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matt said:
Perhaps your neighbor is stealing your wifi?
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ViperGTI said:
Is your router's wifi password protected? Perhaps change the password and see if the issue persist? Someone from outside might be free-loading.
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yeah I put quite a hectic password on the wifi

spoke the the techie at mweb now and he agrees that our usage numbers are fishy

so Imma test it tomorrow. going to disable the wifi and shutdown all the pc's and then see what happens
 
MalicE said:
yeah I put quite a hectic password on the wifi

spoke the the techie at mweb now and he agrees that our usage numbers are fishy

so Imma test it tomorrow. going to disable the wifi and shutdown all the pc's and then see what happens
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You can also poke around in the router and see what machines are connected to it. You might spot some that you don't know.

If you're using WEP encryption, you should change to WPA2 rather, I recall reading an article about how easy it is to break into wifi networks that uses WEP.

What can also help is to use MAC address filtering, so you actually authorize specific machines by MAC address rather than allowing any machine that has your password onto the network.

Otherwise, maybe there's a problem with something on Mweb's side with how they monitor your usage.
 
matt said:
You can also poke around in the router and see what machines are connected to it. You might spot some that you don't know.

If you're using WEP encryption, you should change to WPA2 rather, I recall reading an article about how easy it is to break into wifi networks that uses WEP.

What can also help is to use MAC address filtering, so you actually authorize specific machines by MAC address rather than allowing any machine that has your password onto the network.

Otherwise, maybe there's a problem with something on Mweb's side with how they monitor your usage.
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THAT is what I was thinking

I did set it up as WPA2 if I remember correctly, will just check it again tonight
 
ViperGTI said:
Hey MalicE... Any feedback? Did you figure out what (or who) is eating your bandwidth?
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well we installed Networkx on the PCs last night to check it ourselves, found only one culprit, AVAST. So Avast is gone now, replaced it with Comodo. But when I compare our usage as per Networkx to what mweb says we're using mweb is reporting basically double what we logged!

So I'm done.

Just downgraded our mweb account to 1gb capped, gonna cancel it tomorrow. Saw the well placed Afrihost all-you-can-eat banner on the myBB forum thread that is now basically a mweb boycott thread. Signed up, uploaded my ID again and it's already active and running.

Decided to stick with the 1mb for now. might look at 2mb upgrade at a later stage.
 
MalicE said:
well we installed Networkx on the PCs last night to check it ourselves, found only one culprit, AVAST. So Avast is gone now, replaced it with Comodo. But when I compare our usage as per Networkx to what mweb says we're using mweb is reporting basically double what we logged!

So I'm done.

Just downgraded our mweb account to 1gb capped, gonna cancel it tomorrow. Saw the well placed Afrihost all-you-can-eat banner on the myBB forum thread that is now basically a mweb boycott thread. Signed up, uploaded my ID again and it's already active and running.

Decided to stick with the 1mb for now. might look at 2mb upgrade at a later stage.
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Thats seriously... AWESOME!? May just ditch mweb for this and it's cheaper too!

Unlimited Data
Uncapped means unlimited data. Whether you use 7GB or 700GB a month, you won't have to worry about getting cut off.
- See more at: http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/...dband&utm_content=728x90#sthash.GsSmdW95.dpuf
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I remember that Afrihost used to do heavy throttling on their uncapped accounts but according to the link, it seems that they have stopped. Considering their prices, that might not be a bad option.
 
Glordit said:
Thats seriously... AWESOME!? May just ditch mweb for this and it's cheaper too!
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ViperGTI said:
I remember that Afrihost used to do heavy throttling on their uncapped accounts but according to the link, it seems that they have stopped. Considering their prices, that might not be a bad option.
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yeah they have an "Uncapped Leaderboard" FFS :D

and to sweeten it all, I did a speed test again last night after the switch, and my line speed went from about 200kbps to 762kbps. so imo it looks like mweb was already throttling me :mad:
 
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MalicE said:
yeah they have an "Uncapped Leaderboard" FFS :D

and to sweeten it all, I did a speed test again last night after the switch, and my line speed went from about 200kbps to 762kbps. so imo it looks like mweb was already throttling me :mad:
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I've seen that leaderboard. They seem to actually celebrate their high usage customers and use them for marketing rather than penalize them.

762Kbps sounds like a much more reasonable speed for a 1Mbps line. They probably were throttling you then, and since it's just a change in ISP, you can't even put it down to congestion on the exchange or something like they probably would if you called them.
 
matt said:
I've seen that leaderboard. They seem to actually celebrate their high usage customers and use them for marketing rather than penalize them.

762Kbps sounds like a much more reasonable speed for a 1Mbps line. They probably were throttling you then, and since it's just a change in ISP, you can't even put it down to congestion on the exchange or something like they probably would if you called them.
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exactly!

I could see the improvement instantly. should have done this months ago
 
Im on PLUGG, quite happy with them ... I did however notice that yesterday during the day my internet speeds was very disturbing but the night time it was normal :-/
 
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