Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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Latency is significantly worse to the EU and US for me:

Afrihost (MTN):
PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_req=1 ttl=238 time=242 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_req=2 ttl=238 time=251 ms

Webafrica (only reference I have):
PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_req=1 ttl=242 time=159 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_req=2 ttl=242 time=159 ms

While jitter to most destinations was around 5ms under IS, it's gone to about 30ms under MTN:
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Downloading from my server in the UK used to happen at line speed under IS (600 KB/s) now I can barely get 200 KB/s if I'm lucky. Peering links don't seem to be nearly as good as they were under IS, for example speed test to Dallas, TX:

Afrihost(MTN):
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Webafrica (Again not the best, but you get the idea):
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Unless conditions improve or I can elect to use the IS backbone again I'll have to switch ISPs unfortunately, as I'm quite dependent on good overseas speeds.
 
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I have to agree with eXiS, we have got good speed, but have gone from a near perfect international connection to 7-9% packet loss and jitter of almost 80 ms. I hope they get this resolved soon.
 
Yeah speeds seem to be OK in most cases.. busy with a linux distro from Astra web, and it's up and down... peaks at 480 then down to 0 and back up. - 4meg line. Not looking too good at the moment for news servers.
 
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My speeds are fail, browsing is slow. Gaming is horrible had to you FNB connect last night. Sadly this will be the last month I am with afrihost. I pay for a capped account for the speed and low latency. MTN backbone is horrible.
 
smtp.afrihost.co.za not working for me Any ideas?
 
Barfish88 said:
My speeds are fail, browsing is slow. Gaming is horrible had to you FNB connect last night. Sadly this will be the last month I am with afrihost. I pay for a capped account for the speed and low latency. MTN backbone is horrible.
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Cant agree more ...I have just cancelled my Afrihost account ...remember if you cancel it must be before the 25th.
 
Unfortunately today the connection was really all over the place, there were times I had 0.23Mbits, and others at 2.4Mbits... (on a 4Mbit line) But during the day time for sure, was between 0.9 and 1.24 . I'll pass it off as teething problems, will wait and see what happens. The pings to Europe fly between 200 and 350ms.

Best way to describe the experience, it feels like I'm throttled during the day time, something I don't associate with afrihost at all. I hope it gets sorted out soon. I don't really feel like paying R500 more to some other ISP that would provide barely comparable quality to Afrihost before Tuesday.

Patiently waiting for improvements. :)
 
Not looking good for me either. Tested it this morning for the first time since the changeover to MTN. 10mbit line, capped afrihost account.

Cape Town to Cape Town
2.35mbits download/ 0.85 mbits up

Cape Town to USA
0.35mbits download /0.40 mbits up

I normally use Mweb as my main ISP, and just tried out my backup Afrihost this morning. Since I was considering moving to Afrihosts 10mbit uncapped option, I am very hesitant now.
 
My speed in Jozi after the change are fine, my latency however is crap :(

My DOTA 2 latency prior to change however around 200 - 250, its now double that, on an afrigamer account :(
 
I'm not even going to try DOTA2 until the IPC is up in Cape Town. I already have two abandons next to my name because of Afrihost...
 
@Afriman... why not throw in a buy 1 gb and get 3 gb topup for us capped users, so we can stress test this baby ??
 
AfriMan said:
Hmmm, I wish I could just say "Yes" :)

PM me, I'll see what I can do for you.
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Haha, I probably won't make use of it. (I mostly game, FTP, host gaming servers etc.. I don't install multiple linux distros everynight that uses mega gigs) :p

Just a thought I had to let some folkies that only have the free gig to see what the new network is like.

Thanks for the offer tho'

Oh, you still have a PM from me from ages ago.
 
Dan C said:
Haha, I probably won't make use of it. (I mostly game, FTP, host gaming servers etc.. I don't install multiple linux distros everynight that uses mega gigs) :p

Just a thought I had to let some folkies that only have the free gig to see what the new network is like.

Thanks for the offer tho'

Oh, you still have a PM from me from ages ago.
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Serious? :)

Sorry man, dunno how I missed that, usually answer all my PM's :confused:

Just PM me again.
 
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