Uncapped 384 - Afrihost or MWEB?

Can I set a start date for the MWEB uncapped service on the sign-up form? Or will it be instantly activated when I click "Accept" on Step 4 (Confirmation page)?

Would like it start on July 1st, since my current account is set to expire on last day of June.
 
Afrihost is faster until you get to around 40GB but seriously that takes forever to download at 384k.

I download just about every day and rarely go past 33GB.
 
Brawler said:
Afrihost is faster until you get to around 40GB but seriously that takes forever to download at 384k.

I download just about every day and rarely go past 33GB.
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Its not that bad on a 384 line I dont download every day and i get about 50 gigs a month without trying .
Im with Mweb BTW.
 
nasa said:
Can I set a start date for the MWEB uncapped service on the sign-up form? Or will it be instantly activated when I click "Accept" on Step 4 (Confirmation page)?

Would like it start on July 1st, since my current account is set to expire on last day of June.
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I am sure if you phone and ask them they should be able to do it .
 
nasa said:
Can I set a start date for the MWEB uncapped service on the sign-up form? Or will it be instantly activated when I click "Accept" on Step 4 (Confirmation page)?

Would like it start on July 1st, since my current account is set to expire on last day of June.
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Activation is immediate. you will pay for half of june.
 
I'd like to agree with the following post..

I wish these bandwith whores (top7%) will just join a Wireless User Group ._.
Alestorm said:
Having actually used both accounts, Afrihost was better quality granted that you didn't overstep their "limits" and get throttled. They've now changed this to throttling the top +-7% of their users which you probably won't be part of with a 384kb account in any case. So what you get with Afrihost is normal IS account performance, instead of MWeb's all-round throttling that limits torrents etc quite a lot.

I could always get 400Kb on torrents with Afrihost, but then the 50/100Gb limit wasn't appealing. With Mweb it's <100Kb during the day (often a lot less) and not full speed even at night. Depends if you're worried about P2P performance, and if 384Kb accounts are even that badly throttled with MWeb.
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I've used both afrihost and mweb, and mweb is leading by miles so far (on 4meg though)
 
Qwikslver said:
Activation is immediate. you will pay for half of june.
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This has been changed to a pro-rata billing based on the number of days left, in the meantime.

Phone MWEB before you send the forms in, they should still be able to adjust it.
 
been with afrihost for quite a while now, was getting upset with the throttling on my 4meg line, moved and had to downgrade to 384
it is th 26th of the m o nth been online pretty much 16 to 20m hours a day \and have reached 61 gbs today. now I am being throttled to about 5kbs, this is pathetic, and they will probably only get worse next month, going to try mweb or axxess next month.

good bye afrihost
 
Gargmel said:
I've used both afrihost and mweb, and mweb is leading by miles so far (on 4meg though)
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I don't recommend 384 on Mweb. There is a speed below which things become rather tedious. At least with 4, you don't notice the effect as much. You can download 30gigs a month on the slowest line, but you won't be able to do it until late at night and games will suck.
 
Tanya35 said:
I don't recommend 384 on Mweb. There is a speed below which things become rather tedious. At least with 4, you don't notice the effect as much. You can download 30gigs a month on the slowest line, but you won't be able to do it until late at night and games will suck.
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Having no speed-problems with mweb here on 384 (not that internet is comfortable on this speed). HTTP is around 30 - 40 kb/s every time and P2p during shaping hours at half to 3/4 speed, with full speed in afther hours. Id rather be shaped than throtteled to death as seem to happen with Afrihost.

Im not saying that Mweb is perfect though. As you can regulary see on this forum alot of people have severe speed and/or latency issues.
 
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Schavuit said:
Having no speed-problems with mweb here on 384 (not that internet is comfortable on this speed). HTTP is around 30 - 40 kb/s every time and P2p during shaping hours at half to 3/4 speed, with full speed in afther hours. Id rather be shaped than throtteled to death as seem to happen with Afrihost.

Im not saying that Mweb is perfect though. As you can regulary see on this forum alot of people have severe speed and/or latency issues.
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They do open the taps from time to time to reduce the complaints. This is a good week. However compared directly with Telkom SAIX, game latency is nearly double and quite jumpy. I think that's what irritates the most - the unpredictability.
 
Tanya35 said:
I don't recommend 384 on Mweb. There is a speed below which things become rather tedious. At least with 4, you don't notice the effect as much. You can download 30gigs a month on the slowest line, but you won't be able to do it until late at night and games will suck.
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Been fine for me. :confused:

Say I had a problem, who would you recommend?
 
xrapidx said:
Hardly.... when Afrihost throttle you can't even browse
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Wasn't my experience, but in any case the OP won't actually be throttled at all according to Afrihost's new T&Cs. To be honest Afrihost now has by far the best option for most users except the very top downloaders, and I doubt anyone else feels sorry for them.
 
Alestorm said:
Wasn't my experience, but in any case the OP won't actually be throttled at all according to Afrihost's new T&Cs. To be honest Afrihost now has by far the best option for most users except the very top downloaders, and I doubt anyone else feels sorry for them.
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What is the first stage of throttling on a 384 line now?
 
We are all asking what the best alternative is. Now if AH would just stop changing their T&C's.
 
I've been happy enough, it's got a couple of ups and downs to be sure, but after paying a third more for ten gigs, it is truly ****ing wonderful not having to stress at all about what you download. Awesome. The way it should be.

If only I could get a faster line, but over a grand for internet is beyond ludicrous.
 
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