ADSL N00b! please help

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My 1GB MTN data card contract just ended (THANK GAWD!!!!) :erm: They suck!! kay so i really wanna get Uncapped adsl but i dunno which ISP to go with im looking for a price of round about R600 per month and i also want a decent speed so that i can watch youtube vids and skype etc also i like to download alot :love: so if anyone can help choose a good plan thats reliable, i would be grateful!!
 
line speed ?

apparently openweb's gold is the best, however reading through the related thread i see comments like it falls in speed and this is becoming a pattern for some.
 
R600 for everything or just for your bandwidth account?

If you want to watch vids on youtube and have seamless skype conversations, you'll need to get a 4MB line, with unshaped bandwidth.
The 4MB line will already set you back R500...

You could probably do with a 512k account, but you'll soon want faster speeds.

Uncapped accounts have such bad contention ratios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention_ratio) that YouTube would be useless...
 
AxxessDSL - 4MB line for R359 and R19 per GB unshaped. R600 will get you 12GB per month.
 
Well I'm aware of the start up costs but I'm willing to pay up to R600 a month, The Mweb deal sounds quite good for R600 a month. But if I just wanted fast Youtube and Fast skype etc what would be the best? Sorry I feel so stupid for not knowing all this!
 
yotube on 512kps you can watch 360p with a bit of buffer, and 240p without buffer.

skype is 100%
 
For those that have the mweb 512m uncapped account,what's the most that you have managed to download in a single month.
 
last months 60gb, but somedays i game ,so did not dl to much, and only 3 days , i kept pc running at day time, so could got way more
 
Hi everyone thank you very much for all the info, i saw that you can get 4096kbps for 497pm on Afrihost is this a good offer?
 
no afrihost is bad, rather get mweb,openweb or axxess, and remeber R496 is just the account, you need add another odd R400 for the adsl line

( afrihost people having crappy speeds you can check the other thread)
 
Paying R 539 for a 4meg MWeb account and loving it. Well you still have to pay another 500 bucks and a bit for the 4meg line.
 
Ok like the OP I'm new to ADSL and might soon go this route.For those guys that have 'been there done that',what would be the best capped but unshaped 50gig acc to go for, for less than R500/month all inclusive.How is MWebs 384k uncapped vs a capped account.
 
DrYes said:
Ok like the OP I'm new to ADSL and might soon go this route.For those guys that have 'been there done that',what would be the best capped but unshaped 50gig acc to go for, for less than R500/month all inclusive.How is MWebs 384k uncapped vs a capped account.
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If you want capped afrihost is best.
 
@qwicksilver.So what's does Afrihost charge for a capped acc inc line rental,and is there heavy shaping on torrents etc?
AFAIK Mwebs 512 uncapped equals Afrihosts 384 capped,depending on cost.
 
Capped accounts

R29 for 1gig account (data only)
R190 for 10 gig account(data only)
R475 for 50 gig account (was getting this at half the price on their special they had, but sadly this ended in December)

Im currently on the 50 gig capped account from afrihost it flies 24/7 with no shaping whatsoever. You can use any line speed with this, i have a 384k account with local and international news servers and just manage to finish my cap every month
 
I got Mweb 4meg uncapped. Works like a dream! Hopefully the 10meg uncapped will be affordable one day.
Uncapped packages have specific throttled line speeds. Capped packages do not and will run to the max line speed you have sync'd.
 
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