Hey all,
EDIT: Apologies for such a long post. Just sharing my feelings here!
I'm not here to bash Web Africa on their product, as I've been a happy customer of their's for years and they have always given me both good service and support. (which did include the odd downtime, but they usually sort that out quickly.)
I do have a few questions though that others here could possibly answer and / or anyone from Web Africa:
1) I'm sitting on a 384kbps line.
Does anyone have any idea on how much we are allowed to download past our threshold before we are "really abusing" the package? I ask, as it will be difficult and a little annoying to keep my downloading inside a certain time frame. I share this connection with both my Dad, and my sister who live in the same house with me. My dad likes to Youtube quite a bit, and does his bit of downloading. My sister especially will do some heavy downloading.. (using up a gig of normal bandwidth in a single night.) - besides all this, I would ALSO like to do some downloading.
This makes it a little awkward; I can tell my sister that she can download from 12 onwards, and she would most likely be fine with that, but then when exactly should I do mine? Unless I download during the day, I won't get very far as the speeds you get trying to pull multiple downloads through a 384, which are not pretty.
I'm not too worried, as I will most likely just download anyhow and suffer the threshold penalty, but I saw earlier in this thread that some were getting warning notices and such.. and I also dislike the fact that it is made out to be a bit of a bad thing that I'm using my uncapped because that means I'm apparently "not playing by the rules". Anyone?
I most likely sound like I -am- here to bash Web Africa, but I'm more just wanting to share my feedback and get some answers. My sister was wanting us to upgrade to uncapped for awhile now as we were spending quite a bit in bandwidth topups. (We must have paid Afrihost around R200+ and Web Africa R200+ last month alone. Excluding line rental) - I saw Web Africa had a good price, and thought I would try it. From reading a little on these forums it seems people are happier with Mweb, and I would really rather stay with Web Africa... but I need to go with what works.
2) Any idea how throttled speeds for gaming are compared to normal speeds, and what are everyone else's experiences? I was getting a ping of around 300 last night on TF2, I swapped to my free Afrihost gig, and my pings dropped to 40 to 100. I noticed I was throttled though, due to a mistaken idea that all downloading on the weekend didn't count. Don't ask me what gave that idea.. * - I do game, and would love to see proper speeds here.
(*Although - I think this is an awesome step in the right direction if you want to implement such a system, WA)
Lastly; a bit of feedback. The speeds seem to have been good over the weekend, even while throttled a bit. I started downloading at about 10 AM yesterday, and by around 6 PM I had downloaded around a gig. This in my opinion is quite good for a 384 line.
I'm happy about this! 