Afrihost Business Uncapped Feedback

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I am thinking of moving from the 2mb Home Uncapped account to a 2mb uncapped Business account. Would you guys recommend this? What has the line speeds been like over the past 2 weeks or so. It has been horrendous on the home uncapped accounts. Thanks guys
 
Type RSA said:
I am thinking of moving from the 2mb Home Uncapped account to a 2mb uncapped Business account. Would you guys recommend this? What has the line speeds been like over the past 2 weeks or so. It has been horrendous on the home uncapped accounts. Thanks guys
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Like you I was getting frustrated with the home uncapped shaping so I moved to the 2meg business uncapped.

Data Used: 23.49 GB
Average Daily Usage: 11.75 GB
Average Monthly Usage: 775.99 MB

Those are my stats since the beginning of the month, I think the line sat idle for a few hours the other morning but otherwise it has been running maxed out 24/7. There was a hiccup last night but I don't know if ADSL was the issue or if all teh seeds disconnected. All I know is that I start to download a 40min episode and its done before I am finished with the episode I was watching.

Gaming performance has been perfect. Played BF4 last night and the only issues were caused by the MWEB servers. Was even playing on international servers with a 200ms ping and it was MORE THAN PLAYABLE.

This is a product I can seriously recommend to you Type RSA. Go to clientzone now and do the upgrade.
 
killerbyte said:
Like you I was getting frustrated with the home uncapped shaping so I moved to the 2meg business uncapped.

Data Used: 23.49 GB
Average Daily Usage: 11.75 GB
Average Monthly Usage: 775.99 MB

Those are my stats since the beginning of the month, I think the line sat idle for a few hours the other morning but otherwise it has been running maxed out 24/7. There was a hiccup last night but I don't know if ADSL was the issue or if all teh seeds disconnected. All I know is that I start to download a 40min episode and its done before I am finished with the episode I was watching.

Gaming performance has been perfect. Played BF4 last night and the only issues were caused by the MWEB servers. Was even playing on international servers with a 200ms ping and it was MORE THAN PLAYABLE.

This is a product I can seriously recommend to you Type RSA. Go to clientzone now and do the upgrade.
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Thanks for the feedback. I have moved my account over. What is your ping like in games. BF3, etc. Local servers
 
Type RSA said:
Thanks for the feedback. I have moved my account over. What is your ping like in games. BF3, etc. Local servers
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Local BF3 pings very rarely go past 40ms unless the server is taking strain. Dota 2, I play on EU servers so the ping is around 230ms. this line is the perfect combo of great speed for downloads and great pings for games.
 
I must say, I haven't noticed any degradation in service over the past week. Everything is still running well.
 
Only getting 450 - 500kbps on the 10MB Uncapped and Unshaped Business ADSL. Unacceptable speeds :(
My OpenWeb account peaks at 1.6MBPS download over FTP so my line is not at fault
 
I would be happy if Afrihost shaped blatant P2P traffic during the day, the issues with the business uncapped accounts is simple, people are abusing the service and Afrihost have over contended their uplinks.
 
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mercenary said:
I would be happy if Afrihost shaped blatant P2P traffic during the day, the issues with the business uncapped accounts is simple, people are abusing the service and Afrihost have over contended their uplinks.
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We don't believe the issue is over-subscription. If this were the case, we would have seen a gradual increase is consumption, consistent with signup increases. But that is not the case. It may be coincidence or a tipping point around the release of iOS7, but we saw a massive increase in demand and that is slowly decreasing (much slower than we'd like).

We are still hopeful that demand will continue to subside but we're also exploring other options going forward to ensure that we can meet the demand at the best possible level of quality and service.
 
cryptic1 said:
Thanks for the re-assurance Legend :). Why is the Business accounts 'unmetered' instead of 'uncapped' - forgive me for the noob question :o
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Unmetered is a term used overseas more often than here, or specifically mostly for server hosting. It's like unlimited uncapped. Although Afrihost's uncapped is already "uncapped".
 
Loads better tonight

US: Testmy.net, 12 meg download - single thread
U1NnP8t.png


-- snip --
:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 1748 Kbps or 1.7 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 12 MB or 12288 kB or 12582912 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 219 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/U1NnP8t
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 1.03 Mbps | Middle Avg 2.07 Mbps | Max 4.79 Mbps | 70% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 2.15 Mbps, 2.25 Mbps, 1.85 Mbps, 1.61 Mbps, 1.67 Mbps, 1.4 Mbps, 1.71 Mbps, 2.22 Mbps, 1.37 Mbps, 1.47 Mbps, 2.59 Mbps, 4.79 Mbps, 4.25 Mbps, 3.02 Mbps, 1.45 Mbps, 1.07 Mbps, 1.15 Mbps, 1.38 Mbps, 1.03 Mbps
More Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/965060348189
Test Time:: 2013-10-02 19:25:20 Local Time
Location:: Johannesburg, ZA ZA >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US
1MB Download in 4.68 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Hour - 31X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 12288 kB took 57.662 seconds to complete
Running at 246% of hosts average (MTN Business Solutions http://testmy.net/hoststats/mtn_business_solutio)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36 [!]
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US: speedtest.net, NY - multi thread


UK: speedtest.net, London - multi thread


PTA: speedtest.net, London - multi thread
 
Can someone please assist..

I have no shaping tonight, but an extremely erratic ping on bf3 and 4 servers. Here is 2 traceroutes done one after the other...

Code: 
Tracing route to www.google.co.za [74.125.136.94]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.254
  2    40 ms    37 ms    28 ms  105-236-3-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.3.
1]
  3    41 ms    35 ms    32 ms  ipc-recieve-rb-2a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.65]
  4    63 ms    65 ms    64 ms  rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.1
20]
  5    62 ms    59 ms    55 ms  jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.42]
  6    62 ms    39 ms    33 ms  qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
  7   201 ms   183 ms   184 ms  core2.ams.net.google.com [195.69.145.100]
  8   213 ms   220 ms   229 ms  209.85.254.90
  9   337 ms   351 ms   372 ms  72.14.238.153
 10   351 ms   356 ms   358 ms  209.85.255.75
 11   320 ms   394 ms   228 ms  209.85.254.189
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13   186 ms   189 ms   188 ms  ea-in-f94.1e100.net [74.125.136.94]

Trace complete.

2nd

Code: 
Tracing route to www.google.co.za [74.125.136.94]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.254
  2     8 ms     7 ms     7 ms  105-236-3-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.3.
1]
  3    15 ms    13 ms    10 ms  ipc-recieve-rb-2a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.65]
  4    11 ms    11 ms    10 ms  rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.1
20]
  5    10 ms    11 ms    11 ms  jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.42]
  6    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
  7   206 ms   195 ms   202 ms  core2.ams.net.google.com [195.69.145.100]
  8   221 ms   186 ms   196 ms  209.85.254.90
  9   334 ms   330 ms   331 ms  209.85.253.249
 10   334 ms   339 ms   334 ms  209.85.255.85
 11   200 ms   199 ms   245 ms  209.85.255.49
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13   187 ms   187 ms   186 ms  ea-in-f94.1e100.net [74.125.136.94]

Trace complete.

I am not sure what is causing the latency spikes...? Any help please?
 
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