Afrihost Mobile Feedback Thread

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Zertop said:
Wait... WHAT!? :D

You are getting literally 2ms to google.co.za - not possible on mobile :D (And definitely not possible if you are complaining of lag :P ) Please try another to thinkbroadband.com :-)

Z

EDIT: Waaaaiiittt.... Didn't I read a few days ago about D3 server issues? Ill try find it

EDIT2: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10218662808 - might be related to an undersea cable breakage up in the UK between the Blizzard Servers?
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Yes I'm aware that blizzard has problems but as said in my previous post my MTN connection is fine and I play smoothly, but as soon as I switch to afrihost gameplay goes down
 
jacodebeer said:
Yes I'm aware that blizzard has problems but as said in my previous post my MTN connection is fine and I play smoothly, but as soon as I switch to afrihost gameplay goes down
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Oh of course. Uhmm...

Try PMing Afriman :) He'll sort you out
 
saor said:
Anyone else with a very slow connection the last two days? I'm in cpt, southern suburbs. Phoned AH tech support last night & they reported no problem on their end but this connection is really dodgy at the moment. Can't do much of anything. I've had no change in hardware / software that might affect this.

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert google.co.za

Tracing route to google.co.za [173.194.41.191]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 2947 ms 2098 ms 1996 ms 192.168.75.18
4 3117 ms * * 66.8.75.13
5 * 965 ms 358 ms tb-dca-2.za-qux-e.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.202.0]
6 295 ms 239 ms 219 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
7 3381 ms 2419 ms 2559 ms ls-cr-2.uk--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]
8 356 ms 640 ms 559 ms am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.183]
9 1777 ms 2878 ms * am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.141]
10 * * 2407 ms core2.ams.net.google.com [195.69.145.100]
11 333 ms 299 ms 322 ms 209.85.254.95
12 1033 ms 741 ms 617 ms 209.85.253.247
13 1266 ms 1080 ms 1438 ms 209.85.246.153
14 1597 ms 1842 ms 1976 ms 209.85.253.95
15 718 ms 640 ms 718 ms 72.14.238.63
16 1475 ms 1339 ms 1077 ms lhr08s04-in-f31.1e100.net [173.194.41.191]
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Serious Latency There! Im not sure how mobile works, so maybe PMing AfriMan will allow him to help you out :-)
 
Zertop said:
Serious Latency There! Im not sure how mobile works, so maybe PMing AfriMan will allow him to help you out :-)
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It got better later in the evening. Will try again tonight and see if it's any better. If not I'll send you a pm afrippl :).
 
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I am having on and off connection problems when I connect it sometimes fails to connect: Connection terminated then hour later it works again
 
jacodebeer said:
Hi Afriguy or Afriman, I have a little problem with Afrihost mobile...
I use it for playing Diablo 3 and recently I can't play at all, the latency ingame is very high which causes major lag an unplayability.
I have an alternative connection that is MTN and I can play fine with excellent signal, but I can't play with it all the time due to very low cap.
I use the same device for either sim cards to connect.
And as I understand you and MTN use the same towers, so why can't the signal be the same?
Please help me! Because if this continues as it is I have no choice but to cancel
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I got your PM and we chatted about this there. It's really difficult to tell. Let's see if the account refresh sorted it out when you play later.
 
saor said:
Anyone else with a very slow connection the last two days? I'm in cpt, southern suburbs. Phoned AH tech support last night & they reported no problem on their end but this connection is really dodgy at the moment. Can't do much of anything. I've had no change in hardware / software that might affect this.

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert google.co.za

Tracing route to google.co.za [173.194.41.191]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 2947 ms 2098 ms 1996 ms 192.168.75.18
4 3117 ms * * 66.8.75.13
5 * 965 ms 358 ms tb-dca-2.za-qux-e.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.202.0]
6 295 ms 239 ms 219 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
7 3381 ms 2419 ms 2559 ms ls-cr-2.uk--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]
8 356 ms 640 ms 559 ms am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.183]
9 1777 ms 2878 ms * am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.141]
10 * * 2407 ms core2.ams.net.google.com [195.69.145.100]
11 333 ms 299 ms 322 ms 209.85.254.95
12 1033 ms 741 ms 617 ms 209.85.253.247
13 1266 ms 1080 ms 1438 ms 209.85.246.153
14 1597 ms 1842 ms 1976 ms 209.85.253.95
15 718 ms 640 ms 718 ms 72.14.238.63
16 1475 ms 1339 ms 1077 ms lhr08s04-in-f31.1e100.net [173.194.41.191]
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It's hard to really use traceroutes for Mobile. The contributing factors all have huge margins of variance, so the test could show a lot, or just show a moment when reception flutters. It's very different from DSL troubleshooting :(
 
AfriMan said:
I got your PM and we chatted about this there. It's really difficult to tell. Let's see if the account refresh sorted it out when you play later.
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I have played for about 15min and eventually quit out of frustration, I can't see any change
 
Me and DTBA are playing together and we have the same issue,we found a temporary sollution by hopping from one Diablo server to another and hoping we to get good latency. A speed test still reveals that the ping is very high which seems to be the problem, imo.
 
jacodebeer said:
Me and DTBA are playing together and we have the same issue,we found a temporary sollution by hopping from one Diablo server to another and hoping we to get good latency. A speed test still reveals that the ping is very high which seems to be the problem, imo.
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Jaco has it spot on afriman seems that some of the diablo server has high ping.

Now this is very hard to plot. Diablo servers are hosted all over the EU so we just keep joining till we have one with under 300 ms ping.

This must be routing issues somewhere, we both lag in the same server but the other guys with ADSL and vodacom is fine. Me and Jaco are about 800km from each other so we can rule out tower congestion or that its a problem with just one of our modems.

It rules down to international. Now how to prove its MTN/afrihost I have no clue and how to you will be able to fix even less.My local pings are fine its just some of the Diablo servers that we get 2300ms + but if we switch over to our mtn its fine on all the servers.


I will be ask a Diablo 3 tech to list my all the places that they host server's and I will ping them.
 
When I play any game through 3G I always have to play an additional radio station for it to be lag free.
Ultima Online without radio = LAG
Ultima Online playing the 24Kbps Radio Paradise Stream = LAG free
 
LeonG said:
When I play any game through 3G I always have to play an additional radio station for it to be lag free.
Ultima Online without radio = LAG
Ultima Online playing the 24Kbps Radio Paradise Stream = LAG free
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Thats weird :wtf:
 
LeonG said:
When I play any game through 3G I always have to play an additional radio station for it to be lag free.
Ultima Online without radio = LAG
Ultima Online playing the 24Kbps Radio Paradise Stream = LAG free
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Some games does not move enough traffic to force the modem to switch over to HSDPA+ and it would rather stay on 3G wish gives you a horrible ping,
But newer games like dota 2 move way more data and the modem will switch over to HSDPA
 
DTBA said:
Some games does not move enough traffic to force the modem to switch over to HSDPA+ and it would rather stay on 3G wish gives you a horrible ping,
But newer games like dota 2 move way more data and the modem will switch over to HSDPA
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aah! smart :D
 
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