Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Zyzzyva]

So far its too much of fast.

[jackshiels]

You'll never be managed below 1Mbps. There are several issues posted here related to speeds mainly in certain areas of Cape Town, but we have thousands of users enjoying full speeds on their uncapped product.

Give it a try, we are running a 80% off trial special if you want to send me a PM.

I'm gonna sign up for that now - will I get this month pro rata and then a full month in September (some other people were saying it...?)

[roadcat]

Will I be able to maintain this if I switch to Afrihost or will I be shaped to death?

The issues you are reading about here have nothing to do with shaping, but are caused by issues I think in CT. Although I am affected by these issues I still completely recommend Afrihost to anyone. Pleasure to deal with and anyway, isolated issues happen in any network.

[Seeyou]

Just to reiterate what others have said - the issues of the last few days are an exception, rather than the rule. Frustrating because they keep recurring and seem to be undiagnoseable because they are sporadic and - seemingly - limited to the Cape.

The rest of the time I've been with Afrihost (2+ months) speeds are rock solid full speed 10mbps 24/7, which is more than I can say for my past experience with Mweb. Right now, everything is absolutely flying. If it could just stay that way permanently (ie. they diagnose the problems and fix them) it would be incredible.

[AfriMan]

Just to reiterate what others have said - the issues of the last few days are an exception, rather than the rule. Frustrating because they keep recurring and seem to be undiagnoseable because they are sporadic and - seemingly - limited to the Cape.

The rest of the time I've been with Afrihost (2+ months) speeds are rock solid full speed 10mbps 24/7, which is more than I can say for my past experience with Mweb. Right now, everything is absolutely flying. If it could just stay that way permanently (ie. they diagnose the problems and fix them) it would be incredible.

Glad things are going back to normal, we're still trying to fully figure out what the issue was so that it doesn't happen again.

Thanks so much for bearing with us

[AfriMan]

The issues you are reading about here have nothing to do with shaping, but are caused by issues I think in CT. Although I am affected by these issues I still completely recommend Afrihost to anyone. Pleasure to deal with and anyway, isolated issues happen in any network.

Thanks so much for the loyalty! It is deeply appreciated

[AfriMan]

I'm gonna sign up for that now - will I get this month pro rata and then a full month in September (some other people were saying it...?)

Yes, pretty much

You'll have to PM me for a link, it is not a public special (only for MyBB)

[CPTBoy]

I personally think this has to do with I.S.'s business rules regarding uncapped on their network.

Telkom phoned me this morning stating they released more bandwidth on my exchange box and I can see it immediately.

The connection is stable again.

Problem is that AfriHost's uncapped is limiting for example my 4mb speedtests locally to CPT to 1.3mb
Using a normal capped Afrihost account it runs at full speed 3.34mb
Using OpenWeb capped account, it runs at full speed 3.36mb

Now I'm not sure if this is a sweeping thing across the entire country or just CPT.

[psynapt1k]

I was getting a constant 1mb/s last night on a 4mb/s uncapped line. I only used 49Gb last month and about 120Gb odd the month before - I do not think I was being throttled for such a small download amount? I am in Port Elizabeth. Checked the ADSL line with Afrihost's line testing tool and everything was connecting fine. This morning it was back to normal speed.

[roadcat]

I was getting a constant 1mb/s last night on a 4mb/s uncapped line. I only used 49Gb last month and about 120Gb odd the month before - I do not think I was being throttled for such a small download amount? I am in Port Elizabeth. Checked the ADSL line with Afrihost's line testing tool and everything was connecting fine. This morning it was back to normal speed.

I am also in PE - same issue, it's not throttling. Check through the thread for history, we route through CT so affected by anything there (you can see this by doing a tracert)

[psynapt1k]

I am also in PE - same issue, it's not throttling. Check through the thread for history, we route through CT so affected by anything there (you can see this by doing a tracert)

Thanks roadcat :-)

[AfriMan]

Quilobyte, got your PM, but your account doesn't accept PM's back

Please DM me your username, so I can check up on what's happening (hope you are reading this thread)

[Piesang]

I signed up for my 10mb uncapped account today. Been testing it and I'm currently downloading at 1013KB/s.

I'm in Cape Town (Parow) and everything seems perfect today.

[roadcat]

I signed up for my 10mb uncapped account today. Been testing it and I'm currently downloading at 1013KB/s. I'm in Cape Town (Parow) and everything seems perfect today.

Can you stop doing that and I'll see if mine improves as a result

[Seeyou]

Spoke too soon. Currently only managing a measly 114k/sec on NNTP. If I try to do anything at all while the download is running at that speed, it's dead slow - which smells like throttling to me, although I'm nowhere near the 30 day window limit.

Quick switch over to Axxess account shows full speed, so clearly the temporary improvement this morning was coincidental. Seeing as Piesang above reports full speed - it is clearly not a Cape Town problem. Are some users being mistakenly throttled without reaching Afrihost's custom download limits? Getting very tired of this now.