Afrihost Capped DSL Feedback

Flikka said:
I also have the twitch streaming problems mentioned by a few people, my http downloads are also in the 20kb/s - 50kb/s range. I contacted Afrihost support and they have labeled it exchange congestion with only 18% port availability at the exchange.

They also advised me that I should downgrade from 10mb/s to 8mb/s to stabilise the line, clearly did not help. Speedtest shows nothing wrong on my 8mb/s capped account.

Ping: 25ms
Download: 7.79Mbps
Upload: 0.56Mbps
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Something sounds off... :( Which DNS are you using at the moment?
 
AfriFella said:
That doesn't sound cool at all! :( Were you seeing high latency? Slow speeds? Did you run any tests for me to have a look at?
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All of the above, i was getting 4k ping to Blizzard eu service and couldnt stream youtube. I switched to telkom and everything was fine, to lazy to switch back and get test. I will test tonight and get tests if the problem still persists.
 
NewBiks said:
Haven't spent enough time on Twitch today to do any testing.

I have tried livestreamer before and it didn't change the performance at all,
once I get this program installed I'll give it a go.
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Please let me know how it compares!
 
NewBiks said:
Haven't spent enough time on Twitch today to do any testing.

I have tried livestreamer before and it didn't change the performance at all,
once I get this program installed I'll give it a go.
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Can recommend that streamlink.

Livestreamer did nothing for me too but for the first time in 2 year (seriously) I can watch twitch on source with no buffering.
 
AfriGenie said:
We may be able to pull the last six months for you, could you PM me the username that you want the records for please.
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I need to check my usage 'cause I'm looking for a new home. :(
AH performance has been abysmal.
My last posts on performance incl. testing both AH and SAIX accounts haven't been addressed.
YouTube is streaming at 1693Kbps - a far cry from the 18000Kbps it's capable of.
AH account - terrible :( - YouTube-SFN-AH-10Apr17.PNG
SAIX Test account - perfect - YouTube-SFN-SAIX-10Apr17.PNG

NB: YouTube is just one example. AH is lagging across the board when compared with the SAIX account.
Again if you'd like to know more please refer to my prior posts on the matter.
 
image132 said:
Can recommend that streamlink.

Livestreamer did nothing for me too but for the first time in 2 year (seriously) I can watch twitch on source with no buffering.
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That's awesome to hear! Thanks for the update.
 
AfriGenie said:
Which DNS Servers are you using at the moment?

When you start to see the latency increase in-game again, could you please ping bras.afrihost.com.

That will give us a better idea of where the latency is coming from?
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Latency above 300 again tonight. I did ping bras.afrihost.com and there was no glaring issue came back with 20ms every time.

Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms
 
Vixation said:
Latency above 300 again tonight. I did ping bras.afrihost.com and there was no glaring issue came back with 20ms every time.

Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms
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That seems pretty average. We usually like to see BRAS latency close to or below 10ms, but this doesn't seem to bad.
 
steel_dog said:
I need to check my usage 'cause I'm looking for a new home. :(
AH performance has been abysmal.
My last posts on performance incl. testing both AH and SAIX accounts haven't been addressed.
YouTube is streaming at 1693Kbps - a far cry from the 18000Kbps it's capable of.
AH account - terrible :( - View attachment 429686
SAIX Test account - perfect - View attachment 429688

NB: YouTube is just one example. AH is lagging across the board when compared with the SAIX account.
Again if you'd like to know more please refer to my prior posts on the matter.
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Interesting to note that Afrihost has stopped responding to my comparative AH and SAIX test account posts. I wonder why?!?! Hitting to close to home perhaps. *shrug*
 
AfriMan said:
That seems pretty average. We usually like to see BRAS latency close to or below 10ms, but this doesn't seem to bad.
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I am then at a loss as most EU based game servers my latency is horrible as I tested Diablo as well last night and same thing. When I test my line SNR is a little low.
 
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