Afrihost 50GB vs Uncapped

[who.is.michael]

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.

Can you please paste a speedtest.net - nyc?

 

[shogun]

and speed to US location 10Mb? www.speedtest.net / speakeasy.com nyc server?

Don't have 10Mb. And I couldn't find the speakeasy speedtest server, but I chose another in NY:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/997804191.png

 

[Off-The-Chart]

Mweb:


Afrihost:


4Meg line

Speakeasy
3.67Mb Down - 0.38Mb Up Afrihost
3.20Mb Down - 0.38Mb Up Mweb

 

[who.is.michael]

Thanks shogun / Off-The-Chart, appreciated! - Mmn need to investigate as WA has spoilt me with the higher speeds and latency...



Last Result: Speakeasy
Download Speed: 8343 kbps (1042.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 578 kbps (72.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[Off-The-Chart]

another reason why I would go with the capped rather, is because it isn't speed bound.

so whatever your line speed, that will be the account speed.

 

[shogun]

Thanks shogun / Off-The-Chart, appreciated! - Mmn need to investigate as WA has spoilt me with the higher speeds and latency...

Yeah, but bear in mind that you are running a 10Mb line. My folks are running a 10Mb line (Afrihost), and they get far better results than me. I'm posting off a 4Mb line. My results are naturally going to be limited due to my line. I don't think the difference between our two tests has much to do with WA giving you better speeds than Afrihost would. Also, some of it may be due to the server I chose. I found the speakeasy server and got these results to the NY server:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 3748 kbps (468.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 283 kbps (35.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

I can't find a speedtest link to paste on that site, so I pasted the results on the page. That's pretty much my line's maximum throughput. I would expect if I had a 10Mb line, and was close enough to the exchange to get max speed, the results would be close to line max to NY as well.

 

[Off-The-Chart]

yeah also unfortunately not on an exchange that supports 10Meg

but would be same as what shogun mentioned.

 

[The Philosopher]

South Korea is aiming for 1Gb/s by 2012. Wish I lived there

 

[who.is.michael]

South Korea is aiming for 1Gb/s by 2012. Wish I lived there

See: http://www.gizmag.com/googlei1-gigabit-per-second-fiber-to-the-home-network/14140/ - Cape Town Muni planning fibre to business, not sure if it will get expanded to include FTTH.

Anybody that is on 10MB with Afrihost that can post a speedtest.net to NYC?