Comments on: MWEB: “This is the real deal”

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:32:52 +0000

so much for the uncapped ADSL from MWEB. I can only use the 4MB uncapped from them, because they decided to increase the price of the 10MB uncapped 4X!! Their 10MB SHAPED uncapped is R2000. I got an automatic upgrade from 4MB to 10MB on the line side from Telkom, however MWEB dropped my line back to 4MB and asks x4 the price…

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:02 +0000

You mentioned a couple of other providers on air who were also offering uncapped service. Please post them here too as I didn't get the chance to write them down

By: SynapticLight

SynapticLight — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:16:18 +0000

I am interesting in seeing how other providers respond – and if they don't how many people will move to MWEB. I was one of those lucky 1000 people who won a month of free Uncapped data – it certainly seems that MWEB is preparing those winners to move to MWEB after the month is up – I have to apply for an account to get the free month.

By: Albie

Albie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:54:07 +0000

I did read it in some interview or article. Somewhere else then.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:35:21 +0000

Nope. I only found out about it later as per my comment above.

By: Albie

Albie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:55:40 +0000

Simon

I seem to remember that Andre Joubert mentioned the use of 100 GB as fair usage in this interview with you the day you published it. Did you edit that comment out?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:00:34 +0000

Yeah, I think you've got it right. I've been testing the service for a few days and browsing, emails, http downloads and the like are all just as good, if not better, than what they would be with other service providers. p2p is slower, but spikes up depending on the time of day, etc. (from what I can tell).

All in all I'd recommend the service – especially if you aren't reliant on p2p. But there are also other uncapped options popping up from Vox, Afrihost and others. At the moment MWEB seems to have the lead, however.

By: A. Ismail

A. Ismail — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:27:39 +0000

ok lets be clarify”
I am curently on a 384 line with XDSL(or whichever service provider).
If i switch to mweb uncapped:
-I will get the same fast internet for surfing
-I wil also get good download speeds when DOWNLOADING FROM WEBSITES such as CNET, Rapidshare (ie content uploaded to websites), attachments from emails etc.
- shape will only apply to torrents, peer to peer
is this correct??….

By: Marc Ashton

Marc Ashton — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:33:25 +0000

This has got to be one of the most exciting (monumental??) weeks for internet in South Africa.

This opens up huge opportunities for a number of sectors including entrepreneurship and education. Damn exciting stuff!

By: Charlieh

Charlieh — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:19:49 +0000

Well just upgraded my long standing icon account to this package. The sales rep has said Mweb would love me to use 100gig a month (I currently use between 7 and 9 Gb per month) Dont know how I will get to 100 Gb monthly without using P2P