{"id":14895,"date":"2010-09-02T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-02T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:15:00","slug":"afrihost-explains-uncapped-adsl-account-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/14895-afrihost-explains-uncapped-adsl-account-move.html","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost explains uncapped ADSL account move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/263705-Err-wtf-is-this-Email-from-Afrihost\">Afrihost recently informed<\/a> a group of their uncapped ADSL subscribers that they &ldquo;made some changes to your uncapped account which we believe will improve the overall performance and speed of your ADSL connection with us&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The changes Afrihost are referring to is essentially moving high end uncapped users from the Afrihost accounts to the standard shaped uncapped ADSL accounts from Internet Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost Director Greg Payne explains that they have been monitoring their uncapped accounts and comparing these to the IS uncapped accounts, and the IS uncapped accounts generally perform a lot better after hours.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For users that downloaded a lot of content after hours, it made sense to make use of the IS uncapped solution,&rdquo; says Payne.<\/p>\n<p>Payne added that not all uncapped ADSL subscribers were migrated to IS accounts, but that subscribers who consume a lot of data, especially after hours, have been moved.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The IS uncapped solutions have better performance at night when their network is not that busy and we wanted to make sure our users benefited from this,&rdquo; said Payne.<\/p>\n<p>Payne is confident the migrated consumers will experience higher service levels:&nbsp; &ldquo;The users who download a lot of content at night will receive a better experience and we have already seen that they are able to download more on these accounts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Payne added that while their capped accounts remain unchanged, these consumers may experience higher service levels &ldquo;as their network will be less congested.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/264071-Afrihost-uncapped-ADSL-account-move-why-it-was-done\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Afrihost explains uncapped ADSL account move\">Afrihost explains uncapped ADSL account move<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost recently moved a group of their uncapped subscribers to different account types.  The ISP explains why this was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}