Riaan
Seems like good news, but as a natural cynic I also believe "there's no such a thing as a free meal"... I hope we're not gonna be restricted in some way, especially with regards to download speed.
dee
It is definitely a start.
I'm well aware that there will be certain limits such as shaped data and the "best service" principles as mentioned by Alan, but we are being milked dry by the ISP's and telecommunication companies in this country, so this can only be a step in the right direction.
As I'm already with Mweb, this does make not difference to me in terms of speed or price, what it does mean is I can finally download what I need. A lot of the applications I use for work is updated every once in a while, or releases new versions, and these are getting more frequently larger than 1GB, and then there are multiple versions (32bit vs 64bit) as well.
We will have to wait for April and see how it goes...!
FatBoy
I personally won't use MWeb, I'll rather wait for someone else to drop their prices. Step in the right direction maybe, but screw them, had enough crappy dealings with them, not gonna bite this carrot
needleshy
i'm not so clued up on the mweb service but i have applied for "cheap" uncapped before with Screamer and it was probably the worst experience i have had with an IS to date. these companies are cheap for a reason, cause their service is pathetic. hopefully MWEb wil have better service. as allan mentioned that there are no garentees that you'll be running at 386. with screamer you get average of about 9kbs, max of about 12-14. with telkoms i was getting 39kbs download speed. i am now with afrihost cause they are very cheap with extra cap, at the moment R39/2gb on topups.
i would like to hear some feedback if anyone gets this MWEB service on the download speeds and service they provide please.
NorioDS
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.
stu
Ive always had really good service with Mweb.
I got this email from them a few minutes ago:
Now you can do so much more. More of what you have always done. More of what you haven't even tried yet.
Get more entertainment by downloading movies and music, watching as much sport and as many YouTube clips as you like, streaming radio and gaming. Stay in touch with friends and family using email, Facebook, Twitter and by calling them online. Surf, research, Google, get news, update software, bank, book flights, buy books – and as much of it as you like!
"downloading movies and music, watching as much sport and as many YouTube clips as you like" doesnt look like there is a catch, but we will have to wait and see.
IceCreamMan
I work for the greatest ISP in Africa. (yeah i love the company i work for ) This is def a step in the right direction and with Seacom coming on steam and the new atlantic cable not to far away we are going to see a lot of change in the internet access market both in price and bandwidth. These changes will see the consumer winning in many ways.
However (always a however or but) as Alan points out above in a post, ADSL is best effort service and speed is dependant on how many users are on at the same time etc so its not the be all and end all.
inflames
Alan, maybe you could benefit from Afrihost's new 50Gb and 100Gb specials. www.afrihost.com
I also use Afrihost and they are great! Best/Cheapest ISP at the moment!
Renesongs
Ther are only 2 sites that I visit every day GFSA and Mybroadband. for a moment there I thought my DNS server had confused the two IP addresses. ?
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.
