blaaislaai
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Afrihost home, or business account?
Because the Business account is great, the home account as well.. but not after a couple of hundred gigs.
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Afrihost home, or business account?
Because the Business account is great, the home account as well.. but not after a couple of hundred gigs.
Nucleous
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Friends I have are on afrihost business and they are as happy as a pig in mud, I've seen first hand during the day those afrihost business accounts are great.
I'm with openweb the Gold account and also really nice account to be on, day shaping on P2P is a bit heavy but steam and PSN run fine.
I'm with openweb the Gold account and also really nice account to be on, day shaping on P2P is a bit heavy but steam and PSN run fine.
rootworm41
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So now I know why I haven't been able to do anthing with MWeb since August. This is rubbish. They may as well call it a 75GB account.
blaaislaai
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rootworm41
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Have you sent in your cancellation letter yet?
I'm not in charge in my household...been trying to cancel since then. I always knew it was MWeb but I never knew why. AARGHHH!
When they throttle you, does your latency increase?
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AlienTaker
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when i was with mweb it did it was to the point where i couldn't even do a decent speed test and my bf3 pings went from 11 to 113
rootworm41
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Lol you are lucky...my pings range from 350-999 (Thats the max in-game).
blaaislaai
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Full speed day and night, on all protocols. But I am on their 10mb offering. 4mb should have same results
I'm on 4meg uncapped bundle. Performance is great thus far (been on it for January so far lol). I haven't hit downloading hard this month but so far I've done 150gigs or so and currently no shaping applied (as per client zone).
They only shape based on network traffic (and even then it's just p2p and http downloading that are affected) instead of based on usage (as far as I know). With Mweb on the other hand, there 4meg uncapped bundle is R150 or so cheaper than Afrihost BUT shape/throttle the crap out of you after only 110gigs (as per my conversation with an Mweb call center guy).
When on 2meg with Afrihost I've hit over 300gigs and I had no issues with shaping or throttling really. Currently, shaping with Afrihost looks as though it's lifted from 5pm on weekdays and I've never noticed it in weekends AND you get 5 free hours per month where, for an hour at a time, you can remove shaping completely if you're in a pinch and you need to urgently get a torrent (a new linux distro for example) or http download done asap.
They only shape based on network traffic (and even then it's just p2p and http downloading that are affected) instead of based on usage (as far as I know). With Mweb on the other hand, there 4meg uncapped bundle is R150 or so cheaper than Afrihost BUT shape/throttle the crap out of you after only 110gigs (as per my conversation with an Mweb call center guy).
When on 2meg with Afrihost I've hit over 300gigs and I had no issues with shaping or throttling really. Currently, shaping with Afrihost looks as though it's lifted from 5pm on weekdays and I've never noticed it in weekends AND you get 5 free hours per month where, for an hour at a time, you can remove shaping completely if you're in a pinch and you need to urgently get a torrent (a new linux distro for example
) or http download done asap.
rootworm41
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I'm on 4meg uncapped bundle. Performance is great thus far (been on it for January so far lol). I haven't hit downloading hard this month but so far I've done 150gigs or so and currently no shaping applied (as per client zone).
They only shape based on network traffic (and even then it's just p2p and http downloading that are affected) instead of based on usage (as far as I know). With Mweb on the other hand, there 4meg uncapped bundle is R150 or so cheaper than Afrihost BUT shape/throttle the crap out of you after only 110gigs (as per my conversation with an Mweb call center guy).
When on 2meg with Afrihost I've hit over 300gigs and I had no issues with shaping or throttling really. Currently, shaping with Afrihost looks as though it's lifted from 5pm on weekdays and I've never noticed it in weekends AND you get 5 free hours per month where, for an hour at a time, you can remove shaping completely if you're in a pinch and you need to urgently get a torrent (a new linux distro for example
That's awesome! I'm definatly going to sign up with them (or WebAfrica...dose prices).
HavocXphere
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WA is currently out of fashion.
AH is usually a decent bet. Try not to download crazy amounts though.
Personally I favour OW. OW tends to be weak during the day, but you can download the entire interwebs outside of business hours. This works well for me seeing how I'm busy business'ing during business hours.
Kwaai
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Does this still mean extremely high pings for gaming 9-5?
blaaislaai
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Just crappy downloads. Ping remains good 24/7
Kwaai
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Okay thanks might give them another go in that case, my previous experience with them was really bad.
HavocXphere
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Haven't checked pings...but generally you can forget 9-5 internet unless you're on gold or better. I play local servers though so no comment on intl ones.
Remember also some okes are on gamers king, meaning gaming traffic is prioritized round the clock - that might distort opinions.
On the whole I'd give it a go. Its ideal if you're at work 9-5 and want internet where nobody is on your case about usage. MrBeep can hook you up with a free trial account.
