Afrihost Uncapped 4 Mbps ADSL for R249

From the sound of things on the forum you'd need to take 2 of these afrIhoSt uncapped accounts in any case, as shaping on them are supposedly quit evil, rendering the discount moot imo. I prefer the 3-4-1 GB topups for now :)
 
Damn.

I leave the forum for a few hours and upon return find this little nugget!:wtf:

This is HUGE!

Well done Afrihost:love: and smaller yet relevant mention to Openweb.:p
 
this is actually pretty cool.

50gigs capped for this price is bargain. Uncapped is full of horror stories anyway. :)
 
great news for me as I was going to buy their 512k gold account at the beginning of the month anyways :)
 
Yeah I would be suspicious of the uncapped, but as I am a 200GB Afrihost capped user for the past 7 months, their capped bw doesn't seem to be too bad in general.
 
50 gig account sounds great. Won't touch their uncapped account with a barge pole.
 
OpenWeb really are pathetic. They're never pioneering price drops but always there dropping prices when someone else does in order to ride someone else's wave.
 
I wish they could keep that 50gb account at that price permanently.
heavy dlers can afford to buy say 4 to 5 a month
whereas high end, but not massive abusers can use the 50gb account happily without the frustrations of the uncapped accounts
personally for me the special price hits a pretty sweet spot, if only it were to be continued at that price; unless ofc it suffers the same shaping/throttling as their uncapped accounts
 
50 GB capped ADSL data for R237.50 :s Didn't even know the price had dropped to R475, need to check my billing think I'm still charging my client the original price the 50GB went for a couple of months back which was R1450 :s
 
Keep in mind if they get lots of people signing up they will just shape you into the ground and change the FUP every 30 days without warning you.
Been there done that - no thanks.
MWEB WIN
 
So....

What is to stop me from signing up for the 50 Gig account at R237.50 and then canceling my current 30 Gig account next month (for which I am currently paying R470)?
 
sunsoffun said:
How bad is the shaping on these accounts? With MWeb, I'm only getting 60% of the product, if that!

Edit:

Nevermind - http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/adsl_capped#packages

Does anyone know how good the performance is then?
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As I mentioned previously, I have a 200GB account and it works pretty well... not as good as my WA account but good enough for surfing. Unfortunately I can't comment on p2p as it is not used for that.
 
Garyvdh said:
So....

What is to stop me from signing up for the 50 Gig account at R237.50 and then canceling my current 30 Gig account next month (for which I am currently paying R470)?
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I would suggest either contact an Afrihost person on the forum or email sales. When I initially phoned, I got a sales person, and gave me incorrect info. Emailing gave me the best results. I have done that for my two previous issues with the R9.50 special being done away with in the past when they have not said anything publically initially. Once I emailed with some good logic as to why I should go the long way around or leave, when they could just make it easier for me... they have so far always responded within a day and the response has been favourable to me.
 
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