Afrihost New Network Feedback - Part 2

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HartsockZA said:
World of Warships, Armored Warfare. DNS is set for Afrihost server .2 and Google's 8.8.8.8
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Yeah, I complained about Armored Warfare back in November, they got it working for a few weeks. Then I complained about it last week (came back to playing it) and the issue is still here. They've said that they are going to update the game profile so it doesn't get affected by the shaper. Still waiting.

ALSO still waiting on the whole "not being able to access mega and mediafire" which is also being looked into. Last week.
 
Will seacom's cable fault have an impact on Afrihost clients? If so, how much of an impact will it have and what services should we expect to be slow?
 
Vorastra said:
Yeah, I complained about Armored Warfare back in November, they got it working for a few weeks. Then I complained about it last week (came back to playing it) and the issue is still here. They've said that they are going to update the game profile so it doesn't get affected by the shaper. Still waiting.

ALSO still waiting on the whole "not being able to access mega and mediafire" which is also being looked into. Last week.
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Just waiting for my fibre connection, I can't stand this crap, Mweb had a good network when it came to gaming (for me) but their accounts department lacks a bitch slap. Afrihost has the best part of actually giving me my 4mb connection but I can't game as well as I did on the Mweb network. Hopefully soon I'll have fibre installed and then I don't care how many people are on the net. Everything will just work.

Saw your post, complained about it 2 months back still nothing, its like they just gave up on trying to support gamers. Always have to send ping tests or tracerts or install ping mapper, submit submit submit and get nothing back. Climbing a ladder that just doesn't have a end to. Mweb have a gaming department that only focus on our problems and sometimes they don't get it right but often all comes right.

Yea I know what the Afrihost lovers here are gonna say, "if you hate it then bugger off" well luckily we live in a free country so I can say all this lovely stuff about Afrihost without suffering any backlash. Paid for the service like everyone else, advertised as a gaming package (supported) and well some days all is well. But often, crap...
 
User52 said:
NNTP running at 2MB/s full line speed. App store/iTunes store and iCloud crippling slow takes 30mins for 27mb app to download.
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The above should be 2 Mb/s (Megabits per second) for line speed and 27MB (MegaBytes) for the size of a download .....
 
HartsockZA said:
Just waiting for my fibre connection, I can't stand this crap, Mweb had a good network when it came to gaming (for me) but their accounts department lacks a bitch slap. Afrihost has the best part of actually giving me my 4mb connection but I can't game as well as I did on the Mweb network. Hopefully soon I'll have fibre installed and then I don't care how many people are on the net. Everything will just work.

Saw your post, complained about it 2 months back still nothing, its like they just gave up on trying to support gamers. Always have to send ping tests or tracerts or install ping mapper, submit submit submit and get nothing back. Climbing a ladder that just doesn't have a end to. Mweb have a gaming department that only focus on our problems and sometimes they don't get it right but often all comes right.

Yea I know what the Afrihost lovers here are gonna say, "if you hate it then bugger off" well luckily we live in a free country so I can say all this lovely stuff about Afrihost without suffering any backlash. Paid for the service like everyone else, advertised as a gaming package (supported) and well some days all is well. But often, crap...
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We definitely want to improve our gaming experience where clients are having issues, so please drop me a PM so we can have our team look into this :(
 
HartsockZA said:
World of Warships, Armored Warfare. DNS is set for Afrihost server .2 and Google's 8.8.8.8
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Can you change your DNS to be dynamically assigned? Not 100% sure which IP address you're using, but our team prefer to work with our DNS so we're operating from the same baseline.
 
Dianysis said:
Haven't commented here in a while.

Getting slow speeds on a streaming service I use.
Connect to vpn which routes me through Europe - full speed.
Connect to my vox backup account - full speed.

Otherwise been running pretty solid for me.

Joburg South.
Capped account.
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Which streaming service are you having issues with?
 
caroper said:
Can't stream a damn thing in Cape Town again and Speed test won't fully load so I can't test it.
Back to the Telkom account until the "Non Existent" problems are fixed again I guess.
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Which streaming service? We should be easily able to replicate if it's one of the major services like Netflix or Showmax.
 
Flying this side.

Code: 
wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.1.4.2757-24ffd60/plexmediaserver_1.1.4.2757-24ffd60_amd64.deb
--2016-10-18 09:16:56--  https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.1.4.2757-24ffd60/plexmediaserver_1.1.4.2757-24ffd60_amd64.deb
Resolving downloads.plex.tv (downloads.plex.tv)... 104.20.7.9, 104.20.6.9, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:609, ...
Connecting to downloads.plex.tv (downloads.plex.tv)|104.20.7.9|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 101088776 (96M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'plexmediaserver_1.1.4.2757-24ffd60_amd64.deb'

100%[====================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 101,088,776 1.10MB/s   in 88s    

2016-10-18 09:18:25 (1.10 MB/s) - 'plexmediaserver_1.1.4.2757-24ffd60_amd64.deb' saved [101088776/101088776]
 
Is anyone getting errors on FNB banking? I know it's not a Afrihost issue but I can't access any info on my profile without internal server error, just checking if anyone else is having the same issue?
 
dj2381 said:
Is anyone getting errors on FNB banking? I know it's not a Afrihost issue but I can't access any info on my profile without internal server error, just checking if anyone else is having the same issue?
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Works for me.
 
AfriMan said:
We don't use Seacom as a primary international route, so it wouldn't affect us at all :)
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Isn't that a bit optimistic?

Unless you have a dedicated cable, which I doubt, or you have a 1 to 1 contention ratio you will be affected by your upstream provider.

The Seacom traffic has to go somewhere and if your upstream provider is acting as an alternate route for any of those seacom users there will be increased congestion on your links too.
 
caroper said:
Isn't that a bit optimistic?

Unless you have a dedicated cable, which I doubt, or you have a 1 to 1 contention ratio you will be affected by your upstream provider.

The Seacom traffic has to go somewhere and if your upstream provider is acting as an alternate route for any of those seacom users there will be increased congestion on your links too.
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Doesn't the Afrihost network rely solely on WACS?
 
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