Afrihost 3g shaped?

[Shadow9002]

Good day

I was wondering does anyone know if afrihost (MTN) shapes certain content?

On speedtest I get 100ms ping to Mweb server in Johannesburg average of 2mb/s download, but my upload doesn't seem to always want to work fine...?

With the 100ms ping when I try to play a Dota 2 game(SOuth african server) my game lags and I mean always lags with the afrihost sim.

Regards
DJ van Wyk

 

[DTBA]

Good day

I was wondering does anyone know if afrihost (MTN) shapes certain content?

On speedtest I get 100ms ping to Mweb server in Johannesburg average of 2mb/s download, but my upload doesn't seem to always want to work fine...?

With the 100ms ping when I try to play a Dota 2 game(SOuth african server) my game lags and I mean always lags with the afrihost sim.

Regards
DJ van Wyk

what times are you trying to play?

 

[vicv]

3G is a "best effort service". With it you won't be shaped for any specific things unless stated by the ISP (e.g. MTN's Uncapped 3G throttling). Only thing that can better your service is better signal and less users in your area using 3G.

Oh, and if you use 3G as your home desktop internet, consider getting an external antenna.

 

[DTBA]

3G is a "best effort service". With it you won't be shaped for any specific things unless stated by the ISP (e.g. MTN's Uncapped 3G throttling). Only thing that can better your service is better signal and less users in your area using 3G.

Oh, and if you use 3G as your home desktop internet, consider getting an external antenna.

or just even a usb cable and slap it outside a window helps wonders

 

[Shadow9002]

I already am using a usb cable to extend it so it can get better signal. I just purchased a external antenna to plug into my E3131 dongle. My problem is why is the ping and download fine when running speedtest or even playing Diablo 3 , but Dota 2 just won't work. I did see someone else also complained specifically about Dota 2 as well. This leads me to believe that isn't just the area I'm in but the network afrihost gets ffrom MTN

 

[valiente]

No no its definitely not MTN. Have you tried a different network? Telkom Mobile maybe?

If you play Dota I'm sure you are aware of the latest v6.79 update that occurred, this was a huge update and it was a little rushed.

Now the lagging and glitchy feel you get can mostly come from the buggy install, I've confirmed with many users experiencing the same issues.

Lastly it could be Mweb, also a very viable culprit as they have a couple of horrible servers running Dota 2 servers. While others run smoothly.

I play Dota 2 daily on Afrihost/MTN 3G or on Telkom Mobile and I get the exact same lagging/glitchy feel from the game

Although my ping sits on average 80-110

Noe the Glitchy feeling I'm talking about is like some last hits won't make the gold coin sound, nor will the amount of gold earned be displayed. When you respawn there is no sound queue to notify you. When denying a creep, the hero will queue the deny sound (it's mine, or whatever) but I wont see an exclamation mark at all..

Now these issues aren't constant but occasionally happen. A couple of times during a game.

These are either game issues or hosting server issues, meaning Mweb.

During game ask your teammates if they experience the same/similar issues.

 

[AfriGuy]

Good day

I was wondering does anyone know if afrihost (MTN) shapes certain content?

On speedtest I get 100ms ping to Mweb server in Johannesburg average of 2mb/s download, but my upload doesn't seem to always want to work fine...?

With the 100ms ping when I try to play a Dota 2 game(SOuth african server) my game lags and I mean always lags with the afrihost sim.

Regards
DJ van Wyk

Our Mobile data definitely isn't shaped, what's your latency looking like?

 

[Shadow9002]

No no its definitely not MTN. Have you tried a different network? Telkom Mobile maybe?

If you play Dota I'm sure you are aware of the latest v6.79 update that occurred, this was a huge update and it was a little rushed... qoute continues.

I've noticed the problems about denying gold etc not showing but I'm talking about lag, like the gameplay stops for about 3 -4 seconds,sometimes even 10secs or more and then continues.

 

[Shadow9002]

Our Mobile data definitely isn't shaped, what's your latency looking like?

Speedtest I get a latency of about 100ms, and in dota I'm on about 120 ms but then when the lagging starts it suddenly starts going up to 1000ms.

I've tried it with my vodacom sim and everything runs fine then not even a spike during the game.

 

[AfriGuy]

Speedtest I get a latency of about 100ms, and in dota I'm on about 120 ms but then when the lagging starts it suddenly starts going up to 1000ms.

I've tried it with my vodacom sim and everything runs fine then not even a spike during the game.

It could be the tower in the area seeing congestion.
Have you noticed any specific times that you're seeing the increased latency?

 

[vicv]

Speedtest I get a latency of about 100ms, and in dota I'm on about 120 ms but then when the lagging starts it suddenly starts going up to 1000ms.

I've tried it with my vodacom sim and everything runs fine then not even a spike during the game.

Sounds like regular MTN 3G problems out of my experience. However if it only happens on dota, there's a different problem, possibly the Mweb servers which are never up to scratch really.