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Once again I have to say, I'm very impressed with Afrihost :D. Managed to change a client from VOX to Afrihost, set up a new domain, created new mail accounts and got their permanent DSL account up and running all that within 4 hours, all I need to do now is get their line moved over from VOX to Afrihost. And I saved the client a few hundred bucks...Value for money and speedy support, enough to put a huge smile on your face:D
 
krustyrsa said:
Once again I have to say, I'm very impressed with Afrihost :D. Managed to change a client from VOX to Afrihost, set up a new domain, created new mail accounts and got their permanent DSL account up and running all that within 4 hours, all I need to do now is get their line moved over from VOX to Afrihost. And I saved the client a few hundred bucks...Value for money and speedy support, enough to put a huge smile on your face:D
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That's a pretty awesome turn around time if I don't say so myself :D
 
krustyrsa said:
Once again I have to say, I'm very impressed with Afrihost :D. Managed to change a client from VOX to Afrihost, set up a new domain, created new mail accounts and got their permanent DSL account up and running all that within 4 hours, all I need to do now is get their line moved over from VOX to Afrihost. And I saved the client a few hundred bucks...Value for money and speedy support, enough to put a huge smile on your face:D
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take it things are going better for you?
 
Just getting ready to see if the 7pm problems rears its head again .

But this was my trace this morning

Tracing route to e673.e9.akamaiedge.net [88.221.242.217]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms capetown.xxxx.local [10.10.20.1]
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms cpt-rx2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.82]
5 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
6 24 ms 25 ms 25 ms 41.164.52.40
7 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms if-ae-7-0.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.164.53]
8 174 ms 174 ms 176 ms if-ae-5-2.tcore2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.159.129]
9 173 ms 173 ms 174 ms if-ae-2-2.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.158.5]
10 179 ms 178 ms 179 ms if-ae-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.158.30]
11 178 ms 179 ms 178 ms if-ae-2-2.tcore2.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.139.1]
12 175 ms 174 ms 175 ms if-ae-11-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.139.42]
13 179 ms 186 ms 179 ms if-ae-17-2.tcore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.130]
14 184 ms 185 ms 185 ms 195.219.83.102
15 199 ms 196 ms 199 ms INTERNET-SO.edge3.London1.Level3.net [195.50.124.34]
16 203 ms 203 ms 202 ms 168.209.0.238
17 202 ms 201 ms 202 ms csw5-pkl-tg2-7.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.188]
18 212 ms 210 ms 202 ms 197.96.177.148
19 200 ms 201 ms 200 ms a88-221-242-217.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [88.221.242.217]

Trace complete.
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And this is my trace now -

Tracing route to e673.e9.akamaiedge.net [23.221.64.60]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms capetown.xxxx.local [10.10.20.1]
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 25 ms 25 ms 26 ms cpt-rx2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.82]
5 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
6 27 ms 26 ms 24 ms 41.164.52.40
7 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 172.18.1.162
8 47 ms 45 ms 54 ms akamai.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.212]
9 50 ms 48 ms 52 ms a23-221-64-60.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.221.64.60]

Trace complete.
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10 hops less ?
 
I've been having a weird experience over the last couple of days. Certain international services would become completely unavailable (iTunes, Playstation Network, etc). I have to effectively drop the connection and reconnect for it to work.

I'm on 100Mbit fibre with a Afrihost capped account.
 
AfriGuy said:
Could be slow responses from your exchange, hard to tell though.
If/ when you see this again, please grab a ping to bras.afrihost.com, a full traceroute/ MTR and a ping to the 3rd hop :)
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Okay here are the results while I cannot access store.steampowered.com.

Steam Trace

Tracing route to store.steampowered.com [96.16.222.134]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 12 ms 12 ms 10 ms cpt-rx2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.82]
4 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
5 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 41.164.52.40
6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 172.18.1.162
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 1820 ms 530 ms 476 ms a96-16-222-134.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [96.16.222.134]

Trace complete.
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Afrihost Trace

Tracing route to bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms 155.239.255.250

Trace complete.
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And after reestablishing the connection.

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms cpt-rx2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.82]
4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
5 12 ms 10 ms 10 ms 41.164.52.40
6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 172.18.1.162
7 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms akamai.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.212]
8 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms a96-16-222-134.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [96.16.222.134]

Trace complete
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Issue with Akami?
 
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Strifehart said:
I've been having a weird experience over the last couple of days. Certain international services would become completely unavailable (iTunes, Playstation Network, etc). I have to effectively drop the connection and reconnect for it to work.

I'm on 100Mbit fibre with a Afrihost capped account.
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Does your sessions also disconnect randomly?
 
Strifehart said:
I've been having a weird experience over the last couple of days. Certain international services would become completely unavailable (iTunes, Playstation Network, etc). I have to effectively drop the connection and reconnect for it to work.

I'm on 100Mbit fibre with a Afrihost capped account.
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Complaining with the white bread under the arm? ;D and here I am even struggling to get 10 MB.
I wish, enjoy man.
 
Isengard said:
Okay here are the results while I cannot access store.steampowered.com.
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Performed the same tests.

Code: 
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Lara>tracert store.steampowered.com

Tracing route to store.steampowered.com [96.16.222.134]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    16 ms    17 ms    16 ms  cpt-tx2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.81]
  4    17 ms    16 ms    16 ms  cpt-rx1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.94]
  5    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
  6    17 ms    17 ms    16 ms  41.164.52.40
  7    38 ms    37 ms    37 ms  172.18.1.162
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *       40 ms  a96-16-222-134.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [96.16.222.134]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Lara>tracert bras.afrihost.com

Tracing route to bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     6 ms     7 ms     6 ms  155.239.255.250

Trace complete.
 
LaraC said:
Does your sessions also disconnect randomly?
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Not from what I've seen. Uptime was more than 24 hours before I reconnected this evening (I had to also reconnect the previous evening). Before that it's been up for a couple of weeks without any drops.
 
Strifehart said:
Not from what I've seen. Uptime was more than 24 hours before I reconnected this evening (I had to also reconnect the previous evening). Before that it's been up for a couple of weeks without any drops.
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I was only asking because another forumite with a 100Mbps fibre connection experienced random disconnects. :)
 
My Internet has been wonky... So whilst still connected some site work and other don't... I'll get timeouts on Gmail and YouTube...

But steam is oreloading doom at 1.2mb/s... What gives.
 
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Very frustrating tonight with international sites timing out. And everyone's gone home at 5:30pm. :(
 
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