Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[Phenomenon]

Oh you go girl Afrihost (24gb used)

 

[Venom~]

im getting 4kbs mweb here I come.....

 

[Brainflux117]

Im jumping ship, never had worse service before in my life, passing the buck at every opportunity they get, my account is NOT semi-shaped as they claim, internet is so badly throttled during the day (<15gigs used in month), Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Hello MWEB my old friend, i've come to talk with you again...

 

[william riker]

i'm on my free mweb accoutn now after shaping and throttling rendered my account unusable..

i'm averaging 60 kb/s ..briefly it burst to 145 kb/s...
i have a 4mb line, maybe mweb lost control for 10 mins!

i'm happy with those speeds on a 512 line after the fiasco of a certain ISP.....

yeah, thats right, i'm looking at you Afrihost!

 

[william riker]

i'm on my free mweb accoutn now after shaping and throttling rendered my account unusable..

i'm averaging 60 kb/s ..briefly it burst to 145 kb/s...
i have a 4mb line, maybe mweb lost control for 10 mins!

i'm happy with those speeds on a 512 line after the fiasco of a certain ISP.....

yeah, thats right, i'm looking at you Afrihost!

 

[synapseZA]

I just got throttled on my 384 AH account after 14GB. I thought people saying that it becomes unusable were exaggerating...they weren't. So much for hundreds of GBs, 200GB, 60GB, 30GB, 15GB...



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So...looks like I will have to go to MWEB

 

[AnthonyZA]

Apparently slow speeds experienced today are to due faults with IS....which have been coming and going since uncapped was launched/

 

[Phenomenon]

I'd care if they even bothered to pretend to communicate with their customers.

If they won't tell you why they are giving us ****ty service, then they are a ****ty company regardless of the cause. Speeds have been terrible for days now, and not a word from Afrihost.

 

[bekdik]

Apparently slow speeds experienced today are to due faults with IS....which have been coming and going since uncapped was launched/

So this would affect all IS isp's?

 

[AnthonyZA]

I think it would, yes/

 

[AnthonyZA]

Network Notice
All IS-linked services will experience slow responses due to an upstream issue. ETR is unknown at present, but we will update this notification as soon as we have more information.

 

[nihilist]

Cancled my AH 4096 account, just activated an OW account.

Everything is much nicer now.

 

[synapseZA]

Apparently slow speeds experienced today are to due faults with IS....which have been coming and going since uncapped was launched/

That may be ONE of the reasons, since one of the internet connections at the university is supplied by IS was HORRIBLE yesterday. Average 5kb/s when the maximum per user is around 30kb/s. The SEACOM/TENET connection had no problems.

Problem is that when I switch from my AH "uncapped" account to another IS prepaid account I get linespeed on all protocols. Which means that at the time of doing both tests my line, router and IS is fine leaving AH the culprit.

 

[Rashid]

This is bull ****. How can they throttle a 384 account? it's like going back to old school ISDN. I did 1GB a day since the beginnig of the month until 2 days ago, when the speeds dropped and get timeout at 30MB if I am downloading something at peak speeds of 10kb/s. Might as well rename it to 384 = 15GB.

I am jumping ship, "Nahh nahh nahh nahh, hey hey hey goodbye"

 

[uberutang]

The moment I hit 30 gig, It went from 3.5mbs to 0.40kbs.

And did their CEO state that once you hit 30 gig, they will 'shape it ? some'... my ass that is full on gimping.

Cancelling also.

 

[Maestr0]

I just hit 60gigs and I'm now downloading at 384 instead of 1mbit like their policy is stating. So yeah. I will keep on saying it. Bunch of criminals who doesn't stick to what they say or promise. Cancelling before this day is over.

 

[zadbnguy]

Since I have moved to Openweb, there have been one or two hiccups in the beginning; professionally dealt with by them. And since they now don't fully rely on IS, I am receiving the same quality downloads as I had on my solution with Afrihost before they went down. Gian and his team have no excuse, they failed to plan and failed they have!

 

[hart]

cancelled, hello mweb

 

[william riker]

there is something wrong with AH data logs..

they say i did 3GB yesterday!

3gb in one day on max 3kb/s speeds ?!?!

what are they smoking over there ?

 

[linchpin]

This is bull ****. How can they throttle a 384 accounnt? it's like going back to old school ISDN. I did 1GB a day since the begging of the month until 2 days ago, when the speeds dropped and get timeout at 30MB if I am downloading something at peak speeds of 10kb/s. Might as well renane it to 384 = 15GB.

I am jumping ship, "Nahh nahh nahh nahh, hey hey hey goodbye"

Exact same thing here I'm also on a 384k uncapped account, I was quite surprised to see another person experiencing this same thing, as soon as I went over 15 gigs 2 days ago, all of a sudden nothing downloads faster than 10kb/s.

Farewell afrihost