Question for MWEB to Afrihost Converts

[SpoonTech]

Hi All,

I am considering moving to Afrihost before the month is up (following what seems like the rest of the people on here). I have always felt that MWEB had a better uncapped product, however Afrihost had far better customer service. With Afrihost's shaping rules being relaxed, I am considering the move.

I would like to know from MWEB to Afrihost converts (only if you have moved in the last 6 weeks or so), how your experience is with Afrihost so far. How are your speeds, speedtest.net, direct download speeds, torrent speeds, youtube loading speeds etc.

I am looking at moving to Afrihost 4mbps, and I currently get very good speeds on MWEB, sometimes above 4 meg, 5.1 meg on speedtest.net (Line syncs at 6), direct downloads at 440k and torrents between 220 and 450k.

I am going to take my line with Afrihost. (If the ISP manages my line, and I move to a different ISP, is there a transfer cost then?)

@MWEBGuy. What's the main reason we should stick with MWEB?
(I reckon you should try an Afrihost account just to see how good the customer service is, sometimes with MWEB it takes 2 - 3 days before I get a reply. Afrihost 6 and 12 minutes for each email)

Also, nobody uses the line for 3 months of the year, so with Afrihost it would be easier for me to suspend the service during those periods. ie. Without 30 days notice etc.

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi All,

I am considering moving to Afrihost before the month is up (following what seems like the rest of the people on here). I have always felt that MWEB had a better uncapped product, however Afrihost had far better customer service. With Afrihost's shaping rules being relaxed, I am considering the move.

I would like to know from MWEB to Afrihost converts (only if you have moved in the last 6 weeks or so), how your experience is with Afrihost so far. How are your speeds, speedtest.net, direct download speeds, torrent speeds, youtube loading speeds etc.

I am looking at moving to Afrihost 4mbps, and I currently get very good speeds on MWEB, sometimes above 4 meg, 5.1 meg on speedtest.net (Line syncs at 6), direct downloads at 440k and torrents between 220 and 450k.

I am going to take my line with Afrihost. (If the ISP manages my line, and I move to a different ISP, is there a transfer cost then?)

@MWEBGuy. What's the main reason we should stick with MWEB?
(I reckon you should try an Afrihost account just to see how good the customer service is, sometimes with MWEB it takes 2 - 3 days before I get a reply. Afrihost 6 and 12 minutes for each email)

Also, nobody uses the line for 3 months of the year, so with Afrihost it would be easier for me to suspend the service during those periods. ie. Without 30 days notice etc.

Good Morning SpoonTech

Our Network is better and we don't Throttle

Please note that you can contact me for assistance and I will ensure you are responded to. You can also downgrade your MWEB product for the 3months it is not in use, that way you are still able to use the email address that accompanies the product.

 

[staunchy20]

Hi All,

I am considering moving to Afrihost before the month is up (following what seems like the rest of the people on here). I have always felt that MWEB had a better uncapped product, however Afrihost had far better customer service. With Afrihost's shaping rules being relaxed, I am considering the move.

I would like to know from MWEB to Afrihost converts (only if you have moved in the last 6 weeks or so), how your experience is with Afrihost so far. How are your speeds, speedtest.net, direct download speeds, torrent speeds, youtube loading speeds etc.

I am looking at moving to Afrihost 4mbps, and I currently get very good speeds on MWEB, sometimes above 4 meg, 5.1 meg on speedtest.net (Line syncs at 6), direct downloads at 440k and torrents between 220 and 450k.

I am going to take my line with Afrihost. (If the ISP manages my line, and I move to a different ISP, is there a transfer cost then?)

@MWEBGuy. What's the main reason we should stick with MWEB?
(I reckon you should try an Afrihost account just to see how good the customer service is, sometimes with MWEB it takes 2 - 3 days before I get a reply. Afrihost 6 and 12 minutes for each email)

Also, nobody uses the line for 3 months of the year, so with Afrihost it would be easier for me to suspend the service during those periods. ie. Without 30 days notice etc.

Funny i'm considering again moving from Afrihost to Mweb after seeing that Afrihost are moving their services to MTN.... Afrihost will probably not move their uncapped service but yeah only time will tell. so glad their service is month to month, as soon as their move is complete and i see my latency is higher then it was i'm moving to mweb...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/57071-big-afrihost-adsl-move.html

 

[MWEBHelp]

Funny i'm considering again moving from Afrihost to Mweb after seeing that Afrihost are moving their services to MTN.... Afrihost will probably not move their uncapped service but yeah only time will tell. so glad their service is month to month, as soon as their move is complete and i see my latency is higher then it was i'm moving to mweb...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/57071-big-afrihost-adsl-move.html

Good Morning, that is very interesting.

You know where to find me, should you want to move back to MWEB

 

[AfriMan]

Hi All,

I am considering moving to Afrihost before the month is up (following what seems like the rest of the people on here). I have always felt that MWEB had a better uncapped product, however Afrihost had far better customer service. With Afrihost's shaping rules being relaxed, I am considering the move.

I would like to know from MWEB to Afrihost converts (only if you have moved in the last 6 weeks or so), how your experience is with Afrihost so far. How are your speeds, speedtest.net, direct download speeds, torrent speeds, youtube loading speeds etc.

I am looking at moving to Afrihost 4mbps, and I currently get very good speeds on MWEB, sometimes above 4 meg, 5.1 meg on speedtest.net (Line syncs at 6), direct downloads at 440k and torrents between 220 and 450k.

I am going to take my line with Afrihost. (If the ISP manages my line, and I move to a different ISP, is there a transfer cost then?)

@MWEBGuy. What's the main reason we should stick with MWEB?
(I reckon you should try an Afrihost account just to see how good the customer service is, sometimes with MWEB it takes 2 - 3 days before I get a reply. Afrihost 6 and 12 minutes for each email)

Also, nobody uses the line for 3 months of the year, so with Afrihost it would be easier for me to suspend the service during those periods. ie. Without 30 days notice etc.

Hi there

There is an Uncapped Feedback thread where users have posted some of their speedtest results. There were also several other threads when we re-launched uncapped.

To get speeds higher than 4Mbps, I assume you are looking at a capped product, or the 10Mbps Uncapped, as using the 4Mbps product should only give you Max 4096 speeds.

There is no transfer cost to move to and away from us. Your line stays active throughout the process, so it's mainly a billing and administrative change.

At present we don't have a "on hold" function, but you can always send me a PM so we can look into some kind of arrangement.

 

[Inn3rs3lf]

@AfriMan in regards to your companies move to MTN, what services will be taken away from IS? I ask this as the majority, if not all gaming servers are with IS. If your uncapped products remain with IS, then I will move in a heartbeat, but I do not want my gaming to suffer due to the move.

Any info in regards to this? Or is the information still not available to the public at the moment?

 

[AfriMan]

@AfriMan in regards to your companies move to MTN, what services will be taken away from IS? I ask this as the majority, if not all gaming servers are with IS. If your uncapped products remain with IS, then I will move in a heartbeat, but I do not want my gaming to suffer due to the move.

Any info in regards to this? Or is the information still not available to the public at the moment?

Hi there, we will be moving accounts on a test basis, could be capped and/or uncapped, to test capacity and determine quality of service. We will still continue to maintain relationships with IS, so we will ensure lowest possible latencies to their servers, but we expect international gaming latencies to improve. And we are also looking at starting to host more games ourselves.