AH: this a good deal?

[HermanTheGerman]

http://www.afrihost.com/adsl-power-high-bandwidth.php

20GB Unshaped Data
+ 20 GB FREE every month till 31 August
INSTANT ACTIVATION*
Top Ups @ R29 per GB
POP3 / IMAP Email
Spam & Virus Filter
SMTP Server

Hey, that sounds like exactly the package I want. I use roundabout 30 GB/month and also would prefer my bandwith to be unshaped, so with 20+20 I'm on the safe side. So this could be even better than uncapped, since I don't down hundreds of GB but need unshaped for gaming.

What I don't get is this:

20+20, does it mean 20 unshaped and 20 shaped? And how can I switch between them?
And till 31 August??? Is it the latest date to sign up or does the whole business only last till then?
What happens to those deals (or to any and all our contracts with ISPs ) after Telkom bumped us up to 10 MB?

Up till now I was with AH uncapped. Neeedless to say I wasn't too impressed with the speed of that connection.

Ok, does any of you gentlemen know of a better unshaped deal???

 

[Shayd]

It means you get 40GB of unshaped data till the end of Aug... will have to see if they extend it beyond that. For unshaped it's a pretty good deal. Only WA Titan might be better.

 

[HermanTheGerman]

Thx Shayd!

Since I'm only returning to SA in late July/early August it would give me only 1 month of service and then I'd need to look for greener pastures yet again.

...

Hmph :/

 

[HermanTheGerman]

Hey, this is from WA Titan's Terms and Conditions:

* The bandwidth allows for Shaped, International internet access.

* No line speed throttling will be experienced.

So WA are traffic shaping indeed
Can't have that, it's unusable stone age internet.

 

[WaNewton]

Hey, this is from WA Titan's Terms and Conditions:

So WA are traffic shaping indeed
Can't have that, it's unusable stone age internet.

Hi HermanTheGerman,

Our main focus is to provide customers with the highest level of quality that we can. Due to the low contention ratios on our network our shaped offerings perform on equal footing and in some cases better than most "unshaped" offerings out there. Our reliable connection and speedy services are what our customers have grown accustomed to and enjoy on a daily basis.