MWEB: Uncapped broadband packages for local users

shaundtsl · 2010-03-18T09:52:48+00:00

It seems there is some light at the end of the tunnel. This might change the time limitations on the tracks for the weekly competitions... ? http://www.news...

MWEB: Uncapped broadband packages for local users

AlanRatcliffe

Norio wrote: Alan, maybe you could benefit from Afrihost's new 50Gb and 100Gb specials. www.afrihost.com

I've been using them since October last year and all I can say is WOW it's fast. Very reliable connection and great service.

As for M-Web, I won't touch them with a 10-foot pole. I have zero faith in their entire business, especially their "policies" with regards to DNS and email.

They do look worth checking out. But I suspect they will have something even better soon, to compete with the M-Web offering. Might be worth hanging on until the dust settles a bit...

guitarboy2828

The reality is MWEB isn't the first to offer this. My brother, also in South Africa got uncapped 2 months ago for R500 (incl line rental) a month. I think by the end of 2010, nearly everywhere will be uncapped. But like alan said, it will all be shaped.

I will say this, my bro downloaded 70 gigs worth last month, so, even shaped is pretty good. ?

I'm stuck on a 3g contract, but may end up getting adsl on top of it if another provider besides mweb comes out with something.

peters

MWEB have a bad habit of manually altering DNS records rather than letting automatic updates from zone files to take place

Renesongs

I'm getting uncapped from Neotel for R500 pm - well not really it's is capped at 5Gig but my download speed is so slow it probably take about 2 months to reach the cap ☹

Riaan

I see that the highest speed, uncapped and unshaped package from MWeb (a business package) costs over R2K per month...

I'm now downloading an expansion pack for Dimension Pro, nine huge files, and it's bloody awful. Depleted my cap several times yesterday and today, and had to buy topups a couple of times. It would have been cheaper to have the CD's shipped from overseas. Like always, we're being ripped off in this country as far as technology goes. For f >☹ >☹ >☹ sakes, we had to wait 20 years longer than Zim before we got television, all because of one lousy lowlife government telecom official who was opposed to it. Now it's the same with broadband...

ezietsman

Another option is Afrihost. They offer a semi-shaped service for R29 per gig. During business hours the traffic is shaped liked MWEB's but after hours its not. So for line rental plus R29 per gig its a pretty good deal in my opinion.

inflames

Another cool thing from Afrihost is that they offer you R14/GB topup option in the middle of every month!

Riaan

I use Afrihost for my work's webpage, and they're great. Perhaps I should change ISP.

21Fretter

Don't just yet, Afrihost are releasing their uncapped packages some next time week as far as i know.

Riaan

Don't just yet, Afrihost are releasing their uncapped packages some next time week as far as i know.

Thanks, I'll look out for that.

inflames

Afrihost Uncapped for R197 / month

http://www.afrihost.co.za/adsl-uncapped.php

Have fun!

NorioDS

Yep, and for 4Mbps it's somewhere around R500. Works out to about R999 for uncapped 4Mbps ADSL via Afrihost.

It's not 100% uncapped though. If you're downloading torrents and stuff and go over 200Gb, they'll shut you down. Which I think is absolutely fair. You can still go bos on YouTube and uploading and downloading competition entries so all is well ?

I'm very excited about all this bandwidth craziness! It's making the internet a LOT more fun for me!

inflames

Indeed Norio, but for someone to smack 200GB in one month you will need at least a 4MB line ?

Now if only Hellkom will give us something to smile about!

AlanRatcliffe

inflames wrote: Afrihost Uncapped for R197 / month

http://www.afrihost.co.za/adsl-uncapped.php

Have fun!

That's more like it!

doc-phil

My isp (@lantic) is offering me uncapped adsl for R339pm. I'm thinking of switching over since currently I'm payng R343 for 4gig. But max download speeds of 36kb/s still makes me incredibly sad.

AlanRatcliffe

doc-phil wrote: My isp (@lantic) is offering me uncapped adsl for R339pm. I'm thinking of switching over since currently I'm payng R343 for 4gig. But max download speeds of 36kb/s still makes me incredibly sad.

Why so slow? You mean kB (kilobyte), not kb (kilobaud)? Still - I've only got a 512K connection and usually get 54KB.

doc-phil

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
doc-phil wrote: My isp (@lantic) is offering me uncapped adsl for R339pm. I'm thinking of switching over since currently I'm payng R343 for 4gig. But max download speeds of 36kb/s still makes me incredibly sad.
Why so slow? You mean kB (kilobyte), not kb (kilobaud)? Still - I've only got a 512K connection and usually get 54KB.

Ya kilobytes... I only have a 384K line.. It would cost me an extra R200pm for a 512K line. So if speeds would only be increased by +-20kb, I couldn't really justify the cost. I still remember the days of dial-up when I maxed out at 3kb/s. So 36kb/s isn't too bad ?

AlanRatcliffe

doc-phil wrote: I still remember the days of dial-up when I maxed out at 3kb/s. So 36kb/s isn't too bad ?

My first modem was a (then blisteringly fast) 14.4K with a theoretical maximum download speed of 1.8kB/s . I'm sure there are a few here who remember using the 9.2kb, 4.6kb or even slower early modems. Imagine using a 2400 baud modem and downloading at 300b/s!

inflames

My first modem was a (then blisteringly fast) 14.4K with a theoretical maximum download speed of 1.8kB/s . I'm sure there are a few here who remember using the 9.2kb, 4.6kb or even slower early modems. Imagine using a 2400 baud modem and downloading at 300b/s!

The MD of the company I work with was one of the internet pioneers in SA. He and a friend made the first computer 2 computer connection over a telephone wire!
That was about 40 years ago (I might be wrong on the years). He said it took a day to send a 1k packet ?

We are spoiled!

Renesongs

The MD of the company I work with was one of the internet pioneers in SA. He and a friend made the first computer 2 computer connection over a telephone wire!
That was about 40 years ago (I might be wrong on the years). He said it took a day to send a 1k packet

Yes and Telkom hasn't improved much since then. Speaking of which our first modem was a loft of carrier pigeons. Each pigeon would carry a miniature abacus. We had to glue beads in place on abacus so that data didn't get corrupted. We would lose a few pigeons to hawks and poachers hence pigeon and it's abacus became known as snack or bite to eat. On a good day we would manage to send 30 or so pigeons between destinations. If the receiver had to wait too long for pigeons to arrive he would get bored and nip on down to pub. This became known as the bored rate. Yes we had it tough in the old days.