New Afrihost TCs

190-230 ms responce time

I games some 2 hours of ut1999 on dog server in europe today (19:00-21:00)

was very naais


Ty afrihost for giving me back my good ping I hope it lasts
 
Im afraid something horrible has kicked in on my account.

@ 36GB and NZB crawling for the 1st time ever (8MB in 60 min)
 
ShadowWeaver said:
I guess you are now in the top 7% abusers on the network. Everyone else has left :)
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Lol... I'm also being throttled to death today, but ja I did 143GB this month so it's expected :O


Edit: Pings are awesome though, I've been gaming without any problems :)
 
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Good ping - terrible speed. Have been throttled to 8KB/s since this afternoon. Guess I *was* in the top 7% then. Was, since I have cancelled and signed up with MWEB. Just have to send the RICA docs tomorrow :)

Judging by the JINX traffic graph it certainly doesn't look like the network is currently under strain - yet I am throttled to an unusable speed.
 
synapseZA said:
Good ping - terrible speed. Have been throttled to 8KB/s since this afternoon. Guess I *was* in the top 7% then. Was, since I have cancelled and signed up with MWEB. Just have to send the RICA docs tomorrow :)

Judging by the JINX traffic graph it certainly doesn't look like the network is currently under strain - yet I am throttled to an unusable speed.
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Luckily I'm being throttled to 40kb/s :| or something like that... lol
 
synapseZA said:
Are you leaving?
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No... I'll stay till the end of next month, I don't have much left to download anyway... so the few thing I do want, can download at their own pace while I play games ;)
I want to see how this new FUP works, although I think they've already unable it... ?
 
_TrXtR_ said:
I did. And no it's not.
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WOAH! sounds like we have a fanboy? are you one of the email users that beg johnny next door for the latest episode of 24 while he gets kicked in the nuts for your sake?

seriously....are you saying you have NEVER EVER EVER EVER (pinky swear) EVER grabbed a series or something from somebody?? AND WATCHED it AND ENJOYED it?? Where do you think they get that for you huh?? lol I'm sorry but I have to say it, you email users are so hipocritical!

DISCLAIMER: I'm not admitting to anything! I am only stressing a point towards the email users and their blurb about us "Supposed" bandwidth whores!
 
_TrXtR_ said:
Have you done a speed test to confirm this speed? Have you contacted them to complain about that specific low?
I would have thought you would be brought down to something like 20KB/s at max. But if you really are stuck at 6KB I would complain (or leave).

It might be possible that I'm taking allot of space right now, cause well... I'm downloading one of my twelve dvd's today ;-)

The thing to me about this is that I'm sure they are trying to find a way to make it better for everyone. I mean, it's not telkom were talking about here. This 'uncapped' idea is a great idea, and if they keep fiddling around, eventually they will find a way that would make even more people happy. Also, if you really want to download that much, get the uncapped express+ thing from axxess. For 1k a month, you are getting way more than you pay for. Heck, cancel your DSTV subscription and just download it all (that's what I did).
But I just checked on their web-site. They really do explain really well what happens.
Me as the guy that's not a heavy user, and paying what I'm paying, am expecting my internet to work when I want it to work. At a good speed. And I think I would have a very valid reason to complain the day I do not get what I want.
16 gig a day is enormous. Space it out, you will get better results. Why not e-mail them and discuss with them what your best method will be to download the amount you want to. Because it seems their hour to hour thing is based on current usage. I doubt they would want to throttle you when no one else is putting any heavy traffic down, and that's when they should by all fairness open up more bandwidth to you.

Also if youre using torrents, your wasting bandwidth uploading to other people. Make sure your doing usenet.

But really... uncapped express+ is made for what youre doing.
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Don't torrent (hotfile ftw)... Yes I have discussed it with them, many times. I was the first person to find out about the new T&C's.... speedtest produces same results (6kB/s). I nailed a few very big BD-Rips in the first 11 days of the month, was the first time I ever did 16gig in one day!
 
And i quote the MANY I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE DOWNLOAD HUNDREDS OF GB'S and i quote MyGaming: (Epic mega ultra sale on Steam) EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Steam’s just kicked off its Perils of Summer sale, and, like, seriously, just get over there now and start blowing cash. Pretty much everything in the catalogue is going cheap cheap until 4 July, with extra specials each day.

For example, there’s a complete 2K pack going at $89.99 (around R690), including:

Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Borderlands and all three DLC add-ons, Freedom Force, Freedom Force vs the Third Reich, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords, Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV, The Stronghold Collection, X-COM: Apocalypse, X-COM: Enforcer, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, X-COM: UFO Defense.

So, yeah. You get the big idea.

Also, today only, there’s:

Bioshock 2 - $14.99

Counter-Strike Source - $6.80

Overlord Complete Pack (Overlord, Overlord 2, Overlord Raising Hell) - $4.50

Trine - $4

Aion Standard Edition- $19.99

Colin McRae DiRT 2 - $10

Unreal Deal Pack - $13.60

Killing Floor - $3.75

If you don’t rush off and buy the Overlord Complete Pack immediately, you’re an empty husk of humanity.

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Thats how you download hunderds of GB's
 
Got same problems with afrihost did about 42gigs on a 384 line since yesterday my download speed is reduced to 0.07mps according to support if i want t download 40 odd gigs a month i should get a capped account.
I expected some throttling but not from 0.40mps to 0.07mps that's a bit hectic.
 
I have already downloaded the same amount in one week that I did with afrihost in the whole month (60gig), and still getting full speeds on mweb where my afrihost account is throttled to unusable levels...
 
leethyl said:
WOAH! sounds like we have a fanboy? are you one of the email users that beg johnny next door for the latest episode of 24 while he gets kicked in the nuts for your sake?

seriously....are you saying you have NEVER EVER EVER EVER (pinky swear) EVER grabbed a series or something from somebody?? AND WATCHED it AND ENJOYED it?? Where do you think they get that for you huh?? lol I'm sorry but I have to say it, you email users are so hipocritical!

DISCLAIMER: I'm not admitting to anything! I am only stressing a point towards the email users and their blurb about us "Supposed" bandwidth whores!
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cross eyes, did you read the wrong post or something? I'm very proud of the amount of stuff I steal from companies like warner brothers, and I'm not little girl not willing to admit it. Maybe you should read a litte more, I allready divulged my usage. Such a noob.
Oh and I download my own series. Cause I dont watch them all in 1 day... cause I have a life outside of my basement.
 
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JIMMYtheSKULL said:
Thats how you download hunderds of GB's
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One of the nice things about steam is you can buy first and download later. So when u playing one of these games, you can start downloading the other. When youre done with the one you start playing the other...
You'll notice your usage come down, and still playing tons of games. I mean... you gonna play that list this month??
 
capped

Afrihost has already started to throttle users. I have averaged 50 gigs per month on a 384kbs account and since two days ago have had my banwidth resticted to dialup speeds ,basicaly unusable.
The idea that 7% of users BlahBlah Blah is bull.
It is the same policy that airlines use of over booking there aircraft knowing that on average 5-10% of passengers do not make it to there flights They have over sold there available band width and are now hitting high bandwidth users with what is in effected a cap
I have canceld my account with them and hpoe that they do not do the dirty trick of extracting an other months payment, as i paid by dirrect debit
Can anyone recomend a service that does not behave in this way
 
I understand that some users have been throttled for their usage in this month but has anybody been throttled for usage from last month? If they do this I think it is tantamount to fraud. If you were abiding by the terms and conditions in the past and they suddenly change the terms they cannot punish you retroactively for periods that the new terms did not apply.

I'm on 384k and even though I have not been throttled yet, this new policy does not leave me with a good feeling about them. I was perfectly happy with the old terms but I now have no idea what would be considered abuse or not, one 384k user in this thread has stated he has been throttled after 40GB which is a rather low amount to be considered abuse. My usage varied from 20GB to 45GB a month and if they throttle me I will cancel immediately.

Afrihost doesn't seem to care about their image at all any more, from hero to zero indeed.
 
moballob said:
Can anyone recomend a service that does not behave in this way
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I think Afrihost is one of the few that actually throttle based on usage. As far as I know MWEB, OpenWeb and Imagine do not have usage restrictions. I have no idea what the performance is like on these accounts though, best to look at their threads and get an idea of what you can expect.
 
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