Afrihost is ***

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swazi85

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Been with afrihost a month now and already feel like canceling.

This is my speed test on a 4meg business line

Ping :155 ms

Download: 0.62 Mbps

Upload: 0.31

Everyone seems to recommend afrihost, especially there business lines. Tried to watch an episode on Apple TV, 20 minutes to buffer. They must be joking.
 
Have you tested your line with a different ADSL account?
Could be a problem with your line.
 
Bit of a wild accusation. My Afrihost account works fine.

If I were you I'd first check out other possible issues before going onto a public forum and slinging derogatory accusations.
 
Arthur said:
Bit of a wild accusation. My Afrihost account works fine.

If I were you I'd first check out other possible issues before going onto a public forum and slinging derogatory accusations.
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It is common knowledge that Afrihost are having issues with their accounts - Go and look at their threads about everyone having speed and latency/shaping issues. Not derogatory accusations whatsoever - It's the truth.
 
Arthur said:
Bit of a wild accusation. My Afrihost account works fine.

If I were you I'd first check out other possible issues before going onto a public forum and slinging derogatory accusations.
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Oh god, it's like you work for AH Arthur. Always defending them. Tjop.
 
Hey guys, welcome to South Africa, any ISP has it up and down, if you want proper internet go Europe or America :D all your problems solved.

Happy to help everyone out!
 
swazi85 said:
Been with afrihost a month now and already feel like canceling.

This is my speed test on a 4meg business line

Ping :155 ms

Download: 0.62 Mbps

Upload: 0.31

Everyone seems to recommend afrihost, especially there business lines. Tried to watch an episode on Apple TV, 20 minutes to buffer. They must be joking.
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I feel your pain ..... and I am one of the clowns that promotes AH all the time.

Talk about contrast, I came home from the US - internet bliss - to what you have ..... on my 4mrg business slow train.

I also suggest you post in the AH thread, Keeps it tidy and you can see other peoples issues and suggestions,
 
Skrilla said:
Oh god, it's like you work for AH Arthur. Always defending them. Tjop.
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He makes a perfectly valid point. Anyone with any IT knowledge knows that you first troubleshoot everything before bashing your ISP.
Maybe you should reconsider who is the "tjop" here.
 
ghostR said:
It is common knowledge that Afrihost are having issues with their accounts - Go and look at their threads about everyone having speed and latency/shaping issues. Not derogatory accusations whatsoever - It's the truth.
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You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about. Those figures cannot possibly be due to ISP shaping.
 
Arthur said:
You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about. Those figures cannot possibly be due to ISP shaping.
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Yea, Whatever floats your boat mate.

I didn't state that it was due to shaping.

It is due to the contentions on their network rising because they do not have enough IPConnect Capacity and keep messing around with the routing and shapers to keep the network load down instead of spending money and upgrading their IPConnect capacity hence causing the speed issues mentioned by the OP and hence everyone else's speed issues on their threads.
 
ghostR said:
Yea, Whatever floats your boat mate.

I didn't state that it was due to shaping.

It is due to the contentions on their network rising because they do not have enough IPConnect Capacity and keep messing around with the routing and shapers to keep the network load down instead of spending money and upgrading their IPConnect capacity hence causing the speed issues mentioned by the OP and hence everyone else's speed issues on their threads.
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We cannot pass judgement on Afrihost in the op's case until he/she performs a tracert or tests with another isp, its not clear if the op has done so ,it could well be that Afrihost and the op's Telkom's infrastructure is broken
 
Skrilla said:
Oh god, it's like you work for AH Arthur. Always defending them. Tjop.
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Can't you read? There's no defence of Afrihost, just pointing out that calling any ISP *** without better evidence than 0.62 mb/s on a 4 meg line is probably premature. Like the OP, you sure leap to conclusions - and you're wrong. I don't work for Afrihost or any ISP, or anyone in the internet industry. I have accounts with three ISPs, including a business account with Afrihost.

Sorry your universe is so small.
 
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Skrilla said:
Good little Afrihost shill.
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Wow. So calling someone out for slinging poo at a named ISP without the slightest evidence that the problem is at the ISP makes me a shill??

You obviously don't know what a shill is, so I won't take offence, though it clearly is intended.

After the school hols, ask your teacher what that big word means.

When you know, I challenge you to find just one vague reference where I've ever recommended Afrihost or any ISP for that matter.

If the OP was halfway grownup he'd be asking on this forum for technical advice and trying to get to the bottom of his issues. That's part of what MyBB is about. But no, he comes straight out calling a particular ISP ***, and gives no supporting evidence whatsoever. That is juvenile, rude, and tedious. Apart from the insult to the ISP in question, it's also offensive to anyone who's halfway serious about resolving performance issues.
 
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Arthur said:
Wow. So calling someone out for slinging poo at a named ISP without the slightest evidence that the problem is at the ISP makes me a shill??

You obviously don't know what a shill is, so I won't take offence, though it clearly is intended.

After the school hols, ask your teacher what that big word means.

When you know, I challenge you to find just one vague reference where I've ever recommended Afrihost or any ISP for that matter.

If the OP was halfway grownup he'd be asking on this forum for technical advice and trying to get to the bottom of his issues. That's part of what MyBB is about. But no, he comes straight out calling a particular ISP ***, and gives no supporting evidence whatsoever. That is juvenile, rude, and tedious.
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IF you look at the last few pages in any of the Afrihost threads, you will see they have been having non stop issues. It is kinda reaching a boiling point, and people are just getting fed up.

So yes, maybe he should have posted a thread with traces and everything, but there is enough people having issues that this is not limited to some user's telkom connection.
 
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