Official internet discussion thread

[Bonezmann]

Yeah, it seems my eyes and ears are made of **** these days. it was 12 hours for 2Gigs and a day or so for 6Gigs. Sorry. :(

[Wesley]

Yeah, it seems my eyes and ears are made of **** these days. it was [B]12 hours for 2Gigs[/B] and a day or so for 6Gigs. Sorry. :(

WHAT THE ****? 12 HOURS FOR TWO MEASLY GIGABYTES OF PRON?

Good god, man, that's worse than 384DSL.

[Cyberninja]

I've decided to switch to Mweb Uncapped (384k) as well. I canceled my Telkom internet yesterday. Currently using a Afrihost prepaid account. I've noticed that Afrihost's capped products have been noticeably slower, since they released their uncapped products. Hopefully, things will run much smoother with Mweb.

[Bonezmann]

WHAT THE ****? 12 HOURS FOR TWO MEASLY GIGABYTES OF PRON?

Good god, man, that's worse than 384DSL.

Really? Because I just downloaded the 1.2Gb Warhammer setup and it took 10 hours... ;__;

Now that, my friend, is ****ing slow...

[Wesley]

Really? Because I just downloaded the 1.2Gb Warhammer setup and it took 10 hours... ;__;

Now that, my friend, is ****ing slow...

Thats an average of... 28kb/s for a measly 1.2GB download. From Steam, right?

O_O

I'm glad I'm not you. Its not that bad, but not good either.

[Bonezmann]

Not even from steam, it's from the warhammer patch program.

[Wesley]

Not even from steam, it's from the warhammer patch program.

Sad state of affairs.

Try reset your router and pray to God that it syncs at a higher speed :-P

And then threaten Telkom that you'll touch them in their studio of they don't upgrade your local DSLAM to support the higher speeds ;-)

[Rah_Skill]

WHAT THE ****? 12 HOURS FOR TWO MEASLY GIGABYTES OF PRON?

Good god, man, that's worse than 384DSL.

No. But only slightly faster.

Really? Because I just downloaded the 1.2Gb Warhammer setup and it took 10 hours... ;__;

Now that, my friend, is ****ing slow...

Thats an average of... 28kb/s for a measly 1.2GB download. From Steam, right?

O_O

I'm glad I'm not you. Its not that bad, but not good either.

But?

38 * 60 = 2280kb per minute
2280 * 60 = 136800kb per hour

136800 / 1024 = 133.59375mb per hour

133.59375 / 1024 = 0.130462646484375Gb per hour

0.130462646484375 * 10 = 1.30462646484375GB in 10 hours.

So his speed is almost right?


EDIT: NVM... I'm gonna go an hero now, don't worry.

[Wesley]

No. But only slightly faster.

But?

38 * 60 = 2280kb per minute
2280 * 60 = 136800kb per hour

136800 / 1024 = 133.59375mb per hour

133.59375 / 1024 = 0.130462646484375Gb per hour

0.130462646484375 * 10 = 1.30462646484375GB in 10 hours.

So his speed is almost right?

His speeds are fine, but its 384DSL, not the best place to be right now for downloading ;-) Also...

EDIT: NVM... I'm gonna go an hero now, don't worry.

[Rah_Skill]

His speeds are fine, but its 384DSL, not the best place to be right now for downloading ;-) Also...

Now I don't even want to an hero anymore after seeing that picture of Gordon Brown.

I will concede that 384k uncapped lured me in before waiting to see the outcome. But SAOL has yet to give me any real speed issues or any issues in general.

Pity I will not see this burst though.

[x-scon]

We finally got mweb 384kb uncapped today. This test was taken at about 12:50 today.

The ping isn't too bad. Download speeds need a bit of work though...

And this was done at 16:23

Looks a little better. But I guess this is standard for 384 line?

[Boggle24]

Your second speed test is what a 384k line should look like in general.

the HTTP side of things really area flying most of the time, more so than when I had the Cybersmart account, which seemed to die every now and then (although with Cybersmart I wasn't throttled to hell and back on certain protocols).

Is it just me though or does it seem like Youtube and streaming things in general is actually slower than it should be ?

I don't have a problem with the shaping of protocols at certain times, just as long as I can have maximum speed with my streaming at all times.

[Sw!zzCh33se]

Trying to talk my dad into this , but I have a question.

Is this completely uncappped , as in unlimited cap? I can download anything from 3GB a month to 1000GB , Or are there some restrictions?

[KilR8]

Trying to talk my dad into this , but I have a question.

Is this completely uncappped , as in unlimited cap? I can download anything from 3GB a month to 1000GB , Or are there some restrictions?

There is NO CAP meaning DOWNLOAD AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. But I think that MWEB throttles your line at certain points depending on how much you have downloaded.


Example: At 20GB they may make your line slower by 10%, then at 40GB make you line 20% slower. (This is just an example)

[wir]

There is NO CAP meaning DOWNLOAD AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. But I think that MWEB throttles your line at certain points depending on how much you have downloaded.


Example: At 20GB they may make your line slower by 10%, then at 40GB make you line 20% slower. (This is just an example)

As I understand it, with Mweb they throttle you to 128kbit when you hit 100gb.

[KilR8]

As I understand it, with Mweb they throttle you to 128kbit when you hit 100gb.

Oh well there we go, I didnt actually know what they throttle you line to and at what point. Where did you come by this info?? Is it for all lines ??

[wir]

Oh well there we go, I didnt actually know what they throttle you line to and at what point. Where did you come by this info?? Is it for all lines ??

I *think* I read it either somewhere on MyBB or in a similar discussion on the SGS forums. Don't take my word for it.

At the very least, I know something happens after you hit 100gb :P

[Rah_Skill]

I *think* I read it either somewhere on MyBB or in a similar discussion on the SGS forums. Don't take my word for it.

At the very least, I know something happens after you hit 100gb :P

It's gotta be different, I don't think it's even possible to hit that amount on a 384k line. From what I remember calculating when I first went for uncapped it was 96GB.

[KilR8]

Half Empty =

It's gotta be different, I don't think it's even possible to hit that amount on a 384k line. From what I remember calculating when I first went for uncapped it was 96GB.

Half Full = You can reach 100GB on a 384k line provided that you download for 28.9 days straight. (40kb/s)

There is ALWAYS a way :D.

[Nferno]

Nferno, keep me informed anyway please ^_^

Totally forgot about this thread.

So when I got home Afrihost had already sorted out my internet. Tested it out and it was brilliant (this was during the Easter weekend so I presume there must have been high traffic with so many people off work).

Downloaded the Warhammer trial which is 1.2gb in about 1.5-2hrs. Thought it was pretty awesome so to do further testing I hooked it up to my Xbox and downloaded practically every demo on the Marketplace.

It downloads surprisingly faster on the Xbox with a 4.5gb download taking about 2hrs-2.5hrs, but perhaps that is due to the servers.

Unfortunately I did not get a speedtest.net while I was there but I'll make sure to take one next time.

Definately worth the money, and it worked out cheaper than Telkom by a longshot. (I used to have a 4gb 4MB account with Telkom). Nothing but praises about Afrihost from me so far! :)