Uncapped ADSL now the norm: MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw

[biatch30]

I would think you bypassed their rules no?

I also thought something was up but they confirmed telephonically for 'abuse'. I rechecked their Acceptable Use Policy and it mentions something about 'You may not use service for unattended automated operation, unless otherwise agreed.' So there goes any form of download unless you're always stationed at your PC.

 

[biatch30]

As far as I know the only things that will get Mweb on your case are persistent months of extreme usage (450GB+) and VPN and https connections. Does this apply to you? I've been using a torrent-to-http service for over a year with minimum monthly usage around 250GB and maximum just over 500GB. Haven't heard a squeak from Mweb.

Also doing mainly torrents on my side. I tried a VPN connection but gave up on the first day as I experienced login problems. This was 2 months ago. I don't monitor the line as extensively though I do think it would be over 300-400GB, can't really confirm entirely. It may possibly be excessive abuse but then handle it tastefully. Maybe 500GB is the benchmark to work comfortably against then.

 

[Chevron]

Also doing mainly torrents on my side. I tried a VPN connection but gave up on the first day as I experienced login problems. This was 2 months ago. I don't monitor the line as extensively though I do think it would be over 300-400GB, can't really confirm entirely. It may possibly be excessive abuse but then handle it tastefully. Maybe 500GB is the benchmark to work comfortably against then.

How do you find the time to watch all you download?

 

[Bryn]

How do you find the time to watch all you download?

I get around to watching what I download not long after, unless it's not for me. Some people do download anything they can find that remotely interests them though, without a hope of watching it all in their lifetime.

 

[LazyLion]

How do you find the time to watch all you download?

I think you will find that most people with uncapped accounts are downloading for their entire families viewing and several other friends also.
so yeah, it's not about only what the downloader watches. It's about what ten or so different people want to watch.
In that sense downloading becomes extremely cost effective for multiple people.

 

[LazyLion]

These are my transfer stats.. pretty much night time downloading only.
It is not counting my daytime usage.

Download Summary
Period Start Period End Days Bytes GB
06/06/2010 07/06/2010 29.62 624,155,236,515 624.16
07/06/2010 08/06/2010 31.00 532,583,001,749 532.58
08/06/2010 09/06/2010 31.00 445,298,934,518 445.30
09/06/2010 10/06/2010 30.00 349,611,201,332 349.61
10/06/2010 11/06/2010 31.00 206,863,686,185 206.86
11/06/2010 12/06/2010 30.04 226,651,294,228 226.65
12/06/2010 01/06/2011 31.00 486,973,199,628 486.97
01/06/2011 02/06/2011 31.00 499,747,687,135 499.75
02/06/2011 03/06/2011 28.00 596,932,171,366 596.93
03/06/2011 04/06/2011 30.96 623,649,803,780 623.65
04/06/2011 05/06/2011 30.00 568,810,178,773 568.81
05/06/2011 06/06/2011 31.00 600,541,046,798 600.54
06/06/2011 07/06/2011 30.00 570,122,446,948 570.12
07/06/2011 08/06/2011 31.00 585,920,638,271 585.92
08/06/2011 09/06/2011 31.00 462,246,915,035 462.25
09/06/2011 10/06/2011 30.00 476,609,279,841 476.61
10/06/2011 11/06/2011 31.00 576,328,682,362 576.33
11/06/2011 12/06/2011 30.04 485,635,947,033 485.64
12/06/2011 01/06/2012 31.00 236,616,784,538 236.62
01/06/2012 02/06/2012 31.00 450,699,097,573 450.70
02/06/2012 03/06/2012 29.00 408,334,122,646 408.33
03/06/2012 04/06/2012 30.96 470,163,048,649 470.16
04/06/2012 05/06/2012 30.00 401,028,323,415 401.03
05/06/2012 06/06/2012 31.00 532,410,702,421 532.41
06/06/2012 07/06/2012 30.00 418,260,121,141 418.26
07/06/2012 07/14/2012 8.28 131,211,603,701 131.21
06/06/2010 07/14/2012 768.89 11,967,405,155,581 11,967.41

I'm sure that's pretty average these days for guys who are on uncapped.

The point is... what this proves is that families are now getting the majority of their entertainment from the Internet Directly and bypassing all other sources. If we had a Hulu or Netflix service in SA, I would be spending my money on an unlimited plan from them rather than a Newsgroup service.

 

[biatch30]

How do you find the time to watch all you download?

Been a little busy here, been watching some series

The ironic thing is, I have downloaded most of what I wanted so I wouldn't need to keep the connection running continuously. I do feel that if we all had TRUE uncapped, with unshaped and without all the funny things they introduce to cap a person indirectly, one does run out of things to download.

I don't do the downloading for everyone bit, you lend a hand and they take the whole arm.

 

[biatch30]

Garyvdh - are you on a month to month with MWEB or bound to a contract?

 

[LazyLion]

Garyvdh - are you on a month to month with MWEB or bound to a contract?

I'm on a month to month with OpenWeb.