Afrihost Shaping

[JV_011_]

I have ran out of turbocharges

 

[Tinuva]

37GB used on a 4mbit account and your downloads get shaped into the ground? Woah thats hectic!

 

[LCBXX]

The download shaping is what made me cancel my AH. I understand it is to throttle Rapidshare downloads and similar but it became excruciating to have to sit and wait for a 50meg driver, PS3 update or Play Store app as it trickles though at 18% throttle.

 

[vicv]

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I have ran out of turbocharges

And? You want a medal or something?

The extra Northern capacity hasn't gone live yet, so this is normal.

Edit: Here's mine:

 

[Wall]

I can't remember the last time I was shaped by Afrihost in all honesty. my line always runs at full speed, even at this moment, I don't have shaping applied.

 

[JV_011_]

And? You want a medal or something?...

I want the fudgen speed i paid for: you can keep your medal

 

[vicv]

I want the fudgen speed i paid for: you can keep your medal

Did you pay for a business account? No?

Then you've got what you paid for.

 

[JV_011_]

Did you pay for a business account? No?

Then you've got what you paid for.

I left my previous ISP for this, i am starting on business acc on the 1st Feb

 

[vicv]

I left my previous ISP for this, i am starting on business acc on the 1st Feb

If you download a lot, it's gonna be worth it.

 

[|3ash3r]

37GB used on a 4mbit account and your downloads get shaped into the ground? Woah thats hectic!

I'm currently shaped at 25% DL and 6.5% P2P after only using 2.87GB in the last 6 days. I don't care though because I download after hours when no shaping is applied. BTW, AH shaping seems to be applied when the network is busy not because NigthCrawlerNic decided to download 40GB of porn.

 

[PsyWulf]

I'm currently shaped at 25% DL and 6.5% P2P after only using 2.87GB in the last 6 days. I don't care though because I download after hours when no shaping is applied. BTW, AH shaping seems to be applied when the network is busy not because NigthCrawlerNic decided to download 40GB of porn.

This

I got a R99 2Meg uncapped account from Incredible to game with if the shaping kills latency. Otherwise no probs,downloads run at night

 

[Convex]

I left my previous ISP for this, i am starting on business acc on the 1st Feb

Business acc with afrihost beats all other prices from other isp's, truly unshaped , 24/7 in all aspects

 

[TheEntity]

Go Business. No shaping applied

 

[Bashley]

Little Unhappy. But......no business account. So have to deal with it.

 

[Bashley]

Little Unhappy. But......no business account. So have to deal with it.

sorry. forgot to add the shaping.lol. And btw. this is at 10:30 pm.

 

[JV_011_]

And i thought the shaping will be done during the day, and unshaped at night and weekends.

 

[Sl8er]

Hey speaking of shaping...

If you guys had a choice, which would you take:
4mb shaped or 2mb unshaped?

 

[Roelie]

I noticed during the holiday period they hardly shaped at all during the day, proving that it's a traffic issue. Remember that you have the option of using the Turbocharge function if you need to download in a hurry.
I have to make the decision now whether to stay on uncapped 2mb or 4mb or go with 70Gb capped - I average about 80 Gb/m. 4mb Uncapped is going over my budget for toys.

 

[Vrotappel]

This sucks. Only downloaded 17.85Gb so far this month and I am shaped 18.8%, 6.25%. Unacceptable. Seems the North don't have enough bandwidth for their users. Afrihost must urgently address this.

 

[PsyWulf]

This sucks. Only downloaded 17.85Gb so far this month and I am shaped 18.8%, 6.25%. Unacceptable. Seems the North don't have enough bandwidth for their users. Afrihost must urgently address this.

Whether you download 1 gig or a 1000 the shaping rule applies based on the available bandwidth pool. Blame businesses being back up If you want usage based throttling go with an IS provider with the star ratings