Seacom downtime update

[droplet]

i am mweb 4mbit uncapped. i could not be happier. my speedtest is ALWAYS (yes, EVERY time) at 6mbit or higher download (up to 7). my torrents are never shaped. i use 300GB/month.

i really could not be happier.

 

[mercurial]

i am mweb 4mbit uncapped. i could not be happier. my speedtest is ALWAYS (yes, EVERY time) at 6mbit or higher (up go 7). my torrents are never shaped. i use 300GB/month.

i really could not be happier.

Looks like they rig their system somehow for the speedtests... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=515518

 

[droplet]

Looks like they rig their system somehow for the speedtests... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=515518

i frequently see over 700MB/s on torrents, so i believe it...

 

[mercurial]

i frequently see over 700MB/s on torrents, so i believe it...

The torrents are rigged

 

[Sonic2k]

I have a MWEB uncapped product.. use it at home, its not a business account.

Everything local, including this forum, loads blazing fast.

Everything overseas, is totally screwed, takes like 1/2 an hour to load a page.
The following doesn't work for me:
Google (very slow)
Wikipedia.org (very slow but loads after hitting F5 several times)

If it is proven to be indeed true that as a home user, I am getting the shaft and MWEB business accounts have bandwidth to overseas sites, I will take MWEB to task.

 

[droplet]

today sites are very uneven: google slow, datingbuzz, news24 slow, facebook slow. cricingo fast, mybroadband fast, reddit fast.

 

[Enrom]

i am mweb 4mbit uncapped. i could not be happier. my speedtest is ALWAYS (yes, EVERY time) at 6mbit or higher download (up to 7). my torrents are never shaped. i use 300GB/month.

i really could not be happier.

I've only had this package for a month, but I have to agree based on my experience.

 

[Spamhater]

http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/adsl_network/?src=nav

Just to confirm i'm unaffected , my internet speed in flying this afternoon im with ISP Afrihost

 

[Bryn]

I have a MWEB uncapped product.. use it at home, its not a business account.

Everything local, including this forum, loads blazing fast.

Everything overseas, is totally screwed, takes like 1/2 an hour to load a page.
The following doesn't work for me:
Google (very slow)
Wikipedia.org (very slow but loads after hitting F5 several times)

If it is proven to be indeed true that as a home user, I am getting the shaft and MWEB business accounts have bandwidth to overseas sites, I will take MWEB to task.

No offence, but how old are you?

- Anyone can take out a business ADSL account
- Use Bing if Google is too slow
- Why would you wait half an hour for a page to load?
- Obviously business users will get preferential treatment. They pay much more than you do, and possibly need it more.
- You won't be taking Mweb to task. Option one is stay and option two is leave. Mweb Guy is available if you need a shoulder to cry on.

You could take 5 minutes and get yourself up and running on an Axxess 5GB account. Oh wait, I forgot it takes you 12 hours to change your router settings.

 

[Zacharyne]

Following Bryn's example, I've obtained both an Openweb and Axxess trial accounts, but after putting them into the router settings and getting 'connection established' (no user/pass error), I still don't have any internet access.

Any ideas?

 

[AthenianOwl]

No offence, but how old are you?

- Anyone can take out a business ADSL account
- Use Bing if Google is too slow
- Why would you wait half an hour for a page to load?
- Obviously business users will get preferential treatment. They pay much more than you do, and possibly need it more.
- You won't be taking Mweb to task. Option one is stay and option two is leave. Mweb Guy is available if you need a shoulder to cry on.

You could take 5 minutes and get yourself up and running on an Axxess 5GB account. Oh wait, I forgot it takes you 12 hours to change your router settings.

That's totally irrelevant :/

 

[HApyM3al]

I don't get it - I have a 2Mbps MWEB uncapped home account and I have been streaming Hulu and Youtube all weekend. So it seems their redundancy via other cable systems seems to be working. I wish it were better though.

weird seeing as on 2mbps uncapped and cant even open hulu

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

All weekend, international sites have been ***. Gmail, FB, etc. MWEB uncapped. A friend across town is also enduring the same, and he works high up in Naspers...

 

[cybershark]

All weekend, international sites have been ***. Gmail, FB, etc. MWEB uncapped. A friend across town is also enduring the same, and he works high up in Naspers...

Hopefully he'll kickstart something

 

[Bryn]

Following Bryn's example, I've obtained both an Openweb and Axxess trial accounts, but after putting them into the router settings and getting 'connection established' (no user/pass error), I still don't have any internet access.

Any ideas?

I had issues with the Axxess account that were resolved by leaving the router off for 10 minutes.

That's totally irrelevant :/

It just doesn't seem like I'm conversing with an adult.

 

[Bern]

weird seeing as on 2mbps uncapped and cant even open hulu

Try Hola unblocker for Firefox or Chrome It deals with that "US only" rubbish.

But I must say various other services are all over the place, I hope MWEB divest more in to WACS and EASSY to reduce the reliance on Seacom for bulk traffic.