MWEB vs Afrihost ADSL 1Mbps Uncapped

Next month I will be paying for my last month of MWEB and my first month of AH. I am prepared to pay this because I would rather use the internet with Afrihost rather than being throttled with MWEB. I just has serious bad luck with my first week with AH being the one that has seen the most shaping, but I prefer shaping to throttling any day of the week.
 
killerbyte said:
Next month I will be paying for my last month of MWEB and my first month of AH. I am prepared to pay this because I would rather use the internet with Afrihost rather than being throttled with MWEB. I just has serious bad luck with my first week with AH being the one that has seen the most shaping, but I prefer shaping to throttling any day of the week.
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That's exactly how we feel about it. And you should see soon how dynamic shaping trumps set shaping or throttling any day of the week - especially with our awesome local capacity and international redundancy :)
 
Thanks everybody for your responses and advice. I shall definitely give the Afrihost Capped a shot.
 
Stay away from Mweb. Was just watching my 2MB line struggling to download at 3.1KB per second. Just switched my account to the FNB one to check whether Mweb is throttling again and guess what? With FNB account everything is working fine.

So glad I cancelled my Mweb account last month.. Only 8 more days of this nonsense
 
MinionOfWar said:
Stay away from Mweb. Was just watching my 2MB line struggling to download at 3.1KB per second. Just switched my account to the FNB one to check whether Mweb is throttling again and guess what? With FNB account everything is working fine.

So glad I cancelled my Mweb account last month.. Only 8 more days of this nonsense
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You moving over to us?
 
AM also moving to Afrihost, am totally fed up with Mweb and their silly stories
 
Been experiencing intermittent speed issues with MWeb (2M uncapped) for the past 6 months. Each time I am told that the problem is with my Telkom (2M) line, however when I check with Telkom they say that there is no problem with the line.

I have signed up for the free 1GB from Afrihost and in the past month; each time I experienced problems with my speed on MWeb, I switched over to Afrihost and found that my speed goes back to normal (2M). On a few occasion I have switched to Afrihost and back to MWeb, just to make sure that it is not the line. I am now convinced that MWeb is the problem!

I have spoken to their technical department yesterday and this morning, explaining this. Will see what excuse they come back with now.
 
rhynolinde said:
Been experiencing intermittent speed issues with MWeb (2M uncapped) for the past 6 months. Each time I am told that the problem is with my Telkom (2M) line, however when I check with Telkom they say that there is no problem with the line.

I have signed up for the free 1GB from Afrihost and in the past month; each time I experienced problems with my speed on MWeb, I switched over to Afrihost and found that my speed goes back to normal (2M). On a few occasion I have switched to Afrihost and back to MWeb, just to make sure that it is not the line. I am now convinced that MWeb is the problem!

I have spoken to their technical department yesterday and this morning, explaining this. Will see what excuse they come back with now.
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Afternoon rhynolinde, please provide me your MWEB account details via DM.
 
Here is my 2cents about Mweb.

I have been a customer with them for almost 7 years never and had some problem nothing major, my first line was their 512kbps line. So when they upgraded to their 1mbps lines I was bumped up automatically.

When telkom announced that they are going away with 1mbps lines and moving all to 2mbps lines, I was exited thinking Mweb will bump people automatically as well. Well here is what actually happened and my crap started with them.

Mweb "introduced" two 1mbps packages: 1mbps Standard and 1mbps premium.

The customers on the 1mbps Standard was bumped automatically to the 2mbps Standard package, where as the 1mbps premium customers was not due to "technical" problems and some sort of contact legal thing.

If you are on a 1mbps premium you are still on a 1mbps premium unless you asked to be bumped to the 2mbps Standard package for R199 p/m ( R339p/m + line rental). So I phoned and got bumped. Got a lot more then usual latency with the 2mbps line vs my 1mbps line.

The 2mbps premium gos for R369 p/m ( R509p/m + line rental).

But this is the massive catch that most customers wasn't told about.

The 1mbps Standard WAS throttled at 70gb and the 1mbps premium WAS throttled at 100gb.
Now the 2mbps Standard IS throttled at 70gb and the 2mbps premium IS throttled at 100gb.
All uncapped Mweb packages are shaped.

It's not your normal throttle it's a 30day roll over throttle. It's 30 days from the contract start not from first day of month to next first month day. Which means if you download lets say 60gb this month your next month will start with 60gb, IT WILL NOT RESET back to 0gb !!

I specifically ask if it will ever go back to 0gb as I am a above average user (180 - 200gb per month) and with a firm voice I was told "NO, it will never rest end of story". So what will happen I asked if I get to 70gb the answer was short "You will be throttled till we can get you close to 70gb", meaning you will always be throttled to the max if you go over the limit.

So I am also considering moving to Afrihost after 7 years with Mweb. Just have to get all the ducks in a row and some more facts.
 
Hav0c said:
So I am also considering moving to Afrihost after 7 years with Mweb. Just have to get all the ducks in a row and some more facts.
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Best move you'll ever make. Afrihost is by no means perfect (some authentication issues the last few weeks) but they are miles ahead of Mweb. If you want to use a lot of data make sure you sign up for a business package.
 
Rather not move to Afrihost

Home uncapped accountd are shaped to 10% capacity for around 15-18 hours a day.
 
Okay so I did some math........ (PM me your email and I will send you the file to work yours out)

I took my last 12 months usage and used todays (04_07_2014) prices.
I used the 50gb capped package just as a test from both and took in to consideration if I went over the 50gb

This is the result

[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[td]Lines[/td]
[td]4mbps[/td]
[td]10mbps[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Mweb[/td]
[td]7,233.20[/td]
[td]9,153.20[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Afrihost[/td]
[td]5,508.87[/td]
[td]6,948.87[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Total saving with Afrihost[/td]
[td]1,724.33[/td]
[td]2,204.33[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]


It's a massive difference over 12 months
 
Crowley said:
Torrents are shaped, not the whole account.
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Go look at the uncapped thread.

I have a 20mb account and am shaped to 10% downloads till midnight every day, it is their new policy to give more bandwith to realtime services as they call it.
This includes downloads from apple, microsoft etc, all http downloads.

They started this a week ago as "testing" but from afrimams posts it seems likely going to stay since they happy with the result
 
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