Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

dasdk said:
ps. has anyone read the thread regarding Mwebs rolling 6 months 30 Gig fair usage policy? I contacted Mweb; they have no idea wat im talking bout lol
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That tends to happen when you report someone's I-heard-from-a-friend-of-a-friend-whose-neighbour's-cousin-said as fact. ;)
 
RedhotNeo said:
Dude.

Mweb is a much bigger company than afrihost. Bigger would mean bigger buying power. They have a huge budget so i think if their bandwith runs out, they will acquire more and acquring more with mean that they get a bigger discount. I personally never liked MWEB cos of the absorbint pricing in the past but currently they have a better service. If Afrihost improves their service and changes their policies, i will stick with them but i dont see that happening very soon.
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Nah bigger means MONOPOLY . I assume you are aware Mweb,Multichoice and Media24 are actually part of the same company? Not seeing where this is going yet? Telkom's monopoly pales in comparison tbh. It's actually quite ironic seeing Mweb complaing about Telkom's LLU, considering how much of a monopoly they themselves are. Naspers pretty much owns (or aims to own):

a] The ISP market
b] The News Media Market
c] The Digital Content Market

I suppose on the one hand, it takes a huge company to create the same type of services we see in the USA and Europe (which is good in some way), but on the other hand it eventually turns into a rather abusive dependency where we don't have any alternatives left and have one single company controlling all flow of information on the internet as well as the pricing. You'll be paying R500 + yearly increase p/m in 5 years STILL for the exact same product you get now and you're gonna wonder why there's no alternatives with cheaper pricing.....

....buuut anyway, as it is , yes there's no question Mweb is larger and got more cash and are capable to provide a superior connection. They can most likely subsidize whatever loss much easier also. So i expect Mweb to have the better offering at this stage. I'm just weary about the future of the ISP market ;)
 
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Rodent-Boy said:
That tends to happen when you report someone's I-heard-from-a-friend-of-a-friend-whose-neighbour's-cousin-said as fact. ;)
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That "rumour" was from somebody not reading a thread properly. That was the plan that Cybersmart is considering for their uncapped offering, but because Laurie mentioned it in comparison to Mweb, someone thought it actually referred to Mweb. Next thing, the misinformation is posted all over the place.
 
Ok, today I have speeds of around 100K on rapidshare downloads. Facebook is as slow as dailup!! Still less than 60GB but did more than 30GB. Guess I will take Gian on on his offer!! :(
 
RogueRunner said:
Ok, today I have speeds of around 100K on rapidshare downloads. Facebook is as slow as dailup!! Still less than 60GB but did more than 30GB. Guess I will take Gian on on his offer!! :(
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Which offer is that? Getting your money back if you're unhappy with the service? I'm contemplating the same. I already canceled my uncapped with them yesterday.
 
Would love to hear an official response to all of this from Afrihost, I think this is a matter of integrity and could cost them dearly if unattended. Afrihost where are you? Mind you, I have the crappiest Telkom line possible....I am in Randburg but 6kms away from the nearest exchange, so at best my line is a noisy 384k, I get excited when i get download speeds of 38k from Rapidshare, Torrents I don't even bother with....so if Afrihost throttles me I am royally screwed. Would love an official repsonse from Afrihost.
 
Yeah, haven't exceeded 100KB/s since Friday or so - have used 34GB.

Even http downloads from the SA or US ubuntu servers are capped at 100KB/s :\
 
Man, I hear all the complaints about only 100kb/s and I think wow, that's like twice the maximum speed i can get here, I WISH I had that problem y'all.
 
scymitar said:
Man, I hear all the complaints about only 100kb/s and I think wow, that's like twice the maximum speed i can get here, I WISH I had that problem y'all.
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Get a 4meg line, an uncapped Afrihost account for about R1k a month total and then you can join the club :D
 
As I said, I am 6kms from the exchange, they can only ever give me 384k line......so 4meg will have to wait till telkom puts in a Mini Dslam (not likely) or I move.
 
scymitar said:
As I said, I am 6kms from the exchange, they can only ever give me 384k line......so 4meg will have to wait till telkom puts in a Mini Dslam (not likely) or I move.
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Bummer dude, could always get 2x 512k lines and be as fast as my 'throttled' connection :D :D
 
@gatecrasher
It states "
Regarding Mwebs Uncapped offer please note the following terms and condition

"
Is that a misinterpretation?
 
@ Nihilist LOL as I said....384k line MAX...and its noisy as hell, would need at least THREE lines to match your throttled speed.
 
dasdk said:
@gatecrasher
It states "
Regarding Mwebs Uncapped offer please note the following terms and condition

"
Is that a misinterpretation?
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Yes, because what follows are extracts of Mweb's AUP (Clause 5.9, 5.9, 5.10)

But Then laurie says:

If you are prepared to accept similar terms to mweb's
and would like uncapped purely for the convenience of not topping up and
are planning to keep their usage patterns in the same range as they were
previously as opposed to increasing it 10 times as we have experienced
during our trial then we will match mwebs offering on unshaped bandwidth
Continuous uploading is a very vague term, so for our service we
define it as follows. On the 384Kb and 512Kb lines, continuous is
exceeding 20Gigs as a 6 month rolling average and on the 4Mb is 30Gigs
in a 6 month rolling average.

What is a 6 month rolling average ?
Lets say your usage is the following
m1 = 50
m2 = 15
m3= 19
m4=20
m5= 30
m6=10

Where m1 is last month m6 is 6 months ago your rolling average would be
(m1 + m2 + m3 + m4 + m5 + m6 )/6
=(50 + 15 + 19 + 20 + 30 + 10)/6 =24 Gigs which is still below the
30Gig rolling threshold. As you can
see you can do significantly more than 30Gigs in any given month, you
just cant "continuously" go over 30Gigs

If you exceed this limit, you will be warned via the web browser and
asked to move onto a capped service where you can determine the cap.

Given this restriction, we believe we can give you a business class
adsl service which is unshaped (you will note that mwebs service
is shaped which means stuff like gaming, online share streaming and
voice will not work so well) at a very reasonable price.
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The 30Gb rolling threshold is quite clearly Cybersmart's concoction and has nothing to do with MWeb.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...m-Cybersmart&p=3733179&viewfull=1#post3733179
 
From another thread I posted this:

I've just contacted Afrihost and asked them to honour their money-back guarantee by refunding me, but to be fair to them considering that I've used up 30GB of bandwidth at 4mbps speeds, I suggested that they are welcome to refund me, minus a prorata rate for this month (i.e. 1/3rd of 30 days = R167.67). Which I believe is fair.
 
I have a 512kbps connection with Afrihost

Total Bandwidth Used: 15.827 GB


And now its totally useless. I was trying to upload a picture of my bandwidth graph but ITS TOO *****ING SLOW TO EVEN DO THAT.
I'm going to sign up with Mweb now, and recommend the same to everyone I know.
 
I think its time Afrihost came forward to be honest with us, before all their new customers leave because of word of mouth. What's going on with all this throttling? Are they offering a service they can't really provide?
 
I tried signing up with mweb when all of this started. They irritated me because they wanted me to fax my life history to them. Copy of Ids, bank statements etc etc etc. I just gave up and got an openweb 4mb. Signed up and was online in 2 minutes. I am watching my movie torrent download at 380k at the moment!
 
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