FapCop
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Im guessing the thresholds are secret?
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Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Ok, since you can't answer that, will you be downloading 24/7 or only over night?
Do you watch a lot of Netflix/YouTube/Twitch?
FapCop
Expert Member
My usage is average 150GB+, but in cases of large updates, storage failures etc. it can increase. Random hours, mostly over night.
If a new road was being built and you had to enquire about the speed limit, would you find "how fast do you plan on driving" useful?
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
If a new restaurant was being built and I asked how much do you eat would it make better sense?
How much you eat shouldn't change.
Whether I have a 4, 6, or 10Meg account, or whether I have Home or Business my usage stays the same.
Anyway.
150GBs on a 2Meg line is quite a bit of line utilization.
You'll definitely need 2meg Business.
You could always also try running the 4meg Home account on your 2meg line to save a little cash.
FapCop
Expert Member
Nope. Every restaurant prints on the menu how many grams that R100 steak you're about to order is
how much bandwidth people use varies from month to month. Some months I buy 1 game from steam, some months 5 from xbox live. Some weekends I go away, others I sit on hulu all weekend. Knowing what's available to you is vital when it comes to planning your usage and helps a hell of a lot more when it comes to choosing what package to go for.
I've been looking at the signing up for a business account. My wife is going to be on leave for pretty much the whole of December and she streams a lot. Crossing fingers that it will be enough.
Woefkardoes
Member
Can anybody shed some light on what the thresholds for 2Mb home uncapped and businesses uncapped are?
I'm also thinking of changing to WebAfrica.
Should I rather get 2mb business account or 4mb home account?
Do not really download alot (p2p) but steam (when buying/dowloading games) and updates is done during the day. Would it be influenced if I only take a home account or is p2p more the thing thats being "shaped".
Thanks for any feedback.
Regards.
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Tinuva
The Magician
Going by that post, if you buy a capped account, you will know exactly how much usage is available to you, and you will know exactly how to plan it, no?Nope. Every restaurant prints on the menu how many grams that R100 steak you're about to order is
how much bandwidth people use varies from month to month. Some months I buy 1 game from steam, some months 5 from xbox live. Some weekends I go away, others I sit on hulu all weekend. Knowing what's available to you is vital when it comes to planning your usage and helps a hell of a lot more when it comes to choosing what package to go for.
I've been looking at the signing up for a business account. My wife is going to be on leave for pretty much the whole of December and she streams a lot. Crossing fingers that it will be enough.
FapCop
Expert Member
By your reasoning, why offer uncapped at all?
Get the 2Mbps uncapped and if you start to feel shaping, upgrade it? Upgrade is instant, but the shaping profile takes some time. I have no idea how long, I'm on capped. As far as I remember, the uncapped thresholds are not fixed, so WA can't give you numbers, but the rep here has made recommendations on previous requests like this, so you could perhaps search for those and compare.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Any downloads during the day will count towards your thresholds.
I would recommend only downloading your big games after you've gone to sleep.
Woefkardoes
Member
In other words doesn't matter which account I take? Just speed that's going to be the difference?
Thanks for the reply and help. Appreciate it.
FapCop
Expert Member
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
The difference is how much downloading you do during the day before you get shaped.
So if you watch a lot of Netflix when you get home, it's much better to go for business than home.
FapCop
Expert Member
One last question. Is there some kind of system in place that one can check out that will let you know if you need to slow down?
sybertiger
Expert Member
when you login you will see
a rateing system that tells you where u stand atm
from 5-1stars
or in business its in 3,green orange, red
a rateing system that tells you where u stand atm
from 5-1stars
or in business its in 3,green orange, red
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Yes there is a control panel. Home uses a 5 star system. Business a 3 level system.
But remember downloads at 00:00 NEVER EVER count.
FapCop
Expert Member
And that is until 6:00?
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Yes.
FapCop
Expert Member
Sold.
I had this, or some variation of it at least.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...dback?p=12918129&highlight=gmail#post12918129
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...949769&highlight=mail.google.com#post12949769
After I made some VPN changes, it was still happening but less frequently and only a while after I made those changes. Eventually I had too many DNS issues getting to hosts on the VPN (public and internal IPs differed), so I restored the VPN adapter order. I then decided to set my router's DNS cache TTL to 8 seconds. The first few times gmail did the slow-go thing, I imagined that it recovered faster, but pretty soon I realised it doesn't and so restored the DNS TTL.
All in all, only see it on WebAfrica too, but it happens far less frequently than it did before and nothing else is ever wrong, so while gmail sorts itself out, I just read some mybb
Sounds a lot like the same issue, except I'm not using a VPN, and I'm using WA's assigned DNS server. Seems to be all google services now, not just gmail. Very frustrating - everything else with the account is perfect.