Afrihost Gaming PPTP [alpha]

Now this is what I'm talking about:

Before:

Ping statistics for 167.99.194.90:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 191ms, Maximum = 192ms, Average = 191ms

After:

Ping statistics for 167.99.194.90:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 170ms, Maximum = 171ms, Average = 170ms
 
I'm assuming for the best Frankfurt ping I'd have to use the Durban server when that's available?
 
AfriNatic said:
Yes it is. Available to all Afrihost clients on our network including Air Mobile and MTN Fixed LTE. Not Available on Telkom LTE.

I just need to double-check if Airmobile clients have credentials.
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This is all I see on the airmobile uncapped package.

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AfriNatic said:
We starting with a CPT PPtP server hosting in our CPT core to force routing to Europe via East Coast cables without having to make major network changes that could impact other services as well as pricing. Below are the details for clients that want to give it a go.
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Is there a reason it goes via East coast from CPT? Do those cables provide lower latency than West coast from CPT?
 
Soul Assassin said:
I'm assuming for the best Frankfurt ping I'd have to use the Durban server when that's available?
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Give or take 178ms or so from Durban core to Frankfurt.

With CPT the traffic for France and Germany is via The Netherlands.

We will play around with the traffic a bit. I want to see if we can refarm a /21 somewhere so we can manipulate the routing by prepending our AS once or twice to less favourable routes.
 
I really like the initiative and I think not using something like Wireguard etc etc is the better choice honestly considering you can now use it on the Afrihost supplied router so console players can use it too.
 
Props to all involved in this very cool project, nice to see an ISP going out their way to try improve pings for gamers since most just give you the "tell the developers to launch local servers" response.

I understand the whole thing of you can't just tweak everything for gamers since it will cause issues elsewhere but creating VPN's and all is top notch showing care for customers!
 
AfriNatic said:
Yes sorry that is a typo.
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Ah no worries.

This is sweet. I'll be trying it out for the next few days.

I had to reset my PPPoE credentials for it to authenticate, even though I knew my credentials already. Maybe I misread the instructions but that was the only snag I hit. Could have been a MikroTik thing, too.

From Pretoria to EU, latency seems better by around 19ms from some ping tests already but I'll need to see how it does in games.

Thank you for the effort, this makes Afrihost so much more attractive for gamers.
 
CrypticZA said:
Props to all involved in this very cool project, nice to see an ISP going out their way to try improve pings for gamers since most just give you the "tell the developers to launch local servers" response.

I understand the whole thing of you can't just tweak everything for gamers since it will cause issues elsewhere but creating VPN's and all is top notch showing care for customers!
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Thanks. Unfortunately, we can't just move stuff around like smaller ISPs due to our size. It's not easy finding the capacities we need especially if you are the biggest fibre ISP in SA after the mobile networks traffic-wise as per Cloudflare. https://radar.cloudflare.com/za

giggity said:
Ah no worries.

This is sweet. I'll be trying it out for the next few days.

I had to reset my PPPoE credentials for it to authenticate, even though I knew my credentials already. Maybe I misread the instructions but that was the only snag I hit. Could have been a MikroTik thing, too.

From Pretoria to EU, latency seems better by around 19ms from some ping tests already but I'll need to see how it does in games.

Thank you for the effort, this makes Afrihost so much more attractive for gamers.
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Appreciate any feedback and suggestions. Once we get it set up in all the regions like I planned we will try to start tweaking network-wise to get better latencies.
 
Rickster said:
Why no IPsec?
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The goal of the project is to manipulate traffic routing for better latency. Our goal here is not to provide a VPN for anonymity and security. Using PPtP is essentially exactly the same as a direct connection. Less overhead and less resource intensive on the server that needs to host it.

We are hosting it on one of our NAT boxes in CPT as they are very powerful machines.
 
AfriNatic said:
The goal of the project is to manipulate traffic routing for better latency. Our goal here is not to provide a VPN for anonymity and security. Using PPtP is essentially exactly the same as a direct connection. Less overhead and less resource intensive on the server that needs to host it.

We are hosting it on one of our NAT boxes in CPT as they are very powerful machines.
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Ah ok, for us to set it up on the router, what call direction do we use? In or out?
 
MakoPC said:
Don't forget setting it up on the router will limit you to 10Mbps
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The limit on the server is set as 10Mbps but in reality, it's more like 100Mbps and you still have access to caches for google, akamai and netflix.
 
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