Really awesoem uncapped!!

[to0kenZA]

They don't take any hit since they don't pay per GB, they pay per Mbit. 1GB or 100GB, its costs them the same amount of money.
Where they take a hit is when too many users are simultaneously maxxing out there line, they run out bandwidth on their network and need to start prioritizing traffic.

Considering Mweb pays per Mbit, uncapped is the only package that makes any sense otherwise they will have bandwidth going to waste.

Yes but think about what they're paying for those links. And when people start complaining they'll eventually have to upgrade it. And what's going to happen when Telkom upgrades their infrastructure and enable us to have bigger connections. Then they are going to have to upgrade those links even more and lower the pricing because there's a limit to what people will pay. Overall, uncapped isn't such a great idea.

[kerbyross]

Stats for August:
Data used After Hours
Total After Hour Usage 77,008.56 MB
For R450 / 77gig R5.80 per gig , not bad iburst.

[JackBauer]

My ISP is "host for Afri" and ought to be IS that is milking us. If i had a few hundred million in the bank, just out of principle, would make these people close their doors. So sick of our service levels in this country. If i give this sort of services/useless promises, i wouldn't have any clients but they get away with it.

I would rather use 3G again and bitch about my latency/ping than think i have a service which cannot be used anyway. Soos Riaan "awesoem" Cruywagen sou se" wie is hierdie mense?"

[to0kenZA]

My ISP is "host for Afri" and ought to be IS that is milking us. If i had a few hundred million in the bank, just out of principle, would make these people close their doors. So sick of our service levels in this country. If i give this sort of services/useless promises, i wouldn't have any clients but they get away with it.

I would rather use 3G again and bitch about my latency/ping than think i have a service which cannot be used anyway. Soos Riaan "awesoem" Cruywagen sou se" wie is hierdie mense?"

Our service has level? Lol, I never even knew that! Oh, you were serious...

[HavocXphere]

@kerby: That smells like 1024kbps Afrihost uncapped. Their capped is excellent...uncapped not so much.

Yeah the 30-50gb range kinda sucks. Too expensive to get proper capped products for that & its not enough usage to justify a hardcore uncapped one.

At this stage you've got 2 options: Fork out extra R100 for Openweb Gold or micromanage your usage (Freezone, local only, expensive capped for surfing etc split).

They don't take any hit since they don't pay per GB, they pay per Mbit. 1GB or 100GB, its costs them the same amount of money.

Unfortunately that is not how it works. You can only push a finite amount of gb through a Mbps of b/w. When the total amount of gigs goes up then the total number of Mbps they need goes up too. It doesn't cost them more right now, but they'll look at the usage & organize more Mbps for next month before people start complaining. So its a little delayed & indirect but they still take a hit.

Considering Mweb pays per Mbit, uncapped is the only package that makes any sense otherwise they will have bandwidth going to waste.

You're visualizing it as a 1:1 contention connection. In reality its over 20 so b/w rarely goes to waste if the ISP is managing it correctly.

[kerbyross]

@kerby: That smells like 1024kbps Afrihost uncapped. Their capped is excellent...uncapped not so much.

its iburst with the uncapped option enabled.

[Tsar]

Mweb is awesome... I have no problem hitting 500Gbs a month with them on a 4Mb uncapped shaped line... I hit almost 800Gbs one month and got an "abuse" letter which does fall within the AUP... but for the price I pay, 500Gbs a month is a steal.

I would likely still be paying R700 for 20Gbs a month which is what I got before mweb uncapped came on the scene. Overall mweb rocks.

Dude honestly what the hell do you need to download to reach that?

[Hraffnir]

Dude honestly what the hell do you need to download to reach that?

Please don't tell me you're gonna pull the "illegal downloads" card.

[Tsar]

Please don't tell me you're gonna pull the "illegal downloads" card.

No I am not but what the hell do you do to get to that?

[Ichigo]

No I am not but what the hell do you do to get to that?

Would like to know also. Most I could do was 100 gigs with series I barely watched and some Anime I enjoyed.