MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

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I think you will get a better deal for the R899 if you go to Axxess with their afterhours full line speed. I do most of my downloads after hours and surfing early morning before going to work...
 
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Cancelled my Mweb Uncapped yesterday. Had enough... moving to a new Uncapped provider for about R40 cheaper with no shaping at all... and no stupid routing.
 
Paparazzi said:
Cancelled my Mweb Uncapped yesterday. Had enough... moving to a new Uncapped provider for about R40 cheaper with no shaping at all... and no stupid routing.
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Who?

I was thinking of going for Axxess Just Uncapped @ R496 (2 concurrent connections).
 
Paparazzi said:
Cancelled my Mweb Uncapped yesterday. Had enough... moving to a new Uncapped provider for about R40 cheaper with no shaping at all... and no stupid routing.
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Also wouldn't mind knowing who? If its IS based then sorry for you >.<
 
Why speeds have been great early in the morning.... unfortunately, browsing and streaming simple video's is worse than a dial-up line.
 
small dip this morning in speeds for a short while, but i see it's fine now at max line speed...
 
Pr⊕phet said:
small dip this morning in speeds for a short while, but i see it's fine now at max line speed...
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>.< If thats true then did I pee some1 off? streaming takes ages and web sites are taking for ever to load if they dont time out first.
 
biometrics said:
Who?

I was thinking of going for Axxess Just Uncapped @ R496 (2 concurrent connections).
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Hi, gonna subscribe with Nexus ISP, they also give you 2 concurrent connections, they dont shape you at all, 0 throttling, go read up about their home uncapped package, got some friends on it already who says they are really good ISP.

anything at the moment is better than Mweb i'm afraid.
 
Good evening everyone

We will be carrying out a fairly significant network optimization tomorrow morning at 6am, which will have no impact on the average customer, but could raise some questions with our heavier Peer to Peer users. In light of this I wanted to take the opportunity to explain this here, before we implement the change and to pre-emptively address some of your concerns.

As you know we've been carrying out an ongoing investigation into the source of high latency problems experienced in game for our World of Warcraft players. Part of this investigation revealed that there was definitely a relationship between the increased allocation to P2P and the increase in latency at certain times of the day. Closer investigation of the possible causes of this revealed the fact that the more aggressive P2P protocols generate an extremely high volume of simultaneous connections through some of our core routers and this is placing an unnecessary load on these devices.

Our finding has also been that some extremely aggressive settings are in use out there, effectively trying to brute force a few extra KB out of the traffic manager and we really need to curb this practice.

We have therefore decided to implement an initial limit of 100 simultaneous connections per customer on P2P protocols. Depending on the positive impact this has on network performance we may further reduce this in small increments until we find the right level.

I have carried out tests on bittorrent, self limiting at values between 200 (the default on utorrent) and 50 and did not detect any significant changes in transfer speeds on well seeded files.

We therefore believe that this is a very reasonable number and it should not be seen as an attempt to limit transfer speeds on P2P.

I cannot provide any guarantees that this will be a solution for the World of Warcraft issues, however it is certainly a very necessary network optimization and one that we believe will provide a better experience for all our customers in the long run.

Kind Regards
Will
 
Make bloody Hotfile.com work!

I spoke to someone today and I am awaiting a technical specialist to get back to me on Friday only.

I just want to download a damn 120 meg file, once off!

Why does the damn site time out?

It works perfectly on a capped account!

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Will@MWEB said:
We have therefore decided to implement an initial limit of 100 simultaneous connections per customer on P2P protocols. Depending on the positive impact this has on network performance we may further reduce this in small increments until we find the right level.

I have carried out tests on bittorrent, self limiting at values between 200 (the default on utorrent) and 50 and did not detect any significant changes in transfer speeds on well seeded files.

We therefore believe that this is a very reasonable number and it should not be seen as an attempt to limit transfer speeds on P2P.
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Pretty sure this is going to tick some people off, but you'd be silly to have more connections open than that anyway. So, from me its a 'cool bananas' and I hope it works. Also, seems my speeds on torrents have improved substantially since last week. Hopefully, once this change is implemented I can return to streaming video's in the evening too. Best of luck.
 
For the record, my torrents have been utterly abysmal the last couple of days.

I am beginning to hate this ****ing country and its attitude to technology.

Why do such simple things need to be such a bleeding struggle?
 
hambone said:
Pretty sure this is going to tick some people off, but you'd be silly to have more connections open than that anyway. So, from me its a 'cool bananas' and I hope it works. Also, seems my speeds on torrents have improved substantially since last week. Hopefully, once this change is implemented I can return to streaming video's in the evening too. Best of luck.
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Thanks Hambone. I actually tested a full range of settings going all the way up to 1000 connections, the net result was just that you had a multitude of slow connections opening and closing constantly, its unneccesary load on everything, starting with your own PC and router.
 
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Thanks Hambone. I actually tested a full range of settings going all the way up to 1000 connections, the net result was just that you had a multitude of slow connections opening and closing constantly, its unneccesary load on everything, starting with your own PC and router.
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Agree 100%. A friend of mine, also on uncapped asked me to come have a look at his network because the frequent disconnects were irritating him, on the LAN too. First thing I did was have a look at the routers mapping table: over 1300 open ports. Hence jam. He had a download PC running uTorrent at 900 possible ports, with 250 max connections per torrent and 5 simultaneous downloads. I changed it to 250 total, and 2 simultaneous downloads and he says its going like a boeing now.
 
Will@MWEB said:
Thanks Hambone. I actually tested a full range of settings going all the way up to 1000 connections, the net result was just that you had a multitude of slow connections opening and closing constantly, its unneccesary load on everything, starting with your own PC and router.
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So if we have the allowed 2 connections to the newsserver that leaves a balance of 98 connections for any p2p protocol? That sounds fine, doubt have more than 30-40 open at anytime when downloading and gaming I tend to close any connections not related to the game.
 
Kosmik said:
So if we have the allowed 2 connections to the newsserver that leaves a balance of 98 connections for any p2p protocol? That sounds fine, doubt have more than 30-40 open at anytime when downloading and gaming I tend to close any connections not related to the game.
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Correct Kosmik, the intention here is not to limit the ability to do P2P, it's to rather to manage it more effectively by not letting aggressive settings particularly on bittorrent applications create unneccesary overhead on the network.
 
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