Electric
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That's your experience.
Thats not just his experience I have had these issues for ages, you can check how old my posts are and I have tickets in the client zone coming out of my ears and ill be honest no one has even said they are helping at all, just more tracerts and more tracerts the worst part is constantly getting asked to send web africa tracerts with afrihost ones when comparing them isnt changing anything just the showing the obvious difference in service, try playing ranked games in any game when you have constant packet loss its a nightmare. I mean nothing would make me happier if afrihost was working I have been on afrihost for years since they started is when I got my account but as things stand I will have to cancel mine and a few people I know will follow me as well since we cant use these accounts anymore.
I had the same issues but mainly from streaming. Left and things are perfect no problems at all. Also come in to see if things have improved and since the beginning of the year things don't seem to of improved. Will keep popping in hoping things Will get better soon.
ViciousClone
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canceling tomorrow ,been same excuse over and over,still it's packet loss and high pings non stop..Since I left Afrihost (best choice though it did take me a while to pluck the courage) I pop in here from time to time just to see if anything has changed... You know, packet loss, slow speeds, can't stream this and can't connect to that.
Guess some things will never change
lucky if i get 2 days a week of a whole day with no packet loss and lag free.
Web Africa or crystal web capped seems better choice here..
Kosmik
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Zero throughput on nzb at the mo, last connection about an hour ago.
Just tried installing a 14MB update for my mac form the App store. After 5 min it bombed out and restarted. It's now been running 10 minutes and only did 5MB!!!! Awesome for a 4Mbps line with a capped account! I can't understand why everyone wants to leave Afrihost? Other ISP's can't do much better than this, can they?
You'd be surprised how well other ISPs can handle this. If you think Afrihost is the standard by which other ISPs are measured, well, that was a few years ago.
Orihalcon
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I think we have established that you work for Telkom but have nothing to do with IPC provision. Do you even use our network or are you commenting without any personal experience?
We are testing GTA 5 on Capped and Uncapped and so far performance has been good. What we've read online is that some players around the world are experiencing some problems, we have not come across that yet (testing on a regular 10Mbps line).
D3 is definitely a title we've always had rules in place for (for Uncapped at least) and it works on shaped or unshaped accounts. Nothing has changed on those rules, though it's possible that during peak periods high latency may affect matchmaking/connecting.
When we've tested D3 in general, it should be working well
I unfortunately do not have the same problem with any of the other ISPs I connect with? How is this possible. I was able to connect over the weekend but the lag was so terrible that I had to resort to using one of my free accounts? My buddy would drive off, be about 500m away and then only do I see his movement! Switch to other ISP and no lag whatsoever? But not to worry, not long to go now, then I can also roam Los Santos without lag..
I didn't test much streaming this weekend but YouTube was definitely working well for me when I tested on my smartphone and on my iPad.
Around what time were you testing?
We did extensive testing with CS GO, so we may need to test with Path of Exile to see whether there are issues. Since you're on a capped account we wouldn't be shaping any ports or signatures - unless you are affected by peak time contention
Which service do you use? We have had some problems on our own server and we're busy trying to figure out why that happens at times
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