Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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Getting a blistering 639K/sec on NNTP, on a 20mbps line. Are you shaping this too now, or is the South capacity issue extending into office hours?
 
Seeyou said:
Getting a blistering 639K/sec on NNTP, on a 20mbps line. Are you shaping this too now, or is the South capacity issue extending into office hours?
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Sorry about this :(
Looks like there is still some higher demand around.
 
Afriman, why is our capped account getting throttled and packet loss at 60% and 12% avg? I didn't pay for this service quality. Attached screenshots for proof.

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I'm in Durban, 4meg line.
 
bradza said:
Afriman, why is our capped account getting throttled and packet loss at 60% and 12% avg? I didn't pay for this service quality. Attached screenshots for proof.

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I'm in Durban, 4meg line.
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No throttling here, looks like the demand is spiking up every now and then causing some higher than normal latency :(
 
Welp, just hit my cap. I'm going to leave the account suspended and follow the hopeful resolution of this problem. Genuinely hope you guys sort it out, I just don't have patience for the for the current slate of problems.
 
AfriMan said:
Upload speeds are not affected by any policies, so we generally give the lines full access. However, upload and download traffic still constitutes network traffic (ADSL is asynchronous) so it would be affected by overall network traffic, as well as traffic on your local network.
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The point is, upload traffic on your network is far slower than with any other ISP I've tried. This includes Vox, MWeb and IS. I can't complain in terms of download, Afrihost capped data works fine in that regard.

I'm going to give it another month with AH. If nothing changes, I'm moving my capped data package to IS.
 
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Totempole said:
The point is, upload traffic on your network is far slower than with any other ISP I've tried. This includes Vox, MWeb and IS. I can't complain in terms of download, Afrihost capped data works fine in that regard.

I'm going to give it another month with AH. If nothing changes, I'm moving my capped data package to IS.
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Sounds like a very odd issue, drop me a PM with some comparison results :)
 
AfriGuy said:
Sounds like a very odd issue, drop me a PM with some comparison results :)
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Thanks, will do so when I get the chance to run some tests. My connection is busy at the moment. Unfortunately, the MWeb account was only on a trial basis, so I don't have access to it anymore. I still have Vox and IS accounts for comparison though.
 
Totempole said:
Thanks, will do so when I get the chance to run some tests. My connection is busy at the moment. Unfortunately, the MWeb account was only on a trial basis, so I don't have access to it anymore. I still have Vox and IS accounts for comparison though.
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No problemo, shoot the results when you can :)
 
I want to get the 10mbps line capped 150gb. But I see a lot of talk about contention issues here. What speeds can I expect to get out here? 5mbps or less?

Im in George in the Western Cape. and I don't want to commit to something I will regret.
 
stormart said:
I want to get the 10mbps line capped 150gb. But I see a lot of talk about contention issues here. What speeds can I expect to get out here? 5mbps or less?

Im in George in the Western Cape. and I don't want to commit to something I will regret.
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Hi

While there are some problems, it's not affecting everyone.
Once our network is settled you can expect line speed.
 
stormart said:
I want to get the 10mbps line capped 150gb. But I see a lot of talk about contention issues here. What speeds can I expect to get out here? 5mbps or less?

Im in George in the Western Cape. and I don't want to commit to something I will regret.
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I signed up a week and a half ago, and am regretting the decision significantly.

You'd be lucky to get 50% of line speed, speeds have been even more atrocious today.

In Cape Town, so you'd likely see the same performance as mine. The only solution is IPC upgrade, which will take months. Best avoid for now...
 
bumbledore said:
I signed up a week and a half ago, and am regretting the decision significantly.

You'd be lucky to get 50% of line speed, speeds have been even more atrocious today.

In Cape Town, so you'd likely see the same performance as mine. The only solution is IPC upgrade, which will take months. Best avoid for now...
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Pretty much why I said:

MartyMarts said:
So he should NOT sign up for anything until your network is "settled" ?
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Not really cool to be telling customers to pull in when you know you have problems.
 
MartyMarts said:
So he should NOT sign up for anything until your network is "settled" ?
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That's something that's up to you :)
The slower speeds aren't being seen by everyone and we are seeing a better trend to the demand and services normalising.
 
AfriGuy said:
That's something that's up to you :)
The slower speeds aren't being seen by everyone and we are seeing a better trend to the demand and services normalising.
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So he should sign up then? Yes or No?
 
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