Mweb vs afrihost (Uncapped)

Garyvdh said:
Dude, seriously! Why do you insist on cutting all your posts off at 5 centimeters? It's freaking annoying! What are you posting from? A 320 x 480 screen? :D
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dont you think so? :)
 
Was on Afrihost -couldn't do anything with it due to the shaping. Changed to MWEB about five months ago. Pleased as beans - can download what i want - i don't use torrents but i d/l extensively from hotfile and rapidshare.
 
darklordpook said:
Was on Afrihost -couldn't do anything with it due to the shaping. Changed to MWEB about five months ago. Pleased as beans - can download what i want - i don't use torrents but i d/l extensively from hotfile and rapidshare.
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Can't get more than about 10kb/s on a 4mb line
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So I guess they fixed the problem you had?
 
With Afrihost, throttled to 384KB before I hit 30GB. Why pay for uncapped when you can just buy 25GB of data for less or the same price but be guaranteed full speed?
 
I'm happy with my Mweb account, it serves me well as a "jack of all trades" account. It does have its problems. Capped accounts do a lot better for international gaming (my local gets 30-50ms). WoW latency seems to suffer quite a bit (400-600ms), though strangely Heroes of Newerth, League of Legends and Starcraft II perform very well.

That said, I also don't torrent a lot, maybe having done 100GB over torrents since the release of cheaper uncapped. I do A LOT of Steam downloads, loads of HD streaming, uploading and downloading some larger files when I take some work home, game patches etc. etc.
My monthly usage on average is about 100-150GB.
 
im with afrihost and i recently got throttled to hell and gone so then afrihost offered to transfer me onto a IS account cos they more easy on the shaping! this IS account kicks ass
 
nemisi said:
im with afrihost and i recently got throttled to hell and gone so then afrihost offered to transfer me onto a IS account cos they more easy on the shaping! this IS account kicks ass
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I received an e-mail from them this morning saying that they're transferring me to an IS account. I'm dubious - to put it mildly - as I was presuming that it simply allows them the ability to throttle my account even more than what they're currently doing (I'm on a 384k line, transferring about 20-25GB of data per month.) Are you saying that this IS account is actually a better and faster solution?
 
Afrihost.is

I also received an email this morning. In the mail Gian said they looked at my usage patterns... Did they really look at it or did they send this mail to all uncapped users? It seems that I have no say in the matter if I understand the mail correctly...

Will this IS account really be better?
 
jouda said:
It seems that I have no say in the matter if I understand the mail correctly...

Will this IS account really be better?
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Yes; that's the bit that bothers me. They say that I've got until this Friday to change my username because my current one won't work beyond that. Will give this a try tonight and see if it's any better than the piss-poor speeds I've been experiencing over the past couple of weeks.
 
Anything but Afrihost. Honestly, I was seriously disappointed. As soon s you reach 20GB for the month, you're throttled to 1/8th of your speed until the end of the month. No exaggeration there.
 
Mweb > Is > Afrihost.

Mweb's FUP is the vaguest of the lot, but they shape instead of throttling. So even if your downloads are crawling the rest of your internet experience is largely unaffected (Youtube and gaming also fall foul of shaping, but nowhere near as much as torrents and are largely fine at night).

IS's FUP is slightly less vague, I don't know what their shaping is like, but they throttle instead of shaping so once you hit the not very specific level (top 50%, top 20%?) everything slows down, not just torrents.

Afrihost has a very specific FUP, low ceilings and they too throttle. Honestly I don't understand why they even offer uncapped - given the per GB price they offer you would get better value for money simply buying into their capped offerings.

Obviously if you have very specific needs (high volume or constant downloading, low latencies to local or international servers) there are products from other ISP's that are tailored for those too at a premium without being unaffordable.
 
i tried this IS account and its crap! Youtube is extremely slow ! even at night! im on 384k and at night my youtube hits a max speed of 6KB/s which is gay!and iv only used 12 gigs
 
For uncapped, rather compare "Anything" vs Afrihost. May be the a mail through post office may may be received faster than using Afrihost line.

Afrihost Uncapped = Mordern Dialup in ADSL.

From my experience, I feel it is a ripoff and a half, trust me. This is my last month with them. They are very sneaky, by announcing the migration for uncapped users to is.afrihost.com just after the last date before cancellation. :mad:
 
mcryan said:
Anything but Afrihost. Honestly, I was seriously disappointed. As soon s you reach 20GB for the month, you're throttled to 1/8th of your speed until the end of the month. No exaggeration there.
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luckystar10 said:
For uncapped, rather compare "Anything" vs Afrihost. May be the a mail through post office may may be received faster than using Afrihost line.

Afrihost Uncapped = Mordern Dialup in ADSL.

From my experience, I feel it is a ripoff and a half, trust me. This is my last month with them. They are very sneaky, by announcing the migration for uncapped users to is.afrihost.com just after the last date before cancellation. :mad:
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Afrihost always had good service. Problem with these bunnies is that they are eating the crumbs now, because they royaly messed up their chances at uncapped. Nevertheless, their 3 for 1 "limited offer" is smashing! My aunt even uses them
 
Afrihost had good service until the IS move. Then they became a nightmare. They had stellar service but suddenly they dropped the ball completely in terms of both product and service, but most of the all the nature of how the IS move was implemented has the stench of theft about it. So never again thanks.
 
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