Afrihost and console gaming: what is brewing...?

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Each ISP does things differently
 
Yeah.

I contacted Afrigirl. Hopefully she can get to the bottom of this when she returns.

Maybe it was just a coincidence that a change of IP addr could lead to an even greater deterioration in network performance...? I see now that I am back to being 'limited' to a max download of 27Mb/s like it was after receiving my new IP. At least that is better than 250Kb/s :ROFL: But I am not upgrading to the 100Mb/s package just to game. I'd rather cancel my connection with Afrihost.

One would expect that the public facing support staff would have been alerted to possible influx of calls from console gamers due to network issues beyond Afrihosts' controll...

Enuf speculation! I'll await a response from Afrigirl.

Appear oh goddess of the network!
I beseech thee to grace my console with thine divine provinance
Bestow thy gifts of excellent latency
Banish bad connections
Find all lost packets
Bringing joy to mortal gamers
Amen!
 
And another IP was allocated. :cool:

Seems like my devices are back to normal. Switch still behaving erratically. Speeds now hover between 27Mb/s and 32Mb/s [in the past used to get high 30s]. Weirdly its more 27Mb/s...

I checked the status of Nintendo Servers: they're all normal. Status

Afrigurl stated to me that there are issues with their NAT Box.

Thanking you MakoPC for your eagerness and willingness to assist me in my quest to terrorise the kids on Fortnite in the best way possible!
 
I searched for Nintendo's game specific servers, I can't seem to find anything useful. I dunno how to find and identify these...

traceroute to epic's servers:
Europe
Code: 
traceroute to ping-eu.ds.on.epicgames.com (18.133.162.202), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.18.1  0.625 ms  0.701 ms  1.088 ms
 2  169.1.21.156  17.738 ms  17.509 ms  17.968 ms
 3  169.1.21.157  17.138 ms  23.796 ms  24.004 ms
 4  100.127.2.153  17.312 ms  17.820 ms  24.145 ms
 5  100.127.2.157  21.046 ms  19.114 ms  19.624 ms
 6  169.1.21.86  24.276 ms  23.979 ms  24.219 ms
 7  100.64.80.53  24.014 ms  18.187 ms  17.767 ms
 8  169.1.2.241  17.292 ms  19.069 ms  19.128 ms
 9  169.1.21.83  19.351 ms  19.400 ms  19.123 ms
10  52.95.218.148  19.318 ms  17.984 ms  18.239 ms
11  52.93.57.42  17.797 ms 52.93.57.122  39.712 ms 52.93.57.42  18.922 ms
12  * * *
13  150.222.208.11  17.739 ms 150.222.208.7  17.282 ms  17.673 ms
14  52.93.57.67  17.215 ms 52.93.57.23  18.739 ms  17.687 ms
15  * * *
16  150.222.65.56  158.718 ms 52.95.61.54  162.586 ms 54.239.101.138  157.029 ms
17  52.94.35.47  156.203 ms 52.94.35.125  161.994 ms 52.94.35.63  161.833 ms
18  52.94.35.108  166.683 ms 52.94.35.4  161.987 ms 52.94.35.84  162.862 ms
19  52.94.33.175  159.477 ms 52.94.33.173  167.543 ms 15.230.158.45  161.214 ms
20  15.230.158.26  163.445 ms 15.230.158.0  157.874 ms 15.230.158.2  164.301 ms
21  * * *
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Middle-East:
Code: 
traceroute to ping-me.ds.on.epicgames.com (15.184.13.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.18.1  8.980 ms  2.999 ms  3.422 ms
 2  169.1.21.156  22.934 ms  20.502 ms  18.806 ms
 3  169.1.21.157  18.919 ms  20.355 ms  20.735 ms
 4  100.127.2.153  20.924 ms  20.544 ms  26.178 ms
 5  100.127.2.157  23.076 ms  23.247 ms  22.649 ms
 6  169.1.21.86  26.565 ms  23.399 ms  23.456 ms
 7  100.64.80.53  18.126 ms  17.006 ms  16.683 ms
 8  169.1.2.241  17.241 ms  18.036 ms  16.795 ms
 9  169.1.21.83  16.762 ms  19.201 ms  17.640 ms
10  52.95.218.148  17.039 ms  16.651 ms  18.113 ms
11  52.93.57.74  18.362 ms 52.93.57.106  18.417 ms 52.93.57.10  17.666 ms
12  * * *
13  150.222.208.31  49.752 ms 150.222.208.9  17.990 ms 150.222.208.17  18.036 ms
14  52.93.57.99  18.439 ms 52.93.57.37  19.133 ms 52.93.57.129  18.122 ms
15  * * *
16  52.93.224.212  162.226 ms 52.93.224.180  161.124 ms 52.93.226.184  160.618 ms
17  52.93.224.227  161.608 ms 52.93.224.193  160.169 ms 52.93.225.75  162.864 ms
18  52.93.225.0  163.544 ms 52.93.225.214  163.817 ms 52.93.224.228  161.898 ms
19  52.93.225.133  159.395 ms 52.93.226.125  159.017 ms 52.93.225.211  162.687 ms
20  52.93.227.52  164.525 ms 52.93.227.50  162.185 ms 52.93.227.74  157.871 ms
21  * * *
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Do I have double NAT issues...? I kinda think I know what this is. Only found out about this now, so not sure...?
 
Can someone please advise:

I see under [WAN Information] in the Router that for IPv4 Address I have 100.x.x.x
On Switch when I do a speedtest, my Global IP Address: 102.x.x.x

I this 'normal'?
 
username and 23 others said:
Can someone please advise:

I see under [WAN Information] in the Router that for IPv4 Address I have 100.x.x.x
On Switch when I do a speedtest, my Global IP Address: 102.x.x.x

I this 'normal'?
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Yes that is normal, you are behind a CGNAT (Carrier Grade NAT) The IP 100.x.x.x is your actual IP
Could you install Ping Plotter and run it for a while and send a screenshot
 
AfriNatic said:
Hi

That trace route looks good. We resolved the issue with the NAT that we had. What DNS servers are you using?
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Oh has the NAT box for CPT been fixed? Was about to jam some games and was wondering about getting some packet loss mid way
 
Chibles said:
Oh has the NAT box for CPT been fixed? Was about to jam some games and was wondering about getting some packet loss mid way
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Still getting packet loss at the same times it seems :(
 
AfriNatic said:
Hi

That trace route looks good. We resolved the issue with the NAT that we had. What DNS servers are you using?
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I think on PC I might be using Cloudflare...?
msg from PC journal: Switching to fallback DNS server 1.1.1.1

Not using DNS servers on Switch. DNS Settings on Switch: Automatic
I have experimented with DNS settings on Switch [google and cloudflare]: it's just a waste of time.

And I'm still sitting with what seems to be a max of 27Mb/s DL speed... :cool:

Rundown of what happened:
- Complained about high latency. During that time my speeds were still fine.
- My IP address was changed. Router got reset without my knowledge :cool:. WiFi passwords got changed without my knowledge :cool: . Since that time everything went down the drain.
- Was told I need to get the 100Mb/s package as 40Mb/s is not viable for gaming... ... ...
- Was assigned 2 new IP Addresses: no effect.
- Was informed about issues with NAT box.
- NAT issues resolved.
- Things still the same. :cool:

Gaming from ~19:00 is virtually impossible (up to 40% packet loss according to Fortnite debug stats) :cool:
 
username and 23 others said:
I think on PC I might be using Cloudflare...?
msg from PC journal: Switching to fallback DNS server 1.1.1.1

Not using DNS servers on Switch. DNS Settings on Switch: Automatic
I have experimented with DNS settings on Switch [google and cloudflare]: it's just a waste of time.

And I'm still sitting with what seems to be a max of 27Mb/s DL speed... :cool:

Rundown of what happened:
- Complained about high latency. During that time my speeds were still fine.
- My IP address was changed. Router got reset without my knowledge :cool:. WiFi passwords got changed without my knowledge :cool: . Since that time everything went sown the drain.
- Was told I need to get the 100Mb/s package as 40Mb/s is not viable for gaming... ... ...
- Was assigned 2 new IP Addresses: no effect.
- Was informed about issues with NAT box.
- NAT issues resolved.
- Things still the same. :cool:

Gaming from ~19:00 is virtually impossible (up to 40% packet loss according to Fortnite debug stats) :cool:
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If it is gaming from 7pm that is peak hours, that sounds like congestion on the FNO side
 
What area are you in?
Your FNO is Vumatel correct?
 
- is anyone going to explain the significance of Vumatel/Vuma Reach? Is it the bane of FNOs? Is Afrihost, and by extention me, held hostage?
- do i have to give up on my dream of reaching the 2 500 000th rank in Fortnite as a Switch player?
- who killed JR?

So many questions...
 
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