No offense HTC_guy but on a personal level I find your posts a little short-sighted. This is not a rant forum but a constructive and informative forum.
Seeing as you have 1,500+ posts I would hope that you've read the multiple threads on contention ratios, Telkom network issues, general network overloading and the massive rise in bandwidths used by the new subscribers takign up the cheaper uncapped accounts. This is effecting all companies/ISPs/Tier 1's and Teir 2's. I've spent a very large amount of my personal time over the last 10 days trying to help people understnad the products, differences, issues and pitfalls that the new products have brought about in South Africa. Not just from a user angle but from the business, reseller and heirarchies that are involved.
Was South Africa ready for this?
A resounding 'no' can be the only answer. Are the Tier 1 providers trying their best? It would seem that they are trying... and their best is always relative to service level you are used to. Will the network and infrastructure be able to deal with this? Maybe but it's going to take a lot of companies, who all link together to form the SA local internet, a lot of hard work to perfect it.
MWeb have opened a can of worms that i doubt even they expected and so everyone is runnign with it to the best of their abiltiy. The Teir 2 providers from Afrihost, Imagine, Axxess and all the others should be helping the Tier 1's to do this. I know that I the tech guys in my company are spending hours on feedback and updates and help to improve things. I don't agree with Afrihost taking on the Tier 1 role by shaping their own bandwidth but that's their call. The point is that not one provider can say 'this is our network and how it works right now'.
To be honest, if you'd read all of these threads previously, you should be thanking Webonline for giving you an honest answer and telling you to wait.
... or maybe you want to flame me and my company for laying it out straight and honestly to you as well?
