Question of the Day: Which ISP(s) do you use for your bandwidth fix?

Editors Warning: This QOTD is a tad more serious than the usual nonsense Fatbob comes up with.

It’s been a busy day here @ the eGamer offices as we’re locked away working on a top secret project. How top secret you ask? Well so top secret I don’t think any of us know what it is. It’s been an interesting day for those of you with feelers out in the ADSL and Connectivity market. A day that most thought would revolutionise the ADSL market has well… let’s just say it hasn’t quite done so.

But yes today the folk over at Web Africa announced their new pricing structure now that it’s a tier 1 ISP. The bad news is that it’s not exactly the “Aggressive Pricing” we’d all heard so much about. Why do I care? Well I’m a gamer and gaming eats my bandwidth. Of course downloads, surfing and pr0n eat my bandwidth too, but I’m not going to get into that.

I’ve been a long time WA subscriber and one stage good ol’ eGamer was hosted with them (Ed: You’re not going to rant about that again are you?) and I really thought they were tip top. After some hosting issues and today’s announcement WA has made both me and my wallet very sad. Yes WA if I continue to buy my international bandwidth from you next month, I will save about R5. Yes a whole R5. After I’ve paid Sally for services rendered, what on earth am I going to do with R4.90 change?

Anyway before this turns into the 500 post rant that’s currently going on at MyBB, I figured it would be interesting to see what the folk around the office use for their interwebz fix:

• Nitrate: A few IS local accounts and Afrihost for the international.
• Bedlamp: 30GB local from IS, Openweb 5Gb for International
• Slobber: Do broadband level 3 for local, Webafrica Afrihost for International 5GB give or take.
• Saidin: 2 x IS local, 1 x 10GB Mweb
• Cheeezy: Hacked accounts or Slobber’s.
• Russ: 5GB Mweb (mommy and daddy bought
• Tody: 6GB though IS
• Nitricity: Tel Shuddup Jenson!

So guys if you’re happy with WA or you’re looking to get into the market as they’ve got some nice comprehensive line + Bandwidth offers. However if you’re on a tight budget, or you’ve been buggered one too many times by Telkom, it’s time to check out openweb, Afrihost, gconnect or one of the others. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, check out Web Africa’s new pricing here.

FB Out!

P.S. The views expressed in this article are my own and do not in any way reflect the views of the lovely people here at eGamer, their moms, Phant1m the guy that cleans the office, their hosting providers or anyone else for that matter other than Fatbob