Who is staying with iWorst?

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The new pricing system is absolutely ridiculous given the price drops of real broadband in the past couple of months. What is more is we'll have to be paying extra for the throttled service that was previously included in our subscription (and that we're contractually entitled to), so we'll be paying more for less.

Fortunately, there are now uncapped ADSL offerings ranging from about R399 per month (Screamer, line rental fee not included) to about R499 per month (SAOL, line rental fee included). I fail to see how putting up your prices amounts to competing.

If you want throttled wireless on iWorst, it seems that you'd have to subscribe for a 5 GB package (R592), and then pay an additional fee for the throttled service (R199), bringing you to a total of R790 :confused: (source: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/10586.html and their ambiguous and largely inane email notification a month or so ago (Subscription: R199 per month (applicable to packages of 5Gigs and above))).

Cute, that they take the per gig price and tell you that you're going to be saving, while in their shoddy email and in that article they stipulate that the throttled service is now a bolt-on plus they split up the per GB and data usage. Very creative accounting, but it's not really saving if you're paying more. Also, you'd be saving 63% if you switched to SAOL. That's ADSL rental fee included! All costs considered, not just per gig.

The new pricing system is thus not saving anything, regardless of which way you want to look at it, and to portray this new pricing as a saving appears to be deliberately deceptive.

Did I work this out correctly? Someone please verify because I intend on filing complaints with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, the press ombudsman and ICASA if iWorst is trying to portray their new pricing system as a saving when they're being deceptive with the numbers.

If you're also tired of this Mickey Mouse walkie-talkie scheme then I suggest you also get those keyboards fired up and send complaints because heaven knows trying to get a reply out of iWorst's help desk borders on masochism.

Is there anyone on this forum who intends on staying with iWorst? I've already contacted three different ADSL ISPs, all of whom returned my queries faster than iWorst ever responded to me, some of whom are willing to get an ADSL out of Telkom on my behalf! I'm not even their customer yet but it seems that I'll be there before the end of February (if iWorst remembers to cancel my account by then and then hopefully the authorities can have their field day with iWorst).
 
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You really think grass is greener on Screamer side open you eyes, they got even more problems and cant even support their very slow uncapped adsl. Check their forums.

I got no problems with iBurst and happy with them, so I am staying :)

Anyways im sick and tired of the moaning and whining on iBurst forums, cya.
 
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Yeah well , maybe they should sort their **** out and then there would be a lot more happy people........
 
There have been issues with Screamer and Digichilli in regards to teething but I signed up with Digichilli beginning this month and I almost could not be happier.

Still some issues in regards to protocols working as they should but my download count setting at a nice 48GB (and that's roughly half a month on them) reminds me again and again how much value I received compared to iBurst.
 
I'm staying with it. For reasons, see other related topics on that forum.
 
Basjohn said:
Still some issues in regards to protocols working as they should but my download count setting at a nice 48GB (and that's roughly half a month on them) reminds me again and again how much value I received compared to iBurst.
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May I take that as a recommendation from you for Digichilli? Or are you just saying it's less bad than iWorst?

Digichilli offers uncapped 256 kbps ADSL at R300, line rental not included. Line rental is about R150 so if I applied for Digichilli, I'd be paying R450 for uncapped ADSL. That's a saving of 56 % over the 64 kbps uncapped wireless option of iWorst, if I worked out their new pricing correctly.
 
ZombiePriest said:
May I take that as a recommendation from you for Digichilli? Or are you just saying it's less bad than iWorst?

Digichilli offers uncapped 256 kbps ADSL at R300, line rental not included. Line rental is about R150 so if I applied for Digichilli, I'd be paying R450 for uncapped ADSL. That's a saving of 56 % over the 64 kbps uncapped wireless option of iWorst, if I worked out their new pricing correctly.
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In the long run yes but right no I'd say hold back or use another uncapped if you can. Digichilli has been fantastic for me so far but after being in the digichilli bitchathon thread for over a hundred pages.......the experience isn't yet universal.

I also only download HTTP so I can't say how torrent performance is but HTTPwise I get 32-38kB speeds most of the time which means 80+ gigs per month of awesome. Haven't tried it but online gaming is probably not up to par *yet* either.

What I will say though is they're doing better than iBurst by leaps and bounds already with their genuinely competitive pricing, extremely lax stance on "contracts" and highly active stance on communication. (They kinda have their own Shaun Green.....except he uhhh *looks away awkwardly* calls people noobs from time to time....)
 
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I will be leaving iworst should they not decide to keep the throttle service free. already decided on the telkom do broadband... far better value for money .
 
I bought my way out of my contract. I’m just astonished iBurst is still in business. I know some Portuguese businessmen that have companies in SA. They say the reason they came to SA is because they can't run their hackjob shops in Madeira. That could explain it – You can peddle any crap in South Africa.
 
Hate to say I told you so...
But I left iBurst +-3 months ago and opted for 4MB/s ADSL.

No technical issues.
No billing issues.
Never needed tech support apart from a few small glitches with my initial setup in the first day or two.

Nuff said.
 
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The buy-out is basically your monthly subcriptions that you have left.... Except you don't get any data then.


I feel thats not cool


Iburst better leave the 64K uncapped throttle intact
 
Napalm said:
The buy-out is basically your monthly subcriptions that you have left.... Except you don't get any data then.
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I hope I'm understanding you correctly here.
"The buy-out is basically your monthly subscriptions that you have left"

That is only I'm assuming if you are on a contract?
And even so would that figure apply to the remainder of the value of your modem rather than your contract?
 
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Gekco said:
Hate to say I told you so...
But I left iBurst +-3 months ago and opted for 4MB/s ADSL.

No technical issues.
No billing issues.
Never needed tech support apart from a few small glitches with my initial setup in the first day or two.

Nuff said.
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+1, left iBurst a year ago and ADSL is just way better.
 
Iburst is an excellent backup service

I use Iburst as a backup for when the ADSL goes down . For this application, it's perfect.

As a mainline service though, it's worse than useless.

I understand why they want to charge for the throttled service though - it's because if you're smart, you can still get full bandwidth while throttled.

Disconnect, line up your download, and as soon you reconnect, start your download. It will download at full speed, but subsequent downloads will be throttled, so disconnect and start the whole process again.
 
Napalm said:
The buy-out is basically your monthly subcriptions that you have left.... Except you don't get any data then.


I feel thats not cool


Iburst better leave the 64K uncapped throttle intact
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It's called cutting your losses (and preserving your sanity).
 
I need mobility so ADSL does not help. I will probably have to go Vodacom 3G. Using it as a backup and my 3.5G cell as a modem, I have been reasonably happy. I would miss the regular 1Mbps from Iburst - Vodacom bandwidth not as consistent and averages less than 0.5Mbps. Can I expect better with Vodacom if I had a standalone modem (can I afford it?) and an antenna (for when working from home)?
If I stay with Iburst, it will not be out of choice. They do not deserve my loyalty.
 
Gekco said:
I hope I'm understanding you correctly here.
"The buy-out is basically your monthly subscriptions that you have left"

That is only I'm assuming if you are on a contract?
And even so would that figure apply to the remainder of the value of your modem rather than your contract?
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If the buy-out fee is calculated on your original contract rates and not the new rip-off rates, it will work out cheaper to buy out than staying on iWorst. Pity that you won't get any data, but at least you won't be stuck with iWorst any longer.
 
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