Slow ADSL speeds - Is uncapped ADSL to blame?

I have 2 accounts, one uncapped with MWEB and the other a 50GB capped account @ AH.
On uncapped MWEB downloads come in at an avg of 150kbps while on the capped AH account downloads come in at 450kbps (day or night.)
Go figure!
 
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So is WA now blaming everyone else's 'unsustainable business' plans for their poor service? And Telkom's incompetency of course ;)
 
WA, WA, WA...

I have an uncapped account. I've got bugger all to do with your network management, but I've got broad shoulders. So blame me if you like.

Feel better now, WA?
 
How can the blame be put on uncapped users. Sounds more like bad planning to me and now they're trying to farm it off to 'uncapped' users! :wtf: :confused:
 
Wow, and the WA whining continues. The ISP's pay a buttload of cash for their IPC capacity and WA whines that they actually use it.

Their issue should be with Telkom, tell them to upgrade. You cannot blame users or businesses for using what they paid for!!!
 
WA is a Tier-1 Service provider now. Which means they have their (and is responsible for) their own network. AFAIK they don't offer any uncapped services. It's their own responsibility to make sure, since they're a Tier-1 provider now, that they STOP ****ING WITH THEIR SHAPING SETTINGS just to accommodate the increased usage I foretold several months back already (but kept in reservation seeing as the network was pretty stable and quite nippy...)

But yea, you lame-ass bitches will forever tell me (The Grinch) how I should shut up and be happy with what I get right? No matter how much I pay for it.... lollersk8tes
 
Shayd said:
Wow, and the WA whining continues. The ISP's pay a buttload of cash for their IPC capacity and WA whines that they actually use it.

Their issue should be with Telkom, tell them to upgrade. You cannot blame users or businesses for using what they paid for!!!
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I doubt Telkom is so nearsighted as to let one ISP influence the speed of others, especially when it comes down to their ATM equipment. I just think they're bitching because they can't get their settings right... since the service is either spectacular one moment or ****ing awful the next.

BTW, since it is an uncapped account (MWEB now), I don't ****ing care how long or how fast something downloads or not. it's uncapped. But when I do require speed and turn to capped-ISP's, I expect a nippier/faster service, not the same and/or worse
 
sad truth is that WA and many others didnt play ahead. grow your network and stop whining!
 
Oh and 3rd and final post. DSLAM's are more than capable of handling constant traffic via uncapped. It is true that SOME ... REMOTE... parts do experience some backhaul issues. But I feel WA should point the finger to themselves and investigate if they have the right people for the job at hand. Since Telkom is/has upgraded the Metro and major parts of most populate South Africa (even the small town I'm from), I seriously doubt it's an issue with them. Redundancy is a word often used but never implemented. One thing goes down and their entire network screeches to a halt. Not once, not twice, but I counted 3 times. Including hosting services.

Peons who don't know their elbow from their ass probably reported to their boss the problem isn't with them but with their provider. I dare WA to switch to Seacom instead of using Telkom and see if that alleviates the problems, especially with Neotel/Transnet/DarkFibre africa now providing those services

Anyway, let me go to bed with my uninformed opinions
 
Shayd said:
Wow, and the WA whining continues. The ISP's pay a buttload of cash for their IPC capacity and WA whines that they actually use it.

Their issue should be with Telkom, tell them to upgrade. You cannot blame users or businesses for using what they paid for!!!
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Yeah...

ISP: Here, little customer. Here are unlimited interwebz. Have fun but don't forgets to pays me for it.
Me: Titties. Great.

....a while later

ISP: Hey you customer, why you rape the interwebs?
Me: But ISP sir, it are belong to me. I pays for the unlimited-ness of it.
ISP: No! It are belong to me! Read teh FUP on regular basises.
Me: :wtf:
ISP: Have you tried mine other package? For you, it are designed.
Me: No, I want all the interwebz + email.
ISP: All your interwebz are belong to me.
Me: :mad: ... /then finds alternate way to download *.* interwebz.
 
lol what a poor attempt at blaming uncapped for their crap connection
 
I can confirm our 30 GB WA account has been slow of late.
 
Who writes this sh*t?!?!? Another WA article! Does mybroadband get any kickbacks for the amount of WA articles they publish?

@WA – Stop blaming other ISP for your problems. Why is it that more and more ISP are offering uncapped, and even at 10Mb speeds, and you can’t even get your capped accounts to work.
 
I dont think this has anything to do with the web africa network but this article is in general.

This post explains it very well. It is more to do with the fact that all the dslams are oversubscribed and that there is not enough backhaul from the dslam to the ESR. That is why the high latency starts on the first hop after your dsl modem.

Our offices are in randfontein. We have MWebs bonded dsl service - 3 lines. Did a speed test last night and only got just over 1mbits. The dslam is full. They added another rack of ports for new subscribers but never upgraded the backhaul.

A dslam could eg handle 20mbits/s. They had 20 users on it but not all 20 users were transferring data at the same time. Now with uncapped, if you have 10 people on that dslam with 4mbit uncapped lines downloading all the time, there is not enough backhaul left.

This is the point that web africa is trying to make here. The problem is not with them, or with any other ISP, but with telkoms "last mile" infrastructure to the subscribers.

That is the way i see it.
 
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So....another company ( Telkom ) that blames it's user base for overuse and lack of capacity? Eskom anyone?

WA can jump, when the other companies brought in uncapped and the relative service degradation between their capped/uncapped accounts was plain to see, it was WA who said they won't go uncapped to protect their user base from slow speeds and stood crowing the whole while that theirs was a better experiance.
 
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