crysis
Expert Member
I've been using a 1mb uncapped mweb account since telkom upgraded my line to 2mb, and ever so often, I've been hitting 200kb/s (at least in the beginning stages). Although that quickly changed, and as soon as the privilege of maxing out my line was snuffed out (from what I reckon has been over selling the product so every fish in the pond can only taste a smaller and smaller chunk of the pie given to us) , I decided to give the 2mb uncapped account a go, and seeing as it only costs an extra R40, surely I would get something out of it?
Lets cut to the chase, how throttled is it?
Well, mweb has been going up and down lately with their service, sometimes its been great, other times I've felt like the data was being transferred by pigeon courier. This service is no different, except of course the throttling is advertised this time round. They say you will hit a 192kb/s speed wall once you go over the average quota. Quite vague, I know...
SO just how far can you get?
As soon as I hit 20gb for this month, there it was. The invisible speed limit that my lovely "uncapped" account obeyed to follow.
But what if 20gb is all I need?
Well, if your the average downloader like me, that will sit on a torrent or two every now and then, your going to have a hard time even getting to 20gb. Torrents are deathly slow on this account. The only way you are going to cap this uncapped account is with the mweb news server.
But its so cheap, surely you should expect that?
Here is another area where it falls short. Openweb currently have a special going where you can pick up an unthrottled standard uncapped account (what ever standard is supposed to mean, I assume it doesn't come with free ice cream like the Openweb gold transformer deluxe chocolate uncapped account) for only R209, and obviously there is telkoms uncapped account that costs the same as this, which also seems unthrottled.
Bottom line:
Well, for some, it may be acceptable, but then the competition do have better products out there, and once you hit that softcap, this account slows to a halt. Telkom here I come.
Rating: 3/10
Lets cut to the chase, how throttled is it?
Well, mweb has been going up and down lately with their service, sometimes its been great, other times I've felt like the data was being transferred by pigeon courier. This service is no different, except of course the throttling is advertised this time round. They say you will hit a 192kb/s speed wall once you go over the average quota. Quite vague, I know...
SO just how far can you get?
As soon as I hit 20gb for this month, there it was. The invisible speed limit that my lovely "uncapped" account obeyed to follow.
But what if 20gb is all I need?
Well, if your the average downloader like me, that will sit on a torrent or two every now and then, your going to have a hard time even getting to 20gb. Torrents are deathly slow on this account. The only way you are going to cap this uncapped account is with the mweb news server.
But its so cheap, surely you should expect that?
Here is another area where it falls short. Openweb currently have a special going where you can pick up an unthrottled standard uncapped account (what ever standard is supposed to mean, I assume it doesn't come with free ice cream like the Openweb gold transformer deluxe chocolate uncapped account) for only R209, and obviously there is telkoms uncapped account that costs the same as this, which also seems unthrottled.
Bottom line:
Well, for some, it may be acceptable, but then the competition do have better products out there, and once you hit that softcap, this account slows to a halt. Telkom here I come.
Rating: 3/10
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