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Question of the Day: How much would you be willing to pay for a next-generation gaming console?
Afrihost Capped ADSL Feedback (MTN) - New beginning
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Johnatan56
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Nah, I will be back for the last two day of the month, if I don't manage I'll let you have some fun.
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I don't know hey, for a 6mbps line it's performing pretty well when Afrihost doesn't have problems:
Johnatan56
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You should be able to get 20Mbps on that line. You are paying for 10Mbps and only receiving 6Mbps.
Tried to download a 75MB file (http) on Afrihost. 40KB/s.
Switch to an IS-based account and whoosh. 800KB/s.
Yeah whole weekend were fine now suddenly out of nowhere.
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kohlhtor
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See no local Peering to akamai
Remember that Telkom also installed fibre to many DPs from the exchange, this also improved the ability for some lines to achieve higher speeds more stably that previously.
So many gigs, and buggerall that I can do with it.
Trying to watch a Youtube video in 720p but at 150-200KB/s there's not much I can do except wait for it to buffer every five seconds.
Sorry to hear that. Strangely, my reports are showing that performance should have been good through the weekend expect late on Sunday in the South. One traceroute that I did see on PM was showing high Telkom latency, so not sure if yours showed the same. I didn't do much testing on the current network this weekend myself
Yeah, that fits with my reports. Demand was lot as far as I could see, latency should have been good for most the weekend, except a spike in the South last night.
ASSIA could be managing the line down to 6 for a number of reasons. But Telkom are introducing an 8Mbps line product soon, so that may be a better way to go to get 6 and save a little. Not sure of the final pricing, but expect it will fall below the current R399 price from our side.
Tried to download a 75MB file (http) on Afrihost. 40KB/s.
Switch to an IS-based account and whoosh. 800KB/s.
Even though latency is low, it's hard for me to see if demand is low enough that throughput will be as good as it should be. Demand in the North seemed like it was fairly consistent throughout the weekend.
We'll have to look into that, though we're more focused right now on making sure that all these things are in place for the new networks for our clients to experience and test.
This is a bit weird though, the second trace just suddenly pops up in the US, with a pretty odd ping. I think that's what I'm reading, the detail is a little fuzzy even when I zoom in. We're both peering with Akamai CDN's, except we peer in Amsterdam, which is where our cable terminate. Maybe it's different, though I don't know any local cables that link directly to the US (I know the BRICS cable is meant to at some stage)
So... do we have an ETA on the super duper awesome ninja interwebs yet? I need to know before the 24th...
Very poor latency almost ruined gaming/streaming last night... luckily I had a backup account. On our local server all Afrihost users (3 of them) had a ping of ~250. Switched to a backup ISP on my side and ping was 10 again.... they had to struggle on.
It should be noted that download speeds were fine as far as I could see.
Very poor latency almost ruined gaming/streaming last night... luckily I had a backup account. On our local server all Afrihost users (3 of them) had a ping of ~250. Switched to a backup ISP on my side and ping was 10 again.... they had to struggle on.
It should be noted that download speeds were fine as far as I could see.
I don't have an ETA for clients to get onto the network but I know that we've got a whole lot of internal people now stress testing the network and testing popular protocols and services like gaming, Skype, VPN, SSH etc so that we make sure that when clients test, all the heavy lifting has already been done.
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