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Hi all,

I switched from web africa to Afrihost (capped) in november last year and all was great.
But for the last 2 months I have only been getting max speeds of 40-60 KB/s on my 4 meg line, before that it was around 300-400KB/s.

My question is, has anyone else experienced this ? do you think afrihost have changed their contention ratios or throttled lines since the launch of their uncapped service?

or is it my line ??

here are my line stats:

Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin: 28.0 13.0 db
Line Attenuation: 21.0 9.5 db
Data Rate: 4096 512 kbps


Any help would be gladly appreciated!
 
I'm using afrihost capped account as well, and my speed is fine and maxed on my 512, but international latency is way higher that it was before the whole SEACOM story.

So if your international speed is so slow, then it might be that SA still has got some issues with the routing of international traffic.

Try using www.speedtest.net so you can see what your local line speed is for your 4mb line. If the test shows around 40-60KB/s then there might be something wrong with your adsl line.

I know that Afrihost CAPPED accounts aren't limited by speed, whereas their UNCAPPED accounts differ per speed. But you have the capped account, so the "speed limiting" factor should not be on Afrihost's side.
 
AeroVPS said:
Remember that uncapped accounts are shaped if you're trying to download torrents, etc.
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Yes, actually, all Afrihost accounts are shaped and throttled for torrents and peer to peer downloads, but this only occurs during office hours. Uncapped accounts are however throttled to a greater extent than capped. After let's say 7pm you should have full speed on your downloads, even torrents, if there are sufficient seeders for the content of course.
 
I am also on a 4MB Afrihost CAPPED account and my line speeds have been atrocious this week. Here are the results of a speedtest I just did:

DL: 0.32Mb/s
UL: 0.38Mb/s
Ping: 280ms

Useless. is this still due to the SEACOM issues?
 
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