What if DigiChilli would offer high usage caps?

[Waste]

Hi guys,

I'm just curious. If say ISPs like DigiChilli and Screamer would rather change their uncapped to capped but give you a good 30gig for R200 (like WA). Wouldn't they have kept more customers?

I also tried DC, but back in Dec. I could only really use it for browsing, any type of download would be a lost case... but even with a capped account normal browsing doesn't use that much. So to pay R300 for uncapped if you just use if for browsing at lower than 384kbps speeds doesn't make sense. Especially if I can buy 10 gig for R300, but at lease know it will be at maximum line speed, and if something is left at the near the end of the month, I can kill it on the downloads I would like to have the most.

Does anyone who left DC, stayed if they were guaranteed good speeds and 30gig cap?

 

[Vixremento]

I think it's a case of them not being prepared for it at all so even with limited caps people would still have had problems. Look at webafrica with their trials - giving away how knows how many gigs of data to make sure everything was right before changing their networks meanwhile in comes DC and just launches an uncapped account right off the bat...but then suffers from problems with P2P, normal HTTP browsing (lol), etc. I can't speak from experience (I rather watched from the dark corner over then to see what the crowds thought...and they did not like it) but I'm just glad that I avoided them (seriously...who did they hire to send out their original e-mails? Was I interested by their offer? Yes. Could I get more information easily before launch? No. Did I think their e-mails were professional? No. Did I think their website and reports of billing issues were well tested? No. Was I willing to give a company my money for a "trial" account? No.

How much do you think people were able to download in a month anyway (how much were you able to download when you tried them)? Doesn't quite sound like many were even able to reach 30GB easily. However if they had guaranteed good speeds with a 30GB account for R300 then I'm pretty sure a lot of people would have joined up with them.

 

[Gargmel]

Well DC is working fine this months so far, only one day was there problems. I've been getting 70 gig every month, the worst month I got 50, so same price for less cap, I don't think so...

 

[Waste]

Good point, I only got out 6gig, and I continually ran a torrent download (27gig never finished) and P2P download... but none of them downloaded anything. Then I started downloading from a online server and got the 6gigs.

@Gargmel: What are you downloading and from where?

I was going to pay for Jan too, but I could not find out from them via e-mail, how much I need to pay again (since i payed R400 in Des. and there was some kind of discount, that continued into Jan)... That is not good service, and they didn't even e-mail me and tell me "the account will be suspended, please reply if you would like to renew" or something.

 

[Waste]

Good point, I only got out 6gig, and I continually ran a torrent download (27gig never finished) and P2P download... but none of them downloaded anything. Then I started downloading from a online server and got the 6gigs.

@Gargmel: What are you downloading and from where (P2P, Torrent, Newsserver, WebServers)?

I was going to pay for Jan too, but I could not find out from them via e-mail, how much I need to pay again (since i payed R400 in Des. and there was some kind of discount, that continued into Jan)... That is not good service, and they didn't even e-mail me and tell me "the account will be suspended, please reply if you would like to renew" or something.

 

[Gargmel]

Mostly torrents (international). Then some rapidshare and http downloads. When one protocol is slow I try something else, normally something works. This month I have been doing torrents the whole month and they have been staying above 20KB/s most of the time, sometimes even going as high as 36KB/s.

 

[Waste]

Thanks this is good to know!

 

[ShodanZA]

I would sign up if the price is right