Afrihost CAPPED ADSL Feedback (MTN)

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I know we've had some problems with traffic management over the last few weeks, and our team is busy working on this to improve gaming experience especially. We've managed to look at quite a few popular titles and we'll keep testing them as we make changes to ensure the best gaming experience possible.

I've had the same problems since I joined Afrihost last year. It's the MTN network. Axxess has the same problems.

Don't jinx it :(

Are you caching it locally?
 
I've had the same problems since I joined Afrihost last year. It's the MTN network. Axxess has the same problems.



Are you caching it locally?

I'm pretty sure when the Windows 10 release date hits, we'll make sure to have a local cache server for the release version.
 
local IPC still gonna be rip

We'll take some pro-active steps to protect the network and offer the best experience we can under the circumstances. I'm confident our team will get this right. But I'm also sure that this will be one of the biggest downloads of the year given Microsoft's offer of free upgrade to legal and illegal users. So hoping for the best and fearing the worst :(
 
This sounds like shaping. Hopefully won't come to that.

Well I don't know what steps are available, but I guess it will come down to offering an overall decent performance, and still allowing people to grab their downloads in a reasonable time.

Hopefully people will be able to share the download. I don't know if Windows still do that on their updates :(
 
We'll take some pro-active steps to protect the network and offer the best experience we can under the circumstances. I'm confident our team will get this right. But I'm also sure that this will be one of the biggest downloads of the year given Microsoft's offer of free upgrade to legal and illegal users. So hoping for the best and fearing the worst :(

Free? I doubt that, trust me there will be some catch, maybe 90 days free and then you need to buy it.
 
Free? I doubt that, trust me there will be some catch, maybe 90 days free and then you need to buy it.

Indeed, but since they would have already downloaded the software, we'll just anticipate that 90% of the known world will be looking for the update. Except my wife who's laptop still runs on XP (bless her soul) :)
 
Free? I doubt that, trust me there will be some catch, maybe 90 days free and then you need to buy it.

100% free for the rest of your life. If you're an illegal user things are a bit more sketch. They'll let you upgrade but you upgrade to a non legal version.

I bought windows 7 ultimate from makro when they were having a 50% off sale. Got windows 8 for R300 when they were doing the upgrade deal and now I'm going to get windows 10 for free. I like where MS is going with this :D

EDIT: Here's a link explaining: http://www.computerworld.com/articl...ay-pirates-even-after-windows-10-upgrade.html
 
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100% free for the rest of your life. If you're an illegal user things are a bit more sketch. They'll let you upgrade but you upgrade to a non legal version.

I bought windows 7 ultimate from makro when they were having a 50% off sale. Got windows 8 for R300 when they were doing the upgrade deal and now I'm going to get windows 10 for free. I like where MS is going with this :D

EDIT: Here's a link explaining: http://www.computerworld.com/articl...ay-pirates-even-after-windows-10-upgrade.html

I think anything free is good. But that's me, and I've been known to get a free klap for my troubles ;)
 
Indeed, but since they would have already downloaded the software, we'll just anticipate that 90% of the known world will be looking for the update. Except my wife who's laptop still runs on XP (bless her soul) :)

Bring her to the dark side and load lubuntu for her
 
100% free for the rest of your life. If you're an illegal user things are a bit more sketch. They'll let you upgrade but you upgrade to a non legal version.

I bought windows 7 ultimate from makro when they were having a 50% off sale. Got windows 8 for R300 when they were doing the upgrade deal and now I'm going to get windows 10 for free. I like where MS is going with this :D

EDIT: Here's a link explaining: http://www.computerworld.com/articl...ay-pirates-even-after-windows-10-upgrade.html

Bought my Win7 builders licence for R400, got Win8 via upgrade for R150 (at the time) now I'll be getting Win10

even though I only use Windows for CS it's a pretty good deal
 
Getting less than 1Mbps on a 20MB VDSL line? Honestly what is going on?
http://speedtest.ookla.com/result/2849411754.png

Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=13 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=12 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=3 ttl=57 time=13 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=57 time=12 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=5 ttl=57 time=19 ms


ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=12 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=18 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=15 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=13 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=19 ms


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.1.1 1.473 ms 7.566 ms 1.543 ms
2 105.236.14.65 8.452 ms 8.581 ms 8.956 ms
3 41.181.178.89 13.126 ms 9.906 ms 9.614 ms
4 196.44.31.120 11.505 ms 11.076 ms
196.44.0.146 29.567 ms
5 196.44.31.95 13.296 ms
196.44.31.171 10.354 ms 11.688 ms
6 41.181.165.115 52.462 ms 53.123 ms 43.01 ms
7 196.44.31.99 12.259 ms 16.648 ms 13.144 ms
8 196.31.220.6 16.13 ms 13.729 ms
196.30.1.53 46.891 ms
9 196.31.220.27 13.581 ms 18.171 ms 12.995 ms
10 196.31.63.202 12.926 ms 12.332 ms
196.31.63.206 14.409 ms
11 196.30.42.133 14.642 ms 12.877 ms 12.427 ms
12 197.242.144.102 11.808 ms 13.06 ms 13.692 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.1.1 2.461 ms 2.243 ms 1.313 ms
2 105.236.14.65 10.382 ms 10.385 ms 9.832 ms
3 41.181.178.53 47.175 ms 44.074 ms 38.621 ms
4 196.44.31.120 11.705 ms
196.44.0.146 26.238 ms 26.725 ms
5 196.44.0.42 11.799 ms 12.948 ms 10.874 ms
6 41.181.165.115 45.719 ms 36.416 ms 62.931 ms
7 196.44.0.43 11.508 ms 19.337 ms
196.44.31.94 10.852 ms
8 41.181.139.99 37.562 ms 30.9 ms 32.102 ms
9 72.14.194.74 37.155 ms 49.847 ms 52.136 ms
10 72.14.239.33 13.908 ms
72.14.239.53 12.771 ms
72.14.239.35 38.48 ms
11 8.8.8.8 16.79 ms 12.519 ms 13.809 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: 74.125.24.99


nslookup thishouldfail.afrihost.com

** server can't find thisshouldfail.com: NXDOMAIN
 
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