Afrihost 4mb upgrade? Worth it?

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Mikrouwel

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Hey guys,

I am currently on mweb 1mb with my line through telkom and I want to upgrade to the Afrihost 4mg deal.

I would just like to hear from the people who are already on this deal reagarding downloading. I am what I think can be considered a "Heavy downloader" and want to know if I am going to get shaped after say the first 100gb of torrents I download.

If this is the case I will probably just upgrade to OpenWeb gold 1mb.

Also since my line can support 4mb/s and im currently on 1mb/s, if I dont upgrade to afrihost 4mb will I be able to switch to OpwnWeb 2mb/s and get telkom to increase my line to 2mb/s? If so what will the extra line rental cost be?

Thanks in advance guys :)
 
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Mikrouwel said:
Hey guys,

I am currently on mweb 1mb with my line through telkom and I want to upgrade to the Afrihost 4mg deal.

I would just like to hear from the people who are already on this deal reagarding downloading. I am what I think can be considered a "Heavy downloader" and want to know if I am going to get shaped after say the first 100gb of torrents I download.

If this is the case I will probably just upgrade to OpenWeb gold 1mb.

Also since my line can support 4mb/s and im currently on 1mb/s, if I dont upgrade to afrihost 4mb will I be able to switch to OpwnWeb 2mb/s and get telkom to increase my line to 2mb/s? If so what will the extra line rental cost be?

Thanks in advance guys :)
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I have Afrihost 4meg uncapped...and pull about 150gigs a month...and have never had an issue with being "throttled" at all...
 
after 250gb on 4 mbps from afrihost you will be throttled to something like 2 mbps
 
Mikrouwel said:
Hey guys,

I am currently on mweb 1mb with my line through telkom and I want to upgrade to the Afrihost 4mg deal.

I would just like to hear from the people who are already on this deal reagarding downloading. I am what I think can be considered a "Heavy downloader" and want to know if I am going to get shaped after say the first 100gb of torrents I download.

If this is the case I will probably just upgrade to OpenWeb gold 1mb.

Also since my line can support 4mb/s and im currently on 1mb/s, if I dont upgrade to afrihost 4mb will I be able to switch to OpwnWeb 2mb/s and get telkom to increase my line to 2mb/s? If so what will the extra line rental cost be?

Thanks in advance guys :)
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Why not just stay with MWEB and upgrade your account to 2meg when your line gets upgraded?
 
Mikrouwel bud. MWEB 4mb is good and you don't have to wait 5 minutes for the youtube vids to stream. I know you stream a lot though. :P I'm on their 4mb Uncapped and it is sailing like a little boat on a fast downstream river. Hope you come right.
 
I am quite happy with the service although I wouldn't say I'm a heavy downloader anymore. I have done 107GB this month so far and speeds have been great.
 
Death Master 88 said:
Mikrouwel bud. MWEB 4mb is good and you don't have to wait 5 minutes for the youtube vids to stream. I know you stream a lot though. :P I'm on their 4mb Uncapped and it is sailing like a little boat on a fast downstream river. Hope you come right.
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Im not saying mweb 4mb is bad because ive never used it. Im saying my 1mb mweb is bad and I would upgrade to mweb 4mb but its quite abit more per month.
 
Mikrouwel said:
Im not saying mweb 4mb is bad because ive never used it. Im saying my 1mb mweb is bad and I would upgrade to mweb 4mb but its quite abit more per month.
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The price is a bit steep yes, I agree with you on that. I only pay for the data from Mweb and the dad is paying the other half, so I score a bit though. lol.
 
Mikrouwel said:
Im not saying mweb 4mb is bad because ive never used it. Im saying my 1mb mweb is bad and I would upgrade to mweb 4mb but its quite abit more per month.
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That is odd, I'm also on MWEB 1M uncapped and have none of the issues you have. It works as advertised 99% of the time. The other 1% is typically when seacom is down...
 
Qwikslver said:
Why not just stay with MWEB and upgrade your account to 2meg when your line gets upgraded?
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Because MWEB's 2M deal is R70 more expensive than Afrihost's. That's almost 25% more, and I'm not convinced anymore that Afrihost's uncapped is that much worse than MWEB's.
 
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yebocan said:
I have Afrihost 4meg uncapped...and pull about 150gigs a month...and have never had an issue with being "throttled" at all...
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Do you get 4M on all your streams? I heard that they limit you to ~2M per stream, but if you have 2 streams (ie. 2 differernt downloads, or multi-threaded download) you still get 2M per stream for a total of 4M.
 
Right now I'm getting 5mb/sec on my 4mb account (because of my line syncing at 10mb), so the speeds are quite good. Pings are excellent, too. I would recommend Afrihost now that they got that IS problem out of the way ;)
 
Just a note, I think you need to give Mweb a months notice before your account is officially cancelled. (At least the last time I checked)

Been on an Afrihost 4mb and its absolutely perfect, great speeds and I haven't noticed any throttling or shaping.
 
I am at 200 gb an still no throttling, they halve your speed at 250gb to 2mb/s.
 
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