AfriHost uncapped ADSL here soon

astrauss said:
Please remind me of the cancellation rules for existing accounts? Is there a months notice required? Will I be able to seamlessly migrate to the uncapped plans? Is a one month sabbatical possible without losing my account and loyalty track record with you?
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Loyalty track record? :p
Think it's 1 month notice. Just downgrade to 1Gb @ R29 then upgrade to uncapped later...
 
Monkey101 said:
YAY!!!!!! I get to stick with Afrihost!!
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Good for them

Of course MWeb does have a couple of other benefits I would not mind using.
The free 300minutes usage of wireless hotspots is very handy if you are a businessman that goes through airports and hotels. Even in Europe it works at certain hotel chains.
Saves one buying bandwidth at a coist of about 5 EURO a day
At airports on is locked in and still one can get to the MWEB minutes

All in all good for the ISPs.
The addition of SEACOM and shortly other cables is the gamechanger.

Price will soon be inconsequential to people like me. I am not going to move over R50-R100
Now lets see who gets the market share?
Lets see who provides the quality service?
Lets see who provides the best support? I use Afrihost and WA now but I get WA to look after my line because of their 24/7 telephone support.

I will pay a premium for
* 24/7 telephone support
* free hotspot minutes
* quality bandwidth with no contention issues

Next will come bundled services to suck in the businesses better. Hosting, Applications in the Cloud and ISP bundles.
 
LOL, you guys make me lol hard.

When will you see ISP's (like Afrihost) love to take your money, all of a sudden people like AH can now offer much lower priced uncapped DSL, why couldnt they have done that 3 months ago.

I dont trust any ISP, they rip us off no matter who they are, AH included, sorry, i know you fanbois are going to slag me off now, but think about it.

Kudos to mweb, they deserve your money, not the likes of vox or even AH, it was mweb who took the step, much like AH did a few months ago.

Its about supporting those who radically change the face of dsl access, and in this battle, mweb wins hands down as they did it first.

If AH comes back with R10 less than vox, then **** them, they really think we are idiots, mweb still wins, but i will humbly eat my pie if AH really shakes things up, re: R699 ALL INCLUSIVE 4MB, then we are talking and AH has won!!!

PS: not sure if it has been said, but vox (formerly datapro) is also a TIER1 ISP.
 
This is indeed an interesting development in the "bandwidth" arena. But when will anyone take on Telkom for LINE SPEEDS? 384kbps is simply not good enough especially when 4Mbps is so expensive and beyond the means of many people. The price of high-speed broadband has to drop for many people to remain in the game and enjoy the benefits that those in the 4Mbps and 3G/4G markets can afford.
 
Chunkyfeather said:
LOL, you guys make me lol hard.

When will you see ISP's (like Afrihost) love to take your money, all of a sudden people like AH can now offer much lower priced uncapped DSL, why couldnt they have done that 3 months ago.

I dont trust any ISP, they rip us off no matter who they are, AH included, sorry, i know you fanbois are going to slag me off now, but think about it.

Kudos to mweb, they deserve your money, not the likes of vox or even AH, it was mweb who took the step, much like AH did a few months ago.

Its about supporting those who radically change the face of dsl access, and in this battle, mweb wins hands down as they did it first.

If AH comes back with R10 less than vox, then **** them, they really think we are idiots, mweb still wins, but i will humbly eat my pie if AH really shakes things up, re: R699 ALL INCLUSIVE 4MB, then we are talking and AH has won!!!

PS: not sure if it has been said, but vox (formerly datapro) is also a TIER1 ISP.
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The fact is Mweb has been around for a lot longer than Afrihost and charging higher prices for many many years. So if you want to punish anyone for ripping off the public... Mweb would be a good target. Afrihost started the ball rolling in the price war when they slashed prices about 6 months ago. But even before that we knew that a price war was coming, so it doesn't really matter who fired the first shot.

Your argument holds no water. Go with whichever company you want. That's why it is called a Free Market Economy. Just enjoy the lower prices and go with whichever company offers YOU the best deal.
 
I just cancelled 2 of my local only IS accounts with Web Africa. I still got a few gigs left on my other account and ticked it for cancellation at the end of the month.
 
Web Africa responded, waroop posted some of his comments here about how unsustainable MWEB's uncapped is: http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showpost.php?p=24687&postcount=7 I can't see how that holds any water, because compared between now and 2005 as he mentioned, we have so much more bandwidth and so much less of a price it's insane to think a Naspers held giant like MWEB would falter... time will only tell I suppose, but with Afrihost coming to play (which have been around a decade already, and can actually do hosting very well compared to WA) it's only a matter of time I guess.

Someone is going to start hemorrhaging money and have to explain to share holders why...

I figured having their own network would make them able to be more innovative? It appears the opposite is true though.
 
Why cant they also just make a local uncapped account that could be a little cheaper. Alot of work gets done locally anyways. I would buy just a local uncapped, as would alot of other people.
 
http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showpost.php?p=24687&postcount=7

Cheap uncapped unfortunately makes managing the quality on the network impossible, unless they're prepared to be pumping cash into it monthly to keep the capacity excessively high - which makes it unprofitable and unsustainable in the long run. International broadband markets have proven this.
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Um no.... I've been overseas to a few countries and uncapped super fast internet is the standard!
 
RoganDawes said:
You may also want to rethink your communications strategy. If you are sending out multiple 2MB emails to multiple parties, perhaps a better approach is to host the files somewhere, and just send links on an individual basis?
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Sometime ago I would have agreed with you but these days 2MB is not that huge and often one sends to many recipients.
I agree attachments should be ideally smaller but sometimes links don't always work well
a) In cases were one has a less techie literate audience. Clicking on attachments is intuitive. Downloading an attachment less so
b) Mobile email - These days many people check mail on their phones.
So one downloads the mail and then selectively download the attachment. Clicing on links is not as easy especially on some Phone O/Ss

Those limits were fine for years ago. Not today

Having said that I have not had such hassles with Afrihost and I break those limits
 
From what I can read the TOC say a months notice but the Client Portal let you cancel before the end of the month effective the end of the month
 
Quentinb said:
Well, to make a very long story short, Afrihost (IS) will not allow us to SMTP using their BW! They for some aparent reason think that our company is a "spammer" when we reply to our clients emails. Using SAIX we did not have a days trouble but their prices are high. (Afrihost is 50% cheaper for us)

From the day we switched to Afrihost (IS) we were unable to send email and I contacted IS myself this week, after receiving support replies from Afrihost like "Intermitend connectivity on ADSL will affect sending email..." and "You cannot have more than 5 recipients per email" and "The mail size limit is 2MB". (This is where the MWeb fine print is by the way :wtf:)

Come now, we run a business for crying out loud, we have over 70 users and we need to send 14 emails to reach all of them and it cannot be in the same hour with a size limit of 2MB??

In all this, I must thank WebAfrica for comming to the party, they helped me a huge amount this week making special arrangements wrt this issue.

Thanks WebAfrica!
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Are you sure you have not been blacklisted by one of these independent spammers databases?
Some companies interrogate these databases before accepting an email.
However if your email is getting through now then that makes no sense.
It would be unlikely that AH use such a database.

So another possibility is recipient mail is doing a domain check. Sometimes companies check that the domain and the smtp IP are in the same family

So if your domain is administered by WA and you use the WA smtp then that may explain why it works with WA and not with AH
 
Go Afrihost!! Will keep my Afrihost account if their price is good. Will say goodbye to my 5GB/30GB account at Telkom in a heart beat.
 
Was gonna look at the mweb offer, but would rather stick with the innovator.. so this is good news
 
I wait a month to see the comments here on how all these accounts perform.
 
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