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After trying out Afrihosts new network and being very disappointed.
Bad support, bad speeds during peak hours - not much reason to stay.

Was planning to go back to Crystal Web, but seeing as they also changed the network to something similar to Afrihost, and seeing the mixed responses not sure if this is the best decision.

Any suggestions who would be a good bet

I normally use a premium home uncapped account
 
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I have been with Axxess for about a Year and I can gladly say they are perfect. I have not had any issues and also using the Uncapped Premium 8mb and I use more than 200 GB a month and always get full speed.
 
Afrihost is not that grand as before, they were the best at one stage but all good things come to an end, I have tried crystal web but the level of service towards customers was appalling and the download speeds were crap.

Axxess is good as they have 24/7 support, though the news server does not cache everything and that is why I left.

I have been with Web Africa for just over 2 years, I have not had any issues until last week when I upgraded to a 10MB line and the speeds I was getting was still at 4MB for a capped account but that has been sorted - uncapped is not that grand on Web Africa, lots of shapping during the day.
 
+1 for Axxess even though they use the same network Afrihost but they seem to always work.

Been with them for over a year and every time I have checked I'm getting 90-100% of what my line is capable of.

Try a free account https://www.axxess.co.za/free-gig during peak hours because Axxess uses the same network as Afrihost there may be a problem there.

I know Afrihost has had a few problems lately during peak hours but there also may be a congested exchange that you connect to. If the exchange is congested no ISP will be able to help and Telkom won't do anything about the problem.
 
fringe said:
After trying out Afrihosts new network and being very disappointed.
Bad support, bad speeds during peak hours - not much reason to stay.

Was planning to go back to Crystal Web, but seeing as they also changed the network to something similar to Afrihost, and seeing the mixed responses not sure if this is the best decision.

Any suggestions who would be a good bet

I normally use a premium home uncapped account
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I'm currently on crystal webs 4mb premium uncapped account.
Personally, I recommend that you don't go back to it, not now.
The performance is great, when it works. For me, that has become half the time I use it.

Moving to vox or axxess.
 
Telkom ISP.

Been with Telkom forever. Have had 4 faults , all of which were handled and fixed. Never seen the need to change. Have a test account bwith another ISP, which has not been of much use and something I will probably regret ever doing considering the issues I had after our log in details were leaked.
 
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