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MalicE

MalicE

Party time! Excellent!
Anybody here know PluGG?

I'm shopping for a new ISP seeing as MWeb want's to throttle my already pathetic 1mb line (which is supposed to be an unthrottled account)

PluGG's 1mb line costs the same as mweb's, but with NO limitations

Same connection as ADSL, but no limits! Download what you want, when you want, whatever the size. These lines are semi-shaped.
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Hey Malice. Why not give afrihost a try? I also came from mweb and I must say I am very impressed. Have had no disconnections since I have been with them (3 months) and my line is very stable. And best of all they are cheaper.
 
I've only seen plugg on the standard bank website for a 15% discount.

Still on the redafrica special though so no reason to try switching.
 
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I've used Plugg uncapped for the last year or so, and have been very happy with them. Found they provided better latency for online gaming compared to other ISPs I tried, such as Afrihost and Mweb. But that's just my experience :P
 
Samildanach said:
Hey Malice. Why not give afrihost a try? I also came from mweb and I must say I am very impressed. Have had no disconnections since I have been with them (3 months) and my line is very stable. And best of all they are cheaper.
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I've had a bad experience with Afrihost in the past, left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth

I am currently considering Web Africa. their 2mb line works out only R125 more than mweb's 1mb...


czc said:
I've only seen plugg on the standard bank website for a 15% discount.

Still on the redafrica special though so no reason to try switching.
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redafrica?


Denouncer said:
I've used Plugg uncapped for the last year or so, and have been very happy with them. Found they provided better latency for online gaming compared to other ISPs I tried, such as Afrihost and Mweb. But that's just my experience :P
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well that sounds great seeing as I am having MAJOR latency issues atm
 
MalicE said:
I am currently considering Web Africa. their 2mb line works out only R125 more than mweb's 1mb...
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I've been pretty happy with WA, I tried a 2 week trial on MWeb, and I found it a very similar experience.

What's nice is that WA is quite transparent about how they think you're doing in terms of their AUP.

Here's how I'm doing at the moment

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They say that if there is major congestion, they will throttle people starting from the 1* (red) side, being the biggest bandwidth hogs. I'm still pretty much in the green, even with 50GB this month. I think the PS+ and XBL Games with Gold nailed me a bit last week with downloads, but it'll probably drop back to 5* some time soon.
 
MalicE said:
Anybody here know PluGG?

I'm shopping for a new ISP seeing as MWeb want's to throttle my already pathetic 1mb line (which is supposed to be an unthrottled account)

PluGG's 1mb line costs the same as mweb's, but with NO limitations
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- Did you receive an email from them or are you jumping ship because of that article?
- Are you on Normal Uncapped or Premium Uncapped?
- What is your average usage per month?


MalicE said:
just saw this...
http://www.openweb.co.za/gamers-king.html
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I'm on OpenWeb Uncapped Lite and I can't complain.
 
matt said:
I've been pretty happy with WA, I tried a 2 week trial on MWeb, and I found it a very similar experience.

What's nice is that WA is quite transparent about how they think you're doing in terms of their AUP.

Here's how I'm doing at the moment

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They say that if there is major congestion, they will throttle people starting from the 1* (red) side, being the biggest bandwidth hogs. I'm still pretty much in the green, even with 50GB this month. I think the PS+ and XBL Games with Gold nailed me a bit last week with downloads, but it'll probably drop back to 5* some time soon.
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That is very cool.
 
ViperGTI said:
- Did you receive an email from them or are you jumping ship because of that article?
- Are you on Normal Uncapped or Premium Uncapped?
- What is your average usage per month?



I'm on OpenWeb Uncapped Lite and I can't complain.
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the bastids sent me a mail

we're on the 1mb which is a premium only account. but I just heard that apparently mweb changed that now, they just neglected to update their website... or inform their customers :mad:

last month "we" did 202gb
 
MalicE said:
the bastids sent me a mail

we're on the 1mb which is a premium only account. but I just heard that apparently mweb changed that now, they just neglected to update their website... or inform their customers :mad:

last month "we" did 202gb
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That's quite a feat. I'm on a 4mb line and between the 3 of us we do about 250gb average per month. Haven't received any notices yet luckily, I'm quite happy with Mweb so far.
 
Eugene said:
That's quite a feat. I'm on a 4mb line and between the 3 of us we do about 250gb average per month. Haven't received any notices yet luckily, I'm quite happy with Mweb so far.
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when I say "we" I actually mean "he"

I still have a flatmate with a downloading disease. he will download anything that that pops into his head. and on the rare occasion that he doesn't have anything to download, he goes and looks for something to download. and he loves youtube. oh yeah, and streaming the rugby/F1/cricket/NFL
 
matt said:
Ya 200GB is quite a lot on a 1Mb line hey.
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I know dude! I have no idea how he does it!

we're not even getting 1mb for more than a month now. the best speed test result I got this weekend was 400kbps
 
MalicE said:
I know dude! I have no idea how he does it!

we're not even getting 1mb for more than a month now. the best speed test result I got this weekend was 400kbps
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You should tell him the Internet police are coming for you and it's all his fault. Or basically just guilt trip him.
 
MalicE said:
I know dude! I have no idea how he does it!

we're not even getting 1mb for more than a month now. the best speed test result I got this weekend was 400kbps
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I'm willing to bet he has PTP and/or Torrent clients running 24/7, which means that a fair chunk of that bandwidth is also people downloading stuff from him. Check out the settings, there's usually somewhere to limit the upload speed, which should alleviate that a bit at least. You should be able to limit uploads to 10Kbps without affecting download speeds, otherwise it can use your full uplink speed.
 
matt said:
I'm willing to bet he has PTP and/or Torrent clients running 24/7, which means that a fair chunk of that bandwidth is also people downloading stuff from him. Check out the settings, there's usually somewhere to limit the upload speed, which should alleviate that a bit at least. You should be able to limit uploads to 10Kbps without affecting download speeds, otherwise it can use your full uplink speed.
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it is, but both our utorrents are set to upload at max 1kbps

the numbers just don't add up. according to mwebs usage sheet we downloaded 8.4gb on the 2nd of this month.... I dream of the day I can get that "1mb" line to do that. it took me 3 days now to download 1 episode of House

for today we are on 1.5gb downloaded. my pc isn't even on and he's busy downloading 1 shitty movie of 1.3gb that isn't even done yet and probably won't be till tomorrow or the next day, or the day after that even.

somewhere I smell a fish in the grass......
 
MalicE said:
it is, but both our utorrents are set to upload at max 1kbps

the numbers just don't add up. according to mwebs usage sheet we downloaded 8.4gb on the 2nd of this month.... I dream of the day I can get that "1mb" line to do that. it took me 3 days now to download 1 episode of House

for today we are on 1.5gb downloaded. my pc isn't even on and he's busy downloading 1 shitty movie of 1.3gb that isn't even done yet and probably won't be till tomorrow or the next day, or the day after that even.

somewhere I smell a fish in the grass......
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Perhaps your neighbor is stealing your wifi?
 
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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