A Question to MWEB to Clarify Current State of Uncapped

Ice2Cool

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Hi,

As you may be aware, many of your users have been complaining of extremely slow speeds as of late. Whilst many of us are aware that you do shape, there has been a drastic reduction of performance as of late. You have mentioend that you are busy migrating users from SAIX onto your own networks after the IPC upgrades AS WELL as implementing another 1.2Gbps of bandwidth.

That said - another reply mentions that the speeds we were seeing prior to this upgrade was because the users were on the SAIX wholesale network and were thus not shaped as MWEB would. This then leads me to believe that the current speeds we are seeing are exactly what you intend on us to see? (Reference: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...apped....WTF?p=4803167&viewfull=1#post4803167)

I think it is now only fitting that you clarify this issue so that your customers who have supported you thus far - and convinved many friends and family to move over to you - can make a more informed decision if we wish to continue services with you.

Your current service has not free'd the internet. Its ruined it. And just incase my specific issues were lost to you in the post above, please see below for tabular form:

1) Is your network currently underperforming and hence the reason we are experiencing VERY poor speeds
2) Are you currently undergoing network upgrades which affected users throughtout the country or is this limited to specific geographic locations?
3) Is it true that the speeds experienced in the last week is reflective of the speeds we can expect from your network in the future (ie. Not the fantastic quality of service experienced when we were connected onto the SAIX Wholesale network).

I think I speak for many of the users on this forum when I say I am extremely unhappy. I trust you will answer these questions to the best of your ability and attempt to be as transparent as possible - just as you were so brazen in accusing telkom of their shortfallings - i expect you to do the same when your own company drops the ball.
 
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Mweb posted in the other thread that some of the upgrades will only be finished by the end of this week...

TBH, I've intermittenly had high pings and slow speeds, but its not been a train smash. The ABSA internet banking system failure worried me a lot more!
 
Mweb posted in the other thread that some of the upgrades will only be finished by the end of this week...

TBH, I've intermittenly had high pings and slow speeds, but its not been a train smash. The ABSA internet banking system failure worried me a lot more!

Yes, but in one thread he stated it affects only cape town, in another he stated that the good speeds we were experiencing prior to the upgrades were due to the fact that we werent being throttled when we were on the saix network, and now that were back on their network we are being throttled as should. Hence the need for clarity. Is there a problem or isnt there. If there is, where?
 
I've been complaining for the past two weeks on these forums about the slowness of afterhours downloads on MWeb. Todays little answer from them that because some of us were previously on the saix network and therefore seeing better download speeds than we should have does not bode well for the change to the MWeb network. I thought this long touted change over, (upgrade?), to the MWeb network would be for the better but it appears MWeb have adopted a really agressive shaping policy; even for after hours users.
 
I thought this long touted change over, (upgrade?), to the MWeb network would be for the better but it appears MWeb have adopted a really agressive shaping policy; even for after hours users.

+1

Its looking like a waste to subscribe to the 4Mbps package when I'm only getting 384k speeds. Might as well downgrade.
 
Shaping from 4meg to 2kb/s is ridiculous. thats a 99% reduction in speed which is b.s! At those speeds, the max bandwidth I can pull in down in a month = 4.94gb (reductio ad ab surdum of course)
 
I was doing some testing on uTorrent yesterday and OMFG it was slow... it really was horrid :sick:

Think it took most of the day to download a 600MB file. Plenty of seeds...

Was a real shocker... :eek:

(4mbps line btw)
 
I was doing some testing on uTorrent yesterday and OMFG it was slow... it really was horrid :sick:

Think it took most of the day to download a 600MB file. Plenty of seeds...

Was a real shocker... :eek:

(4mbps line btw)

Having said that I could easily reach FULL line speed using other... methods...

:D
 
I get high speeds on my torrents using MWEB. Outgoing protocols are encrypted in Utorrent and my torrent tracker is private and encrypted so mine flies. Even during the day I get in the vicinity of 200Kb/s on my torrents and about 330Kb/s after hours. I'm happy :). I'm pretty sure if you guys find a private tracker that uses SSL your problems will be gone. Public trackers are no good.
 
what? Are u sure ure on mweb uncapped? Im using private trackers as well ans havent been over 50kb/s in the last 2 weeks. Will give ssl a shot though
 
Why even bother asking Mweb Operations anything...he's cherry picking which posts he'd prefer to reply to and steering far clear from any posts that have anything to do with our direct frustrations!!
 
Enforce encryption. Under preferences in BitTorrent you should only have the following options enabled (on the latest version): Enable UDP tracker support, Ask tracker for scrape information, Protocol encryption (Outgoing) enabled and allow incoming legacy connections. I average 200Gb per month on a normal R520 Mweb uncapped account. the tracker I use is completely SSL enabled and the site too (Https).
 
Thank you for your feedback. Herewith the transparent ( as always ) facts regarding the current status of the network:


During the period when we were not able to obtain additional IPC bandwidth we supplemented this by moving a portion of our customer base onto SAIX wholesale bandwidth. We did not have any control over the shaping of this bandwidth and as there are currently no mass consumption uncapped solutions running on the SAIX network the shaping experience was understandably very different.

Once we were able to obtain the necessary IPC bandwidth we could not delay the move of our customers back onto our own network any longer, however we were not able to complete the upgrades of the International capacity at the same time, which means that these links are currently experiencing high volumes of traffic.

This is impacting on the speeds at present and as soon as the international upgrade is completed, we do expect to be able to provide a much better experience in terms of download speeds and shaping.

Thanks for your patience and understanding
 
Thanks Will,

I'm sure you can appreciate the fact that we are entering the 3rd week of lousy connectivity and that patience and understanding are now also being shaped.
 
Thanks Will,

I'm sure you can appreciate the fact that we are entering the 3rd week of lousy connectivity and that patience and understanding are now also being shaped.

LOL!

Sigged
 
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Thanks for the feedback - its always appreciated.

Thank you for your feedback. Herewith the transparent ( as always ) facts regarding the current status of the network:


During the period when we were not able to obtain additional IPC bandwidth we supplemented this by moving a portion of our customer base onto SAIX wholesale bandwidth. We did not have any control over the shaping of this bandwidth and as there are currently no mass consumption uncapped solutions running on the SAIX network the shaping experience was understandably very different.

Once we were able to obtain the necessary IPC bandwidth we could not delay the move of our customers back onto our own network any longer, however we were not able to complete the upgrades of the International capacity at the same time, which means that these links are currently experiencing high volumes of traffic.

This is impacting on the speeds at present and as soon as the international upgrade is completed, we do expect to be able to provide a much better experience in terms of download speeds and shaping.

Thanks for your patience and understanding
 
lol.

typical SA Consumer, saying thats to Will @ Mweb like we are grateful for the crappy line-speed, and then the dodgy response which indicates no time lines ( " As soon as the "), and basically indicates that shaping is MUCH more aggressive than what we are used to.

Basically sheeple, its going to suck even harder when everything is finished, and they got this months payment out of all of us for crappy connectivity. We are paying for crap, next month will be worse, our shaping will be more hectic, and the 1.2gb they bought extra is probably already full.

I have given up complaining, they're all as bad as each other.
 
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