MWEB slashes 10Mbps uncapped ADSL price; launches 2Mbps uncapped ADSL service

[Calvin22580]

Does anyone have the faintest idea on what it means if you move from Mweb to Afrihost? Afrihost's favourite word is throttling. Then run your account on a 7 day rolling window. So if you use more than a certain amount of data within those 7 days, your account with be moved to a certain shaping rule. Where they will cap you to about 50% of the full line speed.

When I was with them a few months ago on the 1mbps uncapped, then shaped me after the first week and my line speed stayed at 50% for the next 3 weeks. So I called them and told them that I was only recieving 50% of my line speed and the guy said that their systems didn't reset my shaping policy after the fisrt week ok shaping. This happened 3 times. And after that I moved to Mweb, where I could download as I wished. No throttling.

Think again

[freematrix]

Mwebs bandwidth is way better than Afrihost. The phrase you get what you pay for does apply here.

[atomcrusher]

I wish telkom would provide a tool on their site similar to the 10MB availability check for when the lines in a particular area gets upgraded. But then again from what I hear from the grapevine telkom is in a utterly chaotic scramble to upgrade so even THEY don't know.

EDIT: ok seems they at least partially do http://www.telkom.co.za/noticeboard/index.do

Not good news for me it seems ...

Confirmation - not part of upgrade
Dear customer, Your service 028514**** does not form part of the network upgrade at this stage.

For more information contact our Call Centres.
Residential - 10210
Business - 10217

If your problem is not addressed in the upgrade information above, please log a fault.

[Polemus]

why are you all saying Afrihost's include line rental, if you look at there site: http://www.afrihost.com/site/product...capped?src=nav

* Please note that our uncapped packages are subject to an Acceptable use policy.
** ADSL Line Required to make use of ADSL Bandwidth. If you need an ADSL Line, sign up for one here
*** Uncapped ADSL Accounts are locked to a single phoneline. The phoneline it gets locked to is the first line used to connect. If your number changes simply contact us to clear the current number.

[FaSMaN]

MWEB doesn't throttle. Afrihost have throttle limit.

Replied to you in the other thread:

They throttle at 350gig-450gig which is acceptable, while mweb shapes and limits the line , allowing you to do about the same,so there is no real difference.

[FaSMaN]

why are you all saying Afrihost's include line rental, if you look at there site: http://www.afrihost.com/site/product...capped?src=nav

Your on the wrong page look here http://www.afrihost.com/site/product...undles?src=nav ,the bundles include the line.

[Mean_Monster]

The 2MB is a bit more than the R299 I thought it was going to be. Oh well, when our line is bumped to 2MB then I'm upgrading anyway.

That to me was also the magic number. Guess I will be doing the 1Mb thing a bit longer then..

[Gunner182]

That to me was also the magic number. Guess I will be doing the 1Mb thing a bit longer then..

+1

I thought I'd be upgrading again this year, but looks like I'll be staying at 1mb for quite a while. Still it could be worse! (384kbps)

[cozinsky]

on the 10mb uncapped account, afrihost only throttles after 450gb usage, and never throttles slower than 2mbit.. i can live with that

If it gets throttled, it is not uncapped. Shaping and throttling are from the devil.

[Polemus]

Your on the wrong page look here http://www.afrihost.com/site/product...undles?src=nav ,the bundles include the line.

thanx for that

[Pienats]

I was also hoping for a 2Mb price of around R299, but i guess R70 more is not too much.
From my experience, although Afrihost is not bad, MWEB at this stage just seems that tad bitter better. I'll be keeping an eye on the situation, but for the moment I think I'll stay with MWEB.

[rambo919]

Not good news for me it seems ...

Hopefully things will change on the 1st

[ChocolateBadger]

I'm confused about the 1Mb uncapped price change, it says on my account that I still have to pay R488pm for mine and to sign up for a new line is R366 pm? I don't want to be upgraded, I would like to just pay less.

[gregmcc]

And nothing for the 4Mbps users! AH here i come - cancellation already sent through.

[bar1]

Shew...actually not sure what to do...
i download a lot from nzb, how are the other ISPS compare to mweb?
i usually get full speed from news.mweb.co.za