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Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)
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Much appreciated!
Boris Becker
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I've been having these authentication issues (on multiple isp accounts) yesterday and today in Norwood, Jozi. Driving me nuts. Damn Telkom 
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I've been having these authentication issues (on multiple isp accounts) yesterday and today in Norwood, Jozi. Driving me nuts. Damn Telkom
Between Telkom's ADSL infrastructure and Eskom's Loadshedding things have definitely not been easy over the past few days. It seems the best thing to do, is to set your modem to one account, and leave it as is, from what I have seen it will authenticate, even if it does take a lot longer than normal.
Boris Becker
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Between Telkom's ADSL infrastructure and Eskom's Loadshedding things have definitely not been easy over the past few days. It seems the best thing to do, is to set your modem to one account, and leave it as is, from what I have seen it will authenticate, even if it does take a lot longer than normal.
So true. Hard to get work done these days. It is set to use my Afrihost account only - others are just back up
. I'll try that. Must resist urge to reboot router or test other accounts 
"The Federal Communications Commission (USA) today voted to enforce net neutrality rules that prevent Internet providers—including cellular carriers—from blocking or throttling traffic" The penalties that will be imposed for breaking this rule are harsh.
Wish that our regulators had the balls to implement this here! Maybe then local ISP's would have to stop trying to befuddle us with double-speak like 'Shaping' (so favoured by AH) and hiding behind one-sided, (theirs), FUP's.
Wish that our regulators had the balls to implement this here! Maybe then local ISP's would have to stop trying to befuddle us with double-speak like 'Shaping' (so favoured by AH) and hiding behind one-sided, (theirs), FUP's.
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Boris Becker
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Account keeps disconnecting for the last 4 hours. No changes being made on the router. Line is connected, but ISP connection disconnects constantly.
Getting this in Destiny on Xbox One too. Then again, Afrihost is incredibly unstable with Xbox One multiplayer, so not really surprising.
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The afrihost (MTN) network does this with Xbox and online games, experienced it frequently when I was with afrihost. Move to IS and haven't encountered it at all.
On PS4 as well, BF4 actually shows you when you have packet loss. With Afrihost I see it with every game. Hardly ever with WebAfrica.
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I've moved from 4mbps business uncapped to 8/1mbps capped 200GB with Plus+. It's pretty amazing. Only problem now is that I've become OCD about how much cap I am using (even though I hardly really go over 160GB).
Line can't reach 10mbps, unfortunately, but 6~8mbps is a nice boost.
EDIT: DNS problems, though. Have to use 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 in order to load webpages.
Line can't reach 10mbps, unfortunately, but 6~8mbps is a nice boost.
EDIT: DNS problems, though. Have to use 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 in order to load webpages.
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Yeah, I've had to buy Webafrica prepaid GBs now for gaming. I just keep getting kicked out of games with Afrihost. No problems on WA. I contacted Afrihost about the issues back in December, but they either don't have the technical skills to fix it, or don't believe it's high enough of a priority to fix it.
I had massive packet loss issues, switched to the uncapped WA account on Saturday evening and haven't had problems since. So ill can my AH capped account end of this month
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It was great that the FCC ruled in favour of Net-Neutrality!
I don't think we have ever used Double-Speak with regards to shaping, we are very clear how shaping is implemented on our Uncapped accounts.
If at any point, anything was unclear, we could definitely have clarified any aspect for you. Similarly if you have any issues, we will gladly investigate from our side and if there is a problem we'll make sure it gets resolved.
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Were there any other drops in speed or increases in latency on your ADSL connection?
Was the connection to Destiny dropping or was your PS3 losing its internet connection?
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That definitely doesn't sound right, could you please send me a PM with your ADSL username so that I can look into what was causing the disconnections.
How long was re-authentication taking when it disconnected?
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We did have an issue with Destiny in November / Early December but our Team managed to resolve this, if you are starting to see disconnections we'll definitely need to investigate. Could you maybe send me a PM with your ADSL username, I would like to look into this.
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