Afrihost Advice Is to Downgrade Line Speed
You're lucky - since opting for the unshaped capped option none of my international streaming services are working - the ping rate to the international servers is apparently too high to even allow SD streaming! I'm two months into an annual subscription for this streaming service and suddenly for the last couple of weeks it doesn't work - picture starts plays for a second or two and freezes. Prior to the selection of unshaped package from Afrihost it worked perfectly - streaming 1080P live NFL football on a SUnday night without an issue. Now nothing but nothing wants to play even the SD channels won't stream.
Requested assistance from Afrihost and got told to consider downgrading to a 4Mbps line or Fibre (not available)!
My current line is synced at 10Mbps and comes in at a smidge under 8Mbps as per my data package and Afrihost's suggestion is to lower the line speed further?? This while there is an active regrade request to a 10Mbps package after my request for a 20Mbps line regrade was denied with distance from exchange stated as the reason it could not be done.
I have previously had a 10Mbps line at this exact address and it was only downgraded on the advice of Afrihost but has since been successfully synced at 10Mbps so why is a 10Mbps package not possible?
And does the unshaped selection have anything to do with the piss poor ping rates to international servers? It's 2016 people surely we can manage streaming video in HD without reinventing the internet to achieve it?
Really good streaming performance throughout the weekend.watched most of the football i wanted to without any hiccupsviva Barca
You're lucky - since opting for the unshaped capped option none of my international streaming services are working - the ping rate to the international servers is apparently too high to even allow SD streaming! I'm two months into an annual subscription for this streaming service and suddenly for the last couple of weeks it doesn't work - picture starts plays for a second or two and freezes. Prior to the selection of unshaped package from Afrihost it worked perfectly - streaming 1080P live NFL football on a SUnday night without an issue. Now nothing but nothing wants to play even the SD channels won't stream.
Requested assistance from Afrihost and got told to consider downgrading to a 4Mbps line or Fibre (not available)!
My current line is synced at 10Mbps and comes in at a smidge under 8Mbps as per my data package and Afrihost's suggestion is to lower the line speed further?? This while there is an active regrade request to a 10Mbps package after my request for a 20Mbps line regrade was denied with distance from exchange stated as the reason it could not be done.
I have previously had a 10Mbps line at this exact address and it was only downgraded on the advice of Afrihost but has since been successfully synced at 10Mbps so why is a 10Mbps package not possible?
And does the unshaped selection have anything to do with the piss poor ping rates to international servers? It's 2016 people surely we can manage streaming video in HD without reinventing the internet to achieve it?
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