-
Ask a question and get free supportUnlock new privileges and see hidden discussionsWin prizes and earn reputation
-
Question of the day ~ Do you queue to fill up your car before the fuel price increase every month?
-
Afristay giveaway.Win a 2-night stay for two people at an establishment of your choice with R1,000 in spending money. Enter here.
Sign up with GoogleAfrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback
- Thread starter BLaZor2
- Start date
BlackDragonSS
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2010
- Messages
- 82
SirFooK'nG
Executive Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2009
- Messages
- 8,502
Erratic Speeds today.... running 10% of what I should 
EDIT: WTF.....
I just phoned Afrihost and found out a new little protocol they have kicked in (which is not part of the "Terms & Conditions").... Because I have used 70gig in 10 days, and they look at my previous months usage (about 130gig in total). They pre-empt my usage for the month and kicked me down to 512kbs on my 4mbs line!?! WTF.... according to their own "Fair Usage Protocol" they should only be shaping me @+50gig then throttling me to 1024kbs @+100gig, 512kbs kicks in at +150gig. Now I never ever have used 150gig, so how can they pre-empt that I will probably get there, so lets throttle it now to 512???? This is not "Fair Usage" if you ask me!
BTW, I demanded they put it back to 4mb with shaping as per their own FUP, which they have.
EDIT2: FFS Throttled again after 5 minutes...... WTF dammit.
EDIT: WTF.....
I just phoned Afrihost and found out a new little protocol they have kicked in (which is not part of the "Terms & Conditions").... Because I have used 70gig in 10 days, and they look at my previous months usage (about 130gig in total). They pre-empt my usage for the month and kicked me down to 512kbs on my 4mbs line!?! WTF.... according to their own "Fair Usage Protocol" they should only be shaping me @+50gig then throttling me to 1024kbs @+100gig, 512kbs kicks in at +150gig. Now I never ever have used 150gig, so how can they pre-empt that I will probably get there, so lets throttle it now to 512???? This is not "Fair Usage" if you ask me!
BTW, I demanded they put it back to 4mb with shaping as per their own FUP, which they have.
EDIT2: FFS Throttled again after 5 minutes...... WTF dammit.
Last edited:
Ok so according to Afrihosts FUP you cannot use more than 250 Gb per month. Because of their throttling it will take you 32 days to download the full 250 Gigs, Provided that you always can download at your throttled speed, and not less.
BlackDragonSS
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2010
- Messages
- 82
Erratic Speeds today.... running 10% of what I should
EDIT: WTF.....
I just phoned Afrihost and found out a new little protocol they have kicked in (which is not part of the "Terms & Conditions").... Because I have used 70gig in 10 days, and they look at my previous months usage (about 130gig in total). They pre-empt my usage for the month and kicked me down to 512kbs on my 4mbs line!?! WTF.... according to their own "Fair Usage Protocol" they should only be shaping me @+50gig then throttling me to 1024kbs @+100gig, 512kbs kicks in at +150gig. Now I never ever have used 150gig, so how can they pre-empt that I will probably get there, so lets throttle it now to 512???? This is not "Fair Usage" if you ask me!
BTW, I demanded they put it back to 4mb with shaping as per their own FUP, which they have.
EDIT2: FFS Throttled again after 5 minutes...... WTF dammit.
I seem to be in the same boat as you... my usage for the month is sitting on 99 GB and I'm now downloading at 512kb/s speeds. I also sent them an e-mail to inquire whether this is a new FUP they're implementing.
EDIT : Nice fast reply back from the Afrihost team as always
Danke Danke, they have escalated the above matter for investigation... So hopefully I'll know by Monday or maybe sooner. I will post when I receive an answer for the above problem
Last edited:
I agree, this will be my final month with them
Received this reply:
Hi Adonis,
Thank you for your email
We are currently investigating further as this seems to be happening on a couple of our uncapped DSL 4M connections.
Kindly check it again after a while as we have sent this to our system admins.
This on a 4mb line
How many gigs have you downloaded so far this month?
Adrenalin
Expert Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2009
- Messages
- 1,229
I agree, this will be my final month with them
Received this reply:
Hi Adonis,
Thank you for your email
We are currently investigating further as this seems to be happening on a couple of our uncapped DSL 4M connections.
Kindly check it again after a while as we have sent this to our system admins.
And where you going to go? MWEB? lol
I can't even download my data logs but not more than 30gig
MWEB.....their service also not good according to some of their users....so I'm stuck
BlackDragonSS
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2010
- Messages
- 82
Getting even worse by the day
They did say they're investigating the matter, so just relax a little m'kay