Moving from Afrihost. Axxess or Mweb?

[victor]

Hi there guys.
Seeing as how Afrihosts policies seems to change on a weekly basis. NOT seeing myself as a too hectic downloader but still being throttled on my 4mb account to 120kbps and max 220kbp from the begging of the month, I am now just frankly tired of not knowing where I stand with them.
If they stick to the "60gig then you will be throttled" etc that I can understand but this new hour to hour thing is just not working for me.

for the 4 months I've been with them I did the following:
Month 1: 70gb
Month 2: 35gb
Month 3: 21gb
Month 4: 58gb

I game now and then and I would ideally like an account where the latencies aren't too bad. This however is not really a concern as I can always get a separate account for just gaming.

My main question here is who do I go to?
I'm torn between Axxess and MWEB.

My gut feel is MWEB because of what I read on the T&C of Axxess but I have been an Axxess user in the past and generally liked their service / uptime etc.

SO for 4mb uncapped for mainly /browsing/downloads/email/LOTS of Youtube and some gaming here and there... what do you guys suggest out of the two?

MWEB or Axxess?

[Tweak]

well.. I saw a guy who gamed with me (unreal tournament 1999) online, International server using Axxess account and it was quite decent. Just as good as my afrihost ping if not a little bit better.

That is all the input I can give, if you want to talk with the man himself, pm Slushpuppyza
Cheers

[boramk]

Yeah, I'd also like to know... My 4mbit line maxes out at 384 speeds

[PeterCH]

MWEB offers the best value for money IMO. Sure they shape P2P and RapidShare but you can still get a fair amount downloaded. If you download from less known sites you will go at full speed.

[boramk]

MWEB offers the best value for money IMO. Sure they shape P2P and RapidShare but you can still get a fair amount downloaded. If you download from less known sites you will go at full speed.

So news servers? How do they fair? That's my main source of downloads

[uzer]

I've also cancelled my Afrihost uncapped account.
R497 is a lot of money for an unreliable service.
Who cares about how much I can download, I need uptime and moderate speeds at the least.
Not knowing at which GB speed drops are and finding out that sometimes the speed drops are huge is not a nice surprise. The worst part is the appalling connection speeds. Is a site loading or isn't it. I'm done giving many minutes to find out.

[Shayd]

MWEB FTW... NO BS terms and conditions changing every month and no checking how much I download.

[Tanya35]

...but it is not good at all for gaming.

[Tegnik]

...but it is not good at all for gaming.

I don't know about that. I use it all the time for gaming. I think it is pretty decent.

[Gatecrasher]

I have three WOW players in the house. I get no complaints from them using MWeb uncapped.

[Redeemer30]

You could also look at the openweb 4meg Gold accounts. I'm on one and had not complaints about the line. I play wow on it 300-500ms depending on time of day, also do a load of downloads (but waiting for seacom to be back to start on my series again).

Check them out.

[///MoH]

OpenWeb GOLD here 2

[victor]

Hmmm so still a tie between Axxess and MWEB.

Look gaming isn't crucial. Gaming will be a bonus. If I don't find Mweb or Axxes uncapped to be fast enough, I can go with a unshaped / semi shapped account if need to. I hear Axxess 626 is good for that.

Mostly it will be for the rest of my internet needs.

[PeterCH]

So news servers? How do they fair? That's my main source of downloads

Some better than others. MWEB may shape the better know ones but the others no. I tried Easynews once and it went very well.

[Chevron]

Hmmm so still a tie between Axxess and MWEB.

Look gaming isn't crucial. Gaming will be a bonus. If I don't find Mweb or Axxes uncapped to be fast enough, I can go with a unshaped / semi shapped account if need to. I hear Axxess 626 is good for that.

Mostly it will be for the rest of my internet needs.

Just get Openweb Gold.

One account for everything.