webafrica: download from their steam server without using bandwidth !

[Necuno]

Excellent info Necuno. However, not knowing if the stuff you want is being hosted is a problem.

Would be great if there were some sort of list detailing exactly what is and what is not available via Freezone.

so far Time Gentlemen, please! worked from steam 90% FZ bandwidth used and 10% came of my account. however as you say...i couldn't do the steamwatch method and street fighter IV or Bards tale due to i guess them not being there. a bit frustrating, but wa will eventually sort this out.

 

[Tinman]

I managed to download the Mini Ninjas demo and Plants vs Zombies using the Freezone.

Could not get the RUSE beta, Napoleon:TW, or Just cause 2 demo.

 

[Deceptor]

I'm just gonna wait until it's working 100%.

 

[Wolfman]

Anyone know if Psychonaughts are on the FZ yet?

 

[Gimaru]

Bah! It's for WA users only?

 

[Slipperyduck]

Should be for anyone, but just won't be free for non-wage peeps (obviously)

 

[Tinman]

Bah! It's for WA users only?

Well no, you can use any ISP account to downlaod from WebAfrica's local mirror. Not much benefit though, as it will eat your bandwidth.

The beauty of this is (in theory), is that you can buy a 1GB WA top up (R59), and use it to downlaod hundreds of GBs from Steam.

 

[ChaosADPumpkinHead]

Well no, you can use any ISP account to downlaod from WebAfrica's local mirror. Not much benefit though, as it will eat your bandwidth.

The beauty of this is (in theory), is that you can buy a 1GB WA top up (R59), and use it to downlaod hundreds of GBs from Steam.

I have it on very good authority that they'll be watching for this kind of "abuse" and shut it down if it gets out of hand. The whole point of this is for Web Africa to give their USERS better value service.

 

[Bigupme]

Anyone know if Psychonaughts are on the FZ yet?

I'm sure someone mentioned that they did download it from FZ.

ChaosADPumpkinHead is right, they did mention they would look out for abuse, and change how things work if required (possibly limiting prepaid accounts was one idea).

 

[mcryan]

Still a few bugs with it. Not all of the games appear to be on WA servers. And the bandwidth allocation is still acting up a bit. I'm sure that by the end of this week everything will be sorted.

 

[Wolfman]

they did mention they would look out for abuse, and change how things work if required (possibly limiting prepaid accounts was one idea).

I hope that is not the case but it's going to depend on their definition of abuse. Then again to downloads gig upon gig is going to require a fair amount of steam purchases.

 

[Kyubi_ZA]

I got a Pre-paid account today Will give this a try

 

[name_less]

can i also logon steam n play with local server, since we can download from steam server?

 

[Tinman]

can i also logon steam n play with local server, since we can download from steam server?

Nope, they are completely different.

You can play on Webafrica's servers for free though.

 

[tpex]

I have it on very good authority that they'll be watching for this kind of "abuse" and shut it down if it gets out of hand. The whole point of this is for Web Africa to give their USERS better value service.

well that sucks, I'm still waiting for decent prices before I sign a contract

 

[ChaosADPumpkinHead]

Price isn't everything you know, the service from WA is awesome!

 

[tpex]

Price isn't everything you know, the service from WA is awesome!

I know, I have a prepaid account with them, but awesome service doesn't magically make me have more money

 

[Djinn]

Ah man...no supreme commander 2 demo or RUSE Beta Napoleon is working though! But very cool, thanks Webafrica. Working great.

I don't like the sound of this "fair usage" crap though. They must either make it free to download stuff off steam or not. Or at least give a limit to each user rather than arbitrarily deciding when it's to much. Sounds like NeoTel's "fair usage" policy on their uncapped where they cut you off if they feel you've downloaded to much.

Common WA, don't be douches, either it's unlimited free steam downloads or not...and if not what's the limit?

 

[Bigupme]

I don't quite agree, they'll have to limit people if they end up with a whole lot of cheapos just raping the server on prepaid local 1gbs. It will end up losing them money if that happens.

Limiting is only a distant maybe at this time anyway, so don't worry about it now.

 

[ChaosADPumpkinHead]

Ah man...no supreme commander 2 demo or RUSE Beta Napoleon is working though! But very cool, thanks Webafrica. Working great.

I don't like the sound of this "fair usage" crap though. They must either make it free to download stuff off steam or not. Or at least give a limit to each user rather than arbitrarily deciding when it's to much. Sounds like NeoTel's "fair usage" policy on their uncapped where they cut you off if they feel you've downloaded to much.

Common WA, don't be douches, either it's unlimited free steam downloads or not...and if not what's the limit?

Are you a full WebAfrica subscriber? If you've only bought a 1GB prepaid then you are actually abusing the system. I am a WA subscriber and I would be livid if my performance went down the toilet because of a 1000 pre paid 1GB accounts abusing the system.