Afrihost Vodacom Fixed 5G thread

Afrigirl said:
@William1102, may I please have a tracert to 1.1.1.1 from your LTE connection?
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Pinging 1.1.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=97ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=50
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 1.1.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 88ms, Maximum = 97ms, Average = 91ms

Tracert:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms unifi.localdomain [10.30.0.1]
2 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 39 ms 35 ms 35 ms 10.60.254.205
5 35 ms 34 ms 35 ms 10.60.254.204
6 52 ms 46 ms 47 ms 100.127.6.32
7 30 ms 35 ms 35 ms 100.127.6.32
8 55 ms 47 ms 51 ms 100.127.7.109
9 51 ms 58 ms * 100.127.7.124
10 35 ms 30 ms 31 ms 100.64.80.74
11 37 ms 31 ms 31 ms 100.64.80.67
12 * 75 ms 66 ms 100.127.7.125
13 85 ms 50 ms 63 ms cloudflare.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.198]
14 68 ms 66 ms 63 ms 197.234.240.21
15 55 ms 63 ms 51 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
 
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 15

Pinging 1.1.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 1.1.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 15, Received = 13, Lost = 2 (13% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 38ms, Maximum = 70ms, Average = 52ms


tracert 1.1.1.1

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms OpenWrt [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 18 ms 20 ms 19 ms 10.60.254.205
4 33 ms 23 ms 27 ms 10.60.254.204
5 59 ms 30 ms 27 ms 100-127-6-32.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.6.32]
6 22 ms 20 ms 22 ms 100-127-6-32.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.6.32]
7 45 ms 23 ms 23 ms 100-127-7-109.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.7.109]
8 74 ms 43 ms * 100-127-7-124.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.7.124]
9 17 ms 27 ms 21 ms 100-64-80-74.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.64.80.74]
10 31 ms 16 ms 27 ms 100-64-80-67.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.64.80.67]
11 29 ms 24 ms 19 ms 100-127-7-125.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.7.125]
12 * 62 ms * cloudflare.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.198]
13 23 ms 37 ms 23 ms 197.234.240.29
14 62 ms 46 ms 39 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.
 
@Afrigirl does any of the posted ping or tracert results perhaps help to identify or pinpoint the issues perhaps?
 
Afrigirl said:
Hi.

Vodacom needed the test, as they were not seeing the issue on their end.
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I'm not very clued up on internet here, but doesn't the tracert show that the problem is inside afrihost network not within vodacom?

edit: If the problem was vodacom, e.g. the mobile network part of the service, wouldn't the issue show up whether I ping 1.1.1.1 or whether I ping 8.8.8.8? It doesn't, the problem follows pinging 1.1.1.1 only. If the problem is vodacom, surely "everything" would be bad, with inconsistent speedtest results, etc., but it's not, it's limited to certain traffic?
 
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I literally just did a speed test on my Iphone 12 with a Vodacom Sim. Iphone 12 is honestly nothing special. First iteration Iphone with 5G on it.

Pings straight to Cape Town with 20ms latency. Download speeds over 600 mbps.

All this on 3 bars.
 
camross007 said:
I literally just did a speed test on my Iphone 12 with a Vodacom Sim. Iphone 12 is honestly nothing special. First iteration Iphone with 5G on it.

Pings straight to Cape Town with 20ms latency. Download speeds over 600 mbps.

All this on 3 bars.
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on my iphone 17 i get 400mbps download with 3 bars 5G, and I live in the bush
 
Afrigirl said:
Hi.

Vodacom needed the test, as they were not seeing the issue on their end.
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The issue is within the APN, normal vodacom is like 5 hops to cloudflare 1.1.1.1 , Afrihost is 14.

Here is my 5G VPN'd to my house on Afrihost Fibre

1 43 ms 40 ms 39 ms .ahisp.co.za [165.
2 38 ms 53 ms 41 ms 1.ip.ahisp.co.za [
3 49 ms 40 ms 48 ms 169-11.ip.ahisp.co.za [169.]
4 41 ms 41 ms 37 ms 100-127-5-151.ip.ahisp.co.za [100.127.5.151]
5 45 ms 54 ms 52 ms 196-10-141-198.ixp.durban [196.10.141.198]
6 41 ms 40 ms 45 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Normal connection
2 3 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 44 ms 49 ms 45 ms 10.60.254.205
5 30 ms 30 ms 32 ms 10.60.254.204
6 41 ms 45 ms 45 ms 100.127.6.32
7 54 ms 42 ms 51 ms 100.127.6.32
8 45 ms 51 ms 44 ms 100.127.7.109
9 56 ms 47 ms 69 ms 100.127.7.124
10 31 ms 35 ms 27 ms 100.64.80.74
11 43 ms 43 ms 63 ms 100.64.80.67
12 * 67 ms 63 ms 100.127.7.125
13 62 ms 69 ms 47 ms cloudflare.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.198]
14 49 ms 47 ms 51 ms 197.234.240.21
15 * 49 ms 51 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

14 hops for what takes me 5 hops via the 5G VPN'd to my fibre and this is even with the connection going DUR-> JHB -> DUR ->
 
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18 days later I got the sim card delivered, I will come back here with results on performance when I have the time
 
Also ping sitting at 73ms on a 5G service up to 20% packet loss at 168 times in one day according to my Unifi router

Cancelled this service and moving to Cool Ideas as of this week.

Had enough of this poor service
 
William1102 said:
Also ping sitting at 73ms on a 5G service up to 20% packet loss at 168 times in one day according to my Unifi router

Cancelled this service and moving to Cool Ideas as of this week.

Had enough of this poor service
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I agree. I'm cancelling mine 15th of next month. Btw guys when i ran the script I saw on the GT5S CPU temp was over 70.C.

It's been freezing cold as of late and still hits over 70.C. No wonder they have a temperature toggle setting. This router might just burn your house down. 🤣
 
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