Afrihost New Network Feedback - Part 2

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electrofreeze said:
afriguy like we said before we are not here to send tests and test your equipment we are paying for a service and we want that service we are paying for
when the service don't work we will post and it is your job to sort it out and fix the problems
i can also quote your posts from last year when your Internet service was up to crap and all the posts from you saying there is nothing wrong and in the meantime you knew there was problems
so please don't take everybody as a fool and do your job properly and stop denying when you have problems on your network
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Read this... then read it again AfriHost!!!!!
 
Once again, same issue again tonight being reported by me and my friends on Afrihost in the Western Cape region.

For the past two nights, it seems to start happening around 7:15pm to 7:30pm, particularly with YouTube.

Popular videos with large viewer counts are loading content fine (due to local caching) but as soon as you try to view a Live video or video with a low view count (sourced from international servers), it just doesn't load at all.

I posted a screenshot already last night of YouTube's "stats for nerds" where it shows a stable fast connection (I'm on 20mbps) but no content is actually loading into the aforementioned types of videos.

I repeat, if I or other people reporting the same issue use a diffrent ISP it works. Go back to Afrihost, then the issue persists. So it's a problem on your network that connects to international servers.
 
just went to youtube with a cw account and can watch anything with top resolution instantly without buffering
come on ah sort out your problems so we can use our internet properly without problems
 
AdriaanZA said:
Once again, same issue again tonight being reported by me and my friends on Afrihost in the Western Cape region.

For the past two nights, it seems to start happening around 7:15pm to 7:30pm, particularly with YouTube.

Popular videos with large viewer counts are loading content fine (due to local caching) but as soon as you try to view a Live video or video with a low view count (sourced from international servers), it just doesn't load at all.

I posted a screenshot already last night of YouTube's "stats for nerds" where it shows a stable fast connection (I'm on 20mbps) but no content is actually loading into the aforementioned types of videos.

I repeat, if I or other people reporting the same issue use a diffrent ISP it works. Go back to Afrihost, then the issue persists. So it's a problem on your network that connects to international servers.
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I agree, also battling with Youtube. Why the denial from Afrihost? Something is not right...
 
My Telkom data is low. Is this a good time to return to our beloved Afrihost?
 
Yes something not lekker tonight. Trying to cache google music locally on mobile device just fails. Switching to Telkom account and it downloads at full speed.
 
Gardens/Cape Town(10Mb on AH capped) - streaming went for a ball of chalk, webpages are pretty sluggish as well.
 
Reading this thread now and wondering if signing on for 4M uncapped bundle via Afrihost for my mom telly streaming was a bad idea...so far the accounts dept and feedback on line progress has been prompt but may have to wait 30 days for ADSL activation on line...tell me it's not all that bad.
 
treeman said:
Reading this thread now and wondering if signing on for 4M uncapped bundle via Afrihost for my mom telly streaming was a bad idea...so far the accounts dept and feedback on line progress has been prompt but may have to wait 30 days for ADSL activation on line...tell me it's not all that bad.
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It's hit or miss. Some people have lots of issues, others have none. Chances are if you're in CT you'll probably have lots of issues. AfriHost has always had problems in the south.
 
AdriaanZA said:
Once again, same issue again tonight being reported by me and my friends on Afrihost in the Western Cape region.

For the past two nights, it seems to start happening around 7:15pm to 7:30pm, particularly with YouTube.

Popular videos with large viewer counts are loading content fine (due to local caching) but as soon as you try to view a Live video or video with a low view count (sourced from international servers), it just doesn't load at all.

I posted a screenshot already last night of YouTube's "stats for nerds" where it shows a stable fast connection (I'm on 20mbps) but no content is actually loading into the aforementioned types of videos.

I repeat, if I or other people reporting the same issue use a diffrent ISP it works. Go back to Afrihost, then the issue persists. So it's a problem on your network that connects to international servers.
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And the people where having no problem on a different pop in Cape Town
I say this for 4 weeks
 
Not sure if I post was deleted now or if Afihost prevented my post from being posted?

Either way I smell lies and reminds me back when Afrihost was fined by ISPA for lying not too long ago, because what your support is telling me and what is being shown in this thread does not add up.

On the plus side Web Africa seems a lot more stable now so it's DEFINITIVELY because Afrihost oversold their ability and now their network is fcked.
 
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treeman said:
Reading this thread now and wondering if signing on for 4M uncapped bundle via Afrihost for my mom telly streaming was a bad idea...so far the accounts dept and feedback on line progress has been prompt but may have to wait 30 days for ADSL activation on line...tell me it's not all that bad.
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I'm trialling an afrihost account and judging by the feedback from my family… it depends on the source of the content. Hulu, Netflix, NowTv and the likes are fine, as good as we've experienced on any of the networks we've used. YouTube is buffering like mad in the evenings though.
 
It's up my side. Posting from an account that's likely hooked up to the North IPC (in case that's useful information).
 
I have the same experience, Netflix works fine, Youtube buffering on 720 and 1080.

Windows 10 updates also stopped totally last night at one stage. And this on a 100GB+100GB capped account with 195GB data remaining...
 
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