Why your 24/7 downloading is a problem ?

[ProfA]

Do you not know what "around the water cooler" means?

Do you know what "we" means?

 

[Chevron]

Do you know what "we" means?

So you know the answer to your own question.

Awesome.

 

[grok]

And the debate goes round and round ..

Bottom line is WMEB advertised a product that they are incapable/unwilling to deliver, and instead of being upfront about it they're hiding behind their UAP.

Anyone still supporting them deserves to be shafted.

 

[Necuno]

And the debate goes round and round ..

Bottom line is WMEB advertised a product that they are incapable/unwilling to deliver, and instead of being upfront about it they're hiding behind their UAP.

Anyone still supporting them deserves to be shafted.

It is just the one side that goes into a spin and can't for some reason; see reason. After the whole afrihost R29 thing, mweb got pissed and tried their (war) hand with the uncapped. During this time we've been hammered on how you can just used it and not be throttled or limited.

Now that they've gotten relaxed they want to pass a quick one, sad thing is people are eating it like hot cakes. But this is to be expected since path of least resistance is human nature. I'd be this will change come 1st sept and some gest a rude wake up call...

 

[HBee]

I'd love to not have to download 24/7, but the way MWEB shapes my connection, I dont have a choice most days.

 

[Vrotappel]

No. More like consumers don't realize how little bandwidth their money actually gets them. Contention ratios don't seem to be in most consumers vocabulary.

That's the ISP's problem not the consumer. Face it although we have uncapped accounts many companies are still stuck in 2003 mode. 100 gis is nothing. Next year 500 gigs will be nothing. ISPs must adapt or die.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

So, I had a dialogue with MWEB again. I showed them that on a 2Mb uncapped account, from a rival ISP, 600Gigs is acceptable.

Their response was that they understand, but this is the maximum, and almost made out as if I was deliberately trying to download the internet? In the same response they were only too keen to let me migrate my line away from them - after fighting tooth and nail to get me to migrate it to them in the beginning. I should add that I am nowhere near 600Gigs.

It seems to me that MWEB WANTS their customers to leave? It seems that while MWEB has an issue with 24/7 downloading - this is NOT always the message from all the ISPs. Is this thread possibly an MWEB thread??

 

[whatwhat]

Just remember that the new Explora decoder is out soon, with the ethernet port not yet enabled. I reckon that in a few months from now when the streaming comes around it will be an Mweb only thing at the start, and they are clearing their network now to make room for the extra traffic.

 

[Mortymoose]

Think people, download only what you actually want to and not for the sake of downloading.

I think the novelty of being able to download anything you desire is actually a novelty in the beginning.

I hang my head in shame, when I first found out that I could download entire series and games, I went on the rampage.... downloading just to because I could, years later, I sit with Gb's worth of movies that were the latest fad, that are now repeating on DSTV, Tv series that I have not watched that are years old..... and I have realised that I am just wasting my time downloading just because I can.... the novelty wore off, I just download what I intend to use now, within the week, otherwise I just leave it......

 

[ranger]

Torrents, NZBs, websites - All these things can be cached locally, and therefore use considerably less of their pipe than you would think.

Encrypted torrents, encrypted website content, and dynamic content (or content otherwise declared as non-cacheable by the web server in the HTTP headers) cannot be cached.

Ignoring CDNs, approx 33% is a realistic number for the bandwidth saving of cacheable protocols. If we talk about CDNs, some CDNs (or content networks) are not legally available in the country (e.g. Netflix, Hulu), so the legal agreements required to cache their content cannot be concluded, so their traffic is not cacheable.

So, no, 70% is not a reasonable number for how much is local to the ISP.

 

[ranger]

It seems to me that MWEB WANTS their abusive customers to leave?

FTFY

 

[ranger]

Someone once posted a very interesting (and very true) statement/question. I'll repeat it here:

"Why limit an unlimited resource?"

Pray tell, what resource is unlimited?

 

[Necuno]

Pray tell, what resource is unlimited?

Tax money? ANC seems to have a lot of it