3 ADSL packages gamers should check out before uncapped

[Blackhand]

I use anywhere from 50-75GB a month just for legal gaming related things, then there's still everything else.

[Stripe]

Webafrica wins hands down for me. I've have axxess aswell, but its it has trouble whenever other ISP's have trouble. Webafrica is insanely stable and the shaped accounts behave basically like unshaped.

[AviD]

hmmmm ... how much bandwidth did people say when they were hosting for MW2?

Purely hypothetical
If you use 400mb and host each game in MW2 for a month.
Purely hypothetical

5 hours a day
5 x 400mb = 2gig

Week 1 - 14 GIG (5hrs x 7 days)
Week 2 - 14 GIG (5hrs x 7 days)
Week 3 - 14 GIG (5hrs x 7 days)
Week 4 - 14 GIG (5hrs x 7 days)

Total for the month = 56 gigs

That's a total of 140 gaming hours. Only really hardcore people will devote those types of hours to online gaming."Normal" gamers won't even come close to that. I'm not saying that some people will not reach 30 gigs a month due to gaming but most "Normal" gamers shouldn't be reaching that amount.

[weakest_link]

but most normal gamers are keen to try new games ... like if they into games like WOW they would download beta games and try it to give their verdict ... im just saying ... 30gigs is probably too much for a casual gamer aint enough for a "normal/regular" gamer ...

[AviD]

but most normal gamers are keen to try new games ... like if they into games like WOW they would download beta games and try it to give their verdict ... im just saying ... 30gigs is probably too much for a casual gamer aint enough for a "normal/regular" gamer ...

I agree but most "normal/regular" gamers won't download a bunch of betas each month, maybe a beta every odd month.

[SpoOkie]

Tincan.. You might want to relook the Afrihost FAQ. It's at 100GB not 30GB.

[Tinman]

Tincan.. You might want to relook the Afrihost FAQ. It's at 100GB not 30GB.

SpoOkie, firstly, wtf have you been?

Secondly, thanks . I got the info from this article on MyBroadband.

Afrihost's current policy is simple:

After you have moved 30GB you will be moved into a different category whereby certain ports will be shaped more aggressively. However, web and e-mail will still be prioritised.
After moving a total of 60GB you will be moved into a different category where your line speed is throttled to 1024kbps per second and certain shaping protocols are in place
After moving a total of 90GB then you will be moved into a category where you will be throttled to 512kbps. Certain shaping protocols will also be in place here.
After moving a total of 120GB you will be moved into a category where your line will be throttled to 386kbps. Certain shaping protocols will also be in place here.
After moving a total of 150GB you will be moved into a category where you are throttled to 128kbps.

Has this changed?

[_Caboose_]

30GB a month way to easy

HoN = 30mb / game (if ppl use VoIP about 50mb a game)
MMO Update
StarCraft 2 updates
Youtube
Linux Distros
Random facebooking
Mygaming picture of the day

And now thats excluding the traffic i use when remoting my home pc from work

[shadowfox]

I still don't see how these ISP's can call these accounts "uncapped" when they actually are not. You get cut off or throttled after reaching a certain threshold, that is not uncapped. Perhaps semi-uncapped would be more appropriate for these packages currently being offered. Uncapped implies no limits whatsoever and you could download anything from 100mb to 1terabyte of data if you so wished. Not true in our case.

Uncapped implies no usage limits on your data - it does not imply that some restrictions don't apply. You still get as much data as you want - without limits. You can still download 1 terrabyte ... you'll just be doing it a lot more slowly. But the cost stays the same, regardless.

There is unhappiness because all the bandwidth hogs suddenly crawled out of the woodwork and are nailing their lines for all they're worth - read one guy claiming 300GB halfway through April - that's definitely not gaming related. I'm sure a lot of the guys on here are only using their lines for legal things, but you need to keep in mind that they probably represent a fairly minor percentage of uncapped users at the moment.

Myself, I'd rather pay R199 a month with a limit that offers few/no complications than pay R219/month for a line that everyone seems to be complaining about.

[Raven Gold]

30gigs at 4mb/s can go away in a whistle. Even local stuff will eat int. bandwidth I've heard people complaining. After using uncapped on a even slow speed, I'm not gonna switch to a capped account no matter how fast it is. And there are a few services that have a way to get around being throtled, simple things like reseting the router every once in a while or changing IP addresses.