Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

[RoosTa]

Seems a bit better now:

London


New York



Another ISP:

 

[JMC]

@ Afriman
Tested 4 accounts. Afrihost capped - poor. Afrihost free 1GB - poor. Telkom uncapped - poor (as expected / anticipated). Web Africa free 1GB- very good. Additionally ran same (streaming speed tests- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics#results) at 12.07pm today. At that stage Telkom uncapped was seriously outperfoming Afrihost capped. Results sent to Afrihost support. Have just (7.56pm) run the same speed test on AH. Flying! Currently a happy customer.

 

[AfriMan]

@ Afriman
Tested 4 accounts. Afrihost capped - poor. Afrihost free 1GB - poor. Telkom uncapped - poor (as expected / anticipated). Web Africa free 1GB- very good. Additionally ran same (streaming speed tests- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics#results) at 12.07pm today. At that stage Telkom uncapped was seriously outperfoming Afrihost capped. Results sent to Afrihost support. Have just (7.56pm) run the same speed test on AH. Flying! Currently a happy customer.

Was a bit confused - so I had to read through your post a second time. Glad it's all flying now - but drop me a PM anytime if you not getting the performance you should be

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

@ Afriman
Tested 4 accounts. Afrihost capped - poor. Afrihost free 1GB - poor. Telkom uncapped - poor (as expected / anticipated). Web Africa free 1GB- very good. Additionally ran same (streaming speed tests- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics#results) at 12.07pm today. At that stage Telkom uncapped was seriously outperfoming Afrihost capped. Results sent to Afrihost support. Have just (7.56pm) run the same speed test on AH. Flying! Currently a happy customer.

Roger that. 10-4 over.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Afriman/Guy/Entity, any news on a fix for that 40Mbps Clientzone bug? Not a biggie, but would be nice for it to display the correct sync rates.

 

[Ianf1]

Are Afrihost going to run some 2 for 1 data topup deals? Looks like I might need them later as there was a lot of software downloads that chewed the data.

 

[getafix33]

WTF is happening. Trying to watch rugby via wiziwig at 175kb stream and it buffers EVERY few seconds. This is really BS. Speedtest is perfect and downloads run at 1MB/s.

This is so irritating

 

[Wackyza]

I am quite sure they probably getting their feed from a supersport link. Last few weekends had no issues streaming off supersport. This weekend its stuttering along.

WTF is happening. Trying to watch rugby via wiziwig at 175kb stream and it buffers EVERY few seconds. This is really BS. Speedtest is perfect and downloads run at 1MB/s.

This is so irritating

 

[RoosTa]

This is interesting, seems streaming is capped at 4mb/s?

Afrihost streaming speeds:


Another ISP:

 

[Hectic]

I can't even get a feed, but it is not limited to AH.
Tried other ISP with the same result.

 

[getafix33]

Thanks. It is a supersport feed and not a very good one. It has improved a bit but still unsatisfactory

Up to *****e again. Watch 2 secs buffers 10+

 

[JerryMungo]

This is interesting, seems streaming is capped at 4mb/s?

Afrihost streaming speeds:
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Another ISP:
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Where do I find that test?

 

[jannier]

Where do I find that test?

Easy, just google the image

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics

My result with Afrihost:


And for accuracy checking ran it again 5 minutes later:

 

[JerryMungo]

For reference, Telkom uncapped on 4Mbps line:

 

[getafix33]

Streaming up to maggots again. Trying IPL via wiziwig - unwatchable

 

[ProAsm]

Streaming up to maggots again. Trying IPL via wiziwig - unwatchable

Watched today and had no problems at all. (4 mbit line)
Pity they do not give HD option like in F1

 

[getafix33]

What stream were you watching?

The only channel I could pick up a stream was ITV4.

 

[ProAsm]

What stream were you watching?

The only channel I could pick up a stream was ITV4.

Ahh, yes, if you go direct to http://wiziwig.tv you get all sorts of problems etc, but if you go via http://cricfree.tv/ you basically end up with wiziwig but everything works ok.
You can also go via http://www.cricbox.nl/ and basically end up with wiziwig
http://www.time4tv.com/ also had the IPL but very low definition.

 

[kripstoe]

YouTube buffering constantly. :wtf:

 

[Nirv]

I hear a surprising number of complaints from people I've recommended Afrihost's capped product to, particularly with regards to streaming content. Most have YouTube streaming issues. I can watch Youtube flawlessly, but Twitch never works (which I think is a different issue) and of course my exchange here in Stellenbosch is congested half the time...