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Hi,
I applied for a Afrihost free account mid january but didn't hear anything from them yet?
And on their website there are no sign of any free accounts anymore! so i guess there are no more free internet?

There is no such thing as free internet, not in SA at least. Heck you even have to pay for the Wifi connection at Mugg & Bean.

If they were offering some kind of free internet service, there would've been a catch somewhere.

um. correction. i got one of those free 1 GB accounts. it works great.

although i just use it for browsing in case mweb goes down.

irs my backup account basically.

I see, so it's "free, but very little, limited internet". Ha

yes its free and limited. but that's still fine for basic browsing in an emergency.

Yep, definitely.

but do you know if there are any accounts left?? want to play some black ops! Telkom is my current ISP..

the promo is over, you are out of luck.

yeah its over. but i think they mentioned to watch the space for more. so who knows maybe they will release more sometime this year.

ahhh noo, there goes my only hope for black ops!

Speak of the devil...

Good news for ADSL users is that Afrihost will repeat their Free 1GB ADSL account special on Thursday next week, 10 February 2011.

source

Time for some black ops!!

niice

aaand... free 1gb up for grabs again....

i have my account !!!!! YAY!!
but, now.... how do i set it up? i only want to play black ops on it? can someone please help me with it?

create a PPOE connection using the provided credentials...
>Network & Sharing>New connection or network>Connect to the internet>Broadband PPOE...
or modify the credentials on your router... (don't do this if you're unsure...)

i did do that but i get an error witch states my modem has reported an error.....

you've made sure that the credentials you've captured are those for the ADSL and not your account... the passwords differ...

yes! got details for the client zone and ADSL settings! maybe its not activated yet will have a look tomorrow!