Afrihost ADSL uncapped: R197 per month

[Tweak]

i Bought my friend an uncapped account from afrihost. Just because it is so damn cheap

Consider, most telkom customers would pay R69 for shaped gigs, so 3x R69 = R207 for 3 gigs of shaped data.

Now we get Uncapped unshaped 384kbps adsl for less than what telkom's customers are paying.
Izi


Note: I don't consider P2P shaping as relevant <3 As we have access to unlimited Rapidshare account

[Trigga]

I enquired about what Afirhost considers a reasonable amount of downloading in a month.

Their response highlights they will start throttling our connection speed once we have used a measly 30 gig and after we have used 60 gigs they cut our speed by 75%!

Afirhost like the Pizza shop analogy. Here is my pizza shop analogy for them.

Afihost Uncapped ADSL is like an Eat as much as you can deal, except you every time you eat a slice they increase the time between the next slice they serve. They never stop bringing you pizza… they just take ages to serve you the next slice.

GIVE US PROPPER UNCAPPED ADSL AND QUIT MESSING WITH OUR SPEED!!


From Afrihost

This is how we are currently dealing with our Uncapped 4096 accounts:

On signing up to our Uncapped product you will get our standard ADSL service. (i.e. certain ports are shaped somewhat and web and email are prioritised.)

After you have moved 30 GBs you will be moved into a different category whereby certain ports will be shaped more aggressively. However, web and email will still be prioritised.

After moving a total of 60 GBs you will be moved into a different category where your line speed is throttled to 1024 kbps per second and certain shaping protocols are in place.

After moving a total of 90 GBs then you will be moved into a category where you will be throttled to 512 kbps. Certain shaping protocols will also be in place here.

After moving a total of 120 GBs you will be moved into a category where your line will be throttled to 386 kbps. Certain shaping protocols will also be in place here.

After moving a total of 150 GBs you will be moved into a category where you are throttled to 128 kbps.

You will never be capped.

If you use this account for heavy downloading then you WILL be throttled at some point in the month so please think about whether this account is for you.

***** that sucks why did'nt they tell us this before we signed up?? Surly they knew that once cheap uncapped was released in SA people ARE going to download heavily....
Im not one to just chop 'n change but this calls for reason!!
If they can't manage they mustn't advertise it as so!

[dgharmse]

I have a 384 uncapped package(mweb) that i bought from openweb.Its valid till end of this month for R100.I used it for testing purposes and i must say that i was impressed.Im still at SAOL till the end of the month and thats why i want to sell the mweb account.PM me if you interested.