line to be connected to it at a time.
* The account allows for P2P and torrent downloads.
* The account is renewable but is available on a trial basis.
* Users whom activate a debit order, will only pay R1249 from the second month.

Between Mon and Fri, 20:00 to 08:00 and all weekend long, there will be no rate limits enforced.

Please note that accounts will run at 4Mbps between Mon and Fri, 20:00 to 08:00 and ALL WEEKEND LONG!
No matter how much you download!
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smells like win to me . . .
 
all current/past openweb clients received the same email i guess

imho this deal is a threat to neotel's prime uncapped, but let's not judge before some people 'trial' it :)
 
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I don't see what's so special about this. Axxess's uncapped product is much better and offers a faster peak-time speed.
 
Lord Fubar said:
it runs at 384kbps during the day IF you used LESS THAN 5GB in 10 days. otherwise it's 192kbps.
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Yes, but it's still full speed after hours even if you cross the threshhold. So then you're looking at Openweb's office hour speed of 256kbps vs Axxess' office hours speed of 192kbps for an extra R250 per month, which doesn't really seem worth it.
 
deweyzeph said:
http://www.axxess.co.za/uncapped.php

Axxess's uncapped express+ product runs at 384kbps during the day and at your full line speed after hours and it's only R999 per month.

Not to mention you have to deal with Openweb's notoriously unreliable service.
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I visited the website few days ago and asked the question of speed of 384k uncapped on the forum,
seems like some people said that there is threshold limit and then you only get with 192k speed rest of the month...
(any user who know the acutal fact, please correct me if I am wrong)
 
deweyzeph said:
Yes, but it's still full speed after hours even if you cross the threshhold. So then you're looking at Openweb's office hour speed of 256kbps vs Axxess' office hours speed of 192kbps for an extra R250 per month, which doesn't really seem worth it.
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this is the fibre option . . . with the other axxess option it's even cheaper. consider your argument validated. ;)
 
Atleast it was good to see my "after hours" idea get taken seriously but R1200pm is quite a large amount of change. Any idea if a purely "after hours" only account can be made?
 
Considering the average gigs per user for an account like this, how long before we see a lower speed after hours version.

Surely the average user of one of these account is going to pull atleast 200 gigs minimum (maybe even as high as 800), so why can't we get an account with a 50 gig expected usage.

For me the magic number is R400 ;) hint hint
 
Gimme an account with no access during the "allocated hours" as most of us have a 1 or 3 gig account to surf with anyway. Limit speeds to even 2mbit and il be happy with it and charge about R400/ R480 and il sign up. Would make an awesome supplementary account
 
Uncapped Local will also work out for me!

But the price must be lesser then R300
And speed of 384kbps is fine...
 
This is incompatibly better than the Axxess offering, I mean I would murder that threshold in 1 day, no issue, then I'm stuck with 192 for the rest of the month, which pretty much strikes away the usefulness of the internet in terms of today's minimum speed requirement. If you can afford R999pm, then you can afford R300 more, and it is definitely worth it to avoid the threshold.
 
Atrum-Amicus said:
This is incompatibly better than the Axxess offering, I mean I would murder that threshold in 1 day, no issue, then I'm stuck with 192 for the rest of the month, which pretty much strikes away the usefulness of the internet in terms of today's minimum speed requirement. If you can afford R999pm, then you can afford R300 more, and it is definitely worth it to avoid the threshold.
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welcome Amicus.... but perhaps just avoid statements like above... because you don't know what people can / can't afford. To some an EXTRA 30% is a big deal, and if they can only afford R1k per month then so be it.
To me, being at work for 5 days a week from 8 until 6, it doesn't matter what speed I could get at home during that time, but to you clearly the difference between 256k vs 192k is that big a deal, so go for it, it's your right but please don't assume you know what I can / can't afford?
For the record I have a plain 'ol 384k line with a telscum do 2 package and I top up with WA prepaid, so I have no interest in either of these companies. I don't even know WHAT I have to download to hit the 5GB threshold in 1 day like you.

As stated earlier, welcome, may you have a good time with us ;)
 
jak3 said:
Surely the average user of one of these account is going to pull atleast 200 gigs minimum (maybe even as high as 800), so why can't we get an account with a 50 gig expected usage.
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Oh my, what are you people doing with that much data?

Me, I'm using like 30 gigs/month ... and fall kinda directly into the gap between normal and power user. I also would like to have a 30 or 50 gig account and then pay much less for it. Or pay the same and have full fiber speed even during office hours.
 
HermanTheGerman said:
Oh my, what are you people doing with that much data?

Me, I'm using like 30 gigs/month ... and fall kinda directly into the gap between normal and power user. I also would like to have a 30 or 50 gig account and then pay much less for it. Or pay the same and have full fiber speed even during office hours.
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To maintain 800 gigs a month would mean downloading everything all of the time. That would include the fifth gold collectors edition of the love boat - volume 1 to 7. It may also be necessary to add "He Man - Master of the univers" for good measure.
 
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