Best ISP at the moment

[Dr Who]

Hi All

As you may or may not be aware, I took the plunge last month and cancelled my Mweb data account. I am thus fast approaching the dark ages in terms of internet.

I have still not decided on the best route to following regarding my new ISP. Originally I had made the decision to terminate Mweb before the planned increase in speeds ( the latter just confirmed it ). I currently dont use more the 50gbs/month and really liked the sound of the Afrihost (CAPPED) product but since deciding this the comments have not been glowing to say the least.

Is this still a good option as the only reason for upgrading is the need faster speed ( more for youtube etc than downloading )? I am happy to wait for downloads as I am not a heavy user.

Regards
Dr Who may soon not have internet...

 

[Bursty-dude]

There is nothing wrong with going for the Afrihost capped option.
Ignore my comments in that thread. Mine is an isolated case where Telkom is a pain in the backside because of a line fault. Afrihost is trying their best though, these Afri-everyone deserve medals and cases of Bells.

 

[deweyzeph]

You can't go wrong with Afrihost, whether capped or uncapped.

 

[Dr Who]

Great - thanks will be applying on the 1st.

 

[aktor]

There is nothing wrong with going for the Afrihost capped option.
Ignore my comments in that thread. Mine is an isolated case

It's not quite that isolated, I'm afraid, judging by alot of posts and comments.

Afrihost is trying their best though, these Afri-everyone deserve medals and cases of Bells.

But I absolutely agree with you here.

 

[S1ght]

You can't go wrong with Afrihost, whether capped or uncapped.

They're uncapped I'm still not completely sold on. I changed my package to it last week to give it a test run as the Capped option just doesn't work for me when I have Steam games to download >.< At first it was fine, did about 70gigs between various updates, steam games, origin game updates, youtube etc but now I'm sitting watching a download go at 5KB/s...So now all I can do is browse and youtube at 10mbps...I'd get the exact same experience if I downgraded to 4mbps.

Edit: That being said, their Capped option worked great when I was on it. The 300gig cap option is just too expensive for me and I think the 100gig option won't be enough, which is why I decided to try uncapped.

 

[deweyzeph]

They're uncapped I'm still not completely sold on. I changed my package to it last week to give it a test run as the Capped option just doesn't work for me when I have Steam games to download >.< At first it was fine, did about 70gigs between various updates, steam games, origin game updates, youtube etc but now I'm sitting watching a download go at 5KB/s...So now all I can do is browse and youtube at 10mbps...I'd get the exact same experience if I downgraded to 4mbps.

I can only speak from my own experience, but I've got a 4Mbps Uncapped home account from Afrihost that I use the whole day as I work from home. It's always worked great for me and I probably average about 120 gigs a month.

 

[Quarkiee]

I switched from Mweb to telkom internet... So far so good.

 

[agentrfr]

Openweb > all. They are the only ISP that truly don't care how much you download during the month. EVERYONE else will throttle you eventually. OW never throttles, only shapes p2p and nntp during the day (if you are on a home account) and is completely unshaped in the evening and weekends. Downloading 10 gigs or 1000 gigs a month makes no difference to your performance. If the network is not busy (hardly ever and the last time it has been busy after hours was when the Linux Grand Theft Auto 5 distro came out) you are given complete and utter freedom.

PM MrBeep for a uncapped gold trial account.

 

[eyc]

I`m still a MWEB fan , doing 200G to 300G on my 4Mbps Uncapped product and it`s running like a train. Never been throttled...touch wood.

 

[HDS]

Openweb > all. They are the only ISP that truly don't care how much you download during the month. EVERYONE else will throttle you eventually. OW never throttles, only shapes p2p and nntp during the day (if you are on a home account) and is completely unshaped in the evening and weekends. Downloading 10 gigs or 1000 gigs a month makes no difference to your performance. If the network is not busy (hardly ever and the last time it has been busy after hours was when the Linux Grand Theft Auto 5 distro came out) you are given complete and utter freedom.

PM MrBeep for a uncapped gold trial account.

Agreed on the above. With Openweb you get what you pay for, although they are a bit more expensive than other ISPs. Otherwise go with Afrihost capped/business uncapped option. Their support is just superb.

 

[GreyBush]

T-T-T-Triple post.

 

[BashX]

TI so far is pretty good in my opinion. From my experience they don't throttle, they shape your P2P data during the day when the network is busy, if it's not to busy you get close to line speeds sometimes but from 10pm onwards P2P downloads start to move like a steam train. I'm on a 1Mbps Uncapped line and I have total usage as of this month at 150GB, last month 160GB.

 

[KaMoS]

If Afrihost's shaping is as bad as some people say then how is it possible for the people on the Uncapped Leadboard achieve those numbers? Or is Afrihost lying about those numbers?

 

[deweyzeph]

Openweb > all. They are the only ISP that truly don't care how much you download during the month. EVERYONE else will throttle you eventually. OW never throttles, only shapes p2p and nntp during the day (if you are on a home account) and is completely unshaped in the evening and weekends. Downloading 10 gigs or 1000 gigs a month makes no difference to your performance. If the network is not busy (hardly ever and the last time it has been busy after hours was when the Linux Grand Theft Auto 5 distro came out) you are given complete and utter freedom.

PM MrBeep for a uncapped gold trial account.

The problem with Openweb is that they have the worst control panel out of any ISP and their cancellation policy is still stuck in the dark ages. You actually have to email them to cancel your account, there is no option in their control panel to cancel, and you have to give a calendar month's notice. So for example, if you cancel on the 10th of October, your account will only be cancelled on 30 November! No thanks.

 

[DominionZA]

Don't know how there are so many rave reviews for OpenWeb.

I was on OW Gold 6mbps until about 2 months back. I work from home and from about 11H30 each day my connection would slow to a crawl and barely usable (simple web browsing). Come 18H00 it would open up again.

Support was good and Leon would always assist with getting it right again. It became a pain nursing the account almost daily though.

2 months back I switched to Afrihost Business 6mbps. Now THIS is how internet should be. Connect and forget about it.

On both I did/do 800Gb to 1.2Tb per month. So no limits. Just daytime fell on its butt at OW.

 

[S1ght]

I can only speak from my own experience, but I've got a 4Mbps Uncapped home account from Afrihost that I use the whole day as I work from home. It's always worked great for me and I probably average about 120 gigs a month.

In terms of the browsing and realtime speed, the network seems pretty quick and responsive. But at this rate, I might have to start reevaluating my options. Perhaps going down to a 4mbps business uncapped. Or maybe back to a 100gig capped and then I'll just have to top up when I need to do a big game download.

 

[BluntMalunt]

I`m still a MWEB fan , doing 200G to 300G on my 4Mbps Uncapped product and it`s running like a train. Never been throttled...touch wood.

I agree my MWEB connection is boss doing 150 to 200gb on a 2mbps line. Great speeds and latency on all protocols I access. I wont change

 

[deweyzeph]

I agree my MWEB connection is boss doing 150 to 200gb on a 2mbps line. Great speeds and latency on all protocols I access. I wont change

Why are some people being nailed by Mweb and you aren't? Seems like it's pretty random.

 

[Wackyza]

For someone who has 39 posts. I doubt its coincidence.
Join Date : 21-09-2013

Sounds like round about the time s#$ hit the fan at mweb.

I agree my MWEB connection is boss doing 150 to 200gb on a 2mbps line. Great speeds and latency on all protocols I access. I wont change

Why are some people being nailed by Mweb and you aren't? Seems like it's pretty random.