Look, I have managed 19 gig down and 2 gig up this month so far. When it runs smoothly its awesome. But for my 384 line at home, the latencies are just to bad for on-line gaming for the last week.I didn't even turn my PC on at home last night. Couldn't bare the frustration!!! I'm reconsidering the 384 uncapped option now for home. I don't really need uncapped there. The Afrihost way seems to be the way to go. They always hit a sweet "A" on pingtest.net Gaming is awesome on it!
Yea, i've easily done about 10GB this month already, with the ups and downs and all (that is 1GB a day). Even with Afrihost, i would've spent R300 already for the 10GB (assuming their R29 p/GB price, i can't bargain on limited specials everytime so not using the R14 p/GB price for my calculations). So it's still dirt cheap bandwidth i'm getting, even though i'm actually only getting 50% efficiency (if i had full uptime/speed i should be hitting 20GB , not 10GB). So at this rate i'll still most likely hit 40GB , which is what my all my future calculations are going to be based on, i don't download -that- much and 40GB would effectively be "uncapped" for me.
Basically: Any offering in the R10 p/GB range [uncapped or not] is pretty much all i need, and if this R10 p/GB pricing is not speed limited, i'll jump on it. We are getting mighty close with the R14 p/GB offerings popping up, but they don't seem to be offers on a permanent basis.
It is just unfortunate that i really struggle using screamer for more latency and stability related tasks like gaming,browsing and streaming . You simply do not notice the constant ups and downs/disconnects/slowdowns while downloading a very large file , but you sure do while browsing or trying to game and being popped out of the game with a "disconnected from server" or "server timeout" every 30 minutes. The irony is these "realtime" things are generally much LESS bandwidth intensive than downloading, so you'd think companies would make it priority to function well, since i don't use my full pipe while gaming/browsing/steaming...and if i can't game i am gonna put on a download which WILL use up the maximum capacity (which is effectively a loss to the ISP).
But fortunately i do not need uncapped for those things, my 3GB Telkom account is more than adequate, but i DO want to consolidate at some point as it's not really very economical. Also a pain to constantly switch between ISPs on the router.
