Afrihost Gaming PPTP [alpha]

giggity said:
Ping is around 30ms higher on Afrihost than Cool Ideas for me from Pretoria. Very little packet loss on Afrihost, though. Definitely notice it on Cool Ideas.

You can try something like ExitLag to see if you still get packet loss.
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Awesome thanks for the response. Yeah I'd choose higher latency over packetloss any day of the week.
It renders any sort of gaming virtually impossible. Local usually was fine, but now they're having issues from JHB > CPT which causes local loss as well, depending on the server. So yeah it's just too much really.
You get around 180ms to international servers?
 
Satedah said:
Awesome thanks for the response. Yeah I'd choose higher latency over packetloss any day of the week.
It renders any sort of gaming virtually impossible. Local usually was fine, but now they're having issues from JHB > CPT which causes local loss as well, depending on the server. So yeah it's just too much really.
You get around 180ms to international servers?
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I'm on Openserve, so my local ping is 10ms instead of other FNOs that would probably be 1-3ms, so if I remove that from the equation, my London ping is 175ms.

Depending on where I'm going, this gaming VPN reduces my ping by 15-20ms.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I'm on Openserve, so my local ping is 10ms instead of other FNOs that would probably be 1-3ms, so if I remove that from the equation, my London ping is 175ms.

Depending on where I'm going, this gaming VPN reduces my ping by 15-20ms.
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Awesome feedback thank you.
No packet loss on Afrihost?
 
Is the idea with this that at some point we won't have to run the VPN and we'll automagically get better ping? :D
 
I'll definitely give this a try next month (August) when I migrate over to Afrihost. Hopefully all goes smoothly.
I have an Asus RT-AC88U with Merlin installed so I should be able to run the VPN on my router directly and configure a split tunneling script to run only the gaming traffic through the PPTP tunnel.

Only concern I have at the moment is that if I define the destination IP address of the game, it may be that they rotate the IP addresses for load balancing essentially nullifying my config. Or if I define the destination address based on domain, same thing since the script only resolves DNS once on add.

@AfriNatic This would be resolved on your end if this traffic classification is done on server-side. Is this anywhere in the works?

[UPDATE]
Incase anyone else is using an Asus router with Merlin. The above issue with the revolving IP addresses is resolved with this script: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/domain-based-vpn-routing-script.79264/
 
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Are these working? I get "A connection to the remote computer could not be established"
 
ronnie_94 said:
No issues on my side with them.
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Seeyou said:
Works for me. Check all the settings match the instructions shown.
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Thanks, figured it out, looks like openwrt needs a package installed to assist with NAT Traversal.

PPTP extras

PPTP extras This article relies on the following: * Accessing web interface / command-line interface * Managing configs / packages / services / logs Introduction * This how-to describes the most common PPTP tuning scenarios adapted for OpenWrt. * Follow PPTP client for client setup...
openwrt.org openwrt.org
 
So I've only discovered this thread now...(Mainly due to my internet running flawlessly for many months, thanks Afrihost) having not checked this forum.

I've read through everything, but still not sure about where to connect to? I'm in Pta, and my usual pings to EU (Frankfurt mostly) sit at 180ms. Should I connect to the Jhb server or Dbn or CT for lower pings to Frankfurt?
 
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VicB said:
So I've only discovered this thread now...(Mainly due to my internet running flawlessly for many months, thanks Afrihost) having not checked this forum.

I've read through everything, but still not sure about where to connect to? I'm in Pta, and my usual pings to EU (Frankfurt mostly) sit at 180ms. Should I connect to the Jhb server or Dbn or CT for lower pings to Frankfurt?
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Hello.
You may connect to the JHB server.
 
Does the CPT server offer any optimised routing yet? I don't see any change between having it on/off. Or is it mainly for people in other parts of the country to be able to go through CPT?
 
First of all, HUGE THANK YOU FOR THIS.

It's really nice to have some good news than just hearing about Eskom all day. This is really cool and amazing, huge props to you and the engineers in doing something like this for us.

Now I might be asking for a bit much here but assuming this is a big success in terms of viability and interest, would there be any chance of applying the same kind of system to the American regions such as through SACS? Is that even possible or too many factors that play in making it difficult to achieve? I'm expecting so but it would be big if something like that could be done.

Nontheless, a big thanks for this, I think all Afrihost gamers can agree we made the best decision when choosing our ISP.
 
Seeyou said:
Does the CPT server offer any optimised routing yet? I don't see any change between having it on/off. Or is it mainly for people in other parts of the country to be able to go through CPT?
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Hi

Not yet. The CPT pptp server is on an IP range of our big CIDRs which is announced to all of the transit providers so even if we exclusively announce a /26 for example it will still follow bgp and is likely not the lowest latency route.
 
Any plans are optimizations for routes for FFXIV.. Would love to try it out but usually causes some latency there
 
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