Afrihost Way To Go??

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Well, i got a choice here. I can either get a 10mb buisness line or 20mb normal uncapped line at same price. With the buisness line i appearantly get full speed 24/7/365 and with the normal uncapped line, the line speed works on peak hours ect ect.

I was with telkom on a 4mb buisness uncapped line. Despite their crap service, my line was also cut 10 days into each month, cause according to them i am a heavy downloader, so they shape my line to 30kb/s despite what says on their website that the buisness lines are unshapped and download as much as you want. So telkom basicly is useless and is the worst isp i know off.

So is afrihost any better?? I did read up on them and what i found was mostly positive. But i want to hear from the gamers. Are you happy with Afrihost gaming wise??

I mainly use my adsl line for steam, origin, online play. I download many many games on steam
 
1. Why not use Telkom 10meg business? The thresholds are much higher.

Most uncapped accounts don't penalize you for scheduling your downloads at 00:00.

Anyway.

Business all the way.
 
thing is i dont want to use telkom, they are crap and dont live up to their policy. I pay round R1000 for my 4mb buisness line that does not even do what they claim on their site. And with same amount of money, i can shift to afrihost for buisness line or the 20mb uncapped normal home line
 
I have a free 1GB Afrihost as well as Axxess account. When using those for gaming my International ping is around 20ms higher.

So I would not recommend them for gaming. Alternatively you can test yourself, get the free 1GB WebAfrica account as well as the 1GB Afrihost account and see what the pings are like for you :)

CrystalWeb seem to be pretty decent with their uncapped offerings, most seem happy with them.
I am personally not a fan of the uncapped we get here in SA.
 
With the current capacity issues Afrihost is experiencing I can't recommend them. Speeds have been dismal for most of the month. They are busy with upgrades, but haven't seen any improvement at all.
 
Got a 1Meg business here, I pull torrents and game a lot. Very happy with them.
 
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Anything but Afrihost.I lasted 2 months with them and moved to WebAfrica.
 
For some reason I've been managing to pull about 15 - 20 Gb a day on my AH 4mb uncapped line
 
Read the "Afrihost Business Uncapped feedback - 2" thread. Then you'd automatically decide not to use them.
 
What I've done now.. upgrade to a 10mb line and get the R99 10gb account from Telkom... and am using that for the 00:00 - 07:00 shift... and do all my downloads during that period.. and then have a different ISP (Vox) for during the day which i got free with my Samsung TV... so lets see how that goes as i want this to run for as long as i can...
 
Do yourself a huge fav, and stay away from Afrihost - I moved to Afrihost because I hated Telkom's customer services.
Now my previously perfect 4Mbps line is giving a full 0.37Mbps.

My advise - RUN!
 
^No. Do not listen to this man. He created another thread about Afrihost being slow but probably haven't been reading their network status page or the last few MyBB posts about them. Afrihost is currently experiencing some IPC congestion issues because Telkom ups the line speed of ADSL fourfold but doesn't drop IPC prices to compensate, then the big ISP's (meaning the ISP's with the most users) suffer and need to purchase more IPC which is NOT a quick process. There's no little dial that you just turn up to get more IPC. Telkom takes their time with this. Because of this, asking "is Afrihost the way to go" now is a problem because there are a lot of ill-informed angry people on the web ranting over Afrihost.

I've been with Afrihost since 2010. Want my opinion? Best ISP in the country. Won MyBroadband ISP of the year 4 years in a row. Admittedly, it wasn't all sunshine and roses when they moved over to MTN, and the people who left then are still crying blood over it, but it's improved. I'll be honest I also left, but I went back after a few months and I haven't regretted my decision and it's been a few years now. The latency is solid so gaming is a joy. Getting <10ms to Cape Town Dota/CS servers (Most likely MWEB), 25-35ms to JHB and 170-200ms to EU (Dota 2) servers (From Cape Town) .

Finding a good balance between latency and unlimited downloads all day every day is hard. You are better off going for a business package. Some ISP's are better for downloading. Telkom probable most of all because they don't have to purchase IPC so they can open the taps on their accounts. The other ISP's (Afrihost/Axxess/WebAfrica) are probably better for gaming.
 
I have no problems with AH, 430 KB/sec downloads 24/7 on 4 mbit line, 100 GB capped.
Local pings are a bit high but into Europe and UK, I average 180 to 200.
 
dEaThXc0rE said:
Do not listen to this man. He created another thread about Afrihost being slow but probably haven't been reading their network status page or the last few MyBB posts about them. Afrihost is currently experiencing some IPC congestion issues because Telkom ups the line speed of ADSL fourfold but doesn't drop IPC prices to compensate, then the big ISP's (meaning the ISP's with the most users) suffer and need to purchase more IPC which is NOT a quick process.
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What utter crap.

1. IPC pricing has nothing to do with linespeed upgrades. If a person is on capped, their data works at line speed anyway, and uncapped is limited to a speed.

2. Afrihost is the only ISP that has these issues. They wait until customers start to complain before they put the orders in, while all other ISPs upgrade IPC BEFORE customers start to complain. And this has TWICE in a row now.

All Afrihost tries to do is be cheap while sacrificing customer satisfaction. To me that's not on.
 
dEaThXc0rE said:
^No. Do not listen to this man. He created another thread about Afrihost being slow but probably haven't been reading their network status page or the last few MyBB posts about them. Afrihost is currently experiencing some IPC congestion issues because Telkom ups the line speed of ADSL fourfold but doesn't drop IPC prices to compensate, then the big ISP's (meaning the ISP's with the most users) suffer and need to purchase more IPC which is NOT a quick process. There's no little dial that you just turn up to get more IPC. Telkom takes their time with this. Because of this, asking "is Afrihost the way to go" now is a problem because there are a lot of ill-informed angry people on the web ranting over Afrihost.

I've been with Afrihost since 2010. Want my opinion? Best ISP in the country. Won MyBroadband ISP of the year 4 years in a row. Admittedly, it wasn't all sunshine and roses when they moved over to MTN, and the people who left then are still crying blood over it, but it's improved. I'll be honest I also left, but I went back after a few months and I haven't regretted my decision and it's been a few years now. The latency is solid so gaming is a joy. Getting <10ms to Cape Town Dota/CS servers (Most likely MWEB), 25-35ms to JHB and 170-200ms to EU (Dota 2) servers (From Cape Town) .

Finding a good balance between latency and unlimited downloads all day every day is hard. You are better off going for a business package. Some ISP's are better for downloading. Telkom probable most of all because they don't have to purchase IPC so they can open the taps on their accounts. The other ISP's (Afrihost/Axxess/WebAfrica) are probably better for gaming.
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Just because you're lucky experiencing full usage, it doesn't invalidate the 90% of us who don't.

It's been utterly useless lately, and Afrihost even acknowledge this themselves, yet we still wait since the upgrades are taking longer than they should it seems, and even after the IPC upgrade in the East, some users have seen no improvement.

If this is our ISP of the year, our country is in deep doodoo.

On a business uncapped getting buffering on 240p and half download speeds on any protocol, as well as packet loss and high pings when gaming, is not the ideal business model.
 
No one is forcing you to pay them if they do not deliver.

There are many, many other options out there.
 
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