Afrihost MTN Fixed LTE-A Thread

So SEACOM was down for maintenance - do you think that is the issue with AH MTN Fixed international?
 
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LTE Capped today lol, 1 day before month end. R150 data top top :(

Ludicrous amount of night time data though, I really hope they give their customers the flexibility to sacrifice night time for anytime at 2x ratio or something.

The funny thing is, Fibre has just been put in to our complex, not live yet - but like it almost guides me to want to move away from Afrihost LTE.

- As you cannot upgrade your package past 150+150
- Top ups are stupid expensive

Just wish Afrihost had some more focus on client wants than "leave as is"


Off topic: Recent posts been talking about latency, On a mobile game i play when im on the couch from time to time, I get wierd experiaces where I rubber band for the first 10 seconds of the start of the game - which will result in a defeat lol. Its annoying
 
Belligerence said:
LTE Capped today lol, 1 day before month end. R150 data top top :(

Ludicrous amount of night time data though, I really hope they give their customers the flexibility to sacrifice night time for anytime at 2x ratio or something.

The funny thing is, Fibre has just been put in to our complex, not live yet - but like it almost guides me to want to move away from Afrihost LTE.

- As you cannot upgrade your package past 150+150
- Top ups are stupid expensive

Just wish Afrihost had some more focus on client wants than "leave as is"


Off topic: Recent posts been talking about latency, On a mobile game i play when im on the couch from time to time, I get wierd experiaces where I rubber band for the first 10 seconds of the start of the game - which will result in a defeat lol. Its annoying
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I don't think wireless should ever be used for gaming, the latency is unstable regardless even if you get high down / up speed. You get better online gaming experience on an ADSL than a wireless even if you have a 2mb adsl vs 30mb wirless. what you want is latency that is the same with no spikes. and wireless is too unstable. The speedtest.net doesn't check latency properly, all it does is give you an average ping. not show you the max ping. You can have an average of 250ms but have like 1000ms spikes on wireless that speedtest.net doesn't show you.

I would still use adsl if I had the option to. but Telkom cancelled all the copper networks. You should rather go for fibre, as a best cabled option for gaming.

Still having bad international speed on LTE, think wasted money on getting this LTE router, my copper networks were cancelled so was forced to LTE, and now fibre is available after 2 months.
 
While I do agree with you on using LTE for gaming as generally the jitter is too high. The MTN fixed LTE is on another level of unstableness.
Rain works extremely well for gaming, there are occasional issues, but nowhere close to MTN fixed LTE.
Even better, try a normal MTN sim card, its leagues smoother with almost 0 jitter.
Either MTN or Afrihost is doing something weird with their routing on these packages
 
linkinpark said:
While I do agree with you on using LTE for gaming as generally the jitter is too high. The MTN fixed LTE is on another level of unstableness.
Rain works extremely well for gaming, there are occasional issues, but nowhere close to MTN fixed LTE.
Even better, try a normal MTN sim card, its leagues smoother with almost 0 jitter.
Either MTN or Afrihost is doing something weird with their routing on these packages
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The problem with wireless is that any other traffic going over the link will cause your latency to skyrocke, someone sending a whatsapp picture? Get 2000+ms while they're uploading it.
I have two contracts, one purely for gaming traffic, the other handles browsing, youtube, netflix, all the other stuff.
Split them up on my firewall.
 
Faux_Grey said:
The problem with wireless is that any other traffic going over the link will cause your latency to skyrocke, someone sending a whatsapp picture? Get 2000+ms while they're uploading it.
I have two contracts, one purely for gaming traffic, the other handles browsing, youtube, netflix, all the other stuff.
Split them up on my firewall.
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No, that problem is not limited to wireless, it can happen with any connection. It's actually much more pronounced on ADSL with it's slow upload speeds.
 
Not only is this service so unstable, but now apparently usage allocation is a disaster too. I just checked my cap today and apparently my day time usage has already been 20gb while my night time hasn't even been touched. Even though I downloaded 20gb at like 2AM, but I have to prove it. Unbelievable.
 
Has everyone just given up complaining about this or am I the only one that still can't do anything internationally? Well now I can't do anything cos it's down completely.
 
Given up, cancelled, moved on.
Don't have time for this s***.
 
lilggg said:
Has everyone just given up complaining about this or am I the only one that still can't do anything internationally? Well now I can't do anything cos it's down completely.
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intermittently I'm getting issues to international sites, I've just come to accept it, I haven't heard anything from afrihost since January.
 
Faux_Grey said:
intermittently I'm getting issues to international sites, I've just come to accept it, I haven't heard anything from afrihost since January.
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Mine's working fairly well at the moment, but I still get strange timeout issues with certain international sites. For example, Wetransfer is almost unusable for some strange reason.
 
I've not experienced any noticeable change in pings to internat. sites, even when the undersea cable/link was down a while back.

It's always been +- 200ms give or take, higher in evenings and peak times granted...but nothing overly excessive and long lasting.

For fixed LTE I'm guessing sub 50ms pings would be unattainable...except perhaps on the rare 5G connections.
 
MirageF1 said:
It's always been +- 200ms give or take, higher in evenings and peak times granted...but nothing overly excessive and long lasting.

For fixed LTE I'm guessing sub 50ms pings would be unattainable...except perhaps on the rare 5G connections.
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It's a law of physics, nothing can travel faster than light. It takes light about 66ms to travel 20000km, so 120ms is about the theoretical minimum for ping times to the US.

What's causing a problem at the moment is the intermittent international packet loss (which seems to affect wired and wireless traffic). Hopefully the AH engineers can figure out and fix the routing issues. Some feedback from AH would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thought I'd chime in and add that I too am having issues with international connection
on Afrihost MTN Pure LTE

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International (Frankfurt):
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speed aside the instability and what I'm assuming is packet loss is really frustrating.
I can still download things, possibly even stream stuff at low quality but anything truly realtime
just disconnects/times out/ rubber bands horrendously.
 
I'm busy dealing with Afrihost on the matter.

If you feel comfortable anyone with international issues can pm me a contact number. They aren't aware of any degraded performance and is not shaping it either.
 
cavedog said:
I'm busy dealing with Afrihost on the matter.

If you feel comfortable anyone with international issues can pm me a contact number. They aren't aware of any degraded performance and is not shaping it either.
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Are they ever aware of anything. I gave up dealing with them. What ever the problem is, their system or the staff, they are useless.
 
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