Afrihost is ***

TEXTILE GUY said:
I think I am going to get the blame treatment today from these guys.
My internet experience is like the opening of parliament ATM. Slow, hectic and generally all fekked up.
Click to expand...

Know that feeling.
Well at least I have a short week. Just hope my line will be fixed tonight. Need to finalize a few things for my wedding this weekend
 
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.
Click to expand...

Morning Dude!

Definitely not cool to see those sorts of speeds!

Would you be able to post a traceroute to Afrihost.com? I'll need to see where the latency is introduced to be have a good idea what the cause of the issue is.

Have you been consistently getting these sorts of speeds and latencies?
 
AfriGenie said:
Morning Dude!

Definitely not cool to see those sorts of speeds!

Would you be able to post a traceroute to Afrihost.com? I'll need to see where the latency is introduced to be have a good idea what the cause of the issue is.

Have you been consistently getting these sorts of speeds and latencies?
Click to expand...

Sorry quite a newbie to these things so going to have to google how to do a trace route. Will come back with info. Have noticed though that sometimes the speed is quite decent. Then at other times it's extremely slow.
 
Well Afrihost is just rubbish.

I was with mweb adsl for a few years (premium uncapped and latter just capped).

I switched to afrihost this month to save money and get more data - BIG mistake.... I have only used them for 16 days...

Afrihost is like a cheap donkey with repeating latency issues (and no actual feedback from support on it). I have a friend who is also on Afrihost (in a different area) and he has latency issues when i have as well over this month.

Mweb is like the BMW of internet access (it just works all the time - no ping performance issues). The only times I ever needed their support, the problem turned out to be telkom, and mweb did a fine job of support (unlike afrihost that just stays quiet when there is a problem on their side)


If you wanna play FPS, use Mweb.

Ah, yet another night where any local game server's ping is over 100ms... Thanks Afrihost... this is exactly what I pay for...


ping www.afrihost.co.za

Pinging www.afrihost.co.za [197.242.144.102] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 197.242.144.102: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=58
Reply from 197.242.144.102: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=58
Reply from 197.242.144.102: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=58
Reply from 197.242.144.102: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 197.242.144.102:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 83ms, Maximum = 116ms, Average = 102ms

ping www.news24.co.za

Pinging x.24.com [41.86.110.143] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 41.86.110.143: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=240
Reply from 41.86.110.143: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=240
Reply from 41.86.110.143: bytes=32 time=99ms TTL=240
Reply from 41.86.110.143: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 41.86.110.143:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 71ms, Maximum = 99ms, Average = 86ms


Tracing route to www.afrihost.co.za [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 105 ms 77 ms 78 ms 41.181.201.93
4 70 ms 73 ms 73 ms 41.181.201.94
5 86 ms 84 ms 84 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-c.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.19
6 78 ms 81 ms 82 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
7 99 ms * 93 ms pe-cr-2.za--el-mse-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.66]
8 92 ms 95 ms 92 ms jh-cr-2.za--jh-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.25
9 110 ms 112 ms 116 ms 196.44.31.99
10 95 ms 97 ms 97 ms 196.31.220.8
11 67 ms 69 ms 69 ms 196.31.220.27
12 78 ms 78 ms 80 ms 196.31.63.202
13 113 ms 116 ms 113 ms vl9-ah-ha-2.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.42.133]
14 109 ms 109 ms 113 ms cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
 
Last edited:
c5e976a1c8.png


b8b5fd7cc6.png
 
Oh wow. For the first time this month afrihost replied to my emails about the recurring latency issues.

Apparently i must clear the cookies in my browser.

I am sure that will fix everything.
 
whatever_sa said:
Oh wow. For the first time this month afrihost replied to my emails about the recurring latency issues.

Apparently i must clear the cookies in my browser.

I am sure that will fix everything.
Click to expand...

:D

Option 1: Wait another 3 months or so for them to actually upgrade their capacity

or

Option 2: move ISPs. (Webafrica or Crystal Web)
 
So this morning my internet is buggered again. Seems to happen at weekends
 
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.
Click to expand...

FYI turns out my "accusations" are rather true :)
 
Sonic2k said:
Just about any OTHER ISP I try... automagically resolves my problems with Youtube.... Hau... eiiiish I dunno de answer!
Click to expand...

Well then I think we found your problem :D
 
ghostR said:
Well then I think we found your problem :D
Click to expand...

LOL yea, except I had to pay these clowns R600 this month... didn't get round to blocking the debit order... was planning to download the internet... but that ain't going to happen at these horrendous line speeds...
 
Strange how this thread started 4 months ago, and it is only in the last 2 weeks that Afrihost admitted that they have issues :-P THIS IS THE STORY OF THE AFRIHOST LIFE!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X