Afrihost Business Uncapped Feedback

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What kind of quality do you guys get when streaming Hulu (via Unotelly)? I'm finding that I am getting what seems to be High quality rather than HD which my other account defaulted to. Using a 10Mbps account.
 
shadowstalker said:
Anyone in Cape town who can tell me if they have problems with 1mbps business uncapped after hours, im planning to convert my everyday uncapped to business uncapped but want to check if its worth it and not a telkom problem with my internet.

Thanks
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The easiest way would be to run a few traces routes and test with another network (I think these days a few ISP have adopted our Free GB idea). If you see differing results, then we can try to analyse for you.
 
HowTo said:
Just a bit puzzled. This morning for some reason I lost my internet.
Did a speed test with my mobile found horrible latencies.
Downloading was effected. Reset my router.
Did another speed test, found test ok.
Also checked ping with Afrihost all 10ms pings. Then did a tracert to afrihost 3rd hop +/-200ms pings.
Some of the hops even timed out. Did this a couple of times. Still all over the show.

Switched over to WA capped account downloads are flying.
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Sounds like there could have been an issue on our side, but would be good to see those trace results. 3rd hope depends on your network setup, but it's generally within our network (if you're not using bridge mode or pass through).

Is it like this today?
 
Vlad_M said:
What kind of quality do you guys get when streaming Hulu (via Unotelly)? I'm finding that I am getting what seems to be High quality rather than HD which my other account defaulted to. Using a 10Mbps account.
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On Hulu, Netflix and Twitch, I cannot stream HD at all. When I switch to my free 1GB capped account, HD streaming works perfectly on all services. AH doesn't seem to know why this is so. This will be my last month on AH if the streaming situation doesn't improve by the 25th.
 
Vlad_M said:
What kind of quality do you guys get when streaming Hulu (via Unotelly)? I'm finding that I am getting what seems to be High quality rather than HD which my other account defaulted to. Using a 10Mbps account.
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Not sure if this is about Uncapped or Unotelly? If you're getting high quality streams, that's good, right? :)
 
efitol said:
On Hulu, Netflix and Twitch, I cannot stream HD at all. When I switch to my free 1GB capped account, HD streaming works perfectly on all services. AH doesn't seem to know why this is so. This will be my last month on AH if the streaming situation doesn't improve by the 25th.
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Who do you suggest for better streaming? I'll give them a try as well.
 
whatwhat said:
Who do you suggest for better streaming? I'll give them a try as well.
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I don't know yet, my plan is to get prorata'd accounts from 2-3 providers on around the 20th (cheaper :p) and start testing. The best one stays.
 
whatwhat said:
Who do you suggest for better streaming? I'll give them a try as well.
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Yesterday during the day I was streaming both Twitch and Netflix at the same both without issue on my Web Africa Business 10Meg account.

They have a free 1GB account you can sign up for to test.
 
Chevron said:
Yesterday during the day I was streaming both Twitch and Netflix at the same both without issue on my Web Africa Business 10Meg account.

They have a free 1GB account you can sign up for to test.
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But dont they have star ratings on their business accounts as well?
 
This is getting ridiculous now......

Even Soundcloud streaming does not load anymore.
ADSL line also disconnects when the landline gets a call (it is not the POTS filter, been through 5 of them now in the last week and no change at all).

And still no feedback from Telkom. F***ing pathetic.....
 
Bursty-dude said:
It does not work. Highest "speed" stays at 2Mb no matter what other sync speed I try.
That was the first thing I did 2 weeks ago.

Hellscum has dropped our line to 2Mb and I am waiting for AH feedback.
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Damn thats annoying :/

What does telkom.co.za/checkadsl respond with?

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whatwhat said:
But dont they have star ratings on their business accounts as well?
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Yeah, but you can get about 500-600 gigs done a month during the day before you get to 2stars. That excludes 00:00-06:00 usage that doesn't count towards stars. And after 17:00 it unshapes anyway regardless of your stars.
 
Afriman, the business accounts run on the mtn network, if the mtn network went down for some reason, do the business accounts have a backup line they will be moved to, or left in the dark?
 
Afriman, I have tried calling your accounts department now 4 times, I hear the ladies talking in the background and then the call cuts off.... :confused:
 
Phinix said:
Afriman, the business accounts run on the mtn network, if the mtn network went down for some reason, do the business accounts have a backup line they will be moved to, or left in the dark?
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If the whole MTN network crashed - which is pretty unlikely - we'd probably have to look at alternatives depending on the severity and time period. It's something on a scale you can't really have a redundancy for - so there is no failsafe as such. But within the MTN network there is massive redundancy built-into the network, so it wouldn't just be 100% failure on the network (because the network is 100% redundant as I understand) it would literally need to be 200% failure (primary and secondary failure on every level) for the entire network to go dark. Has never happened in my experience and I very much doubt we'll see something like that unless there is a nuclear bomb attack (in fact, even then some MTN facilities are EMP proof!!)
 
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