WebAfrica Capped ADSL

[Fulton17]

I have W Business Capped at home and get the same download speeds 24/7 off news servers (paid) and torrentz . Just saying.

Same. No issues with downloads or streaming.

I did test a Business pro account and flew during the day and after hours was terrible. The worst was during DL+ hours when it crawled.

I am a home user who wants on the very odd occassion, to know that I can DL an episode now and watch it. With the speeds I get on a capped account, this is impossible.

Thank you both for your suggestion, but why should I pay premiun rates to get a basic service? I think this is just playing into WA hands. Yes if I wanted to DL lots of stuff during various hours, I could understand, but for the odd DL, no ways am I going to pay extra for this "privilige"

Sadly I think this is one of those discussions that will never have a final resolution unless I move from a inferior ISP to a quality business.

Maybe WA needs to introduce star rating on their capped accounts?? A hybrid capped account that restricts/rewards like a uncapped account.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I did test a Business pro account and flew during the day and after hours was terrible. The worst was during DL+ hours when it crawled.

I am a home user who wants on the very odd occassion, to know that I can DL an episode now and watch it. With the speeds I get on a capped account, this is impossible.

Thank you both for your suggestion, but why should I pay premiun rates to get a basic service? I think this is just playing into WA hands. Yes if I wanted to DL lots of stuff during various hours, I could understand, but for the odd DL, no ways am I going to pay extra for this "privilige"

Sadly I think this is one of those discussions that will never have a final resolution unless I move from a inferior ISP to a quality business.

Maybe WA needs to introduce star rating on their capped accounts?? A hybrid capped account that restricts/rewards like a uncapped account.

Not Business Pro. I have a normal Business Capped account. 200Gb + 1 TB . I pay R289 per month. Hardly a premium rate.

 

[Praeses]

Not Business Pro. I have a normal Business Capped account. 200Gb + 1 TB . I pay R289 per month. Hardly a premium rate.

Just 45% more expensive...might as well go for a CW account at that price.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Just 45% more expensive...might as well go for a CW account at that price.

You see R 92.44 as too much money to pay extra, per month, for a better, faster service? Jirre, I'm sure all the money you save on DSTV and buying Blu-Rays, more than make up for that paltry amount.

 

[Praeses]

You see R 92.44 as too much money to pay extra, per month, for a better, faster service? Jirre, I'm sure all the money you save on DSTV and buying Blu-Rays, more than make up for that paltry amount.

Mind donating me R92.44 per month? I'm a poor student.

 

[wingnut771]

Thanks Praeses. I do most of my downloads via news servers and generally in DL+ hours. My annoyance is that this capped account cant let me do the odd DL during the day at anything faster than about 10%. Sadly I think WA is cutting corners.

When I move it would probably be to someone like CW or Vox

FYI: Vox don't have a news server.

 

[wingnut771]

I have W Business Capped at home and get the same download speeds 24/7 off news servers (paid) and torrentz . Just saying.

Are you in Durban?

 

[Fulton17]

Not Business Pro. I have a normal Business Capped account. 200Gb + 1 TB . I pay R289 per month. Hardly a premium rate.

You see R 92.44 as too much money to pay extra, per month, for a better, faster service? Jirre, I'm sure all the money you save on DSTV and buying Blu-Rays, more than make up for that paltry amount.

I pay R 499 for my 10 meg line as well as 200gig + 1TB cap; the same deal you are talking about would cost me give or take R 700.

I personally don't have DSTV as it is a waste of money; yes R 200 at present is quite a big amount for me.

When I do change I would rather give someone like CW a go as generally they seem to be the go to guys for quality products and for their great on line presence, I would want to reward them for that

BTW, where are you based?

 

[Fulton17]

FYI: Vox don't have a news server.

I also use astraweb, so that would be fine.

Thanks Wingnut

 

[wingnut771]

I also use astraweb, so that would be fine.

Thanks Wingnut

No problem, you're welcome

 

[Fulton17]

21.45 and my DL is running at just over 100KBs - this on a Friday night. Not even 10% of my line speed

 

[Thor]

Same here. Connection is dead

 

[Thor]

Mybb is lagging like a mofo and there will be no YouTube tonight

 

[FFF]

Hi FFF

Please PM me your account details and I will get our guys to assist

The problem resolved itself that evening, apparently it was a Telkom issue affecting users in our area.

But now another problem... we scheduled to have our data changed from the home 300 GB @R299 to the business 200GB @ R289 on the 25 of August but this request seem to have been forgotten.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Are you in Durban?

I pay R 499 for my 10 meg line as well as 200gig + 1TB cap; the same deal you are talking about would cost me give or take R 700.

I personally don't have DSTV as it is a waste of money; yes R 200 at present is quite a big amount for me.

When I do change I would rather give someone like CW a go as generally they seem to be the go to guys for quality products and for their great on line presence, I would want to reward them for that

BTW, where are you based?

Cape Town Northern Suburbs.

 

[wingnut771]

Cape Town Northern Suburbs.

This proves that an apple in one region doesn't equal an apple in another region.

 

[Fulton17]

Cape Town Northern Suburbs.

Please see below. I think Durban has cpacity issues and hence poor performance

This proves that an apple in one region doesn't equal an apple in another region.

 

[Fulton17]

Sunday night; 21:18

My capped account is not even managing 15% of line speeds on my DL from the news servers.

This is a best effort service from WA, so this is really scary.

Sadly I would not recommend WA to anyone if this is the best they can do

 

[Praeses]

Sunday night; 21:18

My capped account is not even managing 15% of line speeds on my DL from the news servers.

This is a best effort service from WA, so this is really scary.

Sadly I would not recommend WA to anyone if this is the best they can do

Which server?

 

[Fulton17]

Which server?

I use both the free servers as well as astraweb

During DL+ hours i get full speeds