Afrihost 10 gig or Uncapped 384??

Nimz

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After waiting for Web Africa to announce their winners for their so called special, and finding out that i did not make it i am In need of help on deciding what to get now

I currently have a 384 line on Telkoms 1 GB package

My choices are between these 2

AFRIHOST
10 GB @ R290
4MB Line Upgrade @ R413
Room mate will continue to pay the R152(384line)il pay the difference
R413-152=R261
Total Cost =R551

OR

384 Uncapped ADSL for Under R500
SAINET @ R449/R499
DigiChilli @ R399
Screamer @ R499



What do you guys Suggest??
 
When DC is up you can get about 3.5GB's per day...I got about 60 Gb's in a month without trying very hard...a bit unstable though can't comment on the others.
isn't DC R300? yip R300....you'll get a about 26-40KB/s

So get DC and also get an afrihost 2GB account with the money saved for when DC is down...which is not a lot lately.
 
I Trialed Digichilli's uncapped account and wasn't too impressed....got maximum speeds of 3KB/s on my 384 line on fully seeded torrents..
 
i was with digichilli but was not impressed..
speeds topped 5 kb/s on my previous 384k line
cancelled my account and moved to Afrihost.
been very happy with them!

recommend u talk to current DC customers to get current data.

now that my 4mb line upgrade is done,i will wait for the monthly R14-50/GB special and top up!
 
Go Afrihost dude, better than waiting for a download on a shared uncapped account of 2kbs download speed.
 
Im just waiting for Web Africa to confirm that i didn't make their special before i join Afrihost......They investigating.....lol
 
The real question is how much data do you intend to use and what you intend to use it for.

i.e. Downloading vs. Interactive .

Trust me 384 uncapped falls flat pretty fast in the Interactive area...you want to watch live-streamed TV or HD Youtube clips? Good luck on that 384 line...sure it is "uncapped", but you will be going "oh FFS, more buffering??!?" pretty soon.

So purely download media (videos,software,music) which you can schedule and "consume offline" then 384 uncapped is perfectly fine. But don't expect to push through even as little as 20GB of "streaming content" on a 384 uncapped solution. Yes your line CAN, but you the person having to wait for it behind the PC won't...

The catch with uncapped is, you pay a "fixed price" whether you use 1GB or 100GB.

The 2nd catch, on a 384 line you need to seriously schedule+plan your downloads EVERY DAY to ensure you get the most out of that fixed price. If you don't download large pieces of software for offline usage, then uncapped at such a slow speed simply becomes a bit of a waste...this is how the uncapped solutions make their money afterall :).

And i've went full circle with this, i got me 384 uncapped and i downloaded like a mofo, 24-7 "balls-to-the-walls" and got round about 60GB in a month (aparantly that is considered a realistic amount to get taking into consideration downtime/slowdowns/human factors). While all this was going down, i could not browse,stream or game, because the very same connection was too slow for alot of those activities AND i would need to pause all downloads to do anything else. The 2nd month, i realised i have so much offline content that i don't see a reason to "keep up" a constant download stream and suddenly i'm doing 20-30GB and still downloading alot of "crap" because i can. Yet i still could not view the latest and greatest trailers/clips/content in HD "live" without popping an artery from impatience :). I mean it's a totally different mindset to now have to "schedule a movie trailer download" vs. "just freaking watching it now".

So i think there's alot of "initial eagerness" when getting uncapped, but in my case it fizzles out quite quickly in favor of getting my content faster and "on demand" .
 
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DigiChilli has improved over the past few weeks, but still isn't 100% yet. Here is my current stats for February:

Uploaded: 1 479 088 921
Downloaded: 32 209 912 980
Total Combined: 33 689 001 901

So 33 gigs for R300? I'd say it's a good deal. Now I'm not gonna say you wont get frustrated because it seems speeds are stuck at 20kB/s to 29kB/s range while they still get their network up to 100%. It all depends on you and what you need. If you want fast and reliable go with Afihost but remeber you'll be capped (tho I must say the 2 for 1 gig special is awesome), but if you don't mind waiting and you want more than 10 gig's a month go with DC.

Also look at Sainet's uncapped R499 including the 384k line rental. I think SAOL has stopped their sign up's but I could be wrong. ANy way good luck with your choice.
 
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