Which ISP should I choose?

I'm looking for an ISP that provides an uncapped service that works almost like prepaid. I'm a student, so I'm not guaranteed to be able to pay for uncapped each month, so I want to be able to pay for it, then decide whether I want it again the next month. Mweb's offering seems the best, but with the 1 month notice thing I have a problem, as I might be unable to pay it one month and get cut off or blacklisted or whatever.

I mainly want to use my account for downlaoding, like Steam etc.
 
I would choose telkom during these specials maybe, afrihost also pretty good...but soon as the specials are done, leave telkom
 
dudleygb said:
cool thanx, so same for 4m option...? Or is it better to do 1m package with a 4m line, and after hours they let you go full line speed? Does anyone do that anymore?
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afaik you can only download your account speed with and uncapped account, so if you have a 4mb line you would need a 4mb account or you will end up having a 1mb account and a 4mb line but only get 1mb speeds.
 
hammell said:
Yep - Mweb has failed... I now get 1/20th line speed on torrents/newgroups in the day and around 1/5th at night. 4mbps is a complete waste of money...
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confirms why theres in excess of 45000 posts on MWEBS ISP thread. Somethings horribly gone wrong in the mweb camp, think I'll avoid that for now, maybe try afrihost, axess or openweb, pricing also looks good....
 
Yalta said:
afaik you can only download your account speed with and uncapped account, so if you have a 4mb line you would need a 4mb account or you will end up having a 1mb account and a 4mb line but only get 1mb speeds.
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Depends on the account. The normal accounts only allow up to the speed of the account... eg, 384 uncapped account on 4mbps line will perform at 384. Some uncapped accounts, like the axxess R899 384kbps uncapped express accounts acts as a 384kbps account but reverts to your line speed after hours - 4mbps in this case.
 
ld13 said:
Depends on the account. The normal accounts only allow up to the speed of the account... eg, 384 uncapped account on 4mbps line will perform at 384. Some uncapped accounts, like the axxess R899 384kbps uncapped express accounts acts as a 384kbps account but reverts to your line speed after hours - 4mbps in this case.
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I think my real question is about which ISP is the most lenient, as far as their Fair Usage policy is concerned.
Some ISP's will start shaping you heavily after you reach some or other threshold.
These are not for the express+ type accounts. I'm hoping to find a regular uncapped account that allows decent downloads to occur, nit just up to a threshold. MWEB used to be very accomodating, but has since become quite strict with their shaping it seems.

So the big question is, who offers the best, least shaped 1mb account, that costs the least but gives great speeeeeeeeeds :)
 
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dudleygb said:
I think my real question is about which ISP is the most lenient, as far as their Fair Usage policy is concerned.
Some ISP's will start shaping you heavily after you reach some or other threshold.
These are not for the express+ type accounts. I'm hoping to find a regular uncapped account that allows decent downloads to occur, nit just up to a threshold. MWEB used to be very accomodating, but has since become quite strict with their shaping it seems.

So the big question is, who offers the best, least shaped 1mb account, that costs the least but gives great speeeeeeeeeds :)
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will reply to my own post....
after some days of trawling, seems that all ISP's are the same, maybe u lucky, maybe u not, its pretty much a lucky dip until you find one that works for u.....
 
more or less most uncapped options


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confirms why theres in excess of 45000 posts on MWEBS ISP thread. Somethings horribly gone wrong in the mweb camp, think I'll avoid that for now, maybe try afrihost, axess or openweb, pricing also looks good....
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I use around 40GB per month and consider myself a moderate user. I don't download 24/7 just for the sake of it. I was with Afrihost for a couple of months and they're utter, utter scumbags. They give away thousands and thousands of free gigs in promotion after promotion but once you're actually paying them money for an uncapped service they don't want you using any bandwidth at all. The throttling is outrageous! I left Afrihost for Axxess and things were fine there for a long time but now they've been bought out by Afrihost and I basically have no internet anymore. I can barely browse during the day and I'm throttled at around 7-10k from 5pm to midnight. It's the world's unfunniest joke.

I'm going to try Openweb and hope it's better. It literally can't be worse without shutting off my internet completely.
 
fewl said:
I use around 40GB per month and consider myself a moderate user. I don't download 24/7 just for the sake of it. I was with Afrihost for a couple of months and they're utter, utter scumbags. They give away thousands and thousands of free gigs in promotion after promotion but once you're actually paying them money for an uncapped service they don't want you using any bandwidth at all. The throttling is outrageous! I left Afrihost for Axxess and things were fine there for a long time but now they've been bought out by Afrihost and I basically have no internet anymore. I can barely browse during the day and I'm throttled at around 7-10k from 5pm to midnight. It's the world's unfunniest joke.

I'm going to try Openweb and hope it's better. It literally can't be worse without shutting off my internet completely.
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Dont bother, Openweb are just as bad. I had 4mbps gold uncapped with them for a while. It worked well initially, but now they have limited it so badly that I only get 100kb downloads, an international speed test done just now (23:44) ran at 1.4mbps

When I complained they told me what I should take is after hours unshaped, which costs R900 just to give me something similar to what I had before :mad:
 
Mouse said:
Dont bother, Openweb are just as bad. I had 4mbps gold uncapped with them for a while. It worked well initially, but now they have limited it so badly that I only get 100kb downloads, an international speed test done just now (23:44) ran at 1.4mbps

When I complained they told me what I should take is after hours unshaped, which costs R900 just to give me something similar to what I had before :mad:
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Has to be said that your experience would in general run contrary to most people's experience in the openweb uncapped thread. Not to say there are no issues, but the picture you paint is far worse than the general reality.
 
Hi there!

I need some advice... for the past few years I've been paying for Telkom's "4-10 Mbps" ADSL package, well in the past 1-10 Mbps, but anyhow it only syncs at 2 Mbps, which is fine for me. I'm not really willing to downgrade to 1 Mbps after all this time and feel the snail-paced interweb browsing.

The problem is that it's extremely difficult to choose an ADSL Bandwidth package to match my 2 Mbps line speed. So far the best deal I've found is Afrihost's 25 GB double data special at R475, but I've been looking around at different uncapped packages. I like to use local news servers to grab a lot of content and in my experience, SAIX local is a lot more stable and reliable than IS or the MWEB news servers. so I was considering the new Telkom Uncapped 1 Mbps package due to no restrictions being placed on local traffic. Another option I was considering was to go with MWEB's Uncapped Bigtime Surfer 4096 kbps Data & ADSL Line rental for R899 which I consider to be a good deal. I must say that Axxess with their rolling window doesn't look appealing at all...

But that's just what I think.. anyway, I'd really appreciate it if I could get your opinions about which Bandwidth Package and ISP you all recommend for my 2 Mbit line (sadface)
 
Hey All

My 2c.

I've always promoted and relied on mweb. They may not be the cheapest but they offer the best service.
I use an uncapped all inclusive 384 line at home and I am happy with it.
We use an uncapped, unshaped, data only 4mb business package from mweb at the office and never had problems with it (that are mweb related, telkom lines, well, thats another story).
The big plus from our business side is that even when seacom goes down or something, we're always able to get online. Mweb are very good with that. Also phoning mweb is a pleasure and you actually get to talk to real people and guess what? when they say they're going to phone you back, they actually do.

So! Mweb, worth every cent. I wouldn't recommend anybody else.
 
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