Which Openweb?

Qwikslver said:
I'm also on Shaped.

It really is the best uncapped for the price.
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Yeah at R1799/m for the 10Mbps account it's not happening, I pull around 200GB on average a month on my 10Mbps line and I haven't been managed on my Axxess account that costs R495/m since the new CPT and DBN IPC has been live.
 
grim said:
Yeah at R1799/m for the 10Mbps account it's not happening, I pull around 200GB on average a month on my 10Mbps line and I haven't been managed on my Axxess account that costs R495/m since the new CPT and DBN IPC has been live.
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Only 200gb on a 10mb account? I pull that on my 1mb Openweb Gold Shaped uncapped account each month.

If you've got such low bandwidth requirements then I think something like Axxess will suit you.
 
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K3NS31 said:
OK, so just to clarify - Gold shaped, and you get good speeds during office hours, including with torrents (obviously one doesn't expect full speed), and full speed after hours?
About what time does the speed increase usually? 6? Cos on Mweb it's like 9 or later usually.
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Speeds are usually excellent during the day. Most days I don't even notice I'm being shaped. This week the shaping dropped my torrents from 100kbps to 90. The worst I've seen yet is 50kbps during office hours, and that was months ago. Haven't seen such aggressive shaping in a while.

As for when shaping lifts, it depends on network load but usually any time from 5PM to 8PM at the very latest.
 
I'm on Openweb's '10mb Gamer King / Downloader Bling' special account. It is 'Standard' during business hours and 'Gold' after hours, with gaming traffic prioritized 24/7 on their 'Platinum' level.

It's just gone after 6pm and I'm already unshaped (international NNTP / Astraweb downloading at max line speed). They definitely unshape way earlier than Mweb
 
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Well, I'm definitely not same kind of performance / lack of shaping as you guys on my trial account, which is a standard uncapped. So it'll have to be Gold then.
 
Zewp said:
Only 200gb on a 10mb account? I pull that on my 1mb Openweb Gold Shaped uncapped account each month.

If you've got such low bandwidth requirements then I think something like Axxess will suit you.
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I don't watch a lot of series, like 3 or 4 maybe so it's max 8 episodes or so a month and movies is like one every couple of months. Mostly just stream doccies off YT in 720p or 1080p if it's available.
 
Update if anyone's interested - Wasn't too happy with the standard account, so I ended up going for the Easter special on the Gold account. Still busy testing (only got it yesterday), but here are my results so far:

Weird performance on torrents yesterday evening. Started one at 6:15pm - maxxed out my line and finished in an hour. Started another (popular, very high seed count) 10 minutes later. SLOW. (30KB/s on a 1meg line)

Today, tested some Youtube - k@k fast. Suddenly I can stream 480p without needing to buffer. Sweet.
Even better, found a better speedtest than speedtest.net, for real-world downloading anyway. Check it out: http://testmy.net
Here's my result from 10 minutes ago: http://testmy.net/Nj4wDO7.png

Anyway, so far pretty happy - need to do more testing of torrents after yesterday's strangeness tho. Will download a later and report back. Obviously slow torrents would be a killer. Dunno who else to try though, so it better work out.
 
RoMark said:
You get 1.6Mbps on a 1Mbps line?
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That's what I was thinking. Then I thought - bad calculation on the website? But it actually was downloading the test file really quickly.
So I reckon it's just Telkom's incompetence at setting the speeds on their lines.
 
K3NS31 said:
That's what I was thinking. Then I thought - bad calculation on the website? But it actually was downloading the test file really quickly.
So I reckon it's just Telkom's incompetence at setting the speeds on their lines.
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I think that site is messed. I test my homeline (2MB) and it says my download rate is 0.67MB. I run mybroadbands speed test and I get 1.73MB, I test a download and I'm pulling 205kbps.

Go figure :confused:
 
Gboss said:
I think that site is messed. I test my homeline (2MB) and it says my download rate is 0.67MB. I run mybroadbands speed test and I get 1.73MB, I test a download and I'm pulling 205kbps.

Go figure :confused:
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shrug, only used it that once. What size file did you test with? I used a 25MB.
 
K3NS31 said:
shrug, only used it that once. What size file did you test with? I used a 25MB.
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Thanks K3NS31, I didnt select a file size for the test. I'll try set the test file size to 25MB and let yuou know.

EDIT: Ran the test on Auto again and then using a 25MB file. Auto results showed 0.653MB and custom 25MB produced 1.1MB. So def using a custom 25MB did improve results thanks.

What I did notice is that the test site is "dallas.testmy.net" this might explain the lower speeds as its testing international.
 
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So I've decided I'll be hanging onto this account. Pulled the trigger on cancelling Mweb.
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I recently jumped ship from Mweb as well. Since you have to give 30 days notice on cancellation, be sure to notify them of cancellation and once the cancellation has been confirmed, downgrade the account to the cheapest option possible before the 25th! If you wait till after the 25th you can still do the downgrade, but then you'll have the full amount debited and then you'll get a credit on your account that you need to ask them to transfer back through. This takes about two weeks according to their accounts department, and I've waited a week so far.
 
Wow. Thanks for that. I knew about the 30 days notice but not about downgrading the account. Great idea
 
Dunno how much a normal human being can download and absorb in a day. For normal downloading and flawless service i vote for openweb. You may have a hiccup or 2 in the beginning but once you get hold of KEOMA and he check on your requests/problem he normally sort out any issues very quickly and then i dare say you wont look back or around for another ISP.

OPENWEB all the way for me
 
Oh, in the spirit of reporting back, if anybody's still interested.
Still getting a bit more shaping than expected on torrents after hours on weekdays, although it's generally fast, and definitely better than I was getting on Mweb.
Also, as per the article on MyBB the other day, the SEACOM cable break hasn't actually been fixed, so we (SA) probably aren't back to full international capacity yet anyway. So we'll see what happens on that front come May.

However - my streaming speeds (esp from Youtube) are FAST. I can now stream 480p from Youtube without manually buffering first (pause the vid) - ON A 1 MEG LINE!!
VERY nice. So I ended up spending more for my bandwidth account, but now I won't be thinking about upgrading my line speed everytime I stream a video. So I'm kinda actually saving.
 
K3NS31 said:
Oh, in the spirit of reporting back, if anybody's still interested.
Still getting a bit more shaping than expected on torrents after hours on weekdays, although it's generally fast, and definitely better than I was getting on Mweb.
Also, as per the article on MyBB the other day, the SEACOM cable break hasn't actually been fixed, so we (SA) probably aren't back to full international capacity yet anyway. So we'll see what happens on that front come May.

However - my streaming speeds (esp from Youtube) are FAST. I can now stream 480p from Youtube without manually buffering first (pause the vid) - ON A 1 MEG LINE!!
VERY nice. So I ended up spending more for my bandwidth account, but now I won't be thinking about upgrading my line speed everytime I stream a video. So I'm kinda actually saving.
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Now imagine if you were on a 2meg line and a GOLD account :D
 
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