Web Africa boosts gaming and drops uncapped ADSL prices

That's awesome! I was considering paying an extra R100 to move to MWeb uncapped from my 50GB at WA, but this is R60 cheaper than I'm paying now to stay with WA, and upgrade to uncapped.

And they sent out a mail this morning to say they're moving to the IS backbone, so I won't get routed via Cape Town, and hopefully I'll get better ping times.

Does anyone know what network they are leaving to move over to IS?
 
I'm sceptical. But since my line is managed by WA and I have a small capped account with them, if the feedback is good, I'll move over for sure.
Edit: And by move over, I mean cancel my mweb uncapped and go for WA.
 
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The biggest thing for me is if this move to IS is going to make things better or worse, and how the uncapped account performs compare to the capped account, and if they shape and/or throttle it a lot. But considering that it'll save me money to sommer change over to the uncapped account, it sounds like a good move to me.
 
Immediately looked at their 2 Mbps uncapped account and really digging the price. Might see a latency increase for us Cape Town users however once the IS migration is complete, but don't think it will really affect me that much. I'm amazed there is so much pessimism among the community, why can't people just try it out first. Jeepers.
 
Coheed said:
Immediately looked at their 2 Mbps uncapped account and really digging the price. Might see a latency increase for us Cape Town users however once the IS migration is complete, but don't think it will really affect me that much. I'm amazed there is so much pessimism among the community, why can't people just try it out first. Jeepers.
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I'm totally trying it out, I'm on WA already anyway, so I'm basically paying less to upgrade to uncapped. Whether it's better or worse on IS, we'll see.
 
Coheed said:
Immediately looked at their 2 Mbps uncapped account and really digging the price. Might see a latency increase for us Cape Town users however once the IS migration is complete, but don't think it will really affect me that much. I'm amazed there is so much pessimism among the community, why can't people just try it out first. Jeepers.
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Lol, the reason why people are pessimistic I think is mainly because they moved to IS. The same guys where Afrihost had a PR disaster with their uncapped products when they started up and many people jumped ship. Yes it was a long time ago, but people dont forget easily.
 
Cheaper internet for the win, but I think that something to needs to come down, is telkom's line rental price.
Also saw the article about afrihosts top users this morning in your news letter, wow some people really know how to burn up their line.
 
codeleather said:
Cheaper internet for the win, but I think that something to needs to come down, is telkom's line rental price.
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I absolutely agree, or at the very least not force us into analogue line rental. But Telkom has all the power, and no incentive to bring the prices down, so I can't see that happening any time soon.
 
markface said:
Damn, upgraded to a 4mb line and WA uncapped 4mb - got enticed by hearing good gaming etc etc.

Speed is bad, damn. Barely over 2mb speeds at best.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2489754199.png
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On my afrihost capped account I can stream 720p no problem. I've asked WA to check it out, I dont think its normal for the account, just telling you guys of my experience so far.
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Damn, that is bad. Maybe see how it all turns out once they're on IS.
 
markface said:
Hold on, its actually giving me nice speeds now. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2489919801.png

Momentary glitch in the matrix? I'll keep monitoring it and report back here.
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Oh that's much better. My WA account works fine at home, but my in-laws' one is giving them problems at the moment, I opened a support ticket with them, and they did mention that one of the reasons they're moving to IS was that there are issues with their current network provider. Hopefully everything will be nice and smooth when they switch over, but there's always a possibility of some speed bumps when making such a big change. Afrihost had some issues when they moved over to MTN.
 
So it looks as though their ping stays the same (from capped to uncapped), which is awesome for BF3 (console). Ping to Massy in France is 214ms, pretty damn good.
 
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I've decided to cancel this uncapped service already from WA. The speeds are all over the place, one minute it will be going at 3mbps, the next less than 1mbps. According to them, the reason its so erratic "is the profiling as its prioritized for download and not speed". Really?? My 2mbps mweb uncapped account outperforms this by a long shot. Such a pity.
 
I am currently with Openweb with a capped unshaped account who is on the IS network and I am very happy with my speeds.

I just hope that the influx of users from WA don't bugger up the speeds.
 
matt said:
I absolutely agree, or at the very least not force us into analogue line rental. But Telkom has all the power, and no incentive to bring the prices down, so I can't see that happening any time soon.
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Ya unfortunately it is as you say Telkom holds the strings around here :/.

We will have to see if any of the isp's start to get bored of Telkom and maybe start their own thing going.
 
codeleather said:
Ya unfortunately it is as you say Telkom holds the strings around here :/.

We will have to see if any of the isp's start to get bored of Telkom and maybe start their own thing going.
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Hehehe; what do you mean? Roll out their own national end-to-end telecoms infrastructure?
 
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