Screamer ADSL

WTF, I have two accounts - a 512 and 384. My 512 is DEAD, but i just dialed up now with the 384 login info and its working ?!?! (still slow tho!)
 
Using my DC account until they cancel it...

which i hope is today.

I will use Afrihost until these two ISP's come right.

Simple fact is they have to many customers and to little bandwidth. End of story.
 
Using my DC account until they cancel it...

which i hope is today.

I will use Afrihost until these two ISP's come right.

Simple fact is they have to many customers and to little bandwidth. End of story.

Are you getting decent speeds on the DC account?
I cooled down as well - so not sure whether they have deactivated me on their network.
 
Are you getting decent speeds on the DC account?
I cooled down as well - so not sure whether they have deactivated me on their network.

No.

3kb on torrents, 0kb on single thread http.

Still trying multiple thread http and p2p etc.
 
Tried again now.
Been getting +- 10 KB/s on my downloads - but with lots of variability.
 
DC going at least. And with the Screamer account going at 20kb the one minute and then at 0 the next, i'd rather be browsing on connection and having the other one on hold.
 
Well, I thought they were only accepting new subscribers in January when they were scheduled to have more capacity.

To my suprise, I receive my login details on New Years eve. I then called on Monday to find out what is going to happen with regards to payment, as I never signed a debit order authorization form and a man needs to budget ofcourse. I was told that someone in accounts would call me back. Never heard from them since.

An sms comes through this morning stating that R399 had gone off my account. WTF?

Now, if no one answers the phone, no one in accounts is prepared to call back, what do I do, wait for the nasty emails to say I'm in arrears?
 
Caveat Emptor - let the buyer beware. There are tons of complaints regarding them and you still went and ordered the service, that wasn't very smart.

Take a look at Saol's uncapped for R499 a month. Its the only cheap uncapped solution that lives up to its promise.

J

You're right - not very smart - BUT , they made assurances to me via email everything was in order. Also , where are all these complaints ? I don't have the time to go through hundreds of posts on MyBB - some of which ( of the one's I did go through ) were positive I might add - They said their stuff would be ok in Jan , some peeps said they're working fine.. what are we to do? Anyways , cancel/reverse debit order. No loss , but for a bit of nuisance factor.
I will consider saol , thanks.
 
Well I too am giving up. Technic does not answer so called sales and on third attempt after being cut off got through and again was told they are doing maintainance! I have yet to get anything above 190kbps that on a 4Mbps line shocking and who do we complain to?
 
Now, if no one answers the phone, no one in accounts is prepared to call back, what do I do, wait for the nasty emails to say I'm in arrears?

THAT my dear friend is the biggest issue right now.

no one is saying squat and my connection has been terrible for 3 days.

I was also of course a bit skeptical of their https website which wasn't actually very safe.

Ho Humm though. I doubt my debit has gone off yet.
 
I will try this evening and then block the DO till they fix it. Rather spend my money on afrihost as I know I get good speed and service, the only issue is missing cap
 
THAT my dear friend is the biggest issue right now.

no one is saying squat and my connection has been terrible for 3 days.

I was also of course a bit skeptical of their https website which wasn't actually very safe.

Ho Humm though. I doubt my debit has gone off yet.

Anyone tried to access their usage site as well? That also gives off some certification error as well.
 
any idea how many subscriber Screamer have signed up so far?

It has been mentioned that they signed up more subs than their network can handle - but what is that number?
I signed up in the last week of December, and my username has a number therein that may be reflective of the number of subs. so I could be sub number 3400 odd.

Is that alot?
 
DigiChilli and Screamer, both in the same boat. Talk about "cold" and "silent":p
 
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DigiChilli and Screamer, both in the same boat. Talk about "cold" and "silent":p

An ideal marriage, then.
For all intents and purposes they could be. We dont know who the directors shareholders behind these companies are.
 
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