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Pleased with the speeds I am getting (4mbps business on 8/1 line). I was hoping for more like 5mbps download since there is a huge overhead between 4mbps and 8mbps, but I suppose it's limited to 4mbps or lower.
I'm not feeling to strongly about the whole unshaped thing though, to be honest. I love the fact that I don't get throttled and all services have 100% bandwidth capability, but I find it incredibly annoying when watching a stream and someone else starts watching a YouTube video; the video takes over completely and makes the stream buffer.
Does anyone know how I can counter this? I have a D-Link DSL2750U router (piece of junk) and the QoS settings are complete gibberish.
Also, pings are about 30-40ms worse than Telkom's for international... Is there any way to fix this? Is there a Durban IPC?
Thanks Afrihost for the great service so far
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Pleased with the speeds I am getting (4mbps business on 8/1 line). I was hoping for more like 5mbps download since there is a huge overhead between 4mbps and 8mbps, but I suppose it's limited to 4mbps or lower.
I'm not feeling to strongly about the whole unshaped thing though, to be honest. I love the fact that I don't get throttled and all services have 100% bandwidth capability, but I find it incredibly annoying when watching a stream and someone else starts watching a YouTube video; the video takes over completely and makes the stream buffer.
Does anyone know how I can counter this? I have a D-Link DSL2750U router (piece of junk) and the QoS settings are complete gibberish.
Also, pings are about 30-40ms worse than Telkom's for international... Is there any way to fix this? Is there a Durban IPC?
Thanks Afrihost for the great service so far
These speeds are a bit slow for an 8Mbps account, what package and line speed do you have?
QoS can sometimes yield the best results when just left alone, others take a bit of tweaking to perfect.
In terms of additional latency, is can depend on the route the traffic takes and where it breaks out. Have you run any comparison traceroutes?
We have IPC links in CPT, JHB and DBN
AH seems very strict on their account speeds. Even when I was using my 10Mb Business account on 20Mb sync it would speedtest at 9.2Mb. A few months ago it would run slightly faster at 12Mb but it seems those screws were tightened a bit.
Was sad to put my cancellation in last night for my 20Mb business as it was pretty perfect in everything except streaming, but the streaming has just been getting progressively worse.
PurSpyk!!
Expert Member
Not too sure what Afrihost define as soon, but still no call. Not too sure why we have to beg for support?
These speeds are a bit slow for an 8Mbps account, what package and line speed do you have?
QoS can sometimes yield the best results when just left alone, others take a bit of tweaking to perfect.
In terms of additional latency, is can depend on the route the traffic takes and where it breaks out. Have you run any comparison traceroutes?
We have IPC links in CPT, JHB and DBN
As it says in the post, 4mbps business uncapped (not an 8mbps package) 8mbps/1mbps line.
I can't provide a comparison tracert with a Telkom account because I do not have one any more. I shall ask a mate who lives near to do a tracert for me later.
Streaming is honestly just terrible. Nobody here and nothing is downloading, but I can't stream a 360p Twitch stream :/
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I'll follow up with the guys to see what progress is being made here.
Is all your streaming poor or just Twitch? We've seen some very mixed experiences when using Twitch.
Twitch only. Am I going to have to get a VPN or something to actually be able to watch streams?
Ho3n3r
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The question is more why can't the reason for Twitch and other streams streaming badly, not be identified and fixed ASAP? Probably 30% of the posts in this thread in the last 6 months have been about the ****ty streaming, but it still continues. What's weird is, some days it is 100% fine, and then on other days, you can't do jack **** with it.
Please sort it out, or let us know you dunno what's going on so we can move.
sybertiger
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i have to agree torrents and everyhing is fine
but streaming can be a pain
but streaming can be a pain
PurSpyk!!
Expert Member
Cant agree more, this service is good for torrents and general browsing, stream is extremely poor from anything other than Youtube. They must have set certain limits or something on certain sites or services, but cannot admit it.
Do you have a stream URL I can checkout?
I think the queries around Twitch have been covered a lot - some streams work, others don't. These same streams can be poor for one client and good for another - we can't pinpoint a specific issue.
Also doing some research on this a while back, other ISPs overseas see their users query this too. So not sure if it's the way Twitch's providers are peered, but we can't replicate the issues.
Try out any stream on twitch.tv. they all lag for me
Trying out this stream on high, I'm seeing bursts of traffic up to around 650KB/s, normalising down to about 400KB/s.
No buffering on high though.
http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames
sybertiger
Expert Member
afri guy
i just got upgraded to 8mbps
if i want to upgrade from 6mbps to 8mbps package
i will just pay the diffrence between the to? as its already past the 25th
i just got upgraded to 8mbps
if i want to upgrade from 6mbps to 8mbps package
i will just pay the diffrence between the to? as its already past the 25th
Correctos
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sybertiger
Expert Member
ty
just emailed them
telkom za told me that my DSLam supports 20mbps
but to far from the exchange
would of realy liked to get that 20
just emailed them
telkom za told me that my DSLam supports 20mbps
but to far from the exchange
would of realy liked to get that 20
ty
just emailed them
telkom za told me that my DSLam supports 20mbps
but to far from the exchange
would of realy liked to get that 20
Sucks
Find the exchange, and look for a new place that's closer. Or pitch a tent next to it
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