Afrihost Capped ADSL Feedback (MTN) - New beginning

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AfriGenie said:
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Which web browser are you using at the moment? Are you using the Afrihost DNS Servers are the moment?
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Chrome Browser and Google DNS.
I took a break for dinner and everything appears to be back to normal.
3rd time it has happened today but each time it has been short lived and resolved itself in a few minuets.

Strange but could be a google's fault, not Afrihost, as everything else is fine.
 
NEWSFLASH!!! Afrihost is streaming Twitch with no buffering while my WebAfrica account is buffering insanely!
 
I have serious issues with my afrihost account. Especially when using google services, youtube buffers on a 144p stream. I am using the Afrihost DNS. This has been going on for days now. :mad:

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caroper said:
Chrome Browser and Google DNS.
I took a break for dinner and everything appears to be back to normal.
3rd time it has happened today but each time it has been short lived and resolved itself in a few minuets.

Strange but could be a google's fault, not Afrihost, as everything else is fine.
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Very interesting... I wonder if this is perhaps related to the widespread issues with Chrome at the moment.
 
Cake_Pax said:
I have serious issues with my afrihost account. Especially when using google services, youtube buffers on a 144p stream. I am using the Afrihost DNS. This has been going on for days now. :mad:

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Are you using Chrome by any chance? There have been significant issues with Chrome over the past few days, and Google is busy investigating the cause.
 
Damn tonight I cant stream YouTube properly.
Wow is yellow and @ 355ms world latency.

Speedtest looks fine getting 11meg Download on a 17Meg line.

Every month I curse Afrihost on how totally Sh][T they are! ,I promising myself I will cancel and move to CrystalWeb.
But then I have hope that they sort out their sh][t and they don't.
And now another month of total cr@p. I need to grab my B@lls and make a move.

Even our office at work has issues with the account I subscribed. going to move all our stuff away from MTN (including our hosting facilities.)
I've made comments every now and then in this forum, The Afripeeps just ignore me now.
Afrihost has become a frustrating experience. I Had Faith things will change. But FSK its a never ending story !!!
AND PLS for FSK sake DO NOT ASK ME TO BE YOUR BETA TESTER!!!!

AFRIHOST YOU SUCK!!!!!!
I'm actually getting ][ pissed off with this inconsistency. And it not just my account that will be lost !!!!
 
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Chrome, Firefox and Android. Same results.

Strange that you ask AfriGenie, does my command prompt window look like Chrome to you?
 
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YeaNutz said:
Every other thing has an issue except Afrihost !!!!
You guys are becoming pathetic and I am loosing my patience too.
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I'm strongly considering cancelling my account after that reply by AfriGenie. Like you said, pathetic.
 
WHY CANT I CONNECT TO D3 TONIGHT!!!!! FFS GUYS GET YOUR **** TOGETHER!!!!! This is getting ridiculous now & don't come with your spin doctor bull**** of it being google or my line or my exchange, it has come to the point where I have run out of free cap from trial accounts just to play D3, why is it that you cant buy once off data from isp's, now I am stuck with this *** internet that doesn't even work. & now i am stuck for another month even if I cancel. FIX THE PROBLEM IN THE SOUTHERN REGION!!!!
 
NeoNarchy said:
WHY CANT I CONNECT TO D3 TONIGHT!!!!! FFS GUYS GET YOUR **** TOGETHER!!!!! This is getting ridiculous now & don't come with your spin doctor bull**** of it being google or my line or my exchange, it has come to the point where I have run out of free cap from trial accounts just to play D3, why is it that you cant buy once off data from isp's, now I am stuck with this *** internet that doesn't even work. & now i am stuck for another month even if I cancel. FIX THE PROBLEM IN THE SOUTHERN REGION!!!!
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Cancel and move on. Your fault for sticking with an ISP that doesn't give a ****
 
AfriGenie said:
Are you using Chrome by any chance? There have been significant issues with Chrome over the past few days, and Google is busy investigating the cause.
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Please explain. We've not had any reports of this whatsoever so if it's an issue I'd also like to know.
 
DJ... said:
Please explain. We've not had any reports of this whatsoever so if it's an issue I'd also like to know.
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Hi DJ...

This is related to a comment and suggestion I made in the uncapped thread where a user was complaining about a capped 30kB/s rate on his YouTube videos. I commented and bet he was using Chrome and should switch to FF and use it's flash based player. He did and YouTube streamed perfectly.

This was an issue I picked up on Chrome as well. Videos playing with the HTML 5 player would just lock the downstream rate at a crazy low rate, yet in FF they would fly.


However what Afri* is forgetting here is that this is NOT a Chrome issue and Google ain't investigating nothing (from my googling anyway), because this problem ONLY exists on Afrihost's network. Only when using them as the ISP and using Chrome would this occur. I'm almost sorry I helped the user with my comment as it seems to have given them another avenue of excuses to hide behind.

ATT Afrihost: The problem is on YOUR side.
 
Sidious28 said:
Issues still persisting on EU servers (HoTS and PoE). Will try again tomorrow and see if there is any change.

PS. when joining the PoE EU server pings are hitting 1000ms+ (and flatlining), soon as I swap over the US server for PoE everything is normal (Avg 280ms). So something is clearly wrong with the EU connections.

Youtube seems to have sorted itself out, for the time being.
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All our international links terminate in EU and are then carried over secondary network links to the US, so we'd know if EU access was broken. More likely that there is a problem with the EU hosting network where the US one is performing better. 280ms to a US server would be pretty good latency.
 
DJ... said:
Please explain. We've not had any reports of this whatsoever so if it's an issue I'd also like to know.
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One of the major technology universities (can't remember which) issued an communique on this. It seems it was related to UDP on an extension and was causing Google services in particular to act weird. Dunno if they fixed it on their side.
 
Orihalcon said:
Hi DJ...

This is related to a comment and suggestion I made in the uncapped thread where a user was complaining about a capped 30kB/s rate on his YouTube videos. I commented and bet he was using Chrome and should switch to FF and use it's flash based player. He did and YouTube streamed perfectly.

This was an issue I picked up on Chrome as well. Videos playing with the HTML 5 player would just lock the downstream rate at a crazy low rate, yet in FF they would fly.


However what Afri* is forgetting here is that this is NOT a Chrome issue and Google ain't investigating nothing (from my googling anyway), because this problem ONLY exists on Afrihost's network. Only when using them as the ISP and using Chrome would this occur. I'm almost sorry I helped the user with my comment as it seems to have given them another avenue of excuses to hide behind.

ATT Afrihost: The problem is on YOUR side.
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As far as we know it was related to a Chrome plug-in or extension. We didn't make any changes for the issue to be resolved.
 
NeoNarchy said:
WHY CANT I CONNECT TO D3 TONIGHT!!!!! FFS GUYS GET YOUR **** TOGETHER!!!!! This is getting ridiculous now & don't come with your spin doctor bull**** of it being google or my line or my exchange, it has come to the point where I have run out of free cap from trial accounts just to play D3, why is it that you cant buy once off data from isp's, now I am stuck with this *** internet that doesn't even work. & now i am stuck for another month even if I cancel. FIX THE PROBLEM IN THE SOUTHERN REGION!!!!
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There are still period of contention in the South and we're seeing that there are periods where latency is very high. We're doing everything we can to bring this back under control, especially for gamers.
 
YeaNutz said:
Damn tonight I cant stream YouTube properly.
Wow is yellow and @ 355ms world latency.

Speedtest looks fine getting 11meg Download on a 17Meg line.

Every month I curse Afrihost on how totally Sh][T they are! ,I promising myself I will cancel and move to CrystalWeb.
But then I have hope that they sort out their sh][t and they don't.
And now another month of total cr@p. I need to grab my B@lls and make a move.

Even our office at work has issues with the account I subscribed. going to move all our stuff away from MTN (including our hosting facilities.)
I've made comments every now and then in this forum, The Afripeeps just ignore me now.
Afrihost has become a frustrating experience. I Had Faith things will change. But FSK its a never ending story !!!
AND PLS for FSK sake DO NOT ASK ME TO BE YOUR BETA TESTER!!!!

AFRIHOST YOU SUCK!!!!!!
I'm actually getting ][ pissed off with this inconsistency. And it not just my account that will be lost !!!!
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I'm so sorry to read this, I can see we're letting you down and I really appreciate that there is still a hope in your post that we will resolve this. I believe the guys working on this will get this right, and they are working around the clock on making your experience better. I'm really hoping that we'll see more improvement. At the moment we're seeing some latency creep back at peak periods, which we had managed to bring under control.
 
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