Afrihost 384kbps & 512kbps now available

[Afrihost-Gian]

Hi there

The Afrihost 384 kbps and 512 kbps Uncapped plans are now
available for signup on our website:

http://www.afrihost.com/adsl-uncapped.php

Any brand new client signing up will pay pro-rata for the rest
of the month.

If you are an existing client on another of our packages and
want to change your current package to uncapped you will
unfortunately need to wait until the 1st of April to convert
your package.

I am sincerely sorry about this but it is unavoidable as the
details for payment for your packages have already been
sent through to the banks and as such you cannot change
your packages through your Client Zone until the 1st.

If you wait for the 1st then you will only pay the difference
for the Uncapped (i.e. we will subtract what you already
paid for the coming month from your monthly Uncapped
amount).

If your current package is greater than your Uncapped
package then you will pay nothing and we will carry that
credit forward and deduct it from your next month's payment.

If you are a client and signup now via our site then you
will be charged for the Uncapped on the 1st and you will
be charged for your current service you have with us that
has already been sent to the bank.

Please let me know if you have any questions (Although I
have a meeting at 16h50 so will only be able to answer until then)

Thank you all for your patience!

 

[copacetic]

Cool.

 

[VQuest]

Thanks Gian, this is great news.

Please confirm that the uncapped accounts are definitely semi-shaped and that there is absolutely no shaping after hours.

Thanks!

 

[d0b33]

hehe, we were waiting for next week, nice surprise

 

[PhreeMe]

Hi Gian

I spoke to one of your support staff who said the network would be stable before introducing the 384 & 512 options, would this mean that everything should be fine?

 

[Afrihost-Gian]

@VQuest We're using the IS network and by default your account will be semi-shaped (i.e. no shaping after hours). However, I can tell you that if someone is torrenting 24/7 their account will be shaped after hours as well. As we've stated this account is not designed for 24/7 torrenters (although you can do this) However, if you do you will be shaped.

What I can also confirm is that nobody will ever be capped (i.e. cut off from an Internet connection)

@PhreeMe The Uncapped solutions are working well and have met our expectations so we're confident to open it up to the Uncapped 384 and Uncapped 512 as well.

However, the IS network itself has been acting up a bit over the last few days and we are following up on this

Thanks

 

[VQuest]

Thanks Gian. I don't download torrents, so I'm happy with your terms

I think it sounds really great and I can't wait to upgrade my account.

 

[Adrenalin]

Exciting times here...

Think i might sign up ... but you not allowed after the 25tgh to change your package :/

Not to phased about the axxess uncapped for r1 cheaper, the service i receive from Afrihost is always good... so that's where i'm heading!! yayness!!

 

[oober]

What happens if I just sign up for an extra uncapped account and keep my old account? Do I then get charged pro-rata?

 

[VQuest]

What happens if I just sign up for an extra uncapped account and keep my old account? Do I then get charged pro-rata?

I was considering doing that too. If it's pro-rata then it would be great. Terrible to be this excited about internet freedom and have to wait until April fools day for it!

 

[blunt]

@Gian - I see you say if you have torrents running 24/7 you will be shaped. Does this mean if we leave our torrent apps open 24/7 we will be shaped 24/7 instead of just during peak times?

I ask this as my 4MBPS uncapped with Afrihost is currently running at 512k speeds and I have had torrents running 24/7 for the past few days with it scheduled to be limited at 50kb/sec from 8-6PM and full speed after hours.

If we only run torrents from 6pm->8am and stop them completely during the day, will our connection run better?

 

[PhreeMe]

@PhreeMe The Uncapped solutions are working well and have met our expectations so we're confident to open it up to the Uncapped 384 and Uncapped 512 as well.

However, the IS network itself has been acting up a bit over the last few days and we are following up on this

Thanks

Hi Gian... Thanks for the update and feedback!

 

[Odom]

Can someone clarify whether torrenting itself gets picked up and monitored and then your connection gets throttled to death or do they just look at usage?

If it's the former I find it ironic that torrenting gets shut down due to being a grey area but news servers don't, despite also being a grey area. Also if they just look at the packets can't you just tunnel torrents over SSH now and bypass this? Not like they'd be able to verify what you're doing over SSH just that you're doing a lot of it.

If it's the latter then, yay an uncapped product that isn't actually uncapped.