Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt2)

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I must say this is the first time that I have been shaped on the 1st of a month and it sux!!! Really getting a bit tired of this BS now...
 
DarrenFord said:
What are you getting on an speedtest?
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Anything you like. Various speedtests give between 50 and 100 KB/s but remember that some speedtests are not shaped by AH so that is just the theoretical line speed, not the download speed you will get. At the end of the day, it is the speed you can download at that you are really interested in. Worth noting that even when not shaped my uncapped account is considerably slower in both speedtest and actual download than my capped account. A good thing to try is to sign up for one of their free 1 Gb capped accounts and see what your performance is like there.
 
I guess it is safe to say that the "60% increase in bandwidth" which Afrihost invested in a few months ago, and the reason why we've all been enjoying practically unshaped home-uncapped Internet, is now well-and-truly sold (or over-sold it seems). I can't remember when last I saw "No shaping applied" on Clientzone.

And to be fair, this shouldn't really come as a surprise; obviously Afrihost need to sell the bandwidth. Disappointing as it may be, I think that we have been spoilt over the last few months when Afrihost had bandwidth to burn. But the fact of the matter is, they have grown exponentially over the last few weeks and they have naturally had to tighten the screws a bit. The best we can hope for is that they figure out ways to better manage it so that we don't see such aggressive shaping, but I reckon the days of unshaped, uncapped internet are behind us; at least at this price.
 
StNick said:
I guess it is safe to say that the "60% increase in bandwidth" which Afrihost invested in a few months ago, and the reason why we've all been enjoying practically unshaped home-uncapped Internet, is now well-and-truly sold (or over-sold it seems). I can't remember when last I saw "No shaping applied" on Clientzone.

And to be fair, this shouldn't really come as a surprise; obviously Afrihost need to sell the bandwidth. Disappointing as it may be, I think that we have been spoilt over the last few months when Afrihost had bandwidth to burn. But the fact of the matter is, they have grown exponentially over the last few weeks and they have naturally had to tighten the screws a bit. The best we can hope for is that they figure out ways to better manage it so that we don't see such aggressive shaping, but I reckon the days of unshaped, uncapped internet are behind us; at least at this price.
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Have they now...?

AfriGuy said:
We haven't seen any larger than normal spikes in sign ups :)
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Type RSA said:
I must say this is the first time that I have been shaped on the 1st of a month and it sux!!! Really getting a bit tired of this BS now...
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Type RSA yesterday you ask me to what ISP i went over , well I went over to Telkom , It is so nice not to be Shaped , called telkom yesterday in 2 min I was upgraded from 5 gig to upcapped, I just had rebooted my router
 
Tens of thousands of new Afrihost Mobile users all wanting a slice of their bandwidth pool is not insignificant.
 
I have a question..

The Business packages on this site below:

http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/business_adsl_bundles?src=website_nav

Does that include line rental as well?

Also, I am currently on the Home Uncapped bundle. How would the migration work? I also saw there is DSL Business packages. What is the difference? I am assuming that the one excludes the dsl line? If so, how much is it for the dsl line on it's own and then a 4mb dsl bundle?
 
Spamhater said:
Type RSA yesterday you ask me to what ISP i went over , well I went over to Telkom , It is so nice not to be Shaped , called telkom yesterday in 2 min I was upgraded from 5 gig to upcapped, I just had rebooted my router
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Cool, could you please pm me more details. i.e. price and the package you went onto?

Thanks
 
Shamus said:
I would also be interested in this. I cannot live with this any longer.
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The do Uncapped Premium seems like extremely good value for money. Propably the wrong thread to be discussing this in, but it is what it is. I suppose I'll suffer through. Maybe I'll have the BF4 beta before it launches ROFL:wtf:
 
HapticSimian said:
Separate pools.
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Afrihost Mobile uses MTN's infrastructure, but the bandwidth is still Afrihost's.... Ultimately the same pool of bandwidth to go around across all their clients, via all mediums.

Unless you know something I don't?
 
StNick said:
I guess it is safe to say that the "60% increase in bandwidth" which Afrihost invested in a few months ago, and the reason why we've all been enjoying practically unshaped home-uncapped Internet, is now well-and-truly sold (or over-sold it seems). I can't remember when last I saw "No shaping applied" on Clientzone.

And to be fair, this shouldn't really come as a surprise; obviously Afrihost need to sell the bandwidth. Disappointing as it may be, I think that we have been spoilt over the last few months when Afrihost had bandwidth to burn. But the fact of the matter is, they have grown exponentially over the last few weeks and they have naturally had to tighten the screws a bit. The best we can hope for is that they figure out ways to better manage it so that we don't see such aggressive shaping, but I reckon the days of unshaped, uncapped internet are behind us; at least at this price.
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Agreed, afrihost gave everyone a hand and they took the whole arm... At the price point it's to be expected, people should start considering afrihost business accounts for unshaped usage.
 
Type RSA said:
I have a question..

The Business packages on this site below:

http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/business_adsl_bundles?src=website_nav

Does that include line rental as well?

Also, I am currently on the Home Uncapped bundle. How would the migration work? I also saw there is DSL Business packages. What is the difference? I am assuming that the one excludes the dsl line? If so, how much is it for the dsl line on it's own and then a 4mb dsl bundle?
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Yip ... Telkom DSL Line Rental Included

I think its a switch on their side and a router reboot on your side. Thats it
 
StNick said:
Afrihost Mobile uses MTN's infrastructure, but the bandwidth is still Afrihost's.... Ultimately the same pool of bandwidth to go around across all their clients, via all mediums.

Unless you know something I don't?
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It's been raised a couple of times over the past few weeks; it boils down to cellular and fixed-line not drawing from the same capacity, or at least not at the point where DSL is bottle-necking.
 
Very frustrating already, I'm shaped to an unacceptable extent.

Is this perhaps a strategic move to frustrate user so much in order to upgrade to business accounts?
 
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