Official Afrihost Q&A Thread

Ivork said:
I know, thats what i thought. But Mwebs offering includes not 1 but FIVE static ips. !!!!!! wtf?
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Link? I'd have to see that before I believe that...... 5 static IPs would usually mean 5 concurrent sessions (in order to get all 5 IPs)...... and those usually cost a pretty penny.
 
First of all my apologies of someone has mentioned this before I simply don't have the time to read through hundreds of posts.

When this whole "uncapped" service hit the market I was one of those who couldn't understand why people needed to download 100's of gb's per month. However after having an "uncapped" account, whomever it may be with, one does get a feeling that you are now free to download and checkout whatever you want without hesitation, before on a capped account I was always hesitant to download something with a fear of hitting my cap. Now while feeling uncapped I felt unrestricted and would simple download stuff on a whim simply cause I no longer felt worried, and low and behold I was sitting on 40gb downloaded within 10 days. Now with these new rules in place I am back to being worried about being throttled now. The point of the matter is, if they say they are offering an uncapped service, they should offer an uncapped/unthrottled service. Currently their "uncapped" service needs to be renamed to "uncapped but throttled internet access". Sorry I want to be able to surf and download without the worry.
 
Joined afrihost end of march due to people raving about their excellent service and support, alas I will cancel my account end of april again because it appears like they are useless.

They cannot promote uncapped internet, then sing another song within a week. If I'm lucky I will get 25KB/s on my 4mbps line and I'm sitting at around 54GB for the month, while I was on my 512 kbps line I used to get 52 - 56 KB/s, now I'm getting half that with a line 8 times as fast... it's really pathetic.

I'm not even going to waste my time contacting their customer support with their fake smiles, they have conned us and to me that is no go zone, so stuff your service, Afrihost does NOT want clients.

Will be moving to MWeb as I at least know of people that have gone over the 200GB "threshold" and their speeds are still actually in accordance of a 4mbps line...
 
diabolus said:
Now you're just being semantic.



Copyright Infringement / Piracy / Unlicensed is all "illegal" somewhere to someone. South Africa might not have specific clear rules against it , it still doesn't mean it is "legal" to the owners/creators of said content. It just means they can't pursue you here, but they certainly will try.

IS can choose to ignore the copyright owners and go "wha wha, can't touch us" , problem is that's how entire IP ranges gets blocked from half the internet content. Somewhere someone eventually decides IS is an "uncompliant" ISP and then the entire network gets screwed. So i'm sure IS have an obligation to do "something" or at least make it look like they are doing "something" about anything that is considered "illegal" to someone.
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The only one being semantic about the definition of illegal is you.

The rest of your post is complete and utter nonsense. It just does not work that way, and despite the best efforts of big-content, ISPs are not liable for what their customers do. Atleast not in countries where this activity is illegal to begin with (not the case in SA), see the recent iiNet (big Australian ISP) case that iiNet won with costs rewarded to them. The first part of the case that tried to nail iiNet as a primary infringer (because people download illegal content using their network) got thrown out right at the start before the trial even began. SAIX doesnt forward these complaints, as far as I am aware SAIX based internet users still manage to access the internet (lol?). I don't know what you think a range of IP addresses are going to get blocked from, there might be some fundamental aspects of the internet that you don't "get".

Just because someone doesn't like what you are doing doesn't make it any form of "illegal", not in this context.

ISPs are not held accountable exactly because they DON'T control what their customers do. If an ISP started doing that (like looking at your packets and trying to decide whether you should get that packet or not) this immunity would be compromised. People receive these complaints from companies that are paid to sit on trackers etc and harvest IP Addresses. They might as well be typing up random IP addresses in notepad. The threats are 100% worthless in every way, and if your ISP bothers to forward these you can ignore them.
 
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Phenomenon said:
The rest of your post is complete and utter nonsense.
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MEh, i had a long post here, decided to remove it [as it's not the place], just go read here [read the section on "Blocking" and how ISPs are getting pressured by their OWN governments to prevent "copyright infringement" activities ]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay

And also wonder about these sites in the context of "ip ranges" and "blocking" and stating something about fundementals of the internet and not "getting it" .

http://www.hulu.com
http://www.pandora.com
http://www.netflix.com
http://bbc.co.uk/iplayer
 
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Those sites listed only allow certain IP ranges for their own reasons. Those sites specifically choose to do so. That's not even remotely the same as blocking a country out of half the internet or whatever nonsense you were talking about because their ISPs have dirty file sharing customers. There is a huge practical difference between the two scenarios. Sure Sony can decide that boohoo they don't want South Africans to access their website anymore - I doubt anyone will care - but they're not going to be able to prevent the entire South Africa from accessing Amazon or Youtube or whatever-the-hell else they don't have direct control over.

And yeah, there have been cases of governments (Italy for instance) making ISPs block certain sites, once again not what you were talking about, so please. You just copy pasted some irrelevant links to stand in for an argument.

None of those things you talked about have anything to do with SA, or the scenario you were describing (where IS will get locked out of the internet for ignoring "infringment" notices). It is laughable. This is why I said you don't "get" it.
 
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Thanks for the feedback Gian, it's much appreciated. I've decided to wait and see what happens over the next few weeks before making any hasty decisions.
Low-cost uncapped services are still in an embryonic stage in S.A., and things could change dramatically over the next few months.

I signed-up for the 384k uncapped account about a day after it was made available, and am interested to know where the thresholds lie for this offering?
 
Does anybody know whats happening with Afrihost since Friday? Downloads are back up to full speed after 20 gigs? has something changed?
 
Wasp_21 said:
Does anybody know whats happening with Afrihost since Friday? Downloads are back up to full speed after 20 gigs? has something changed?
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Apparently there was a tweet from Gian to explain what's happened....
 
This thread seems very quiet lately , has everyone moved from Afrihost or is everyone happy now after the speed increase over the weekend ?
Had good speeds all weekend , hope they keep it up. Thinking of staying , currently on 92 GB
 
Something at Afrihost has been fixed. No details on what exactly, but they suggest that people should be back to full speed. My theory is that they had problems with the links to IS, but that's just my theory.

"We've made some changes to our Uncapped: If you were throttled pls let me know if your performance has improved?" (Gian's tweet)
 
pevans said:
Something at Afrihost has been fixed. No details on what exactly, but they suggest that people should be back to full speed. My theory is that they had problems with the links to IS, but that's just my theory.

"We've made some changes to our Uncapped: If you were throttled pls let me know if your performance has improved?" (Gian's tweet)
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They RESELL, they do not have peering links.
 
normal port 80 stuff is fine but nntp is down to 28 k/sec and im barely over 30 gig
obviously they don't want my business
 
For me, porting from 3G, this is a god-send, as general Facebook usage, visiting gallery websites, especially web 2.0 websites, would chew through my 3G data bundles. I would spend on average R1200 on 3G just to have that pleasure.

Thanks to Afrihost and other industry players, I can now do this at an affordable cost, and have my mom and sister enjoy Internet in the same household too :)

Still getting used to the idea that I don't need to monitor how much of my data bundle is left over :D
 
I cant get more than 50KBps on my Uncapped 4MB account. My usage for the month is no more than 45GB. Is this the normal level of throttling? It's been stuck at this speed since yesterday. Didn't try before that, but it seems to be heavy shaping for 45GB of usage for the month.
 
Are there any AH Power Users? I was previously with AH, but cancelled due to finance problems. Am thinking about the Power user packages, and would like to hear what it is like for online gaming (lag), for Ps3. Thanks.
 
They use IS for their Backbone so any traffic Internally to IS, latency is really small ie Twilight server(warcraft 3 Private game server)
Anything other than local IS , ie SAIX or international is high latency.
They don't shape their paid packages.

I don't know which is better atm for international response time used to be SAIX as IS had mostly Sat links but now with the new Fibre from Eassy and seacom donno.
Would have to ask around. All the ISP's use another ISP shown in http://www.ispmap.org.za/

enjoy
 
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