3 ADSL packages gamers should check out before uncapped

If you are a gamer you shouldn't even reach 30GB a month. I think people are just abusing the system by downloading illegal torrents (Movies, games etc.) Then they want to complain about being throttled. Uncapped would have been a great offering if people weren't so greedy and started paying for products they use which would also make DRM less likely to be implemented in such a harsh way.
 
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.
 
Good work Web Africa... Now where is the more affordable PREPAID...
Shaped @ R70/gb
Unshaped @ R125/gb

Still WAY too pricey. Think these may come down in the near future?
 
Avid how can you not reach 30GB if your a gamer?

You buy a game of steam and you use about 7-10GB for that game. (Yes I know you don't buy games each month this size just using it as an example)
So now you have lets say 10 games on your pc and each game with these day's being patch so regular, take Bad company 2 so far the patches are just over a Gig.

Then comes all the DLC that you want to get for games. Dragon age also about 2 Gigs Mass Effect also A Gig. So yeah you can reach 30GB a month. Yet other months you won't even come close to it since all the updates just happened to come out in one month. :D

Tinman just to correct you the axxess offer of R19 per Gig is only for a limited time, the normal price is R25.
 
Crzwaco, some months it might be the exception especially if you are a hardcore gamer but your typical SA-Gamer shouldn't be reaching that with browsing and game-related usage.
 
AviD said:
If you are a gamer you shouldn't even reach 30GB a month. I think people are just abusing the system by downloading illegal torrents (Movies, games etc.) Then they want to complain about being throttled. Uncapped would have been a great offering if people weren't so greedy and started paying for products they use which would also make DRM less likely to be implemented in such a harsh way.
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steam ?
direct 2 drive ?
beta testing ?
test clients ?
xlive ?
psn ?
 
Necuno said:
steam ?
direct 2 drive ?
beta testing ?
test clients ?
xlive ?
psn ?
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Like I said it won't be the same each month. It’s the exception to the rule. Most people won't beta test 20 games and buy 5 or more games from Steam/Direct2Drive each month.
Especially in SA,most people still buy their games in store as it is habit due to DSL being so expensive and some people prefer having a disc in hand approach.

I still state that. "Most usage in SA goes toward illegal downloads."
 
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.
 
weakest_link said:
hmmmm ... how much bandwidth did people say when they were hosting for MW2?
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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.
 
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 ...
 
weakest_link said:
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 ...
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I agree but most "normal/regular" gamers won't download a bunch of betas each month, maybe a beta every odd month.
 
SpoOkie said:
Tincan.. You might want to relook the Afrihost FAQ. It's at 100GB not 30GB.
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SpoOkie, firstly, wtf have you been?

Secondly, thanks :D. 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.
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Has this changed?
 
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 :D

And now thats excluding the traffic i use when remoting my home pc from work
 
Djinn said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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