Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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@Afriman - this all started last night around 8pm, why did it take so long to find out there was a problem?
 
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I actually started to see considerable degradation quite a while before then. I was up late on Friday night, and had identical problems from about 03:00 Saturday morning. I wasn't online from about 07:00 until around 19:00, so I can't say whether things were better in the interim and then screwed up again, or if I was part of a smaller group of users affected earlier for some reason. But this definitely started long before Saturday evening for me.
 
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Is everyone else still okay? Seeing intermittent problems again. Have to refresh this page two or three times before it loads -- times out the first couple of times, then loads quickly. I'm not certain this is the same problem (or extends further than me) though: I've noticed that whenever I have a torrent download going (with a rate at 30% or less of line speed), my HTTP traffic seems to get throttled into oblivion, while the torrent itself continues to download fine. I very rarely use torrents, so I don't know if this is new. If it is shaping-related, it's very frustrating: I pay for a business line specifically because most of my stuff comes in over a VPN, and I don't want to subvert shaping policy on a regular uncapped line. So Afrihost allow my big VPN traffic to continue at line speed with no side effects, while a couple of 80MB torrents destroy my connection.

Although, given the intermittent nature of the previous issue, I wonder if this is just coincidence and I'm drawing conclusions (re the torrents) when there are none to draw. Anyone experienced anything like this before?
 
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jack1986 said:
Is everyone else still okay? Seeing intermittent problems again. Have to refresh this page two or three times before it loads -- times out the first couple of times, then loads quickly.
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I have been seeing that for almost a month, sometimes it is OK but usually there is a delay initially opening any page.
The strange thing is that whilst you are now seeing that symptom, I am not, everything is loading instantly for me today.

I have never used Torrents but as I did have the same symptoms you are seeing I think it is just coincidence that you are seeing it with torrents running.

You can use this site to test for shaping http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php but I doubt that you are shaped unless the Managment software has crashed again.
 
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Thanks for the advice and confirmation. Glasnost indicates that I am not being shaped. I'll keep monitoring -- clearly some other gremlin.
 
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saixbot said:
@Afriman - this all started last night around 8pm, why did it take so long to find out there was a problem?
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Started at 14:00 briefly and then went total apeshiat from 16:30 onwards reaching a climax at 19:00.
 
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I'm not sure it's purely a AH problem. Telkom have been having issues in the South for about a week now. I've been getting crazy loss like 50% and pings 2700ms. This happens on both my AH and Telkom accounts.
 
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image132 said:
I'm not sure it's purely a AH problem. Telkom have been having issues in the South for about a week now. I've been getting crazy loss like 50% and pings 2700ms. This happens on both my AH and Telkom accounts.
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This specific issue is MTN

Since AF MTN mobile, AF, Axess Af mobile and Axes mobile experience the same issues for the same duration.
 
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True that! Btw how is your internet my AF account is flying atm to be honest getting full line speed.
 
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Like dead honest not once ever since this debacle started.

I'm seriously considering getting sushi. Way to lazy to make food now
 
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