Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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cavedog said:
Youtube for me is being served by this ip 173.194.128.88

This is not normal is it? It means it being served by a US server and its buffering non stop even on low quality.
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It can depend on the content, some of it isn't always cached locally.
Is streaming poor across the board or only at certain times?
 
AfriGuy said:
It can depend on the content, some of it isn't always cached locally.
Is streaming poor across the board or only at certain times?
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Well I have to admit that its not always slow but I did experience some buffering this afternoon on 14Mbps line so yeah that was a bit weird because I have not been getting buffering ever since the line speed got upgraded.

Also just trying to figure out if youtube should be coming off local servers or not. I think even European based servers would have been better than US based servers.

But its not that but actually.
 
garp said:
Is there any reliable bandwidth speed benchmarking site other than speedtest? I ask, because, although my AH speedtest results are good at the moment, the actual experience is not, and if I test download a file hosted on a remote dedicated server (with a large pipe at a datacentre) using AH the speed is max 50-60KBs but using another ISP is near max line speed, so while I don't mean to cast any aspersions, it seems that speedtest.net is becoming increasgly detached from reality.
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I also now stronlgy believe some ISPs are now completely by-passing speedtest .net traffic from all their shaping and bandwidth management systems. Thus you get good speedtest results but the rest is crap
 
S1ght said:
And to add for comparison to show that it's not my line:

Afrihost - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3916085692
Webafrica - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3916101778
Openweb - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3916108312
FNB - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3916113713

I'm pretty damn surprised how well the FNB 1 performs >.<

(Apologies for posting other ISP stuff in this thread. I know it's meant for Afrihost support. Purely here for comparison to show it's an Afrihost network problem)
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Do not be sorry, it's services paid for but not delivered in months now.
 
PTA still not fixed speed test by saix.net I don't know how to attached the results

Last Result:
Download Speed: 990 kbps (123.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 352 kbps (44 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 245 ms
11/17/2014, 6:36:48 PM
 
MelvinBOT said:
PTA still not fixed speed test by saix.net I don't know how to attached the results

Last Result:
Download Speed: 990 kbps (123.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 352 kbps (44 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 245 ms
11/17/2014, 6:36:48 PM
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It's just not your turn yet. You have to wait your turn.
 
Please feedback - i can barely do anything

Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=58 time=32 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=3 ttl=58 time=32 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=58 time=32 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5


ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=44 time=161 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=44 time=161 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=44 time=160 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=44 time=160 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=44 time=160 ms


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 Request timed out *
192.168.0.1 1 ms 1 ms
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.181.201.9 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms
4 41.181.201.9 11 ms 22 ms
41.181.198.1 9 ms
5 41.181.198.1 10 ms 10 ms
196.44.18.2 11 ms
6 196.44.18.2 11 ms 10 ms
196.44.31.1 11 ms
7 196.44.31.1 11 ms 11 ms
196.44.31.6 33 ms
8 196.44.31.6 79 ms 34 ms
196.44.0.2 32 ms
9 196.44.0.2 33 ms
196.31.220.1 34 ms
196.44.31.9 32 ms
10 196.31.220.1 32 ms 31 ms
196.31.220.2 33 ms
11 196.31.63.2 33 ms
196.30.42.1 32 ms
196.31.220.2 33 ms
12 196.30.42.1 32 ms 31 ms
197.242.144.1 32 ms
13 197.242.144.1 32 ms 33 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.0.1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.181.51.1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms
4 41.181.51.1 29 ms 10 ms 10 ms
5 41.181.184.2 10 ms 16 ms 10 ms
6 196.44.18.8 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms
7 196.44.31.1 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms
8 209.212.111.2 166 ms 154 ms
209.85.255.7 161 ms
9 72.14.239.2 159 ms
209.85.253.9 161 ms
209.85.249.2 164 ms
10 Request timed out * *
209.85.249.2 181 ms
11 8.8.8.8 160 ms 160 ms
Request timed out *
12 8.8.8.8 161 ms


DNS Test:

nslookup www.afrihost.com

Name: www.afrihost.com
Address: 197.242.144.102


nslookup www.google.com

Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.230.84
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.230.82
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.230.80
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.230.83
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.230.81


nslookup thishouldfail.afrihost.com

** server can't find thisshouldfail.com: NXDOMAIN
 
kianm said:
I also now stronlgy believe some ISPs are now completely by-passing speedtest .net traffic from all their shaping and bandwidth management systems. Thus you get good speedtest results but the rest is crap
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Absolutely. Or it's so prioritized that it's just a test of your line.

If you want a better way to test for shaping/general internet speeds drop me a pm.
 
OK so streaming still sucks on Afrihost, although downloads are running at line speed. This time I have traces and stream graphs on both Afrihost (more buffering than actual playing) and Webafrica (zero buffering).

AFRIHOST:

Twitch.jpg


WEBAFRICA:

Twitch2.jpg

Edit: Notice all the RED buffering in the Afrihost stream. This is the same channel done within 5 minutes of each other. No reboot of the router was done. And on 10Mbps line.
 
it should be: latency from PTA to Jhb 12-30, 1.5-1.7 download and .35-.47 upload, my line is 2Mbps (I don't watch 6 youtube vids at once so this speed is fine for me).
 
Aquiva said:
OK so streaming still sucks on Afrihost, although downloads are running at line speed. This time I have traces and stream graphs on both Afrihost (more buffering than actual playing) and Webafrica (zero buffering).

Edit: Notice all the RED buffering in the Afrihost stream. This is the same channel done within 5 minutes of each other. No reboot of the router was done. And on 10Mbps line.
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Don't expect them to fix it. In the 3 years I've been with them streaming has always been bad. It seems to be some international cap they've placed where my line won't ever do above 200 kB/s
 
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Like everybody has said; streaming sucks.

Side by side comparison of YouTube and Twitch.

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The 'funny" thing is that both were working earlier today. I actually saw a 4500kbps rate on YouTube. Twitch had 20+ seconds in the buffer.

Code: 
Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.230.232]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     3 ms     5 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  105-236-234-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236
.234.65]
  3    30 ms    39 ms    25 ms  41.181.221.254
  4    21 ms    24 ms    10 ms  tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
  5    15 ms    17 ms    30 ms  compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
  6   184 ms   183 ms   198 ms  ls-cr-2--tb-cr-1.uk-b.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]

  7   232 ms   204 ms   206 ms  ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.18
7]
  8   219 ms   197 ms   194 ms  google-peering-ls-pr-2.uk.mtnns.net [209.212.99.
13]
  9   175 ms   158 ms     *     209.85.255.78
 10   177 ms   158 ms   160 ms  209.85.250.169
 11   171 ms   162 ms   162 ms  par08s10-in-f8.1e100.net [74.125.230.232]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to twitch.tv [192.16.71.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     5 ms     4 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    11 ms    13 ms    10 ms  105-236-234-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236
.234.65]
  3    21 ms    13 ms    12 ms  41.181.201.94
  4    14 ms    14 ms    21 ms  tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
  5    22 ms    12 ms    13 ms  compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
  6   187 ms   194 ms   185 ms  ls-cr-2--tb-cr-1.uk-b.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]

  7   201 ms   190 ms   193 ms  am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.18
3]
  8   177 ms   199 ms   179 ms  am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.1
41]
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *     ^C

Speed test is okay. Missing about a megabit

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Looking at the CINX graph we can clearly see we're in off peak hours now...

/inb4 the word "contention" starts getting thrown around again. Luckily for me I'm technically on a new package. Guess who's going to be requesting a refund this month...
 
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Anyone else having DNS issues? I've had to switch to Google's public DNS to be able to browse again.
 
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