Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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Hi Guys

After Afrihost's poor performance the last few months, I decided to to move to WebAfrica. Now the performance is great, but their package structure suck! I hate the "checking my usage every day and trying to work out if I'm going to make it till the end of the month". Unfortunately I only need like an extra 30GB per month to be truly safe, but this costs R100pm more!

Can you guys in the South advise if the upgrades done at Afrihost is bearing fruit (especially international streaming not so much Youtube) as this was my biggest motivation for leaving.

Thanks!
 
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Hey Afriman person, see anything wrong with this picture?... wondering how many customers are getting screwed over without knowing...

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40Mbit.

Been like this since yesterday morning. All other accounts run full speed. The unreliability of Afrihost is just getting worse and worse as time goes on. I am so sick of rubbish streaming during peak times and seeing diminished speeds at least once a week.
 
Mark.K said:
If I cancel my account now Will I still get to use the amount till the end of the month
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Hi Mark, if you request a cancellation of your ADSL account now, you will continue to have full access to your account until the end of the current month.
 
Mark.K said:
Ok cool will try that out. YouTube is good most of the time it's more international streaming I struggle with at times
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Could you perhaps send me a PM with your ADSL username, you should definitely not be experiencing any issues with streaming. Which streaming services are you currently using?
 
hmorrico said:
Well that would make sense. Afriman care to confirm this?
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Once you have upgraded, you should definitely receive a double-data allocation to your account, if this does not happen, I can correct it from my side.
 
Thanks afrigenie think I'll do that if things are not perfect when I get him home. I'll maybe come back once things are sorted out at Afrihost. Tired of paying for a service that is sub par and I've been very patient
 
I sent lots of data to Afriman. Tracerts and I changed my DNS. Rest my port I don't know what else needs to be done. I'll see what happens tonight but I'm on the edge of leaving can't keep doing tests with no solution. Something is not right with international streaming and I'm not the only one. Speed tests are showing things should be ok but it's not.
 
aktor said:
Err, what happens to double-data after the end of December? Any indication yet?
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A decision has not yet been made, but as soon as we have received an update on the Double-Data offer we will definitely let you guys know.
 
Mark.K said:
I sent lots of data to Afriman. Tracerts and I changed my DNS. Rest my port I don't know what else needs to be done. I'll see what happens tonight but I'm on the edge of leaving can't keep doing tests with no solution. Something is not right with international streaming and I'm not the only one. Speed tests are showing things should be ok but it's not.
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Which streaming services are you using? I want to do a few tests from my side to see if I experience similar issues on my Capped account.
 
So I thought I would be clever and use a 20+20gb to download a game client today,

worst

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ever

Seems afrihost's "upgrades" are still as crappy as it was last year. Capped account puttering along at 512k speeds on a 8mb line
 
Aquiva said:
Can you guys in the South advise if the upgrades done at Afrihost is bearing fruit (especially international streaming not so much Youtube) as this was my biggest motivation for leaving.Thanks!
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In your use case it has made no discernible difference, it is still virtually impossible to stream between 5 and 11PM.
I now use Telkom in the evenings, not perfect as its shaped, but at least 4 times faster than AH unshaped between those hours.
 
Zenthrax said:
So I thought I would be clever and use a 20+20gb to download a game client today,

worst

idea

ever

Seems afrihost's "upgrades" are still as crappy as it was last year. Capped account puttering along at 512k speeds on a 8mb line
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You should definitely not be experiencing any speed issues with your Capped account, could perhaps send me a PM with your Username so that I can look into this for you.
 
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