{"id":51506,"date":"2013-03-07T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51506"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:25:50","slug":"afrihost-unshapes-their-uncapped-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/51506-afrihost-unshapes-their-uncapped-adsl","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost unshapes their uncapped ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> has announced that it will \u2018un-shape\u2019 all its uncapped ADSL traffic following an upgrade to its ADSL network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been very busy in recent weeks with upgrading their ADSL network from the initial 8Gbps capacity they had when they first moved over to <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a>, which was already approximately 30% more capacity than they previously had on the IS network,\u201d Afrihost said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrihost then quickly saw the value in acquiring an additional 60% capacity to deliver the best capped and uncapped ADSL experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost\u2019s 2Gbps Durban IPC and 3Gbps Cape Town IPC are now live, complementing its existing 8Gbps IPC capacity in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from the upgraded performance, our network boasts multiple international redundancies, with capacity on several undersea cables,\u201d said Afrihost.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69078\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/69074-afrihost-adsl-network-upgrade.html\/attachment\/afrihost-adsl-network-plans\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69078\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69078\" title=\"Afrihost ADSL network plans\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Afrihost-ADSL-network-plans.jpg\" alt=\"Afrihost ADSL network plans\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afrihost ADSL network plans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Afrihost said that its upgraded network is performing at excellent levels, which gave them the confidence to \u201ccompletely unshape all uncapped ADSL traffic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to do this is mainly intended to thank and reward our uncapped ADSL clients for their patience and support while the upgrades were in progress,\u201d said Afrihost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second objective is to demonstrate the capabilities of the upgraded network &#8211; in terms of delivering exceptional throughput and a low latency ADSL experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost is confident that their additional capacity will more than handle the additional traffic, and after a week has passed they will re-assess their current shaping policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will absorb the cost of additional unshaped bandwidth completely,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Afrihost uncapped ADSL now unshaped\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/71908-afrihost-uncapped-adsl-now-unshaped.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Afrihost ADSL articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Free ADSL accounts from Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/71682-free-adsl-accounts-from-afrihost.html\"><strong>Free ADSL accounts from Afrihost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/71158-afrihost-adsl-surprise.html\"><strong>Afrihost ADSL surprise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/69134-hellopeters-best-and-worst-adsl-isps.html\"><strong>HelloPeter\u2019s best and worst ADSL ISPs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/70970-where-your-adsl-money-really-goes.html\"><strong>Where your ADSL money really goes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost boost its ADSL network capacity to 13Gbps, and is passing the benefits to its subscribers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":51331,"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":[8812,2],"tags":[293,2289,21,1569,1570,297],"class_list":["post-51506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-business","tag-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-mtn","tag-uncapped-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51506","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=51506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51507,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51506\/revisions\/51507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}