So everyone is going back to MWEB now???

Afrihost Business Uncapped - never been happier - everything just works several magnitudes better than MWeb ever could offer (and this just on a 4mbps ADSL line)
 
I have to admit I was wrong.
I traded a short term gain for a long term loss.
I can live with the softcap. I cannot, however live with the crap connection provided by OpenWeb where I can't even use GMail properly.

My original argument with MWEB was the softcap, however I would rather have a stable connection and watch my usage, than have a mediocre connection because Internet Solutions is a crap ISP!
 
No problems with Openweb here.

Of course people will still make use of Mweb despite their douchery, just like quite a few immediately went out and got themselves e-tags. No backbone ..
 
Koosi said:
I have to admit I was wrong.
I traded a short term gain for a long term loss.
I can live with the softcap. I cannot, however live with the crap connection provided by OpenWeb where I can't even use GMail properly.

My original argument with MWEB was the softcap, however I would rather have a stable connection and watch my usage, than have a mediocre connection because Internet Solutions is a crap ISP!
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You do know that Internet Solutions is just a backbone provider and the ISPs can create their own accounts with different shaping profiles right?
 
My choice of ISP has nothing to do with backbone or lack thereof.
MWEB's policies are questionable, no need to repeat that ad-nauseum.

This is about having a workable, stable internet connection. When I was with MWEB, this is what I got, an internet connection that gave me ZERO issues, not even packet loss. With OpenWeb, I am throttled, even outside of throttling hours, and they do all kinds of funny things, they are doing either some kind of filtering, or packet prioritisation that causes adding attachments to GMail to fail, and I am all of a sudden getting complaints from the other family members that Facebook and Youtube is up to crap.

If they want to soft-cap, that's OK, they are entitled to do it. If it means I get back to be able to doing mission-critical stuff from home, then so be it, I'll live with the softcap, it's not going to KILL ME!
 
Chevron said:
You do know that Internet Solutions is just a backbone provider and the ISPs can create their own accounts with different shaping profiles right?
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Yes I do... I am well aware of that.
OpenWeb blame Telkom and my line, when in fact my line works BETTER on a trial account from Axxess, which proves my point.
 
You are entitled to how you feel, and I am not going to insult or diss anyone anymore about these playground squabbles.
If your ISP works for you, congratulations mate, but your ISP does NOT work for me. Going with what I know works, and that is MWEB.
 
Oj0 said:
How is it a fail if, to this day, I have never had an issue with them? Every time my ADSL has been offline it has been a regional Telkom issue, I've never been shaped, I've never been throttled, I get 106 KB/s on a 1 Mbps account.
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Never downloaded more than 50GB either i assume
 
techead said:
Im reading lots of posts of people that had jumped ship after the MWEB saga, are now going back to MWEB after trying a number of other ISP's

After all the anger, all the flaming and signature changes to "click here to cancel MWEB" I find this quite amusing.

So who is man enough to own up to going back to MWEB?

:D
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Happy with Afrihost thanks. ADSL is the one thing they're good at!
 
Koosi said:
My choice of ISP has nothing to do with backbone or lack thereof.
MWEB's policies are questionable, no need to repeat that ad-nauseum.

This is about having a workable, stable internet connection. When I was with MWEB, this is what I got, an internet connection that gave me ZERO issues, not even packet loss. With OpenWeb, I am throttled, even outside of throttling hours, and they do all kinds of funny things, they are doing either some kind of filtering, or packet prioritisation that causes adding attachments to GMail to fail, and I am all of a sudden getting complaints from the other family members that Facebook and Youtube is up to crap.

If they want to soft-cap, that's OK, they are entitled to do it. If it means I get back to be able to doing mission-critical stuff from home, then so be it, I'll live with the softcap, it's not going to KILL ME!
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There are more options than just OW and MWEB. I'm with AH and couldn't be happier. Currently do about 400Gb a month and not a moment's worry about being throttled to 56k.
 
Crowley said:
There are more options than just OW and MWEB. I'm with AH and couldn't be happier. Currently do about 400Gb a month and not a moment's worry about being throttled to 56k.
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Let's see...
Axxess... shapes torrents
Afrihost... too many bad reports, the hatred is much higher than for other ISPs excluding MWEB
Telkom... not an option.. have client who has them and I am sick and tired of going there to "fix" the ADSL i.e. me phoning them and crapping them out from a dizzy height.
Cybersmart... what a joke. So bad even my old fossilized parents complain.
 
Koosi said:
Let's see...
Axxess... shapes torrents
Afrihost... too many bad reports, the hatred is much higher than for other ISPs excluding MWEB
Telkom... not an option.. have client who has them and I am sick and tired of going there to "fix" the ADSL i.e. me phoning them and crapping them out from a dizzy height.
Cybersmart... what a joke. So bad even my old fossilized parents complain.
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Then you have a problem.

If there is a problem with one of your client's ADSL line which always has to be fixed, then that is a fixed line issue. Not the ISP.
 
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