Uncapped ADSL for R399

When I saw it last night I was like OMG.

A little undecided at the moment. Latency is very important for me, so it all depends on what other MyBB folks think of it :) From what I've seen so far it's nothing to write home about latency-wise, but uncapped for R399 regardless is freaking legend. I could very well see myself getting it.
 
Lydon said:
When I saw it last night I was like OMG.

A little undecided at the moment. Latency is very important for me, so it all depends on what other MyBB folks think of it :) From what I've seen so far it's nothing to write home about latency-wise, but uncapped for R399 regardless is freaking legend. I could very well see myself getting it.
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Yeah I am the same, if the latency's suck then it would be a waste for me, or in fact any online gamer.

Guess we will just have to wait and see.
 
i'm waiting for that first complaint thread and have a good chuckle thinking of the big boohoo and afrihost ;)

still i would like to see how they do in month 1,2 and 3. apart from that it is good to see another isp going the 'R25 route'. it confirms that more than one actually can do this.
 
You bet your ass people are going complaining.

About 1 out of 10 of those complains are really something to complain about.
It happened to afrihost as well but if people would have just read then there would have been a lot less complaints.
 
I'm rather keen for this one - I don't do AS much online gaming anymore, since i'm focusing on my SP range...but it would be alot kief to restart my series downloads like I did back in the days of uncapped wireless...
 
Voicy said:
I'm rather keen for this one - I don't do AS much online gaming anymore, since i'm focusing on my SP range...but it would be alot kief to restart my series downloads like I did back in the days of uncapped wireless...
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+10 I could actualy get anime series again, and watch online tv :D
 
Ok - I've just read through all 41 pages of the discussion thread.

It seems people have very mixed responses to the quality of the 384 lines. Also some issues regarding NAT and access to specific sites and whatnot.

Others say speeds are fine vs some comparing it to dialup (affected by the upstream they're pulling from?) so I'm going to wait a bit and see.

My biggest concern is if I cancel my 10GB Afrihost account and sign up for it now and it ends up sucking the bum, then to reapply for the Afrihost one will no longer be at the R290 special rate, but the more expensive one. :/

EDIT: Afrihost's R29/GB special is _STILL_ running it seems.
 
Voicy said:
Ok - I've just read through all 41 pages of the discussion thread.

It seems people have very mixed responses to the quality of the 384 lines. Also some issues regarding NAT and access to specific sites and whatnot.

Others say speeds are fine vs some comparing it to dialup (affected by the upstream they're pulling from?) so I'm going to wait a bit and see.

My biggest concern is if I cancel my 10GB Afrihost account and sign up for it now and it ends up sucking the bum, then to reapply for the Afrihost one will no longer be at the R290 special rate, but the more expensive one. :/

EDIT: Afrihost's R29/GB special is _STILL_ running it seems.
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yeah afrihost is till the end of there year, so you can still test out this offering but I would have rather waited a bit longer then sign up with screamer.
 
Voicy said:
Ok - I've just read through all 41 pages of the discussion thread.

It seems people have very mixed responses to the quality of the 384 lines. Also some issues regarding NAT and access to specific sites and whatnot.

Others say speeds are fine vs some comparing it to dialup (affected by the upstream they're pulling from?) so I'm going to wait a bit and see.

My biggest concern is if I cancel my 10GB Afrihost account and sign up for it now and it ends up sucking the bum, then to reapply for the Afrihost one will no longer be at the R290 special rate, but the more expensive one. :/

EDIT: Afrihost's R29/GB special is _STILL_ running it seems.
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afrihost is running till end of year afaik. i would however not just-jump-a-ship.
i almost want to ask if screaming is not re-assigning the total pool of available data as R399 uncapped is a far drop from axxess's pricing.

this makes me think of my old thread where clearly all types of caps are 'shown' to be the same and one group supports the other, now if that was pooled and redistributed...

...maybe it is just network related problems ;)
 
I signed up... Not 100% happy the Nating is a real problem, latencies arent bad in games when I was playing HON I was getting between 65 and 150 on local servers.

Bit of a waste on my 4mb line though...
 
Blaze786 said:
I signed up... Not 100% happy the Nating is a real problem, latencies arent bad in games when I was playing HON I was getting between 65 and 150 on local servers.

Bit of a waste on my 4mb line though...
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Can you explain the nat problem a little bit? I spend about R430 a month on bandwidth as it is now, so this is definitely I am considering.
 
If their service is the same as my Afrihost 10gb per month i might just consider moving, will wait and see though.
 
Tinman said:
Can you explain the nat problem a little bit? I spend about R430 a month on bandwidth as it is now, so this is definitely I am considering.
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apparently this is
howzit

We have reverted to a NAT'ed network because we realized that some service
providers can't advertise our IP 's yet and that is why some web sites
couldn't be opened. The reason for this is that some of our peering partners
need to complete upgrades so that they can support our 4-Byte ASN. we
decided to convert to a 32-bit AS Number now instead of
a 16-bit AS Number because of expected ASN shortage in the 16-bit range
around the year 2010. We are probably the first to run a 4 Byte AS and some
of the older providers still run 2 Byte AS.

The majority of the providers we are waiting for are local as all the
international links are registered.

For 99% of our clients NAT'ing for a short while (probably till early next
week) while we contact those providers that can't broadcast our routes yet to fix this is not an issue.
For those that find this an issue we will happily cancel you application.
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Tinman said:
Can you explain the nat problem a little bit? I spend about R430 a month on bandwidth as it is now, so this is definitely I am considering.
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Well Necuno summed it up with the response from the screamer rep.

I am just not happy with the QOS I am recieving I never get above 20kb on my torrents and am never connectable in my torrent client due to the nating, also a number of sites I am unable to access...
 
So is the NAT'ing the only issue?

We spend way over R399/month on bandwidth, so Screamer is a very valid option.
 
Testing them out as well, and so far i can agree with Blaze, the avg download is about 20kb but for some reason yesterday i got round about 160kb on the 384 package. And then there is the NAT which can be very troublesome. Lets hope that it gets sorted out soon, if it works then its a very very attractive offer.
 
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