Afrihost - Capped VS Uncapped Feedback?

[BANG_Mutha]

Anyone care to provide some feedback on the overall quality/performance of Afrihost's capped accounts compared to their uncapped accounts? Is there a difference at all?

According to the website, the capped accounts are unshaped and the uncapped accounts are semi-shaped but what exactly is shaped on the uncapped accounts?

 

[AfriMan]

Anyone care to provide some feedback on the overall quality/performance of Afrihost's capped accounts compared to their uncapped accounts? Is there a difference at all?

According to the website, the capped accounts are unshaped and the uncapped accounts are semi-shaped but what exactly is shaped on the uncapped accounts?

from our side, we prioritise normal protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP) over other protocols normally used for torrrents and P2P. This means that, for instance, during office hours when most users are busy with general usage, these ports are likely to run slower as they are waiting to get priority. After hours there will be less competition from normal ports, and these will run at full or close to full speeds. These are not set or hard values, so if the entire business world all stopped checking their email for 30 mins, torrents would run at full speed.

Also capped accounts are given more priority on the network, in terms of bandwidth provision, though we try to ensure that there is enough bandwidth for everyone to get what they need. Not working so great at the moment, but this will be actively monitored and managed by us when we move to MTN.

 

[Ry4n]

Afriman - I have the Afrihost capped account do you perhaps have a one or two day trail account I can test to see - Im intrested in the 10mbps uncapped account.

 

[ErAdk888]

Capped be the way to Go... always has been thats for sure.

 

[CaptainPugwash]

Capped all the way!!!