In downloading over weekends and evenings - and not through the whole night, I've done 235GB on MWEB in April. I suggest you go with Axcess Express +++ Platinum Premium SuperSize. The rest of us will go one with our meager DLs on R899 pm line rental included.
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In downloading over weekends and evenings - and not through the whole night, I've done 235GB on MWEB in April. I suggest you go with Axcess Express +++ Platinum Premium SuperSize. The rest of us will go one with our meager DLs on R899 pm line rental included.
marine1
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Guys I mailed Axxess and got this response. Does this sound right? I have a mate on the R1499-00 package ( 512kbps [256Kbps upload]R1499.00) and he gets 4mb speeds after hours and on weekends and does about 600 gis per month but this is what they told me:
Hi,
The type of system you are looking for is our Express Plus account, on which the rate limiting falls away after hours and over weekends. On our Uncapped Shaped accounts, they are permanently shaped and they will always run at the speed of the account you sign up for.
So how is it that people on the 512kbps account get full 4mb speeds after hours?
Hi,
The type of system you are looking for is our Express Plus account, on which the rate limiting falls away after hours and over weekends. On our Uncapped Shaped accounts, they are permanently shaped and they will always run at the speed of the account you sign up for.
So how is it that people on the 512kbps account get full 4mb speeds after hours?
Oh really?!? Funny everywhere in the world they still have fair usage policies on uncapped accounts. It might be much higher than what it is currently in SA but then again BW is much much cheaper in those countries. We are getting there though I think. I still maintain 150GB - 200GB for SA is a good start. Less is most definitely not good. More is first prize of course. That will happen eventually!! Doing 1TB per month is just
They have fair usage policies because everything flat rated is limited in the fine print. In practice however, most 1st world country users do not get capped or rather it's not a problem one hears about. Then again there is only so much a person can download to watch or to hoard even if your whole family watches something else.
It is possible to do >1TB per month on MWEB but only a obnoxious fanatic would do that.
Just be careful with that, they catch you with the fine print... yes you do get:
But there is a rolling threshold limit, and if you cross that your line gets throttled to ISDN speeds....
That's a bit rough in my opinion. Mweb is just far superior to this offering from Axxess. My advice is just get Downstorm or AreoVPN or similar then download full speed day and night with Mweb for a lot less.
marine1
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But then, again on their page how do some get to download 800 gigs plus ? Doesnt make sense does it?
czc
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What if you believe in Redundancy? :erm:
RogueRunner
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Of what? :wtf:
As an access circuit it's #1 a business account and #2 if you do that much traffic on your redundant link fire your primary ISP!!!
On a sidenote, these okes that do 500GB+ each month. Have you guys heard of WUG's? It's free and will most certainly give you what you need at great speeds most of the time.
marine1
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Been there done that, a waste of a lot of time and some money. Speeds are only good if you have LOS to a site near you. I tried and tried.
killadoob
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Marine as far as i know axxess if full speed at night, throttled to 384 or 512 during office hours.