Uncapped ADSL prices compared

Chevron said:
You do know the proper procedure is to contact support when you have an issue right?
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I agree and I have been there and done that. I plan to contact support and see how it goes since I am tied in for another 50 days or so. I actually connected back to my openweb account now. Speedtest is about 3mb and browsing is fast again but YouTube is noticeably worse than with afrihost, but I was actually able to load a video which I couldn't before. My problem with "contact support" is when I am at work and my wife is trying to work from home she doesn't really want to be messing about with stuff and she really doesn't want to be turning off the router for 10min at a time to see if it helps.
 
rorz0r said:
I agree and I have been there and done that. I plan to contact support and see how it goes since I am tied in for another 50 days or so. I actually connected back to my openweb account now. Speedtest is about 3mb and browsing is fast again but YouTube is noticeably worse than with afrihost, but I was actually able to load a video which I couldn't before. My problem with "contact support" is when I am at work and my wife is trying to work from home she doesn't really want to be messing about with stuff and she really doesn't want to be turning off the router for 10min at a time to see if it helps.
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If you need daytime usage you need at least Gold from Openweb.
 
WoW said:
It was with shock to read this article and find out I am with the most expensive 10mb uncapped ISP. For so many years Afrihost was the value provider but now it is significantly more expensive compared to its peers. Afrihost please revise your pricing and keep up the great service.
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Yeah Im also Afrihost 4mb Uncapped. However a few of those ISP I would not touch even if they are cheaper due to service. The question is, how much of premuim are we Afrihost clients willing to pay for excellent service?

If compared to Web Africa which I see as good ISP

2mb : R98
4mb: R98
10mb: R298
 
Is uncapped really worth it anymore? I'm seriously considering a 200gb capped account with vox. There will always be issues with uncapped atleast with capped you don't spontaneously start to get "managed" at the end of the month( I hope?).
 
Doodler said:
Is uncapped really worth it anymore? I'm seriously considering a 200gb capped account with vox. There will always be issues with uncapped atleast with capped you don't spontaneously start to get "managed" at the end of the month( I hope?).
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As with anything in life research what you wanna get before you put down the cash. The best isn't the cheapest.

Vox is awesome though coz of the rollover.
 
At close to R 800 monthly for Gold uncapped does anyone think the 200GB Freedom Unshaped capped account will be better? - or how about a Gold capped unshaped account but that will come at a higher price.
 
Chevron said:
If you need daytime usage you need at least Gold from Openweb.
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How sad is that, for a state of affairs?

And to top it all off, even gold suffers from daytime speed shaping to a hellish degree the moment a Windows update becomes available.

What a horrid state of affairs, wouldn't you agree?
 
Mike Smit said:
I moved from OpenWeb because their gold package failed me everyday from 11H00 until day end.
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Me too, but I was a jew and was on their vanilla 2MB for R109 per month.

Now on Afrihost 50+50GB for R199 and will not look back. OW doesn't have a proper customer portal, Android app, 1GB free account, 24/7 call center etc.
 
Bosvark@ said:
OMG the pricing on business options is far from impressive. I remember the "use our router" and R1500 setup from around 5 years ago. Does that still exist? The setup costs pay for the (what used to be) Billion router.
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Also their mention of outright THROTTLING based on use sounds an awful lot worse than even shaping.
 
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