Waiting for all the, "Well mweb, you had your chance. I'm moving to Afrihost," messages to come streaming in
Well I'm just waiting to hear what people on the Afrihost 4M accounts say about user experience. I already know at least one person who moved over. If his experience in the next month or two is positive, I will definitely consider the move myself.
My wife actually use our voice line with the closer 2 option for phoning family on a regular basis, so voice line rental is a moot point for me personally.
As for the data portion, for R222 more than I paid for a 1M uncapped account with MWEB 2 months ago, I can now get a 4M uncapped account with Afrihost. That's 38% more cost, for 4x the line speed (With the current pricing it changes to R322 and 66% more cost for 4x line speed).
Assuming MWEB's (and possibly other ISPs) 2M offering, when the "faster" lines are upgraded to 2M, is in the same ballpark as the 1M offering used to be (ie. ~R300), that becomes a 38% increase in cost for double the line speed, which is still a pretty good deal, assuming your budget can handle it (and also assuming the experience is more or less at the same pleasantness level).
Unfortunately, with MWEB's current 4M uncapped pricing, the figures become R364 more than the old 1M account, which translates to 62% higher cost. This, while probably still fairly reasonable for 4x the speed, remains quite steep, for me at least.
Of course it might also turn out that the user feedback from Afrihost's 4M uncapped account is terrible as opposed to MWEB's, which will justify the higher cost, but so far this does not seem to be the case.
The added benefit of the "fastest" Telkom option is that you can always use a capped account to potentially get up to 10M speeds, if your exchange supports it.
Then again, I might also decide to simply stay on 1/2M and save some money each month.
