Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Piesang]

10Gig a day usage average

I need to ask this. Are they fine with this? Thinking about the "fair usage policy".

[Zyzzyva]

I need to ask this. Are they fine with this? Thinking about the "fair usage policy".

Minor throttling starts at roughly 120 gigs on the 1meg, 270 on the 4meg and 450 on the 10meg.

[PsyWulf]

I need to ask this. Are they fine with this? Thinking about the "fair usage policy".

Yep,no complaints from their side,and i'm vocal about it too

[blunt]

Which Uncapped service are you using?

1mb
4mb
10mb

I have a 10mb line with Telkom 20GB package. I'm looking at getting either the 4mb uncapped (which will cost me R60 more than what I'm paying now) or the 1mb uncapped (which will cost me almost R300 less per month.)

But I don't want something that is crawling.

Going from 4MB to 1MB was unbearable for me, even running at full line speed.. if you are on 10MB, then 1MB is going to be like nails on a chalk board.. I'm on the 4MB Afri uncapped now and it's great it seems to burst to around 4.5mbit on my line which syncs at 6mb

[ajules]

@Afriman any chance that Afrihost will have a similar tool to the one that WA just developed to manage your ADSL line in the client panel?

[OtakuD]

Hi Afrihost,
I have a 1MB uncapped account with you which we signed up for last month. My usage is 100GB (under the 170GB Ive read here) but we are limited to 50% of line speed and gaming is a lot more laggy. I dont see anywhere on the control panel where I can work out if we have hit our 30 day roll over limit, is 50% a normal drop?
Thanks!

PS: If this is the case then a steam sale and this account dont play well!

[AfriMan]

@Afriman any chance that Afrihost will have a similar tool to the one that WA just developed to manage your ADSL line in the client panel?

Not sure how the WA tool works, but ours works like this in ClientZone:

https://support.afrihost.com/?/Knowl...is-not-working

[AfriMan]

On 1Mb you're gonna hit throttle at around 120GB, not 170GB. Your speed shouldn't drop below 512Kbps, which is 50%.

You'll need to PM me your username so I can check the throttle settings on your account.

[AfriMan]

Minor throttling starts at roughly 120 gigs on the 1meg, 270 on the 4meg and 450 on the 10meg.

Yip, that's about right, give or take a torrent or two

[OtakuD]

On 1Mb you're gonna hit throttle at around 120GB, not 170GB. Your speed shouldn't drop below 512Kbps, which is 50%.

You'll need to PM me your username so I can check the throttle settings on your account.

Thanks for the info,you guys really should display this info on your product pages to avoid confusion! ^.^

[AfriMan]

Thanks for the info,you guys really should display this info on your product pages to avoid confusion! ^.^

I know some ISP's do display their thresholds, we prefer not to as his open the system up to abuse. We're happy to give an indication, but giving specific values has not worked well for us or other ISP's in the past.

[OtakuD]

I know some ISP's do display their thresholds, we prefer not to as his open the system up to abuse. We're happy to give an indication, but giving specific values has not worked well for us or other ISP's in the past.

Yeah, just a pity tho since if I had known this before I signed up I would have known that there was no way it would support a household of 3 steam users on a sale. ^.^ Thanks Afriman

[AfriMan]

Yeah, just a pity tho since if I had known this before I signed up I would have known that there was no way it would support a household of 3 steam users on a sale. ^.^ Thanks Afriman

You're asking a lot for a 1Mbps line, IMHO. Maybe think about upgrading to 4Mb. Will make a pretty big difference, I imagine.

[OtakuD]

You're asking a lot for a 1Mbps line, IMHO. Maybe think about upgrading to 4Mb. Will make a pretty big difference, I imagine.

Yeah was on 4MB/10MB for many years, used to pull 300+GB with steam so your accounts there will also not be sufficient. Thanks tho.

[AfriMan]

Yeah was on 4MB/10MB for many years, used to pull 300+GB with steam so your accounts there will also not be sufficient. Thanks tho.

What a few users have done is sign up for the 10Mbps product on a 4Mb line, allows them to access 450GB+ before hitting the throttle, and also if they do exceed, only feel throttle at 4Mbps. 10Mbp also never throttles below 2Mbps. Maybe in your case, you could opt for the 4Mbp data account, which never falls below 1Mbps, so essentially you would never be throttled on a 1Mpbs line.

A bit more expensive, but if you wanna hit big data targets, that be the way of things