Uncapped mweb1/13/2024 ![]() These nations are the pace-setters as leading brand nations in Africa. South African brands account for 56% of the most admired African brands, Nigerian brands at 24% led by Dangote and Ethiopian brands occupy 20% led by Ethiopian Airways. MTN, DStv, Tiger Brands, Shoprite, Bathu, Drip and Clover are the only South African brands in the Top 100 most admired brands in the pan-African list where African brands account for only 17% of the most admired brands in Africa. These were released ahead of the release of the 2023 Brand Africa 100 | Africa’s Best Brands to be released on at a breakfast roundtable hosted by Brand South Africa acting CEO Sithembile Ntombela and Brand Africa founder and chairman, Thebe Ikalafeng. This is according to the Brand Africa and Brand SA rankings for 2022 Brand Africa | South Africa’s Best Brands. Some of the Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands, | South Africa’s Best Brands winners To be fair MWEB does not cap the account, they just throttle it to such an extent that it is effectively useless for streaming video content.Image supplied. I am not expecting to be able to download this amount of data and my maximum usage is unlikely to exceed 500GB per month but I am definitely not going to get that at 10Mbps with MWEB. This is what a truly uncapped service would look like and lets be honest, that is a massive amount of data. So at 8Mbps the theoretical maximum I could download is 2.5 terabytes of data every month. So:ĨMb per second * 60 seconds = 480Mb per minuteĤ80Mb per minute * 60 minutes = 28,800Mb per hourĢ8,800Mb per hour / 1000Mb per Gb = 28.8Gb per hourĢ8.8Gb per hour * 24 hours = 691.2Gb per dayĦ91.2Gb per day * 30 days = 20,736Gb per monthĢ0,736Gb per month / 1000Gb per Tb = 20.736Tb per monthĪnd finally converting data transmission rate (small b) to data storage (big B) thanks to Google's handy converter:Ģ0.763Tb per month * 0.125 Tb to TB factor = 2.592TB per month For simplicity sake lets round this down to 8Mbs, please note the small b in Mb indicates megabit (transfer rate) not megabyte (storage). My ADSL line is rated as 10Mbps but in practice I only really get 8.5Mbps which is generally sufficient for streaming HD content (obviously depending on a number of other factors). To put this in perspective lets do some theoretical bandwidth calculations. ![]() As a user that is spending a fair amount of money on high speed internet access I would prefer if the ISP's kept their prices the same but increased their capacity. The current price war in the uncapped ADSL market is rather pointless if an uncapped account is actually subject to a throttling limit. My only real gripe is that I am being lumped into the probably-a-pirate-downloading-24-7 group and as a result my (legal) video streaming is throttled to tetris block quality despite only using my line for a few hours a day. I can't say that I am terribly surprised, there is a trend with South African ADSL providers to start clamping down on "high usage" users, MWEB is merely notifying users via email when they have reached this lofty state. It turns out that their 10Mbs uncapped account is actually a 125GB capped account and that R749 (my last MWEB bill) every month only actually buys a 1.5Mbps line. I was the unlucky recipient of an acceptable usage notification email from MWEB last night.
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