Afrihost: ‘ADSL data will fall below R 29 per GB’

awesome news! keep it up Afrihost. All the other ISP's needs to follow your example by actually making bandwidth affordable
 
Flojo said:
Go Afrihost....

I will continue to be a customer, with these repeated good news.

On a side note ... following the following post http://mybroadband.co.za/news/ADSL/10360.html I dont know why people continue to use the other service providers.
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They probably don't want to lose their email address. I gave up mine I had for 3 years. Was a difficult decision
 
Icasa has once again highlighted local loop unbundling as an urgent regulatory intervention, which could mean that other service providers and operators will have access to the last-mile copper infrastructure at competitive rates. Local loop unbundling could be completed as soon as 2011.
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I would like to see this happening.. but somehow I doubt it realyl...
 
I was ready to sign up, when I discovered I had to pay a monthly line rental fee of over R400 to Telkom. Afrihost/Telkom, go away.
 
Nice thing with Afrihost, is if you register, you can get a free co.za domain to use for an email address. I haven't started using it yet but mine is fighterjet :p
 
blaaislaai said:
They probably don't want to lose their email address. I gave up mine I had for 3 years. Was a difficult decision
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A difficult decision, yes, but one that can result in great benefits over time.

My recommended solution once you have decided to give up your old address:

  • Use zaNIC to register your own domain (or, if you don't like the fact that their response times can be as long as a month, register a .co.za and pay for it. .com's are pretty cheap, too)
  • Set up a free google account to hande that domain for you. If you decide at some point that google is evil, then migrate your domain to whomever you feel is less evil at the time.
  • For extra credit, see if you can change your ISP account to an email-only account at a cheaper price, and set up forwarding to your new domain, or an auto-response giving your new email address. Tell people that use your old address what your new address is until nobody uses the old one any more. Then cancel the old address.
  • Profit!
 
This is good and all, ADSL for R29/GB but i getting really slow speeds with afrihost, and im still waiting for them to reply and tell me what wrong since it not a fault om my side, but on theirs. Atm im not really happy with their service, i hope they can resolve this issue or else ill drop my account and rather pay more but can at least use my account.
 
Zebatshu said:
This is good and all, ADSL for R29/GB but i getting really slow speeds with afrihost, and im still waiting for them to reply and tell me what wrong since it not a fault om my side, but on theirs. Atm im not really happy with their service, i hope they can resolve this issue or else ill drop my account and rather pay more but can at least use my account.
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My speeds are excellent. On average HTTP downloads are at 350 - 430kb/s, torrents +- 150kb/s per torrent for good seeds and +- 80kb/s for bad seeds. I can watch a High Def video without it pausing every 2 seconds to buffer, it downloads quicker then I can watch.
 
Zebatshu said:
This is good and all, ADSL for R29/GB but i getting really slow speeds with afrihost, and im still waiting for them to reply and tell me what wrong since it not a fault om my side, but on theirs. Atm im not really happy with their service, i hope they can resolve this issue or else ill drop my account and rather pay more but can at least use my account.
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While I must admit the speed was bad over the weekend, in general I find the speed perfect.:)

Now if we can just get cheaper/uncapped local from somewhere...
 
SoTrue said:
I was ready to sign up, when I discovered I had to pay a monthly line rental fee of over R400 to Telkom. Afrihost/Telkom, go away.
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What does the line rental have to do with Afrihost?
Besides, if you don't already have a telkom line and don't intend to use more than a gig a month, I understand... how much bandwidth do you use a month anyhow?
 
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