ADSL: Uncapped versus capped

I wonder if anyone told Afrihost if peoople go uncapped they will use more?
The logic seems to be a bit flawed - judging how much you used before vs uncapped.
It was most likely based on cost per gig.
EI: if a gig is R 99 i use 1 Gig, if its R 1 I will use 99 Gigs.
Silly IMO
 
I will be leaving AfriHost at the end of the month, I used to be on capped with them using about 30 - 60 gig a month, what killed me was having to keep an eye on my available bandwith the whole time.

I went over to uncapped and I am being penalised for going over 30 gig a month, and no I am not talking about torrenting, I normally download a lot from the Technet web site and even my browsing is degrade as soon as I hit the 30 gig mark.

I have already gotten a M-Web account, which seems to work like a charm, no weird issues like with AfriHost.
 
iblade said:
I will be leaving AfriHost at the end of the month, I used to be on capped with them using about 30 - 60 gig a month, what killed me was having to keep an eye on my available bandwith the whole time.

I went over to uncapped and I am being penalised for going over 30 gig a month, and no I am not talking about torrenting, I normally download a lot from the Technet web site and even my browsing is degrade as soon as I hit the 30 gig mark.

I have already gotten a M-Web account, which seems to work like a charm, no weird issues like with AfriHost.
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Ill be going with you most likely.
International just hiccuped on me while I was busy editing an online document!
WIN!
And 30 gig penalty is like draconian. Thats not Fair Usage.
 
i think afrihost is dropping the line every hour or so to check your usage and then move you to the appropriate section. i read about a few customers complain regarding this.
When i read it it made sense....Webafrica used to do the same on the 30 GB account....you could use the first 3 as int bandwidth but after reconnecting everything was local only.
 
Afrihost are throttling after 30GB. There are hundreds of posts about this and the lack of even a single response from AH. I wonder why this article fails to mention this.
 
Seems like they were all compelled to offer uncapped accounts prematurely and only MWEB was prepared to handle the demand well in advance. Obviously they did their homework very well.
 
aaah this:

MWEB has said repeatedly that users are able to download as much as they want on their packages.
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and this:

The bottom line: it really comes down to what you want to use the internet for. If you're looking to download a few hundred gigabytes of movies per month, the ISPs will penalise you (and continue to do so) because you're affecting the experience for the other 99% of users who will probably only end up using 10-20GB.
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don't quite make sense when added together. Rather say some ISPs or do we know of anyone terminated by Mweb?
 
Shows you how hard were all getting *****ed!

If i have 4096kbit of bandwidth available for all services, im talking 100% open pipe here. And my ISP decides to clamp down usage after i have reached lets say 100gb by changing my 4096 to 1024 they are limiting the capacity made available to me. This is also known as CAPPING!

When will these dumb arse ISP's wake up!! If you cannot provide a service then DONT advertise it!
Uncapped means, activate it, bill it and leave it!

SA has to be the only country where ISP's are even more sneaky than Insurance providers. Dreaming up new "terms" to catch the unsuspecting consumer off guard. Uncapped, Unshaped, Throttled, Split, Local only cant we just buy god damned internet ? You know, the stuff the rest of the world has including our neighboring countries!

There I said it!
 
What I don't understand is Afrihost clearly states that if you use less than 7GB on a 384k package it doesn't make sense to swap to uncapped, and they're right. However, it appears they start throttling (heavily) on the 384k accounts at 10gigs - that's plain pathetic.
 
Me too

Curtix2 said:
Ill be going with you most likely.
International just hiccuped on me while I was busy editing an online document!
WIN!
And 30 gig penalty is like draconian. Thats not Fair Usage.
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I will be joining you guys
 
bekdik said:
The REAL choice is capped vs. unusable.
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The REAL choice is any other ISP capped vs. MWEB uncapped. The rest didn't think this through and just wanted a piece of the pie. Afrihost should go back to drawing board and come back in two months with a well planned, decent uncapped offering.
 
Well done Mweb. They spent the money to make sure they could handle the demand.

Their price is R20 more but I bet you if there is a R1000 more guys on their network the R20k will be invested back straight into the infrastructure.

Apparently they are not using telkom's facilities anymore? Can someone explain what the costs are to go it alone and maybe the pro's and cons?
 
erMaC said:
What I don't understand is Afrihost clearly states that if you use less than 7GB on a 384k package it doesn't make sense to swap to uncapped, and they're right. However, it appears they start throttling (heavily) on the 384k accounts at 10gigs - that's plain pathetic.
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How slow with a 384k line get after it is throttled? And then throttled again? Like in the article with the 4Mb line.
 
Does any else here remember the days when "Who uses more than 3GB anyway?". Now it's "who uses 4Mbps for the whole month anyway?"
 
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