Internet bandwith

[ODUODU]

Regarding the fact of limited bandwith: I agree that the quality isnt great. Listen i dont want to start advertising for someone else but A Company by the name of Afrihost delivers a 4 Mbit line for R497 per month uncapped that is throttled to 512Kb once you yoy have downloaded 60Gig. As far as i know that is the only restriction. Of course the telkom also has the its fee. but check it out please. So far the bandwith has been great. as far as i know the use the seacom cable. I think it runs through africa or something like that. Its only now during the worlcup that telkom has used much of its bandwith for broadcasting that we have had a problem.

Please i am not trying to advertise simply hope i can help someone if they do not already know about. If somebody does allready use Afrihost 4Mb  please inform of your experience. I would really like to know.

Thanks

ockie

[Vaughan]

To be honest, I think almost anyone will reach 60 gb's of download especially if they decide to download a series, a couple of games and the latest movies (however illegal that may seem).  Then the bandwidth is throttled down to 512kb ? For the rest of the month ? That would be terrible for most users.

Mweb's policy is that you can only upload up to 120 gb's over a 6 month window. But it doesn't make any claims concerning download limits. I know people who have downloaded 100-150 gb's of content, in a month, with no throttling to 512kb.

[ODUODU]

thanks

i will checkout mweb

[oradba69]

Afrihost has changed some of there terms and conditions.

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/13184-Afrihost-uncapped-ADSL-change.html

[Andrew]

There have been huge changes since Afrihost announced their bandwidth deals, and MWEB has been one of the biggest challengers since then. But beware of the 'uncapped' claim, since pretty much all ISPs have an 'abuse' clause, where if they feel you are abusing the bandwidth, they either cut you off for the remainder of the month, and you have to buy boosters, or you get throttled (and as far as I know, there was when I last looked, no exact definition of what 'abuse' meant). iBurst has been running a free bandwidth trial, between midnight and 7am in the morning, no restrictions that I am aware of, but now it is part of their new packages. To be completely honest, my personal opinion is that if you are downloading in excess of 100/200 gigs a month as a private individual, then you really need to get out more. 

[oradba69]

To be completely honest, my personal opinion is that if you are downloading in excess of 100/200 gigs a month as a private individual, then you really need to get out more. 

You know you dont have to sit and watch while its downloading 

[Andrew]

You know you dont have to sit and watch while its downloading 

Lol, on iBurst you do. Especialy when they are having one of 'those' days, where the connection resets a few times. Come back after an hour expecting the stuff to be in, and find that the connection was cut off and nothing is there.

[Robert_E]

So far I've just heard good things about Afrihost, I'm currently on an 'uncapped' IS account and it SUCKS. I'm lucky if I get half my line speed. Ever.

[GearSlave]

So far I've just heard good things about Afrihost, I'm currently on an 'uncapped' IS account and it SUCKS. I'm lucky if I get half my line speed. Ever.

Where did you hear good things? I stopped reading the Afrihost (and MWeb) threads over at MyBB 'cause it was page after page of moaning. I used to be on Afrihost uncapped but left them in the first two weeks, simply because they had no proper after hours support system in place. I'm with MWeb uncapped now and while it is hardly ideal, it's still better than having my old 5GB uncapped.

[Robert_E]

A couple of people I know have Afrihost accounts and they're much happier with them than I am with my IS account.

[NoSnipeLimit]

I'm with Afrihost, and have no complaints.  I do like downloading stuff, also playing games and surfing.  
Sure we'd all love unlimited downloading, but for a start unlimited browsing, gaming, with some downloading will have to do.

[PearlJam]

If you keep your eye on mybroadband then it seems if Afrihost has some service issues.

I am with Openweb and get full speed 24/7 no matter the amount of bandwidth I have used.  It did however take some discussions with Openweb to get it sorted, but the owner is a hands-on guy.

Best place to get info is the mybroadband forum where you will get plenty opinions

[Robert_E]

I bought 1GB from open web now and it tests consistently faster than my IS account. Actually getting full line speed and IS can't manage that even to Pretoria/Midrand on speedtest.net

[Byrd]

Afrihost has doodoo service & attitude

[dotVIBE]

Too true. I tried afrihost uncapped and it just didn't work. I'm on Mweb uncapped now, the 4mb one. it's not great, far from it, but i get about 200 to 230 gigs a month down.