OpenWeb uncapped ADSL R99 upgrade

OpenWEB have come a lomg way since I 1st met MrBeep and tested his live radio streaming for him. His heart is in the right place and he has/is only always doing the best for the ADSL community!
 
mmm... who's going to take the first bite of this bait? - I wouldnt mind paying extra if the service is reliable, and lives up to the marketing.

I will definitely try it, keyword being try, since I'm more concerned for lower latencies, with full, unrestricted HTTP and other business protocols (Skype, SIP=UDP 5060, etc) during peak times... being able to download p2p at night will only be the cherry on the cake, but, as they sure, when it sounds too good to be true, it usually is....

Openweb must offer a trial account, even a X megabyte limit, that way it can be tested, during different times of the day - should the service live up to it's expectations, OpenWeb must prepare for a flood of new signups from Afrihost, Mweb and the like.
 
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Budza said:
Good compromise.

Still staying with SAOL though. Their R499 384 uncapped all inclusive deal yields ~85GB a month. Still waiting to hear what people are managing on these other packages.
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so far on my 384k i have downloaded - (on mweb)

ADSL Usage - (April, 2010)
You have used 38.44 GB so far this month.
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Please email me in around 2 weeks for a test account. Then you can try it out and post your results to the forum.

Tanya35 said:
I'm quite keen to see the graphs please. Can you post them? MWEB also claim "after hours", but the meaning seems to change whenever it suits. I think I speak for many when I say we would prefer to know or for you to arrange more specific times. How do we know that once you have a great deal more customers, you won't call Sunday at 11pm peak time?
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This is a great move by openweb. Well done.

R219 + R99 for 384kbps uncapped that actually works is a massive development.
 
SLicK said:
Lol, that would probably be me :P

I'm testing the account now so based on what I see it will be the determining factor.
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Please post your results, 'cause I'm tired of Afrihost (and through them, IS included) and Mweb's QoS policies, some people like it, I for one, who is in the business, am not pleased, they must have a proper testing phase, then fine tune QoS policies based on the results, not tune-as-we-go-a-long scenario.... they have lost, through me, about 10 confirmed clients, and as we know, word of mouth..... spreads...
 
R99 is chicken feed. I'll gladly pay more for a quality connection.
 
Why not ditch the speed thing altogether? Just offer accounts based on their priority in the shaping queue. If I've got a 4 mbps line, and burst to 4 mbps for a few minutes per day (during office hours), then hit 4 mbps on torrents and usenet in the early hours of the morning, everyone's happy. Call it a bronze account, and work your way up to platinum based on the priority given to the account during your peak hours. What difference does it make to the ISP, if I'm hitting 4 mbps at 4am, if I'm happy to only download a few megabytes a day during office hours?

So that sort of account isn't for everyone, but I'd be interested.

Edit: The way I see it is, if the ISP is doing the shaping, I don't have to. (Because I need 'office' traffic prioritised during office hours.)
 
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ye,right.....now we are going backwards....everyone will be offering better speed and less shaping for more money.....or better speed and no shaping for MORE MONEY....BIG Bull****....WE ARE GOING BACKWARDS....SORT OUT YOUR **** AND GIVE US THE BROADBAND FOR LESS AND NOT FOR MORE. TANK YOU.
 
Also, what about the 4mb guys?

The service I’ve received from these people is just pathetic and I wouldn’t advise anyone to do business with Openweb.
 
digital said:
ye,right.....now we are going backwards....everyone will be offering better speed and less shaping for more money.....or better speed and no shaping for MORE MONEY....BIG Bull****....WE ARE GOING BACKWARDS....SORT OUT YOUR **** AND GIVE US THE BROADBAND FOR LESS AND NOT FOR MORE. TANK YOU.
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Please go troll somewhere else.

If you are unhappy about something atleast have the decency to post a mature well though post instead of ranting like some kid who just had his icre cream stolen. I'm not saying we should be happy if we are fed BS, but we should acknowledge when a ISP tries to make a effort for catering for a different kind of user.
 
Drunkard #1 said:
Why not ditch the speed thing altogether? Just offer accounts based on their priority in the shaping queue. If I've got a 4 mbps line, and burst to 4 mbps for a few minutes per day (during office hours), then hit 4 mbps on torrents and usenet in the early hours of the morning, everyone's happy. Call it a bronze account, and work your way up to platinum based on the priority given to the account during your peak hours. What difference does it make to the ISP, if I'm hitting 4 mbps at 4am, if I'm happy to only download a few megabytes a day during office hours?

So that sort of account isn't for everyone, but I'd be interested.

Edit: The way I see it is, if the ISP is doing the shaping, I don't have to. (Because I need 'office' traffic prioritised during office hours.)
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Just like to mentioned I need and use Torrents at the office for Server ISOs and for file distribution in general.
So Torrents does not = Shape me please I am not legit.
 
digital said:
ye,right.....now we are going backwards....everyone will be offering better speed and less shaping for more money.....or better speed and no shaping for MORE MONEY....BIG Bull****....WE ARE GOING BACKWARDS....SORT OUT YOUR **** AND GIVE US THE BROADBAND FOR LESS AND NOT FOR MORE. TANK YOU.
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You the type who wants everything for the lowest price with the best service? Well, I have a surprise for you, good service costs. If you not prepared to pay for it, then stay pissed off & go cry to your mommy.

Just think, if you let them make you angry, they control you...
 
We are in the midst of a fantastic revolution in pricing and bandwidth and anyone who has suffered for any length of time can appreciate it. We are definitely moving forwards, and this is just the beginning. Let us salute the innovations of Afrihost, Openweb and others (making sure they are still accountable for service) and encourage them until our services get closer to those of most of the rest of the world.
 
Well I'm using the "upgraded" service and it is streets ahead of the IS service.

I will go for it.

But come to think of it, when I was with Digichilli in Feb and March, I did manage 89 and 102GB respectively, on a connection that was sub standard. That's a 384k line.
 
czc said:
And we thought uncapped would simplify everything.
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+1

It would have simplified everything, but the ISP's are not offering true uncapped. Their definition of uncapped = uncapped dial-up (throttled speeds).
 
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