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Dominic Rooney said:
Hmm..it seems this UUNet service is getting looking less and less like a value for money thing as it was originally advertised as a unshaped service [except for P2P, which is fine by me]
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Perhaps its because it was unshaped during the early phase of trials. Where did you see it advertised as unshaped?
 
It was advertised as unshaped. That and the uncapped made me to sign up.

Except for the p2p I did not realise any other shaping so fare. And even the p2p ist still usable, specially over night.
 
Icykal said:
Okay
These accounts are UNCAPPED and UNSHAPED on most ports . I say most ports because some of the P2P software ports have been shapred to prevent excessive abuse of these accounts .
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First post in this thread.
 
Well seeing as UUNET have not advertised once me thinks that there was no "official" word about shaping. I speak from experience and a mate playing WoW on US servers and a ping of 250 strongly suggests that there is no throttle on gaming protocols, jees at a whooping 5Kps max a game would use, wtf would be the point. Only Telkom is stupid enough to think there would be a point and throttle it.
 
James son, i do not see how a linux box on my side is going to allow me to have 2 external ip address's
 
bboy said:
James son, i do not see how a linux box on my side is going to allow me to have 2 external ip address's
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Out of interest why do you need two IP's to serve? Couldnt you set it up to to TOS (type of service) ie per-protocol QOS?
 
basically because i have one machine which i use to stuff around a lot on, its up and down and hosts many different applications, mostly actually accepts connections from my cellphone via gprs and does stuff for me, but its got its own website etc etc, then my other machine hosts my mail and a website, more businessey side, little traffic though hence i use adsl. its not a public website, its just for my business employee's.

anyway its so much simpler to maintain all of this and make changes if you have them on total seperate paths, it makes life pain free.
 
Its Dynamic and a force reconnect also applies.

Webafrica advertise it having no 24hr reconnections, they are wrong.

Webafrica please dont put offers on that you pull out of your thumbs, cause it looks allmost like a marketing tactic than anything else.
 
Clipse said:
Its Dynamic and a force reconnect also applies.
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Thanks for bringing that to our attention. We just confirmed this with the technicians and the product site has been updated. This was simply a mistake on our side.

The intention is to market a product as close to what it is in reality and will continue to do so. This is also one of the reasons why we are offering trial accounts and do not require a contract so you can try it out for yourself.
 
wamatt - I apologise for the way I responded about your service. I read now and find it totally unncessary.

My sincere apologies.

ps. gimmemore - you can just get some dns software and hosting a non-critical website will be possible.
 
I have a LinkSys gateway that automatically connects to DynDNS to update your new IP everytime that it changes. The only question is whether the connection is stable enough to provide some sort of availaibility. I don't expect a 100% availability but if it is available most of the time it should be good enough.
 
hmmm after 2 days. I still find it slower than saix adsl. Some sites are ultra fast and others feel like my old 128k uninet connection. Which is all acceptable but just somehting of note. They are mostly international. International downloads during the day are slow. I took just over 2 hours 2 dl'd naruto 122 today. It normally take me and hour of saix. But even that is acceptable. At night things seem much faster as corporates are all not using it. Im not bad mouthing uunet service. As I said before its fair for the price!

local seems super fast tho. so hosting a site should be decent for non critical
 
Clipse said:
wamatt - I apologise for the way I responded about your service.
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No problem! You had a good point.

freeek said:
hmmm after 2 days. I still find it slower than saix adsl. Some sites are ultra fast and others feel like my old 128k uninet connection. Which is all acceptable but just somehting of note. They are mostly international. International downloads during the day are slow. I took just over 2 hours 2 dl'd naruto 122 today. It normally take me and hour of saix. But even that is acceptable. At night things seem much faster as corporates are all not using it. Im not bad mouthing uunet service. As I said before its fair for the price!

local seems super fast tho. so hosting a site should be decent for non critical
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I've noticed recently a few routing "funnies" some international sites seem a bit slow while others are really fast. Hopefully this will be addressed quickly. Remember also the product is still in early stage. UUnet are upgrading the lines as more users enter the network and speeds slow down.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought UUNET ADSL was specifically supposed to be bandwidth "managed" during business hours & unmanaged at night...?
 
No not completely blocked, basically everyone on P2P gets put on a shared line segment for those ports.

Also just an update the network is currently pretty packed with the huge influx of new users. There is a major upgrade in terms of bandwidth scheduled for next week so I would hold off until then if you thinking about signing up.
 
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