Afrihost 50GB vs Uncapped

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I've had 4Mb (now 10Mb) ADSL with Telkom Do Broadband (9GB) for about 6 months while topping up with Afrihost 2 for 1 whenever I run out. This has worked fine, but our household (we're 2) has recently started using an average of 15-20GB/month making a higher usage limit seem like a logical choice.

My question:

I'm happy with Afrihost and would like to stick with them. I'm not a HEAVY downloader, I have other avenues to get my series fix through WUGs and friends. My main concern is quality, and I recently started playing games on Xbox Live, so latency is an issue.

Their uncapped 4Mb is R497, while their 50GB unshaped is R475. It seems tempting to take the uncapped package so that I don't have to watch my usage no matter what; however I'm worried that the quality/shaping and speed loss (4Mb vs 10Mb) will make the 50GB account more suited to my needs.

Any comments?
 
Sorry, this prob wont help you and its a bit off topic, But I see afrihost is offering double the amount of traffic on all Gold packages. That mean for R475 you get 100gb unshaped data. Where is the catch?
 
no blog you are wrong, he is already talking about the 25+25=50

personally Andy I would stick with a capped high usage account if you know you never gonna go over it.

yes uncapped sounds wonderful, but having read quite a lot of mixed views on the uncapped I would rather stick with the capped.

I have a 3gig package with them and I also tend to top-up quite a lot, but mainly when they have their specials running as I have a 2nd Mweb Uncapped (hate the shaping/throttling).

just my opinion.
 
I moved from the uncapped package to the 50GB (25+25) package a month ago, and i'm not looking back. It's a better experience for sure. I'm also in the 15GB - 30GB range. This month i'm just hitting half way now.

Unless you are going to triple your usage all of a sudden, i'd recommend the 50GB package.
 
Off-The-Chart said:
no blog you are wrong, he is already talking about the 25+25=50
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Andysor said:
Their uncapped 4Mb is R497, while their 50GB unshaped is R475.
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Anyway. Im am currently with mweb (uncapped) and I dislike mweb. Their line is slow and combined with high latency almost at all times. I use about 1-2GB per month with afrihost. Always if mweb gives me too much crap I switch over, and its really fast compared to mweb.

A pitty if I cancle now I stll have to pay for netx month, just wish I would have seen these offerings from afrihost earlier as R475 for 100GB unsahped sounds like a real good deal to me
 
Thanks a lot guys. I was thinking the 50GB would be the better option, and you've confirmed my doubts about uncapped being good for attended internet usage.

Another question: Is Afrihost capped bandwidth really unshaped? I ask because international gives low speedtest results for me on Afrihost and Telkom, sometimes drastically so (2Mb on a 10Mb line) vs 8Mb on local. I thought local exchanges and IPconnect bandwidth were the bottlenecks these days?

In any case I haven't noticed much difference between Afrihost and Telkom when gaming on Xbox live, either local or with gamers in the UK. They're both fairly decent. Trying to play Halo with a friend in CT who's on 3G on the other hand...
 
It's R475 for 100gigs a month. Was part of their birthday promotion and is valid until December. Been using it since September on my 10mb enabled line and it absolutely flies... On average probably getting 80% of my line speed on all protocols 24/7...
 
sandmanm34 said:
It's R475 for 100gigs a month. Was part of their birthday promotion and is valid until December. Been using it since September on my 10mb enabled line and it absolutely flies... On average probably getting 80% of my line speed on all protocols 24/7...
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That promotion is over.You had until 30 September to take up the offer.Now you pay R475 for 50gig until 31 December.
 
Nice!!!! I'll gladly subscribe to their 100gig offering at R475 as long as it is available..
 
blogbytes said:
No sir - you are mistaken :D A call has also confirmed this
http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/adsl_capped
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Would be nice if an Afrihost rep could confirm either way.
I have spoken to 2 seperate consultants and they both told me exactly the same thing ie 50GB for R475 from 1 October.The 100GB for R475 was part of their birthday promotion and it ended on 30 September.
Personally I wish I was wrong.
 
Maybe give them a call...

Accounts perform really well....

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I got the R475 for 100Gb special. Currently I share the connection and cost with 2 family members (i,e 2 other ADSL lines). I switched from uncapped to capped when i got my 10...i mean 5Mbps line.
I felt Uncapped 4Mb on a 10Mbps is a waste.

The speedtest.net results are a bit erratic. I sometimes get 1Mb - 4.5Mb...all I care about is when I download - my NZBs/Torrents run at 500-520KB/s anytime of day or night. And they do.
 
From what I understood , the special was in September (50% off). The double data on the high packages has been running for a some time now. e.g. 25gb + 25gb for R475.
 
ajules said:
Would be nice if an Afrihost rep could confirm either way.
I have spoken to 2 seperate consultants and they both told me exactly the same thing ie 50GB for R475 from 1 October.The 100GB for R475 was part of their birthday promotion and it ended on 30 September.
Personally I wish I was wrong.
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Well it's clear on their site right -now- that it is 25GB+25GB for R475 . 100GB is R950 (50GB+50GB) . So that 100GB @ R475 thing is goners.
 
who.is.michael said:
Can somebody please comment on FTP and international speeds - need to move away from WebAfrica as connectivity is too poor...
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FTP is great, International is great. I use both... and I FTP to an international server:P

EDIT: By great, I mean it's stable, and I haven't had any problems with it. I haven't checked download speed over FTP. But will do so next time I transfer.
 
I can merely comment on my usage:

I use IDM's probably everytime and I get full speeds from file hosts (what I use since I don't use torrents) where as on my Mweb Uncapped I get throttled pretty bad.

I can't comment on international gaming cause I won't game with what internet connections we have in SA.
 
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