Storm At Home

I've started the search for a new ISP. I looked at MWeb, but they're close to twice what I'm paying now. I looked at Polka.co.za, which turns out to also be MWeb, but cheaper - but I wasn't sure. Then I found Storm At Home, who not only claim to have some kind of compression system to speed up browsing, but - and this is the best part - they give you a month's free trial to try it out (3 months, if you pay using a mastercard). It's great, because I can try them out and see if they're better than telkom, without having to cancel my telkom contract. They have a bunch of different packages, but the one I want is R55 per month with restricted access - between 6 in the evening and 9 in the morning - since I don't need internet during the day, because I'm at work! You also get access over weekends and public holidays.

So far they seem okay - dialled up okay, although it seemed to take a long time to verify my username and password, and then said "logging on to network" for ages, although I could browse while this was going on (although I didn't realise that at first). The net seems fairly fast, although it's difficult to say for sure without doing some kind of benchmark.

I'll post a review here sometime when I've given them a more comprehensive trial, but they seem to be a reasonable alternative to telkom.