So leaving AH soon,which capped alternatives ISP recommended?

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1st 2months were great with AH (on MTN backbone)
Though for the last 5months my ping is pretty good then boooom it shoots to 100-200 and stays there for hours! even a day at times,packet loss is always average at 5% on teamspeak.

But when i load webafrica or mweb trail accounts the ping is good again and NO packet loss!

So here are my need,i average 100gb a month,sometimes just 60gb,i stream sport weekends a lot,gaming ,downloads are meh(30-40gb)

10mb adsl line,don't need uncapped cause price just doesn't justify my GB downloads ,my only problem is i see webafrica and openweb have "good" capped prices but have these midnight packages! i really don't see myself waiting for 12am to start large game downloads or any kind of large file download.

So what do you guys recommend ?the capped unshaped is pretty lekker
 
djbrendan said:
my only problem is i see webafrica and openweb have "good" capped prices but have these midnight packages! i really don't see myself waiting for 12am to start large game downloads or any kind of large file download.
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You know you can schedule the time your client starts downloading, right? Click click, all sorted ;)

I'm moving away from Telkom to WebAfrica (change-over happening this week) if it helps you at all ...
 
Foxhound5366 said:
You know you can schedule the time your client starts downloading, right? Click click, all sorted ;)

I'm moving away from Telkom to WebAfrica (change-over happening this week) if it helps you at all ...
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Why are you moving away from Telkom were you on uncapped/capped?
 
A question we ask ourselves frequently.
 
If you use the Internet primarily between 5pm-8am and and on weekends then I will highly recommend Incredible Connection's uncapped package. They use the IS backbone and it's silky smooth.
 
Thor187 said:
I am tempted to try CW
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Tried and not bad at all,though i had a 1gb test cap

but no packet loss ,but my ping jumps quick when anyone just watched YT ect on a 10mb line with AH it could handle so much before increasing latency.
 
djbrendan said:
Tried and not bad at all,though i had a 1gb test cap

but no packet loss ,but my ping jumps quick when anyone just watched YT ect on a 10mb line with AH it could handle so much before increasing latency.
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this smells like ignorance. try being in a game sensitive to latency and test this theory.... you'll be surprised.
 
Oky so even though teamspeak ping increased to 150ms when watching YT ,battlefield ping was still good at 28ms..
 
djbrendan said:
Oky so even though teamspeak ping increased to 150ms when watching YT ,battlefield ping was still good at 28ms..
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That's odd, I would expect BF ping to increase and TS to stay generally the same.
 
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