Web Africa discontinues FreeZone for uncapped ADSL users
Web Africa withdraws ‘Freezone’ service as part of uncapped ADSL products
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Web Africa discontinues FreeZone for uncapped ADSL users
Web Africa withdraws ‘Freezone’ service as part of uncapped ADSL products
Fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
I think I'd stay with mweb. At least they are modern enough not to include old school rolling windows. Clearly not enough was and still is provisioned over at that camp...
Well i joined Webafrica because of the "Freezone" and now they taking it away!! Well they will be losing more than just their "Freezone" at the end of the month...
Are Mweb running at a massive loss? Or is it cause they have the market share? There seems to be no downside to mwebs uncapped offers.
I'm probably missing something (not being a WA customer and all), but isn't Freezone supposed to allow free downloads and bandwidth usage by not deducting usage from your cap? How are uncapped users then affected since there is no cap to deduct from? Unless WA was using the term "uncapped" rather loosely before, I'm not sure what the issue is.
WebAfrica makes use of a very restrictive rolling window for uncapped users (apparently only when the network is under strain). Freezone data meant that data that fell under freezone did not get added to your six hourly limit, therefore did not affect the rolling window at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ViperGTI
Boooooo hoooooo hoooooo. Shame! Poor "uncapped" users who lose something free but they are still "uncapped"...
Webafrica's download plus is the best thing since sliced bread.
I have to agree with Wyzak, Im on the uncapped package and I just schedule all my big downloads for the download plus hours. I have only been throttled once since going on the uncapped package and that was my own fault for trying to update game client during the day and not stopping it before we hit the threshold.
So far their uncapped package is good. Only issue I have had is some latency in gaming at night. But it comes and goes and its not unplayable.
What I don't get is why guys moan about this. I also don't get how people can download so much in a month..Seriously..Up and till recently thanx to Satan aka Telkom not fixing my line, I ran a 4 mb uncapped unshapped account and I struggled to do more than 50GB a month. I admit it helps that I am on the Wug getting all my series and stuff, but damn how people can download 300-400GB a month is beyond me. Was kinda off topic but anyway.
With the recent hard drive price hikes, who can afford the storage for this amount of data :)