Afrihost After Hours Data applicable on Fibre?

[Budza]

Just checking if there is any free data on Afrihost Fibre products?

Does all usage on an uncapped account count towards their AUP or are some hours exempted?

Google keeps showing me ADSL results and it's not clear from Afrihost site what the situation is.

Posting this in Fibre to differentiate it from ADSL queries. ISP discussions is labelled as ADSL- perhaps we need a Fibre ISP subforum?

 

[Budza]

Nobody?

 

[oceanmaster]

Not that I am aware of Budza. If you had a DSL package and needed to transfer as much data as possible and you have now been offered fibre, unless you need the upload speed don't take it as you can run circles around fibre with the free night time data on DSL. Especially if you have a 10 / 20 / 40Mbit/s / vDSL package. A quick calculation:

40Mbit/s or roughly 4 MBytes per second x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x (plus minus) 8 hours per night = 115 GBytes per night. Multiply this by say 20 nights per month that you use this service = 2TB. I don't know of any fibre services which will allow you to do 2TB of traffic per month without warning or shaping you heavily.

It's a no brainer. If you are in a fibre area and you don't need the upload get a vdsl 40Mbit/s for R590 per month for the line rental (telkom/etc) and buy a 50 gig package from a provider that offers free nighttime data (afrihost and axxess for example, but there are more providers..). Total cost about R700 per month for some decent data.

Nothing can beat that amount of data for that price.

 

[oceanmaster]

https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/shop/plan/fibre-broadband/

 

[Mr Scratch]

Just checking if there is any free data on Afrihost Fibre products?

Does all usage on an uncapped account count towards their AUP or are some hours exempted?

Google keeps showing me ADSL results and it's not clear from Afrihost site what the situation is.

Posting this in Fibre to differentiate it from ADSL queries. ISP discussions is labelled as ADSL- perhaps we need a Fibre ISP subforum?

All usage counts towards the AUP.

 

[steel_dog]

All usage counts towards the AUP.

Agree. Had a recent discussion with AH on the matter. Raised how poor the uncapped Home offering was. High price and awful FUP.
Being uncapped all use goes towards usage, it's throttled at 200GB, and costs R799. Geez. I pay less for a 200GB shaped capped account with freetime, which I do use significantly, at the same speed as Fibre, and it costs about R200 less.
So until they change things, which I understand is going to happen very very soon, I'' not beswitching to the overpriced, undervalue, uncapped Fibre offering.

 

[whatwhat]

Not that I am aware of Budza. If you had a DSL package and needed to transfer as much data as possible and you have now been offered fibre, unless you need the upload speed don't take it as you can run circles around fibre with the free night time data on DSL. Especially if you have a 10 / 20 / 40Mbit/s / vDSL package. A quick calculation:

40Mbit/s or roughly 4 MBytes per second x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x (plus minus) 8 hours per night = 115 GBytes per night. Multiply this by say 20 nights per month that you use this service = 2TB. I don't know of any fibre services which will allow you to do 2TB of traffic per month without warning or shaping you heavily.

It's a no brainer. If you are in a fibre area and you don't need the upload get a vdsl 40Mbit/s for R590 per month for the line rental (telkom/etc) and buy a 50 gig package from a provider that offers free nighttime data (afrihost and axxess for example, but there are more providers..). Total cost about R700 per month for some decent data.

Nothing can beat that amount of data for that price.

No, get Openserve Fibre then and use a normal ISP account on it that gives you the midnight data for free. I do over 2TB a month without any issue with OpenServe and a Vox capped account.

Telkom's copper infrastructure is best avoided when you can.

 

[steel_dog]

No, get Openserve Fibre then and use a normal ISP account on it that gives you the midnight data for free. I do over 2TB a month without any issue with OpenServe and a Vox capped account.

Telkom's copper infrastructure is best avoided when you can.

If OP's lucky to be in an Openserve Fibre area then you're on the money. Use that with AH's or any other ISP's capped with free afterhours data. AH do have some new offerings in the pipeline. Might want to wait to check that out. Impression I got was it's going to be a week or perhaps two.