Wtf Uunet

Angellus said:
Well they just lost me as a subscriber cos the reason I got UUNet was that it's uncapped. Thats going to change and the fact that the service has become useless. Cheers UUNet will be leaving soon.
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I'll be cancelling mine as soon as this strategy will fall into place, looks like Axcess (and possibly IS) is going to see alot of business very soon.

UUnet is turning into another telkom.
 
Are they still going to advertise the service as uncapped after the pay per MB strategy is implemented? If you look at it, Telkom's capped service is basically pay per MB and thats why its referred to as capped. If UUnet implements this they cannot possibly get away with referring to it as uncapped can they?

I'm glad I'm paying monthly for a web africa account instead of having signed up for 3 or 6 months. What will happen to all those people that have signed up for that long? Are they going to be forced to use the capped service or will they be given the option of cancelling their contracts without penalties?

Can anyone from WebAfrica or UUnet give us some feedback on everything discussed in this thread? They've been pretty quiet regarding this.
 
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WeAfrica

pity this is reflecting on WebAfrica as far as i can make out they are quite good guys. When i first joined i placed a support call at 3am in the morning and got a reply a few minutes later. THis has happenend more than once. I am sure they don't sleep there. They have the best support around but there hands are tied by UUNET and they get a rough time from guys like me freaking out now and again. If only UUNET would sort out there story WebAfrica would win the best ISP award around i am sure.
 
I dont blame my ISP either - IMO this is UUNets failure to provide a decent service. At least they wont have to worry about over-subscription for much longer!

I hope UUNets overlords in the States are monitoring the situation - these guys dropped the ball big time.
 
I'm not blaming WA at all, I can second the fact that they have given me superb support up to present, I was just hoping that they'd be able to tell us more about UUnet's new rip off scheme. Seeing that they're a reseller it would make sense that they might know more about it than we do at present.

If WA offered a 30+GB non UUnet option, I'd definitely sign up with them again.
 
I actually talked to Rupert about WA offering a 30GB option but he could not say if they would consider it. WA have really been great, Best ISP Around if you ask me. Sorry WA but when my subscription expires I'm gone. Will be getting Axxess 30GB account ASAP.

Never Thaught I would HATE UUNET this much.

It's a Sad Sad thing. :(
 
xyz said:
If WA offered a 30+GB non UUnet option, I'd definitely sign up with them again.
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I told my ISP pretty much the same thing but they dont offer the SAIX 30gb either.

The UUnet devolution as I see it:

March: UNcapped + UNshaped >> April: UNcapped + mildly shaped >>May: Uncapped + heavily shaped >>June: UNUSABLE

I cant believe it but I've probably done 90% of my work today on my blackberry! Damn my thumbs are sore!
 
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At least you have the option of the blackberry, I dont :(

I've been downloading a 1.6MB email message through outlook express for the last 30 minutes. :(
 
This is confusing, uunet is performing perfect here(Im not talking **** for those of you aiming to cross examine me) , the packetloss internationally and torrents is ****ed yes.. other than that, speed on browsing/ftp etc. as mentioned here, is not slow for me at all.

very weird.
 
Its the international and packet loss that are messing me up 100%. I couldn't care less about local - apart from this site of course. Without exaggeration even opening gmail takes 5 minutes and trying to make a skype call is impossible.. I'm talking between 20-40% packet loss across the board to overseas sites.

I'm glad UUNet is working for you - jealous in fact.
 
@Karnaugh - was it skype to skype or skype to landline? I've had problems making and receiving landline calls to UK. Might try the states later.
 
well, local/international ftp's going at 1KB/sec. international http looks fast. packet loss on international ping at ±30-50%. Please feel free to phone Andre at UUNET in Jhb (2356510), he said he doesn't read forums, so we'll have to tell him in person how bad the service is.
 
Well evething is back up to speed since 15H00 yesterday, even a bit faster than normal during the day, lets hope it stays this way, its bull**** having to jump from ISP to ISP just to get decent bandwidth.
 
Swazi said:
Well evething is back up to speed since 15H00 yesterday, even a bit faster than normal during the day, lets hope it stays this way, its bull**** having to jump from ISP to ISP just to get decent bandwidth.
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does that mean you left UUNET? 'cause I'm still getting 1 KB/sec ftp and 30% ping packet loss on UUNET
 
--- mail.slipgate.za.net ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 40% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 454.8/468.6/483.0 ms

Doesnt look fixed to me...
 
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