Afrigamer from Afrihost - Your comments

[AfriMan]

Hi Guys

As some of you may know, we launched a new product called Afrigamer a couple of months ago. The idea was to create an ADSL data bundle that was ideally suited to gamers, and would also include free access to gaming servers hosted by us (COD, Left 4 Dead, Counterstrike, etc). To kick-off the launch, we are running a competition where signing up could win your a trip for two to Gamescom in Germany.

http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/afrigamer_adsl?src=socmed

We'd really love some feedback on what you guys think of this product and how we can improve it to make it the best gaming ADSL product out there.

Please post on and follow this thread and we'll definitely keep you updated. We'll also post some cool discounts and sign-up bonuses in this thread, if you'd like to trial it for a month and let us know what you think.

So if you're reading this, thanks for being awesome and helping us make Afrigamer even more awesome!

 

[Pellito]

Signed up for it last night, pro-rata'd to around 3 or 4GB.
Awesome performance thus far.
Also quite cheap at R299 for 35GB

P.S. the link in your OP is broken.

 

[AfriMan]

Signed up for it last night, pro-rata'd to around 3 or 4GB.
Awesome performance thus far.
Also quite cheap at R299 for 35GB

P.S. the link in your OP is broken.

Great to hear, let us know how it goes! I've fixed the link now, not sure how that happened

 

[GreyBush]

Also signed up yesterday, a mate of mine has peen using it and he often sits with a below 20 ping in BF3... I am also not a heavy downloader so 35 gigs is perfect for me.

 

[ISP cash cow]

HI Afriman,

I already have an Afrigamer account but the one thing is I am not sure if I am actually playing on the Afrigamer server for Team fortress 2. I cannot seem to find the IP address for your TF2 server and so just randomly pick up the IS servers off of steam.

What is your actual TF2 server IP also with you dealing through IS - do we still get charged for playing on the IS servers?

 

[AfriMan]

HI Afriman,

I already have an Afrigamer account but the one thing is I am not sure if I am actually playing on the Afrigamer server for Team fortress 2. I cannot seem to find the IP address for your TF2 server and so just randomly pick up the IS servers off of steam.

What is your actual TF2 server IP also with you dealing through IS - do we still get charged for playing on the IS servers?

The hostname of the server is games.afrigamer.co.za and the IP is 41.76.208.4

You can also see all our hosted game servers here:-

http://www.afrigamer.co.za/servers.php

Unfortunately, although IS are our upstream provider, gaming on their servers is not free (in terms of bandwidth)

 

[Spyk3r]

Hi AfriMan

The thing about gaming packages - most gamers want the best possible latency to local and international Servers. Thats a given. The other thing they want is to be able to download the patches and updates which sometimes can be between 2 and 5gb each.

If you want this account to be successful amongst gamers, i would suggest the following:

1. Something along the lines of what Web Africa has in the free zone. Make sure Origin, and Steam downloads are 'Zero rated downloads'
2. Get an FTP site for your graphics card drivers, and bench marking tools.

Everything done on the 'Afrihost Network' should be zero rated, and only when your users go to other sites such as Facebook, twitter, you tube etc does their bandwidth get depleted. Using download protocols such as NNTP, P2P should also count towards the usage of course.

The point is that these accounts aren't uncapped, but there should be some benefit to taking these accounts instead of an uncapped account.

Im not sure how much of this is possible, but this will be a good start...

Hope that helps.

 

[AfriMan]

Hi AfriMan

The thing about gaming packages - most gamers want the best possible latency to local and international Servers. Thats a given. The other thing they want is to be able to download the patches and updates which sometimes can be between 2 and 5gb each.

If you want this account to be successful amongst gamers, i would suggest the following:

1. Something along the lines of what Web Africa has in the free zone. Make sure Origin, and Steam downloads are 'Zero rated downloads'
2. Get an FTP site for your graphics card drivers, and bench marking tools.

Everything done on the 'Afrihost Network' should be zero rated, and only when your users go to other sites such as Facebook, twitter, you tube etc does their bandwidth get depleted. Using download protocols such as NNTP, P2P should also count towards the usage of course.

The point is that these accounts aren't uncapped, but there should be some benefit to taking these accounts instead of an uncapped account.

Im not sure how much of this is possible, but this will be a good start...

Hope that helps.

We've prioritized traffic from Afrigamer accounts to the our hosted servers to have minimal latency. But I think the points taken that need to think a little bigger. I've put these suggestions to our server admin and marketing team, and let's see what they can come up with. Thanks for the suggestions though

 

[Dan C]

Would love to host my gaming server locally (ok sometime I do from home, but that's really not the way to go as my line is ADSL 512 up). Currently renting hosting in Germany and the latency is bad, mostly SA players playing on it.
Any advice Mr AfriMan ?

 

[AfriMan]

Would love to host my gaming server locally (ok sometime I do from home, but that's really not the way to go as my line is ADSL 512 up). Currently renting hosting in Germany and the latency is bad, mostly SA players playing on it.
Any advice Mr AfriMan ?

You might want to consider a cloud hosted server. It's a lot more reasonable (in terms of price) than renting a dedicated server, but gives you most of the benefits. Dedicated IP Address, as well as RAM and system resources - so you can tailor the performance and connectivity to suit your needs. Will also vastly improve latency for your South African players.

We'd be happy to look into this for you. Send me a PM and I'll give you a call to discuss the options with you.

 

[Dan C]

You might want to consider a cloud hosted server. It's a lot more reasonable (in terms of price) than renting a dedicated server, but gives you most of the benefits. Dedicated IP Address, as well as RAM and system resources - so you can tailor the performance and connectivity to suit your needs. Will also vastly improve latency for your South African players.

We'd be happy to look into this for you. Send me a PM and I'll give you a call to discuss the options with you.

Thanks, will get the details together and PM you soon.

 

[TaiwanSilaX]

Is R299 for what speed? 1mb? 2 mb? 4mb? 10mb? or doesnt it matter?

 

[Voicy]

Is R299 for what speed? 1mb? 2 mb? 4mb? 10mb? or doesnt it matter?

On capped accounts speed is of no consequence no matter which ISP you use. It's only when you have an uncapped account that you get charged per speed.

 

[TaiwanSilaX]

oh okay i see i understand

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

You might want to consider a cloud hosted server. It's a lot more reasonable (in terms of price) than renting a dedicated server, but gives you most of the benefits. Dedicated IP Address, as well as RAM and system resources - so you can tailor the performance and connectivity to suit your needs. Will also vastly improve latency for your South African players.

We'd be happy to look into this for you. Send me a PM and I'll give you a call to discuss the options with you.

Are you guys still looking at increasing this offering? How much would it work out to, to host a server?