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DrJohnZoidberg
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Hmm, don't know if it's a bug or a marketing ploy but you cannot seem to top-up really. You can only upgrade your account to a higher package.
rubber_otter
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After reading this thread i am cancelling my stupid R397 afrihost uncapped. Most expensive ISP ATM, and throttling me like a boss.
Hmm, don't know if it's a bug or a marketing ploy but you cannot seem to top-up really. You can only upgrade your account to a higher package.
So you wouldn't be able to buy another 10 gigs? You'd need to top up with 15GB, then 25GB, etc? That's a little dodge.
I can understand this .
To process , for example , 3 Rands for 3 GB is not economicaly viable .
Well sure, but if you want to "pay as you go" for example, and you generally use about 200GB a month, you'd need to top up with increasingly large increments, so if you under-used towards the end of the month, you'd likely have bought more gigs than you needed. Perhaps this is the strategy behind it - but if it is an oversight, they should sort it out.
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Torrents seems slow...50/kbs on a 4mb line.
NZBs 400kb/s on ssl
NZBs 400kb/s on ssl
Don't really see an issue there - your pings are probably hitting the IS firewalls at hop 11.
One way of bypassing shaping rules for downloads is to use a VPN on an unshaped port, or to disguise traffic - so that's likely the reason. I wonder how they classify VPN traffic though - if they started charging 1.5x the traffic for watching Netflix through Unotelly for example, I reckon there would be a lot of pissed off people.
Woaah, alarm bells are ringing..
Very likely I guess, they are shaped accounts if I am not mistaken.
Although how do they know what is VPN traffic and what isn't?
Just monitor those few VPN ports?
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Ooh, they had better not do that for netflix. Although, its not VPN data at all.
Tinuva
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Technically speaking, your Netflix data is only proxied by Unotelly, so not a vpn.
That said, interesting that they count VPNs at 1.5x the traffic. Can theoretically say, VPNs are intended for business purposes, so may as well charge more for that type of traffic because of that reason.
That said, interesting that they count VPNs at 1.5x the traffic. Can theoretically say, VPNs are intended for business purposes, so may as well charge more for that type of traffic because of that reason.
Well regardless the data is still extremely cheap. Much cheaper than other ISP's, if it does not work for you then it is not as if you suddenly do not have internet - just move back to what you were previously using.
Yeah, generally but not always. Nothing stopping me from running a VPN so I can monitor my downloads while I am away for the weekend or whatever.
I doubt it will effect many of us here anyways.
Yeah, generally but not always. Nothing stopping me from running a VPN so I can monitor my downloads while I am away for the weekend or whatever.
I doubt it will effect many of us here anyways.
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Dan C
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Yeah, for R1/GB you can pretty much forgive most things
Agree here. I took 25 gig , well for that price you can't even get a good burger these days
Remember back in the days ... http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/9716-r-29-per-gb-adsl-offering-launched.html