Friday 20 May 2011

I cancelled my uncapped ADSL account at Afrihost today (ADSL in South Africa)

I'm being throttled so badly (down to +-7KBps on a 512kbps=80KBps line) that I had to turn on my prepaid account so I could view some web pages while downloading a couple of megs. I had to stop bittorrent too :( I only downloaded 40.9GB so far this month and I don't know why they need to throttle me after hours..



Some other user experiences:
http://handshake.co.za/2011/uncapped-adsl-in-south-africa/
http://www.carforums.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36411&sid=4bfbaa0a65133fdee40f95c062a3208b
http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php/13410-Axxess-vs-Afrihost
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/222441-Afrihost-Uncapped-Subscribers-Feedback/page82
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/264071-Afrihost-uncapped-ADSL-account-move-why-it-was-done
http://www.bblounge.co.za/showthread.php?t=1563
http://forums.icreatehosting.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=63
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/315785-so-far-Which-ISP-uncapped-is-the-best?p=5678667#post5678667

That settled it, now I just had to decide: mweb or openweb?
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/316473-Mweb-or-Openweb
In the end I'm going for mweb because it is cheaper.

Compare prices:
http://pcbunny.co.za/adsl/uncapped-data-only/

I see mweb throttles bittorrent quite badly :(
http://outsourcehouse.co.za/afrihost-vs-gamco-vs-mweb-vs-openweb-uncapped-adsl-south-africa/

MWEB Uncapped ADSL claims questioned
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/20086-MWEB-Uncapped-ADSL-claims-questioned.html

I don't see much difference between the throttling of p2p stuff between mweb and afrihost:
http://wiki.vuze.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Bad_ISPs#South_Africa

Bonus 1: You get 2 months free when signing up for 6 months at mweb:
http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/Get2MonthsFreeAdsl.aspx

Bonus 2: Telkom are upgrading their 512kbps lines to 1024kbps lines for free:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/20112-Telkom-ADSL-speed-upgrades-begin.html
...mmmm maybe I should get the faster isp account too for an additional R70...
(will need to double check that my line is in deed 1024kbps...)

Monday 9 May 2011

Bazaar on sourceforge.net

(sorry if you get this twice, blogspot made it disappear..)

I've bean looking for a place to host a modular project which is being version controlled with Bazaar. I would have loved to use Launchpad, but I can't because of the following:
  1. Launchpad only allows one level of branches (no hierarchy). My project is made up of a lot of sub-projects: I have a main branch which controls the sub-projects as bzr-externals.
  2. Launchpad does not have a nice project wiki or any custom web content.
I saw that sourceforge.net now supports Bazaar, but I was a bit worried when I saw on their wiki that they only support Bazaar version 1.10 . It turns out that it is thankfully only an outdated doc:
[me@shell-21002 ~]$ bzr --version
Bazaar (bzr) 2.1.1
Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.4.3
Python standard library: /usr/lib64/python2.4
Platform: Linux-2.6.18-...
(I don't seem to have rights to correct the wiki and I could not google the current version, so I'm documenting it here for you.)

I did test that I could upload nested branches. But unfortunately the code browsing tool on Sourceforge (loggerhead) does not display the nested branches :( Hopefully that is fixable..
Update: Alexandre Garnier kindly noted that there is a bug report for it.