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My 4MB Gold IS account I have at the moment is definitely shaped during business hours, I can't get more than 125kb/s on NNTP, where in the past on VB it went like a boss at 400kb/s plus. Then VB just started to degrade for me, downloads didn't run full speed anymore, streaming was even worse than 384k speeds.
Then I got moved to an IS account, I'm not too happy with my NNTP speeds overall, on weekends it does run 350-450kb/s which is fine, but I want to have that speed all the time. On the flip side, everything and I mean EVERYTHING streams like a boss on IS, where on VB it didn't always in the past. That's the one good thing about this IS account, I do love streaming lots, and it's really awesome, but latency wise for international gaming VB was better, which I miss.
Perhaps I should ask MrBeep for a trial VB account for 24 hours and see if I get better speeds now than I did about 3-4 weeks ago before I got moved to IS. If it's still the same, I'll persist with IS, at the expense of shaped speeds during business hours (which were nonexistent on my old VB account).![]()
Stone get back on vb bud, it went through a bad patch for me as well but now it's full speed all day.
Pre- 17:00 speedtest on 1mbs uncapped
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Counting down the minutes for the connection to become useful again
Eish. Sounds like your accounts are mislabelled. They look more like dial-up with After Hours 1mb/s accounts.
Oh, great. Still downloading at 6kb/s. They didn't lidt the shaping like they normally do.
One question on this, though, as I know I'm probably just going to get told 'that's standard uncapped for ya', but how does Mweb manage to shape their product without killing it like this one, and still sell it for the same price as the OpenWeb standard uncapped?
My connection is even struggling to load the pics on this site. :/
Um. They do. I was on MWEB till about two months ago. Ever since the first of May when they installed that new shaper everything has gone to ****. I guess you haven't been keeping track of the MWEB thread since 1st May have you?
I (very) recently purchased an Openweb 1024kbps gold uncapped PLUS account and the speeds were decent until a couple of days ago; getting 28kB/s throughout the day and night.
I am unsure about the cause but it fair use policy kicking in, since I only downloaded 20-30GBs at most.
Hopefully somebody can shed some light on this matter.