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OK here it is I have just signed up for 10gig account on Afrihost for R290 per month. The beauty for me is I can sign on at home and the office on the same account as you are allowed 5 concurrent connections. This is a limited time offer so hurry if you want cheaper ADSL bandwidth as they say they will close this offer soon.
Thanks to Norri who posted this on his facebook status, and good bye telkom.
This has been discussed extensively on MY ADSL so look there for more background.
I have signed up - remember they guarantee that they will keep your account on R 29-00 per gig for the account you signed up for if the special is over. I will still keep my main ISP active with a lower cap in case something happens. Another thing is that you are not locked into a contract so you can cancel anytime.
My main provider is Axxess - so far I can say there is NO difference between Axxess and Afrihost - only price! I only have a 384 kbps connection though. Axxess also uses IS bandwith like Afrihost.
I am truly impressed! It seems like a real good deal. I just truly wonder what it will take to get Telkom and their criminal prices to see the light. Despite this great price from AH it is still crazy high prices on their side.
My subjective view is that international feels faster. For terms what I like is you can cancel anytime and they lock in the R29 rate for the package bandwidth topups may increase in price. Together with consolidating 2 accounts into 1 it seems that the downside is very little.
A comprehensive speed test would be better, but a ping test would also be interesting. On Telkom ADSL when I ping an internationally hosted site (like TFSA) the average return time is normally in the range of 350-550ms. Local is normally under 100ms.
If you're not familiar with how to ping TFSA, it's Start > Run > cmd > ping theforumsa.co.za
Most of the difference is the drag time on the JHB to Europe leg. This is more evident if you use the tracert command instead of ping.
C:\Documents and Settings\Dave>ping theforumsa.co.za
Pinging theforumsa.co.za [67.222.3.119] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=341ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=339ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=46
Ping statistics for 67.222.3.119:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 339ms, Maximum = 341ms, Average = 340ms
C:\Documents and Settings\Dave>tracert theforumsa.co.za
Tracing route to theforumsa.co.za [67.222.3.119]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 64 ms 99 ms 99 ms 192.168.1.254
2 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 196-210-128-129-esdw-esr-3.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.128.129]
3 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2253.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.181]
4 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms 196.38.73.114
5 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms cdsl1-rba-vl50.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.109]
6 23 ms 23 ms 24 ms core1b-rba-gi1-0-5.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.181]
7 310 ms 310 ms 310 ms mi-za-rba-p5-gi2-0-0-303.ip.isnet.net [168.209.164.150]
8 302 ms 301 ms 302 ms mi-us-25b-p1-po1-3-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.163.61]
9 310 ms 310 ms 309 ms core1a-ny-gi1-0-0-303.ip.isnet.net [168.209.164.102]
10 299 ms 300 ms 299 ms 168.209.245.2
11 300 ms 300 ms 300 ms cr2-nyiix-peer.nym009.internap.net [198.32.160.185]
12 325 ms 324 ms 324 ms cr2-cr1.nym009.internap.net [66.79.146.198]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 324 ms 323 ms 323 ms cr1.wdc005.inappnet.cr1.phi004.internap.net [66.79.147.18]
16 323 ms 323 ms 323 ms cr2-cr1.wdc005.internap.net [66.79.146.202]
17 322 ms 322 ms 322 ms cr1.acs007.inappnet.cr2.wdc005.internap.net [66.79.147.197]
18 321 ms 323 ms 321 ms cr2-cr1.acs007.internap.net [66.79.147.2]
19 340 ms 339 ms 339 ms cr2.dal005.inappnet.cr2.acs007.internap.net [66.79.147.190]
20 342 ms 342 ms 342 ms cr1-cr2.dal005.internap.net [66.79.147.185]
21 341 ms 340 ms 340 ms cr1.dal005.inappnet-xx.core3.ext1.dal.pnap.net [66.79.145.98]
22 341 ms 342 ms 341 ms border4.pc2-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net [216.52.191.94]
23 351 ms 351 ms 351 ms colo4dallas-5.border4.ext1.dal.pnap.net [216.52.189.10]
24 339 ms 339 ms 346 ms 206.123.64.38
25 344 ms 344 ms 344 ms vz43-tx.privatesystems.net [67.222.0.143]
26 339 ms 341 ms 340 ms host.my-business-machine.com [67.222.3.119]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Dave>ping theforumsa.co.za
Pinging theforumsa.co.za [67.222.3.119] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=339ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=339ms TTL=46
Reply from 67.222.3.119: bytes=32 time=339ms TTL=46
Ping statistics for 67.222.3.119:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 339ms, Maximum = 340ms, Average = 339ms
My tests are similar to DaveOB I don't know how to copy and paste results.
My hope is that this will force others to lower their rates as this seems to be a loss leader strategy being followed by Afrihost. Maybe the volume discounts would help them?
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OK here it is I have just signed up for 10gig account on Afrihost for R290 per month. The beauty for me is I can sign on at home and the office on the same account as you are allowed 5 concurrent connections. This is a limited time offer so hurry if you want cheaper ADSL bandwidth as they say they will close this offer soon. 
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