Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

Well most of us are going to have to wait for a few weeks, because apparently the 4meg guys come first :mad:
When will you launch the Uncapped 384 kbps and Uncapped 512kbps offerings?

We aim to offer them within the next few weeks (or sooner) depending on how the testing of the 4096 kbps accounts go.
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Well I'm leaving them for Mweb if I am not able to sign up by the end of today. Their announcement was the only reason that I waited in the first place, and I'm not going to wait for a few more weeks.
 
Just read this before you go completely beserk.

Is this a truly uncapped service? Are there any catches? Can I really use as much as I want?

The uncapped service is designed for humans who want to use the internet as much as they want - for some downloading, streaming media, browsing, and more. It is not designed for computer programs that are setup to continuously download 24/7, 30 days a month.

Unless you literally move hundreds of GBs per month this service will be uncapped for you with no catches for you

The vast, vast majority of our Uncapped clients will be able to use as much as they want.

However, we will take action on the very small minority who through their usage start affecting all of our other clients' internet experience.

It is our duty to make sure that a very few will not ruin our Uncapped solutions for everyone.

Our primary concern is for the majority of our clients. If there are individuals that are putting strain on the network and affecting our other clients negatively we reserve the right to stop offering them the service.

Our uncapped service is designed for humans who want to use the internet as much as they want.

The honest truth is that if it is your intention to setupprograms to download movies, music & whatever else every single hour of the day, every day of the month then these uncapped packages are not for you.

We want to make this clear upfront so that nobody is disappointed or surprised later.

But rest assured:

We will not even consider stopping your account unless you are moving literally hundreds of GBs per month.
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I signed up. Speedtest to local and international look normal.

Torrents were coming at about 2mbit/sec, but I closed them :)
 
I signed up and upgraded my existing 3GB account. Trouble is that I was hardcapped as I finished it but now I cannot use any other site besides the client zone?
 
BLaZor2 said:
I signed up and upgraded my existing 3GB account. Trouble is that I was hardcapped as I finished it but now I cannot use any other site besides the client zone?
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Contact Moshe, he sorted me out when I was capped while still having another account open.
 
Phoned the helpdesk. Account it now acivated! :D

Youtube is working fine, and fast! :D Streaming HD content fine.
Http latency is a bit high, but surfing fine (facebook and bbc news)

Will keep hammering this tonight.

Let me try torrents and newservers now.
 
Tracing route to www.afrihost.co.za [196.38.88.28]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 104 ms 110 ms 116 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2360.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.133]
3 22 ms 22 ms 20 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
4 116 ms 114 ms 113 ms 196.26.0.61
5 109 ms 109 ms 109 ms core2a-bry-gi0-0-3.ip.isnet.net [168.209.100.198]
6 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.218.21]
7 116 ms 114 ms 115 ms 196.34.134.105
8 115 ms 114 ms 111 ms gw.aserv.co.za [196.33.227.1]
9 116 ms 117 ms 114 ms www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.28]

Trace complete.

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Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.227.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 112 ms 113 ms 107 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2360.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.133]
3 20 ms 22 ms 21 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
4 113 ms 107 ms 108 ms core2b-rba-te2-0-0.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.182]
5 320 ms 318 ms 322 ms mi-za-rba-p6-gi3-0-2-110.ip.isnet.net [168.209.164.79]
6 324 ms 329 ms 326 ms mi-uk-dock-p2-po3-0-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.224.67]
7 323 ms 324 ms 327 ms core2a-dock-gi1-0-19-110.ip.isnet.net [168.209.164.32]
8 328 ms 327 ms 329 ms 168.209.246.66
9 329 ms 362 ms 335 ms 195.66.226.125
10 323 ms 330 ms 325 ms 209.85.255.175
11 346 ms 331 ms 335 ms 66.249.95.173
12 242 ms 244 ms 326 ms 209.85.251.231
13 * 344 ms * 209.85.243.97
14 332 ms 331 ms 336 ms wy-in-f103.1e100.net [209.85.227.103]

Trace complete.
 
Testing torrents - 40k - 60k so heavy shaping.

Will do some news server testing later before "off-peak" time.
 
Using the IS Newserver, I max'ed out at 350 KB/s and averaging 300 KB/s.
Downloading a cached item too.

Not a bad speed for during the weekday at 2pm. :-)
 
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