{"id":318801,"date":"2019-09-05T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=318801"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:03:00","slug":"why-mweb-created-fibre-accounts-with-limited-upload-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/318801-why-mweb-created-fibre-accounts-with-limited-upload-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"Why MWEB created fibre accounts with limited upload speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB recently launched new fibre packages on the Openserve network, offering discounted prices to users.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to note that the upload speeds of the accounts were not what tech-savvy readers would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre networks offer ISPs the following options for consumer lines: symmetrical and asymmetrical.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Symmetrical fibre gives you the same download and upload speeds. Example: 100\/100 Mbps<\/li>\n<li>Asymmetrical fibre gives you different download and upload speeds. Example: 100\/50 Mbps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Openserve, ISPs typically offer clients asymmetrical fibre packages where the upload speed is half that of the download speed. Example: 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">New MWEB packages<\/h3>\n<p>With MWEB&#8217;s new accounts, however, clients on Openserve are offered upload speeds multiple times slower than the download speeds.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the table below, for example, the 100Mbps package comes with a 20Mbps upload speed &#8211; not the typical 50Mbps upload speed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\">MWEB Openserve Fibre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"CCCCCC\" width=\"60%\"><strong>Download \/ Upload<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"CCCCCC\" width=\"40%\"><strong>Price p\/m<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10Mbps \/ 2Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>R399<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20Mbps \/ 4Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>R699<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>40Mbps \/ 10Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>R849<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>100Mbps \/ 20Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>R999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More affordable prices<\/h3>\n<p>An MWEB representative on the MyBroadband Forum stated that the new fibre products were created to cater for the needs of a variety of clients &#8211; all at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not all clients require a high upload, as they just need the connection to download or stream. We still offer clients that want a higher upload, a package at a higher price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For most users, this reasoning is sound &#8211; as uploads make up a small percentage of their Internet traffic.<\/p>\n<p>A quick survey of Internet users we spoke to said they used the large majority of their bandwidth for downloads.<\/p>\n<p>One tech-savvy user who pulled his fibre usage figures from his ISP said that on a recent Saturday of high usage, his data was split as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download &#8211; <strong>46GB<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Upload &#8211; <strong>0.44GB<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;slower&#8221; upload speed of 20Mbps rather than 50Mbps on a 100Mbps Openserve line would therefore not have impacted him &#8211; as his uploads were so small.<\/p>\n<p>For professionals and creators, however, uploads play a much more important role.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/318643-android-10-launched-the-details.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Android 10 launched \u2013 The details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB recently launched new fibre packages on the Openserve network, offering discounted prices to users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":288590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28470],"tags":[887,35,213,219],"class_list":["post-318801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-fibre-1","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-uncapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318843,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318801\/revisions\/318843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}