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On what? VB? I know there is an issue around somewhere.
Yes, VB.
kat06sa
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Thanks no need, I established that it has to be an issue with VB. Just miss the all round goodness of DSLHeaven streaming and p2p.
kat06sa
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Problem seems to have disappeared .
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Same here... sort off. No intl browsing, but my ftp server works more or less fine.
killadoob
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Local ping on VB nearing the 1000ms mark 
killadoob
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Yup no issues with download speed. I wonder why the local ping is fine for you but for me it's horrible. My back account gives me the correct pings and geez i cannot spend 150 bucks a month on more bandwidth.
I also cannot live without VB though because it is very relaxed and doesn't choke my line, it runs full when i need it to so moving to a backbone that chokes my line will be a bit much.
Yep I feel the same. My international ping is fine on my backup account but I don't want to change from VB to something else. I'd rather use my backup account for gaming and keep using VB for everything else.
Neo_X
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Hi guys
I joined the Gold uncapped club yesterday, and started of with quite a good experience ( DSLHEAVEN account)
problem is , today sometime, the account started performing exactly like the webafrica account i was running away from
- half speed downloads for most of the day ( ie 230KB/s max... )
i know i will not get full speed al the time, but after hours is a time i expect an uncapped account to become unthrottled again
Yes i did email support....
Can anybody please explain what the VB accounts is(as they seem to perform better in some cases)
thank you
Neo_x
I joined the Gold uncapped club yesterday, and started of with quite a good experience ( DSLHEAVEN account)
problem is , today sometime, the account started performing exactly like the webafrica account i was running away from
- half speed downloads for most of the day ( ie 230KB/s max... )i know i will not get full speed al the time, but after hours is a time i expect an uncapped account to become unthrottled again
Yes i did email support....
Can anybody please explain what the VB accounts is(as they seem to perform better in some cases)
thank you
Neo_x
Mine was awesome today.
Hi guys
I joined the Gold uncapped club yesterday, and started of with quite a good experience ( DSLHEAVEN account)
problem is , today sometime, the account started performing exactly like the webafrica account i was running away from
i know i will not get full speed al the time, but after hours is a time i expect an uncapped account to become unthrottled again
Yes i did email support....
Can anybody please explain what the VB accounts is(as they seem to perform better in some cases)
thank you
Neo_x
There's definitely no throttling involved hey. It's probably a network thing somewhere.
VB is the Vodacom Business backbone. It's fast
Mine was awesome today.
There's definitely no throttling involved hey. It's probably a network thing somewhere.
VB is the Vodacom Business backbone. It's fast
Actually the common experience I have with VB is this:
http or ftp download from some international server (that's not cached transparently via Akamai or something)
1 single threaded download is often around 40-120KB/s
Use a download manager with 4+ connections per file/server = max out your line.
This is evident on a lot of sites/protocols.
I've repeated this experience on 2x VB accounts on 2 different exchanges with different modems/routers etc;
This isn't *all* the time, but it's most of the time in my experience. Other friends of mine who used to be with OW (on VB) complained about the same thing.
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