{"id":43024,"date":"2012-08-16T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43024"},"modified":"2012-08-16T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:49:50","slug":"beware-most-expensive-adsl-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43024-beware-most-expensive-adsl-for-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Beware: Most expensive ADSL for gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some South African ISPs are still charging well-over R50 per GB for standard consumer ADSL products, and if you are gaming by the gigabyte, choosing the wrong provider can hurt your pocket.<\/p>\n

EDSL, for example, charges R 49.99 for a 1GB shaped ADSL account, and R84.99 for an unshaped 1GB data bundle. Vanilla is also charging R49 per GB for shaped ADSL data, and R87 per GB for unshaped data.<\/p>\n

Southern Star Computers charges R59 for a 1GB shaped ADSL account, and the price increases to R99 per month for a 1GB unshaped account. Wandata Internet Solutions also charges R59 for a 1GB ADSL account.<\/p>\n

Vodacom is charging R69 for a 1GB data bundle (R69 per GB), and R169 for a 3GB data bundle (R56 per GB).<\/p>\n

Telkom’s price of R79 for a 1GB AllAccess ADSL account is also one of the highest rates in the country, but it should be noted that the company is also offering a 5GB account at R99 (R19.80 per GB) and a 10GB account at R149 (R14.90 per GB).<\/p>\n

It should be noted that we only looked at consumer ADSL services for this comparison, and not high-availability and high-bandwidth business services (where the cost can be far higher than consumer services).<\/p>\n

The tables below illustrates some of the most expensive per-gigabyte ADSL products available.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Per-GB ADSL prices<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/strong><\/td>\nData included<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice\/GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free ADSL accounts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FNB Connect<\/td>\n5GB<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cybersmart<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vox Telecom<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Market related prices<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\nR29<\/td>\nR15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Web Africa<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\nR29<\/td>\nR15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n3GB<\/td>\nR57<\/td>\nR19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/td>\n10GB<\/td>\nR149<\/td>\nR15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
High ADSL prices<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vanilla shaped<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edsl shaped<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southern Star Computers<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR59<\/td>\nR59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wandata Internet Solutions<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR59<\/td>\nR59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR69<\/td>\nR69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom AllAccess<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR79<\/td>\nR79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Do you know of a more expensive ADSL service? Let us know in the comments below and on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n

Article courtesy of MyBroadband – Most expensive ADSL data in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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If you think the time where paying R50 per GB for ADSL data is history, think again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":43091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[293,5378,2289,3662,1567,5221,21,287,817,6258,295],"class_list":["post-43024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-adsl","tag-adsl-pricing","tag-afrihost","tag-axxess","tag-cybersmart","tag-fnb-connect","tag-headline","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom","tag-vox-telecom","tag-web-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43092,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions\/43092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}