Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

[Thor]

At 11:55 I switch to Webafrica 50TB

 

[MelvinBOT]

Anyone else having problems at midnight? My account goes for a ball of **** at exactly midnight every night. I lag out of wow and then my teamspeak server becomes all gargled. I have to change to an IS account to be able to play again.

Im pretty ****ed off with afrihost right now as at midnight I was half way through an important instance and now Im locked out for 24 hours because I was lagged out.

ghoti, I am unable to play dota, cs, lol and other multiplayer games because of afrihost I was banned for 7 days in cs:go, IT SUCKS!

 

[MelvinBOT]

At 11:55 I switch to Webafrica 50TB

Thor, there is not enough room in a normal pc for 50TB of hardrives, what are you doing with all that data?

 

[slvR]

ghoti, I am unable to play dota, cs, lol and other multiplayer games because of afrihost I was banned for 7 days in cs:go, IT SUCKS!

How were you banned for 7 days?
Only way this could happen is if you get kicked more than 8 times in a week or you abandon games often...

 

[Thor]

1st I don't have a normal pc (obviously I am Thor after all)

2nd I download the Internet.

 

[Gatecrasher]

1st I don't have a normal pc (obviously I am Thor after all)

2nd I download the Internet.

You really should be upgraded from Grandmaster to God.

 

[Thor]

I can't wait till they allow me to do that. That's all I wanted for x-mas whish RPM was my friend

 

[BrendanMc]

I can't wait till they allow me to do that. That's all I wanted for x-mas whish RPM was my friend

And he adopts cats and stuff

 

[Thor]

Hahahaha. I love cats

 

[Masik3R]

ghoti, I am unable to play dota, cs, lol and other multiplayer games because of afrihost I was banned for 7 days in cs:go, IT SUCKS!

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Not sticking up for Afrihost, they do have their problems, but this sounds like your line is dropping out? If so, this is a Telkom issue and will happen no matter what ISP you use.

Apart from the odd packet loss issue, I have no problems playing any online game and I'm sure most other people using Afrihost would agree.

 

[attienel]

Anyone else have problems with Netflix? Youtube streams fine on HD but Netflix wont playback.

 

[w1z4rd]

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Not sticking up for Afrihost, they do have their problems, but this sounds like your line is dropping out? If so, this is a Telkom issue and will happen no matter what ISP you use.

Apart from the odd packet loss issue, I have no problems playing any online game and I'm sure most other people using Afrihost would agree.

I wanna know the explanation for my internet connection turning into a ball of **** at midnight (consistently). I have now dubbed Afrihost... The Cinderella Connection.

 

[Aquiva]

Anyone else have problems with Netflix? Youtube streams fine on HD but Netflix wont playback.

This has always been the issue with Afrihost since they moved from IS. They always say they are looking into it, but it hasn't ever been fixed!

 

[caroper]

I wanna know the explanation for my internet connection turning into a ball of **** at midnight (consistently). I have now dubbed Afrihost... The Cinderella Connection.

My line also resets at Midnight and always has no matter which ISP I use. The reset is, I believe, necessary to update the use profiles for capped accounts. I am not sure if it is the BRAS at the Exchange that performs the reset or the ISP, but I have often wished that the user could choose when it occurred.
Like you, I find that I am often in the middle of some critical real time situation, and lose track of time, only to suddenly lose connection.

 

[Thor]

Funny, I never experienced this?

How long does it last?

 

[caroper]

Funny, I never experienced this?

How long does it last?

Not long, a minuet at most, but long enough for many servers to log you out.
There is also the possibility that you will be assigned a new IP address to, which compounds the issue because the server then sees you as a new session.

 

[Masik3R]

I wanna know the explanation for my internet connection turning into a ball of **** at midnight (consistently). I have now dubbed Afrihost... The Cinderella Connection.

Does latency just spike or does your account disconnect then reconnect?

 

[MelvinBOT]

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Not sticking up for Afrihost, they do have their problems, but this sounds like your line is dropping out? If so, this is a Telkom issue and will happen no matter what ISP you use.

Apart from the odd packet loss issue, I have no problems playing any online game and I'm sure most other people using Afrihost would agree.

LOL, since my line is hosted by Webafrica have you seen me complaining? my line is working 100%, if it holds, hello 20vdsl and 12 TB hardrives

 

[Calv]

Any more feedback on this yet?

Please respond to this, you said you would give feedback last week, the Internet here is still terrible.

 

[GarethY]

Youtube still seems to be routing overseas...

AH - tracert from my PC

C:\Windows\system32>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.233.0]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.1.1.10
  2    19 ms    22 ms    19 ms  105-236-7-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.7.65]
  3    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
  4    37 ms    34 ms    33 ms  tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
  5    40 ms    36 ms    70 ms  compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
  6   178 ms   178 ms   179 ms  ls-cr-2.uk--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]
  7   178 ms   177 ms   178 ms  ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.187]
  8   178 ms   178 ms   178 ms  google-peering-ls-pr-2.uk.mtnns.net [209.212.99.13]
  9   178 ms   269 ms   179 ms  209.85.255.76
 10   203 ms   197 ms   199 ms  66.249.95.9
 11   197 ms   197 ms   200 ms  72.14.237.239
 12   197 ms   196 ms   199 ms  jnb01s07-in-f0.1e100.net [74.125.233.0]

Trace complete.

AH - tracert directly from modem on line #1

Tracertingwww.youtube.com[74.125.230.66] ,Maximum hops:30
1	16ms	24ms	15ms	105.236.7.65
2	33ms	31ms	30ms	41.181.201.94
3	31ms	29ms	30ms	66.8.11.186
4	32ms	33ms	31ms	196.44.18.2
5	180ms	174ms	174ms	196.44.31.113
6	174ms	174ms	175ms	209.212.111.187
7	174ms	179ms	174ms	209.212.99.13
8	175ms	174ms	174ms	209.85.255.76
9	175ms	174ms	174ms	72.14.238.21
10	174ms	173ms	174ms	74.125.230.66
< Completed >

AH - tracert directly from modem on line #2

Tracertingwww.youtube.com[74.125.230.69] ,Maximum hops:30
1	15ms	15ms	14ms	105.236.7.65
2	31ms	40ms	44ms	41.181.221.254
3	44ms	45ms	40ms	41.181.184.28
4	42ms	45ms	46ms	196.44.18.2
5	187ms	174ms	194ms	196.44.31.113
6	184ms	173ms	173ms	209.212.111.187
7	235ms	186ms	192ms	209.212.99.13
8	194ms	174ms	174ms	209.85.255.76
9	174ms	196ms	173ms	72.14.238.21
10	174ms	174ms	194ms	74.125.230.69
< Completed >

AH - tracert directly from modem on line #3

Tracertingwww.youtube.com[216.58.208.32] ,Maximum hops:30
1	*	*	*	Request timed out.
2	31ms	30ms	41ms	41.181.53.150
3	30ms	30ms	29ms	66.8.11.186
4	48ms	31ms	31ms	196.44.18.2
5	175ms	175ms	175ms	196.44.31.113
6	174ms	175ms	189ms	209.212.111.187
7	185ms	175ms	175ms	209.212.99.13
8	174ms	176ms	178ms	209.85.255.78
9	175ms	175ms	174ms	216.239.51.235
10	174ms	175ms	174ms	216.58.208.32
< Completed >

AH - tracert directly from modem on line #4

Tracertingwww.youtube.com[74.125.230.64] ,Maximum hops:30
1	24ms	15ms	28ms	105.236.7.65
2	47ms	30ms	30ms	41.181.221.254
3	30ms	29ms	67ms	41.181.184.28
4	66ms	31ms	51ms	196.44.18.2
5	184ms	174ms	181ms	196.44.31.113
6	173ms	173ms	199ms	209.212.111.187
7	191ms	174ms	174ms	209.212.99.13
8	181ms	175ms	197ms	209.85.255.76
9	175ms	174ms	174ms	72.14.238.21
10	175ms	201ms	174ms	74.125.230.64
< Completed >

IS - tracert from my PC

C:\Windows\system32>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.233.0]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.1.1.10
  2    19 ms    18 ms    18 ms  196-210-155-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.155.129]
  3    36 ms    35 ms    34 ms  vlan2473.cdsl2-ctn.isdsl.net [196.38.72.193]
  4    34 ms    35 ms    34 ms  196.35.115.136
  5    39 ms    63 ms    55 ms  168.209.2.13
  6    46 ms    34 ms    54 ms  168.209.6.12
  7    50 ms    53 ms    62 ms  168.209.100.101
  8    49 ms    50 ms    53 ms  196.26.0.130
  9    53 ms    61 ms    57 ms  72.14.205.16
 10    52 ms    51 ms    50 ms  72.14.237.239
 11    51 ms    50 ms    53 ms  jnb01s07-in-f0.1e100.net [74.125.233.0]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>

You guys can definitely say no to my request, but would you mind trying this trick that giggity posted? http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/665929-Tutorial-Fix-Afrihost-YouTube-problems-%2810-12-14%29

It does work, but I'm not prepared to change it manually on every single computer on my network, especially because doing so may cause further issues down the line if IP addresses change. Please sort it out.