Hi Afriguy
I tried to get my double money back offer and I'm failing to be successful. Please help.
Thanks,
Delon
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Hi Afriguy
I tried to get my double money back offer and I'm failing to be successful. Please help.
Thanks,
Delon
But that's your ADSL problem with Telkom and has nothing to do with AH...
Just got another SMS from Telkom saying line is restored.
Bull*****...... http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3204836539
100% Realtime Speed? No. Double that speed, then it would be true.
Afriman, Afriguy, Afrigirl, Afriwhoever, this has gone on for the last 10 months already. Is it fair for me to be paying over 1K per month for this? I am maybe getting half of what I pay for, if not less.
Everything was perfect in January 2013 with 10Mb speeds, stable connection, no issues at all. I was estatic at finally having decent internet, but one year later, I am seriously considering cancelling everything with AH and moving on.
I know Telkom is giving you guys the finger, but this is not fair at all.
Why aren't any of the other ISPs having issues with Telkom?
We've constantly been in contact with you around this - we simply cannot expect stable internet access until we have communicated with you that the Telkom fault has been resolved.
And for all the feedback and help I am extremely grateful.
I suggest you tell Telkom techs to stop lying to you and your customers that faults have been fixed. Every single fault logged so far has been closed without them doing anything about it. Also from feedback that I got, they have also said they have been to our house to check lines and connections, when they have not. They lie, plain and simple.
I just checked the current fault (6BTK221213), and it is miraculously still open.
The fact remains that in the last 10 months, nothing has been done from Telkom's side and I have not had any contact from anyone at Telkom (besides the lying SMS saying faults are fixed) regarding this issue. No phone calls, no visits to the property to physically check things, nothing.
Speedtest results show 4-6Mb constantly, line supposedly syncing at 8Mb (no clue as to why this is so), yet I cannot watch a 360p vid without it buffering like mad. Yet there are Afrihost customers with 2Mb ADSL lines that can stream Youtube vids at 720p or 1080p with no issues at all with buffering.
I have 3 friends who have AH 2Mb ADSL lines, and no issues at all with streaming videos. Here I sit with a 6Mb line, and it sucks gorilla gonads.
Hopefully Hellscum gets off their asses and fix things for a change instead of lying to Afrihost that they have fixed the line issues.
$ mtr -rwn v1.lscache1.c.youtube.com
HOST: media.ranger Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 105.224.76.1 0.0% 10 10.8 10.8 10.5 11.1 0.2
2.|-- 105.228.0.6 0.0% 10 14.8 14.8 14.6 15.4 0.2
3.|-- 105.228.0.13 0.0% 10 15.7 15.0 14.7 15.7 0.4
4.|-- 165.165.216.217 0.0% 10 15.0 14.8 14.4 15.2 0.3
5.|-- 196.43.11.218 0.0% 10 36.9 37.1 36.5 38.1 0.5
6.|-- 196.43.26.58 0.0% 10 37.4 37.1 36.5 37.7 0.3
7.|-- 165.165.38.12 0.0% 10 39.4 39.2 38.7 39.8 0.3
Thanks ranger.
Pinging v1.lscache1.c.youtube.com [208.117.249.38] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.117.249.38: bytes=32 time=193ms TTL=50
Reply from 208.117.249.38: bytes=32 time=192ms TTL=50
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Request timed out.
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Ping statistics for 208.117.249.38:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 96, Lost = 4 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 191ms, Maximum = 199ms, Average = 193ms
Traceroute:
Tracing route to v1.lscache1.c.youtube.com [208.117.249.38]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 4 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 105-236-11-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236
.11.193]
3 11 ms 15 ms 11 ms ipc-recieve-rb-1a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.53]
4 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.14
6]
5 14 ms 13 ms 12 ms jh-cr-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.95
]
6 15 ms 14 ms 11 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
7 182 ms 178 ms 178 ms ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-1.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.20
3]
8 180 ms * 178 ms 195.50.122.181
9 177 ms 178 ms 177 ms vl-3605-ve-229.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166
.18]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 179 ms 179 ms 179 ms 195.50.116.210
12 192 ms 192 ms 192 ms 208.117.249.38
Trace complete.
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.0.1 - 0 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 105-236-11-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za - 0 | 23 | 23 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 8 |
| ipc-recieve-rb-3a.za.mtnbusiness.net - 0 | 24 | 24 | 10 | 15 | 40 | 11 |
| rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net - 0 | 23 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 12 |
| jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net - 0 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 15 | 23 | 11 |
| qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net - 0 | 24 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 10 |
| ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-1.uk-a.mtn.net - 0 | 24 | 24 | 177 | 182 | 211 | 179 |
| 195.50.122.181 - 0 | 24 | 24 | 178 | 183 | 200 | 181 |
| vl-3607-ve-231.csw2.London1.Level3.net - 0 | 24 | 24 | 178 | 181 | 187 | 178 |
| No response from host - 100 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 195.50.116.210 - 0 | 24 | 24 | 178 | 181 | 204 | 180 |
| 208.117.249.6 - 5 | 20 | 19 | 178 | 180 | 195 | 179 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider



That is via Ethernet.
Then there is definitely something wrong with your router - which could be the cause of all your issues. Is there no way for you to get another router somehow?
ping 105.236.11.193 -t
Pinging 105.236.11.193 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 105.236.11.193: bytes=32 time=3758ms TTL=249
Reply from 105.236.11.193: bytes=32 time=490ms TTL=249
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Request timed out.
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Ping statistics for 105.236.11.193:
Packets: Sent = 54, Received = 50, Lost = 4 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 3758ms, Average = 1327ms
Control-C
C:\Windows\system32>tracert themorningpint.com
Tracing route to themorningpint.com [66.147.244.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 10.1.1.10
2 27 ms 25 ms 37 ms 105-236-7-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.7.65]
3 36 ms 42 ms 44 ms 41.181.51.182
4 66 ms 36 ms 55 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
5 74 ms 50 ms 59 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 68 ms 82 ms * 196.44.31.106
7 58 ms 55 ms 41 ms ct-nas-1--ct-ad-1-a.mtnns.net [196.44.18.86]
8 64 ms 66 ms * 196.44.18.89
9 44 ms 48 ms 40 ms 196.44.18.90
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 68 ms 39 ms 69 ms 196.44.18.90
12 39 ms 60 ms 47 ms 196.44.18.89
13 57 ms 58 ms 46 ms 196.44.18.90
14 * 49 ms 45 ms 196.44.18.89
15 84 ms 61 ms 71 ms 196.44.18.90
16 67 ms 61 ms * 196.44.18.89
17 40 ms 56 ms 41 ms 196.44.18.90
18 47 ms 40 ms 48 ms 196.44.18.89
19 53 ms 69 ms 38 ms 196.44.18.90
20 60 ms * * 196.44.18.89
21 38 ms 38 ms 62 ms 196.44.18.90
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 85 ms 50 ms 67 ms 196.44.18.90
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 75 ms 79 ms 53 ms 196.44.18.90
26 * 54 ms 111 ms 196.44.18.89
27 39 ms 40 ms 53 ms 196.44.18.90
28 * 53 ms 39 ms 196.44.18.89
29 43 ms 44 ms 58 ms 196.44.18.90
30 * 66 ms 62 ms 196.44.18.89
Trace complete.
C:\Windows\system32>
Okay, seems to be running better now. Is this the type of connection I should get used to? :erm: