All you can eat, cyberonline, webafrica, data pro and a couple of other ISP are some of the ISP's offering are offering uncapped ADSL. Has anyone used any of these ISP's? All you can eat has rating on who downloaded the most daily/weekly. Hope it real.
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Uncapped ADSL?
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Vox Populi Vox Dei
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Yeah, AYCE is not uncapped.
At the moment, I would go for UUNET/Webafrica - the R720/month is the cheapest atm and is a month-to-month contract meaning that you can cancel your contract if you're not happy with the service giving 30 days notice.
At the moment, I would go for UUNET/Webafrica - the R720/month is the cheapest atm and is a month-to-month contract meaning that you can cancel your contract if you're not happy with the service giving 30 days notice.
savage
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From what I am understanding and seeing at other ISPs on the SAIX Backbone offering uncapped, SAIX are nailing them all with the same policy. Even telkomsa.net / mweb users. If your usage is above 30GB on avg per month, SAIX will limit the account. Apparently they have started doing this on a case by case basis now, and our uncapped account from a very reliable provider has been temporarily session-limited before.
bb_matt
Executive Member
I would be tempted to not go with ANY of them and to rather use a similar costing to get yourself 2 or 3 standard accounts.
The fact is, they are reselling something that WILL get degraded as more adopt it - there's no two ways about that.
Your initial experience with an uncapped service could be wonderful, but three months down the line of a 12 month contract, that may be very different.
The fact is, they are reselling something that WILL get degraded as more adopt it - there's no two ways about that.
Your initial experience with an uncapped service could be wonderful, but three months down the line of a 12 month contract, that may be very different.
aman
Active Member
hi. the WebAfrica site says that the uncapped service is R630pm, but it's mentioned here that it is R720pm. Are there any other costs for this account?
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Aman - The only other costs are your Telkom ADSL charges. From what I recall they're as follows:
512/256 = R599
384/128(?) = R449
192/64 = R329
There's also the installation fee and a monthly line rental to consider.
512/256 = R599
384/128(?) = R449
192/64 = R329
There's also the installation fee and a monthly line rental to consider.
Tinuva
The Magician
no what he wanted to know is:
On site it says: R630
add vat: R90
= R720
Why? underneath is a small lil text saying the price excludes vat
On site it says: R630
add vat: R90
= R720
Why? underneath is a small lil text saying the price excludes vat
aman
Active Member
oops.. sorry... didn't notice that 
I'm using WebAfrica/UUNet and I must say the service is great. The positive is that it's also not subject to any control on the side of Telkom (as it has absolutely nothing to do with SAIX).
Frankly I trust UUNet to provide me with proper service compared to Telkom, as they actually know a little bit about competition.
Frankly I trust UUNet to provide me with proper service compared to Telkom, as they actually know a little bit about competition.
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Tharaxis, whats your throughput a day? If I consider getting their uncapped account and feel like pulling 140 gig a month (not that my hard drive is even that big!) can I?
Hm, I'm not really going to say that I pull 140GB a month, I'm not a hardcore user like that, but I've probably pulled about 20GB down in the past 20 days what with video conferencing and the like.
UUNet claims there is no cap, and they've made zero indication that there is any "soft cap" in place (ie. where they begin to warn you that you're using way too much bandwidth), this may be the case eventually, but at the moment it's not like that.
UUNet claims there is no cap, and they've made zero indication that there is any "soft cap" in place (ie. where they begin to warn you that you're using way too much bandwidth), this may be the case eventually, but at the moment it's not like that.
Celemasiko
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as long you are not pulling 200GB each month, they dont say anything... I am on 40 GB right now and nobody was complaining.
Webafrica
A friend of mine who is the MD of an ISP says one of his clients have got an uncapped webafrica account. Aparently they don't care much for email and browsing and have NAILED the line 24/7 with all different p2p progs possible and got........160GB!! A little calculation confirmed this, if 512 runs at full speed for 30 days you can technically get 160GB.
No this worries me as I also agree with what someone said above that right now yeah these lines are DAMN fast and pumping the data down and pretty soon everybody is going to jump on the webafrica bandwagon and do the same thing, what then?
I had a very honest conversation with a guy at webafrica when I first saw that they have uncapped. after I asked him if he realises what they are doing and that there will be certain, and quite a few, users who will rape this line and would they be able to carry this kind of payload. he said yes they did their homework and it's feasible to them. As long as p2p is shaped they can still provide the uncapped service. Personally, and I am a leecher, i prefer p2p to be shaped. Why not, it is unfair for other users to have their sessions be slow and crap just so that leechers can suck illegal, or legal, data. And their nothing more annoying to me when i want to do RDP or citrix admin from home and it being slow. The guy from webafrica said p2p is on the lowest priority, not shaped to a fixed limit, which is good, thats the way it should be everywhere at all ISP's(in SA) in my eyes, everyone will be more happy.
My only reassurance is that webafrica have been in this business for quite some time and have quite a reputable reputation for having good service. They are a full on hosting company which should have LOADS of bandwidth, from my new best friends UUNET, and i hope that more and more heavy users shouldn't affect the speeds so badly. Hey I am COMPLETELY happy with running kazaa at 128k for a whole month, thats 26GIGS! I don't think most peopel can watch, listen, perve and read more than that anyway.
I wouldn't touch ALLYOUCANEAT with a bargepole:
1. they get their bandwidth through telkom
2. They encourage heavy usage
3. People are saying there is a soft cap when you d/l too much for too long
4. They havn't been around long (i stand to be corrected)
5. They do not disclose their shaping mechanisms
All i want, and I hope this is what webafrica is going to provide me as after 7months of nagging telscum we finally getting ADSL installed, is that only p2p is shaped(lowest priority), games and VOIP(skype, msn, gnomemeeting, ect...), SSH, RDP, Citrix(and all other low bandwidth services that need low latency) is on highpriority and the rest on a medium priority. Do that and I think MOST people will be happy.
Oh and just wanna add, burn telkom burn! One day the consumers will have the tables turned and screw telkom AND have good service.
cheers
A friend of mine who is the MD of an ISP says one of his clients have got an uncapped webafrica account. Aparently they don't care much for email and browsing and have NAILED the line 24/7 with all different p2p progs possible and got........160GB!! A little calculation confirmed this, if 512 runs at full speed for 30 days you can technically get 160GB.
No this worries me as I also agree with what someone said above that right now yeah these lines are DAMN fast and pumping the data down and pretty soon everybody is going to jump on the webafrica bandwagon and do the same thing, what then?
I had a very honest conversation with a guy at webafrica when I first saw that they have uncapped. after I asked him if he realises what they are doing and that there will be certain, and quite a few, users who will rape this line and would they be able to carry this kind of payload. he said yes they did their homework and it's feasible to them. As long as p2p is shaped they can still provide the uncapped service. Personally, and I am a leecher, i prefer p2p to be shaped. Why not, it is unfair for other users to have their sessions be slow and crap just so that leechers can suck illegal, or legal, data. And their nothing more annoying to me when i want to do RDP or citrix admin from home and it being slow. The guy from webafrica said p2p is on the lowest priority, not shaped to a fixed limit, which is good, thats the way it should be everywhere at all ISP's(in SA) in my eyes, everyone will be more happy.
My only reassurance is that webafrica have been in this business for quite some time and have quite a reputable reputation for having good service. They are a full on hosting company which should have LOADS of bandwidth, from my new best friends UUNET, and i hope that more and more heavy users shouldn't affect the speeds so badly. Hey I am COMPLETELY happy with running kazaa at 128k for a whole month, thats 26GIGS! I don't think most peopel can watch, listen, perve and read more than that anyway.
I wouldn't touch ALLYOUCANEAT with a bargepole:
1. they get their bandwidth through telkom
2. They encourage heavy usage
3. People are saying there is a soft cap when you d/l too much for too long
4. They havn't been around long (i stand to be corrected)
5. They do not disclose their shaping mechanisms
All i want, and I hope this is what webafrica is going to provide me as after 7months of nagging telscum we finally getting ADSL installed, is that only p2p is shaped(lowest priority), games and VOIP(skype, msn, gnomemeeting, ect...), SSH, RDP, Citrix(and all other low bandwidth services that need low latency) is on highpriority and the rest on a medium priority. Do that and I think MOST people will be happy.
Oh and just wanna add, burn telkom burn! One day the consumers will have the tables turned and screw telkom AND have good service.
cheers