Why your 24/7 downloading is a problem ?

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Reminds me of the blackberry BIS, unlimitted use of the internet on the phone. Next thing vodacom starts throatling even the innocent who just go over 100mb that od month because they got too many email attachments.

I happen to have a friend who works at mweb, he used to tell me they got enough download speed to corner a truck at 20mb/s (oh lets just say fast). And they download just as much, unless he was lying, shouldnt they just satisfy customers before?

Personally i do not buy this saga of dont download 24/7. Is that not the reason we pay for uncapped? Do ISP's have the same problem overseas? If not should we not research and find solutions? And even if it is a serious problem, is it not work finding a more permanent solution through old school R&D?

In this current era of technological development, i have no respect for a company that says it has a problem and the solution is for customers to pay the same price but receive less of the service.

Just my 2cents worth.
 
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pgs said:
You have to use the bus to get to work at 8am due to parking too expensive etc. The BUS company tells you when to leave home, the BUS company tells you no your wife has to catch another bus due to a lack of capacity, Either you or your wife has to take an earlier bus!
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That is exactly what the bus company tells you when the bus is full.

Crowley said:
So you have a few users who use their lines full speed 24/7 but hundreds of users who pay for uncapped but only checks email and facebook. Shouldn't that even out the usage?
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I know of no one who only checks mail and facebook on uncapped. People who just checks mail etc, are on telkom basic. Every one who has uncapped use in excess of about 50gigs. You just have to download when there is no other demand if you want big stuff - at night time. From about 7pm till 6am my line is normally running at full line speed.

Uncapped is used just by people who download a lot and people who download even more than that.
 
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phoneJunky said:
I know of no one who only checks mail and facebook on uncapped. People who just checks mail etc, are on telkom basic. Every one who has uncapped use in excess of about 50gigs.
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A friend of mine is actually going back to capped now (he cancelled 2Mb Mweb just in time) because his usage doesn't warrant uncapped. He surfs, does his Facebook, a few Youtube videos and plays his online games. He's having a busy month if he goes over 20GB.
 
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I'm more than happy with Mweb implementing this policy IF and only IF it improves my overall experience on their products.

If it doesn't, then I'll also have considering movie away. Not because of the rolling window, but purely because the speed is no longer there.
 
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Ok lets turn this thing around now since you have a issue with 24/7 downloading.............

So its perfectly fine for the ISP to make thousands of rands with people not even using 1GB of data a month on the 2Mbps, 4Mbps and God forbid the 10Mbps.....

Then its fine you know cause the isp is smiling all the way to the bank but don't you DARE use a lot of bandwidth cause you are then a ABUSER and will get kicked and hated for that..........

This can be swang both ways..... That is why ISP's count on both heavy and minimal users to balance out...... If they claim that 3% of the users abuse then why are they crying? That means 97% are using WAY less and some of them barely use at all.........


All the other ISP's don't care about that why does mweb.... I saw a user of the R59 uncapped afterhours account from @lantic do 600GB and @lantic did not complain..... Its a R59 account and they did not complain.

Look at IS..... NEVER booted people for high usage on their uncapped accounts and people do terrabytes with those accounts.

Not to mention afrihost who actually seems promote like high usage on that page of theirs....
 
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cavedog said:
Ok lets turn this thing around now since you have a issue with 24/7 downloading.............

So its perfectly fine for the ISP to make thousands of rands with people not even using 1GB of data a month on the 2Mbps, 4Mbps and God forbid the 10Mbps.....

Then its fine you know cause the isp is smiling all the way to the bank but don't you DARE use a lot of bandwidth cause you are then a ABUSER and will get kicked and hated for that..........

This can be swang both ways..... That is why ISP's count on both heavy and minimal users to balance out...... If they claim that 3% of the users abuse then why are they crying? That means 97% are using WAY less and some of them barely use at all.........


All the other ISP's don't care about that why does mweb.... I saw a user of the R59 uncapped afterhours account from @lantic do 600GB and @lantic did not complain..... Its a R59 account and they did not complain.

Look at IS..... NEVER booted people for high usage on their uncapped accounts and people do terrabytes with those accounts.

Not to mention afrihost who actually seems promote like high usage on that page of theirs....
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I have to agree with this post. Its similar to Insurance or medical aid...the majaority who dont use the service subsidize the few who do.

Hey I'm not saying 24/7 downloading is ok however its not wrong as well. If it was not allowed than why can it occur? Don't accept the sub standard service we get and justify it and say we are the abusers. We are the users who have paid for and use a product and if an ISP does not want my money than stop providing me the service.

Don't tell me to stop doing something that's not wrong. Don't tell me to not use the service. Just stop supplying me the service.

btw 24/7 use does not mean downloading. I use Netflix and easily 300 GB of my data is streamed HD. I HAVE CHOSEN to forgo DSTV for an internet based home entertainment setup.

If I wanted capped I would have got capped.
 
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OP when you say 24/7 do you actually mean 24/7 or are you exagerating in order to make your point on excessive usage?
 
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OP when you say 24/7 do you actually mean 24/7 or are you exagerating in order to make your point on excessive usage?
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There are people that setup separate pcs for the sole purpose of downloading 24/7. So not exaggerating at all.
 
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No matter of explaining will rectify M Web's poor conduct. As I understand users that exceeded 100 gigs got the notification. 100 gigs is nothing on a 4mbps product.
 
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Chevron said:
There are people that setup separate pcs for the sole purpose of downloading 24/7. So not exaggerating at all.
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The reason that I'm asking is that the OP is putting up a defense for mweb for a claim that they're clearly not making. In the posts that I've read not once have I seen the mweb guy claim that the 3% are users downloading 24/7 or even 15/7. Mweb are clearly referring to download limits (which they refuse to devulge) rather than time spent on the network downloading. Which is the reason that I doubt the 24/7 claim being made by the OP.
 
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Chevron said:
There are people that setup separate pcs for the sole purpose of downloading 24/7. So not exaggerating at all.
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True. I have a computer that I leave on 24/7, and all my downloads (except Steam, etc) is done on it, but it's more to provide network services. Luckily I'm on Openweb so I don't have to worry about warnings, but I can't possibly find enough [usable] content for 24/7 downloads.
 
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MWEB have always said this right from the start.

Home uncapped products aren't designed for 24/7 downloading.

If they were you'd be paying a lot more.
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Does anyone still need to argue this point?
You don't offer uncapped accounts and then cap people.
 
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