Afrihost New Network Feedback

[Francois Marais]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Francois Marais>ping yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [206.190.36.45] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.36.45: bytes=32 time=349ms TTL=40
Reply from 206.190.36.45: bytes=32 time=349ms TTL=40
Reply from 206.190.36.45: bytes=32 time=349ms TTL=40
Reply from 206.190.36.45: bytes=32 time=349ms TTL=40

Ping statistics for 206.190.36.45:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 349ms, Maximum = 349ms, Average = 349ms

C:\Users\Francois Marais>tracert yahoo.com

Tracing route to yahoo.com [206.190.36.45]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 13 ms 11 ms 10 ms 169-0-16-1.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.0.16.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms jhb-rx1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.18]
5 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms jhb-up8b.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.56]
6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 41.169.57.218
7 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms if-7-0.tcore2.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [41.206.179.13]
8 186 ms 242 ms 255 ms if-1-2-0-0.tcore2.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.165.17]
9 202 ms 270 ms 194 ms if-2-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.164.253]
10 194 ms 193 ms 187 ms if-5-20.tcore2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.159.61]
11 195 ms 193 ms 193 ms if-2-2.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.158.5]
12 191 ms 191 ms 196 ms if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.158.30]
13 191 ms 190 ms 190 ms if-2-2.tcore2.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.139.1]
14 210 ms 188 ms 188 ms if-11-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.139.42]
15 192 ms 192 ms 199 ms if-17-2.tcore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.130]
16 192 ms 192 ms 193 ms 195.219.83.102
17 328 ms 328 ms 328 ms ae-23-70.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.69]
18 341 ms 328 ms 328 ms ae-23-70.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.69]
19 320 ms 330 ms 319 ms YAHOO-INC.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.71.112.14]
20 345 ms 348 ms 344 ms ae-3.pat2.swp.yahoo.com [216.115.96.57]
21 342 ms 346 ms 341 ms ae-5.pat2.gqb.yahoo.com [216.115.101.197]
22 342 ms 361 ms 341 ms et-18-1-0.msr1.gq1.yahoo.com [66.196.67.103]
23 351 ms 351 ms 351 ms et-0-0-0.clr2-a-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com [67.195.37.73]
24 340 ms 339 ms 340 ms et-17-25.fab4-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com [67.195.1.87]
25 332 ms 331 ms 331 ms po-12.bas1-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com [206.190.32.19]
26 349 ms 348 ms 358 ms ir1.fp.vip.gq1.yahoo.com [206.190.36.45]

Trace complete.

 

[AfriGuy]

Reached my cap on previous account. Little low on funds this month so didn't want to spend to buy more.

I did let it run for about half the day and seen no degradation on Web Africa account.

I only switched back to Afrihost account now and did a quick test and above is the results of it.

OK
Still confuses me that port resets bring back the throughput to normal levels. That means a reset on the DSLAM somewhere is helping things along.

Either way, please keep posting tests here.
May also be worth taking a look at the Telkom guest account to see how that performs.

 

[AfriGuy]

-snip

Sorry, just saw that your previous package was actually a 2Mbps profile.
The upgrade will go through this evening.

 

[KoolDaffy]

OK
Still confuses me that port resets bring back the throughput to normal levels. That means a reset on the DSLAM somewhere is helping things along.

Either way, please keep posting tests here.
May also be worth taking a look at the Telkom guest account to see how that performs.

Yeah. Even though Web Africa for half a day was running fine whereas Afrihost as soon as I switched back to it showed poor performance. Obviously I have no idea why this is happening. Only started happening when my connection went dead few days ago. Not sure if you remember.

I'll keep testing.

If you can reset the port again. I'd appreciate that. And will test to see how things perform.

 

[Francois Marais]

Sorry, just saw that your previous package was actually a 2Mbps profile.
The upgrade will go through this evening.

Will things start working then? P2P is dead. HTTP download dead again? I just had a glimmer of hope this morning and now that glimmer is gone with the wind...

 

[AfriGuy]

Will things start working then? P2P is dead. HTTP download dead again? I just had a glimmer of hope this morning and now that glimmer is gone with the wind...

That will also go through this evening, as a profile change is needed.

 

[al4bb]

As default DNS will be automatically assigned.
Congestion can be seen when pinging bras.afrihost.com - that's the local Telkom equipment.

Any other sites routing internationally for you though?

Tried several local sites and it's only MyBB that's roaming internationally

Here's a new route that its taken


--- Nice Trace to mybroadband.co.za ---

1) 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 4.452 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss
2) * * *
3) dbn-up2.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.173) 86.705 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 37611]
4) dbn-up2.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.174) 71.439 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 37611]
5) dbn-in1.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.204) 72.554 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 37611]
6) 41.162.84.192 (41.162.84.192) 56.309 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 36937] South Africa
7) 172.18.1.162 (172.18.1.162) 129.856 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss
8) if-7-0.tcore1.jso-johannesburg.as6453.net (41.206.178.29) 116.335 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] South Africa
9) if-4-2.tcore1.klt-cape-town.as6453.net (41.206.178.2) 273.953 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] South Africa
10) if-5-40.tcore2.pv9-lisbon.as6453.net (80.231.159.89) 238.164 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] Portugal
11) if-2-2.tcore1.pv9-lisbon.as6453.net (80.231.158.5) 250.728 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] Portugal
12) if-1-3.tcore1.sv8-highbridge.as6453.net (80.231.158.30) 282.542 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] Portugal
13) if-2-2.tcore2.sv8-highbridge.as6453.net (80.231.139.1) 251.631 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] United Kingdom
14) if-11-2.tcore1.l78-london.as6453.net (80.231.139.42) 283.344 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] United Kingdom
15) if-17-2.tcore1.ldn-london.as6453.net (80.231.130.130) 318.191 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] United Kingdom
16) 195.219.83.186 (195.219.83.186) 308.002 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 6453] United Kingdom
17) 81.25.207.54 (81.25.207.54) 322.938 ms, 8/8 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 2914] United Kingdom
18) 104.20.71.110 (104.20.71.110) 306.869 ms, 7/7 ps, 0.0% loss [AS 13335] United States

 

[Francois Marais]

That will also go through this evening, as a profile change is needed.

100%
Thanks

 

[AfriGuy]

Yeah. Even though Web Africa for half a day was running fine whereas Afrihost as soon as I switched back to it showed poor performance. Obviously I have no idea why this is happening. Only started happening when my connection went dead few days ago. Not sure if you remember.

I'll keep testing.

If you can reset the port again. I'd appreciate that. And will test to see how things perform.

Please do test that Telkom account
I'm confident that the throughput issues aren't coming in from our end.

 

[AfriGuy]

100%
Thanks

No worries

 

[micham03]

Random one

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Michael>ping bras.afrihost.com

Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms

C:\Users\Michael>

 

[KoolDaffy]

Please do test that Telkom account
I'm confident that the throughput issues aren't coming in from our end.

I'll test the Guest account now. I can't do any browsing on that though can I?

Basically just log on to it and run tests, yeah?

 

[Vorastra]

I was told this morning that there was testing being done which was causing the issues in Armored Warfare. It's now 6PM and the intermittent packet loss issues are still here. Are you guys still testing?

 

[AfriFella]

Random one

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Michael>ping bras.afrihost.com

Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms

C:\Users\Michael>

Don't see anything wrong there.

 

[AfriFella]

I'll test the Guest account now. I can't do any browsing on that though can I?

Basically just log on to it and run tests, yeah?

You can browse www.saix.net and www.telkom.co.za

 

[AfriFella]

I was told this morning that there was testing being done which was causing the issues in Armored Warfare. It's now 6PM and the intermittent packet loss issues are still here. Are you guys still testing?

Sounds like our team are still working on some issues in the East. We'll send out an update as soon as things are back to normal.

 

[Vorastra]

Sounds like our team are still working on some issues in the East. We'll send out an update as soon as things are back to normal.

Alrighty. I await the update. Atleast watching my tanks occasionally bouncing around on the spot is entertaining.

I did notice this morning that some matches were getting 185ms. You guys playing around with routing?

 

[micham03]

Indeed! All is GOOD here!!!

Don't see anything wrong there.

 

[AfriFella]

Alrighty. I await the update. Atleast watching my tanks occasionally bouncing around on the spot is entertaining.

I did notice this morning that some matches were getting 185ms. You guy splaying around with routing?

Drop me a PM with your username so I can pass it on to our network team!

 

[KoolDaffy]

You can browse www.saix.net and www.telkom.co.za

Speed test on Telkom guest account

Last Result:
Download Speed: 9033 kbps (1129.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 864 kbps (108 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 12 ms
10/28/2015, 6:21:05 PM

Better than Afrihost account.