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grim said:
I can see why it's done like this, having a system that keeps track of every single user's usage per second on a byte level will require a lot of processing power and very very efficient code.
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WAJeff said:
Just to clear things up on the accounting systems side, there's also a fairly large dependant on SAIX on getting the packets through.
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Fair enough, I hear what you're saying.

I'm starting to think the problem is having one DL+ time slot for all users. When I'm downloading before midnight my speed goes flat-out. As soon as the clock strikes twelve downloads slow to a crawl and only start picking up speed a couple of hours later. Have you maybe thought about staggering the DL+ times? What about extending it to weekends? I would love to have that extra b/w available to use over the weekend, that would also mean I can spread out my downloads more. Just a suggestion :p

Edit: I must just add that speeds in general have improved greatly for me since the recent network upgrades. :)
 
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d7e7r7 said:
I've been having quite a few troubles with WA lately...
Isn't Mweb more expensive though? WA is handling my line as well, the package deal option...
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For the 1Mb/s uncapped yes(the 1 Mb line is far cheaper at WA R289 vs R200, the account only R10 cheaper), 4Mb/s which I'm on no it's the same price! R899

Oh ya and it's back up
 
Yes Web Africa were doing something this morning starting at exactly 3:00 that impacted users. I tried different DNSs but didn't work.
So I went to bed at 3:30. Now its working so it must have been maintenance as the webafrica sites itself was working during that period.
This is the first time I found they have been down during that hour so I will forgive them that.
 
d7e7r7 said:
I've been having quite a few troubles with WA lately...
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I'm jumping ship... I'm on the 1mb uncapped since the start of the year and its been up and mostly down experience. far as I can notice the shaping is done on random, sometimes when I'm within my threshold it runs at 50%. Other times I'm over it and it runs at 80%. Between 12AM and 6AM its the same story, I've gotten 100mb in total between 12AM and 3AM. The usage monitor just randomly doubles your usage... so where it should say 350mb it reports 700+ and kills your usage for the next 6 hours! :wtf:

Openweb Gold here I come!
 
Fulton17 said:
Thanks Jeff

News server - have those issues been resolved yet long term? Twice I tried DL and it was dead for hours.
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They should have been with the implementation of the new NNTP server up and running. I'm aware of a few glitches though, but these should be sorted out. If there are problems though, drop our ADSL guys a mail, they're dealing with testing and passing the relevant info onto the Engineering folks :)
 
WAJeff said:
They should have been with the implementation of the new NNTP server up and running. I'm aware of a few glitches though, but these should be sorted out. If there are problems though, drop our ADSL guys a mail, they're dealing with testing and passing the relevant info onto the Engineering folks :)
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Well this morning the news server was working very well!!

My WA account has been very stable. 7ms ping and constant decent download speeds. :)
 
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