New Afrihost TCs

[distantclarity]

This system seems a hell of a lot better, you only get throttled during congested periods. Who the hell watches their downloads anyway, I don't mind getting throttled as long as I get a decent throughput on average and the service isn't cut off.

For those who are unhappy about this perhaps you should consider a business class uncapped account if you want 24/7 guaranteed throughput.

Agreed - if you need a 24/7 reliable connection with guaranteed speed then you should be using an unshaped service or something like diginet...

Btw, i've used approx 40gb this month and my connection is still fine

 

[Kosmik]

You know what, at least afrihost is being honest and upfront about what they're doing...

I don't see mweb or other uncapped service providers going into any detail about their shaping. A friend of mine has mweb uncapped and i tried out his account for a while and found it awful.
Now i'm not saying afrihost is perfect, that's unrealistic, but once again at least they're being honest...

And if you think about it, this new policy is much better than the old one, because now your line doesn't get slowed down for the rest of the month when you reach a certain limit -
now you just get occasionally throttled for an hour or so? To be honest, for only 500 bucks, being able to download as much as you want and having your line speed drop every now and then is a good deal as far as i'm concerned.

Everyone knows even on capped accounts, where certain protocols are shaped and due to line quality etc you never really get your full theoretical line speed anyway...

Let's face it, you get what you pay for and any way you look at it R500 for uncapped is a good deal... 3 months ago we were still paying R30 a gig at cheapest - work that out on 70gb usage and you get R2100.

No it's not. Stop applying old methodologies to a changing world. Mweb is succesful in what they are doing, far so than any other uncaped shaped account that I've seen or tried on the market ( and yes I've had express+ and IS uncaped shaped ).

Times have changed and technology has changed. We have more capacity now than ever before and volume creates discount as can be easily seen in any business. Mweb brought a good consumer offering that was months in planning and kept well under wraps to the market place and other ISP's have simply failed to achieve the same result. I'm not saying the decision by Afrihost is a bad one, it is probably the survivable one until they can adjust to alternate bandwidth supply. You simply cannot achieve overnight what has taken months of planning and investigation.

 

[Shayd]

And to the naysayers, I use MWeb at home and during the day and most of the night the 4mb line only downloads at +-40KB, so you wont find refuge there.

 

[saixbot]

Terms of Use:
"Based on our usage patterns over the last few months we have calculated that this will affect 7% of our client base...."

And using your client base of 10 customers 7% of that means only .65% will be flying along just fine with the majority stuck up the river with out a paddle....

 

[Shayd]

Terms of Use:
"Based on our usage patterns over the last few months we have calculated that this will affect 7% of our client base...."

And using your client base of 10 customers 7% of that means only .65% will be flying along just fine with the majority stuck up the river with out a paddle....

Horrible english, just plain horrible. Please explain what you said because I don't understand it.

 

[Jase]

I'll adopt a wait and see approach. If they throttle me too badly, then I'll look at alternatives.

 

[Kosmik]

I'll adopt a wait and see approach. If they throttle me too badly, then I'll look at alternatives.

Yep, I think we're going into the settling periods now, heavy downloaders will flock to certain isps, lighter folks to others . Price vs performance will be the main winner at end of the day dependant on customer view point. Gotta love competition.

 

[_TrXtR_]

Cancelled - Afrihost should NOT have tried to compete with MWEB and others, when they KNEW they could not.

This is great news! The new policy is allready bearing it's fruit. I realized in the last couple of days my account actually picking up speed. Cause well, I dont whore the package to death like other people. But when I want to download something, I want to download it.
So I use to have some issues when I wanted too much, and then I'll have a slow line for the rest of the month. But seems now that the leechers are getting off my bandwidth, I can go back to blasting my line every now and then, without major worrying.

I hope the whole 7% get off my line.

 

[iBite]

So... let me get this right... a certain individual (or let's rather say individuals - plural) in this thread downloads 120 GB per Month average (and I'm sure that's not the highest user in here). At R497 for this package, he/she is getting it at what... R4.14 per GB... and he/she bitches about this? What the ****? Why not cancel and let us who's not whoring the system have more of that bandwidth for ourselves... hey, I don't mind sharing that with 120 other people!

Afrihost FTW!!! Hey, other ISPs FTW too... at least these companies are trying their damnest to help push bandwidth costs down... and... well... let's face it, make some profit too Catch a wake-up you whiners! ****, some of you are worse than Malema!

 

[Jase]

Whilst I do not think that I fall within the aforementioned 7% buy a long margin, I think that uncapped is supposed to be .... uncapped?

*tinfoil hat time* Since I posted a reply here I have noticed that my current download has reduced to a trickle!

 

[MyWorld]

I have been very happy with my account since day 1. I will almost never move over 90Gb and this is with streaming YouTube almost the whole night long.

I'm not sure if I should like or dislike the new TC, I must say that I just now tried to watch the Germany match and my connection was terribly unstable. Maybe they are onto something here, maybe not, lets talk about this middle to end of June to see where this goes.

 

[saixbot]

@Shayd

No problem, kindly afford me this brief interlude to explain my thoughts on this topic.

Kyk hie my broer dinge staan so.... Die Eye Espirit het net 10 customers ne, en net 1.3% vannie 7% sal lekker kan surf oppie net. Die anners sal maar net k@k n betaal. Duidelik kanala!

 

[Mr Canon]

This is really disapointing... and its only my first month with them. There support is great but already they have made so many mistakes with my uncapped account im already pretty ticked off. Is it so hard for south africa to catch up with the rest of the world i mean really??

 

[ingeon]

They should amend the Client Zone 'Bandwidth usage' graph to display what they claim excessive.
I just moved to their 384k uncapped and been downloading a ton of Linux distro`s, content from Steam and
lovin the youtube and here and there some other torrents/stuff and because 384k is so slow been running 24/7 and it`s been rather
slow but I don`t know if they would classify me as one of the so called 7%.

All I know is this in not true uncapped if they have to resolve to this. Is mweb better?

 

[MyWorld]

I would also voice my concern for transparency, who are the 7% then? I do not need names, but at least put down some figures so that we can see what we are aiming for or if we should look to a different ISP.

 

[Necuno]

will this effect people who say for example install their pc's for the first time and have to re-update and patch everything ? (i know you obviously don't reload everyday). or what if you mmo now have a content patch of 2 gig plus or that update/mod/patch/dlc for your sp/mp game, are you then a heavy user? getting a test client of 5-10 gig? using steam? streaming? youtube?

sad reality is when you have a application which is p2p based and legit like for example IGN's downloader, steam's download and so on you will suffer... unless you jump through hoops.

 

[BlackDragonSS]

I would also voice my concern for transparency, who are the 7% then? I do not need names, but at least put down some figures so that we can see what we are aiming for or if we should look to a different ISP.

Well I definitely fall under that 7%... and now I'm being put on a leash = "no more 140GB for you, you bad Dragon dog you."

I hope the whole 7% get off my line.

Sorry dear but I’m still going to be on YOUR LINE… being controlled with a leash so I do go misbehaving and causing trouble on YOUR LINE

 

[distantclarity]

Whilst I do not think that I fall within the aforementioned 7% buy a long margin, I think that uncapped is supposed to be .... uncapped?

*tinfoil hat time* Since I posted a reply here I have noticed that my current download has reduced to a trickle!

It is uncapped, it's just not unshaped...

Like iBite says, it's fine, let the people who are complaining go somewhere else and leave all the bandwidth for us who don't rape the system

 

[_TrXtR_]

Sorry dear but I’m still going to be on YOUR LINE… being controlled with a leash so I do go misbehaving and causing trouble on YOUR LINE

Aw how sweet But if you gonna call me dear, you best get inbetween my legs and finish the job.

 

[JIMMYtheSKULL]

Remind me again when the boom happened 2 -3 months ago, any way point is I think I have averaged between 80gb to 120gb or so wich was in line with AH's ToC's and so what if I used more they would slow me down if I used too much. I never really suffered bad internet speeds during this 2 - 3 month period speed were quite decent and very consistent (except for the seacom break). Are you telling me my line takes priority over every one elses?(I doubt that) The excessive shaping started with the begining of the world cup and that is where I thought it would end. Seems almost like an excuse to force prices back up cause I guarantee FIFA have secured most of the bandwidth to transmit to other countries for the duration of the world cup. And yes it would be very nice to have a Afrihost representative explain what abuse will be (3.3gb a day abuse?) I smell a stinky fish <*)))>< ......