Afrihost POC Network - Afrigreen Feedback

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AfriGuy said:
That's very strange.
Was the auth session dropping for you today?
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Well i do not know what happened but it was a back to back thing and i just got fed up as all my sessions dropped. moved to WA and still on the same sessions no drops as of yet.

I think it was a very bad idea to go with Neotel / Telkom. Use DFA they have move capacity to handle Afrihosts Load. and from what i have heard much better network.
 
AfriGuy said:
As I confirmed earlier, no one is forcing you to stay on this account - you can switch back to your @afrihost account.
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I realise no one is forcing me - for now (as I am already back on my old AH account as AfriGreen is pretty much useless - as per my experience).

I was referring to the fact that the old accounts won't be locked FOR NOW - I am worried that my old account will get locked at some point and I am stuck with the AfriGreen account.
 
Emissary_Of_Pain said:
If i was Afrihost ... I wouldn't disable the original accounts of people testing ... the frustration or fear of knowing you cannot change back if the paw paw hits the fan is terrible ...
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And I was also referring to the very valid concern above ^^ which I also share.
 
Hummercellc said:
How can you miss it?
Everyone is saying the same thing here?
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I'm personally not aware though, I'm not the guys running tweaks to the network though. Our network guys monitor feedback as well as this thread - so if anyone is on top of it, it's them.
 
bladebob said:
I think it was a very bad idea to go with Neotel / Telkom. Use DFA they have move capacity to handle Afrihosts Load. and from what i have heard much better network.
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As I understand Tereco's infrastructure, it is like a modern version of a switchboard where you as an ISP plug your fibre into whatever takes your fancy at the time. Obviously more complex than that. But I would not be surprised if from day to day different infrastructure backbones were in use depending on capacity demand and surplus. Afrigreen and Blue may not be so much a selection of backbone as different methods for allocating excess demand to under-utilised networks from different providers on the fly. But I am just speculating now and would enjoy hearing the actual story once the POC is over.
 
Still unable to access carbonite.co.za with afrigreen account...
 
"I have done my testing and i am not going back to AfriGreen as it is to unstable for BAU tasks and work"

Ok BUT as you can see tons of people are complaining that this AfriGreen network is not working. I know you state it is new and i know there are issues but still if you take the same polices that you have on the OLD Afrihost accounts and copy them to this network then surely we can all test 100%.

Right now it is PPP = Plug, Play & Pray :)

This really is not a true test. This is more of a frustration to users who spend tons of cash with AH every month and still there is no joy and still there are issues. I know you guys are trying hard but you have to thing out of the box and plan at least 5 years ahead to solve this issue or AH will be going down and this will be there biggest mistake.

Just my thoughts. Hope you prove me wrong.
 
Gavin107 said:
My prediction was 100%. A few minutes later and back to /meh

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See my earlier post. From a reasonably satisfying 5.44mbps, down in less than 20 minutes to 1.08mbps and now a little later down to:

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It is this type of variability and unpredictability that will make any POC a no-go option in my books.

No significant EDIT local congestion evident in the trace route:

Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=30 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=31 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=3 ttl=55 time=28 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=55 time=28 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=5 ttl=55 time=28 ms


ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=24 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=23 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=57 time=24 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=57 time=24 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=57 time=25 ms


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.0.1 1.73 ms 2.044 ms 1.91 ms
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.170.79.229 23.858 ms 23.476 ms 22.973 ms
4 41.170.79.230 29.592 ms 22.102 ms 29.892 ms
5 41.170.79.236 22.31 ms 20.649 ms 20.911 ms
6 41.169.27.249 23.623 ms 22.85 ms 22.99 ms
7 172.18.1.59 23.461 ms 23.577 ms
Request timed out *
8 196.223.14.31 25.137 ms 25.282 ms 25.816 ms
9 196.44.0.223 27.774 ms 27.397 ms 30.042 ms
10 196.44.31.99 27.231 ms 27.16 ms 27.167 ms
11 Request timed out *
196.31.220.6 40.835 ms
196.30.1.53 26.446 ms
12 196.31.220.27 26.068 ms 25.394 ms 24.819 ms
13 196.31.63.202 27.362 ms 27.488 ms 27.409 ms
14 196.30.42.133 26.671 ms 26.663 ms 26.3 ms
15 197.242.144.102 27.631 ms 27.226 ms 26.78 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.0.1 1.675 ms 1.929 ms 1.855 ms
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.170.79.229 109.832 ms 25.063 ms 142.24 ms
4 41.170.79.230 24.714 ms 23.446 ms 23.978 ms
5 41.170.79.236 21.613 ms 28.38 ms 46.585 ms
6 196.46.25.166 22.279 ms 21.204 ms 21.731 ms
7 72.14.239.35 24.193 ms
72.14.239.117 23.201 ms 23.59 ms
8 8.8.8.8 22.537 ms 21.625 ms
Request timed out *
9 8.8.8.8 21.984 ms


Now heres a dilemma for AH. If both POC's give /meh results quo-vadis Afrihost?
 
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Just reverted back to the Afrihost account:

Speedtest to Rosebank:
Download Speed: 3443 kbps (430.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 419 kbps (52.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 11 ms
16/07/2015, 21:31:47

Speedtest to Cape Town
Download Speed: 3479 kbps (434.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 416 kbps (52 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 43 ms
16/07/2015, 21:33:05

Speedtest to Durban
Download Speed: 3445 kbps (430.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 327 kbps (40.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 49 ms
16/07/2015, 22:00:23

did half of SA leave Afrihost?
 
I understand that we all like to test and experience "new things"...
but with all these issues and problems affecting the internet (non)connectivity YOU are paying for, why do some of you keep at it, struggling on a daily, no make it an hourly basis, to have some form of connection to the world-wide-wait? Why just not give it up as a bad job and seek better connections elsewhere?

I also eagerly applied for a testing account, got the automated responce, but so far nothing more. Reading from your collective experiences, I think I was saved the frustrations and time-out many of you are experiencing. Maybe the blue will be better than the green, whenever it comes.

Exactly how much fiddling and tweaking can there be on a network and its IPC's? Should it not be the shortest route from client to server, and if not available, then any route? Whats to be tweaked and fiddled with, if not exactly the HOW and when and how fast you can get from A to B?
 
Streaming on Afrigreen is a bit borked tonight. Cant seem to pick up the speed. Streaming fine but lower resolution than usual (usualy 480 cant get about 380 tonight). Latency in-game is also a tad higher (was 210 is 280 now).
 
Okay, so i switched back to the old account as the Afrigreen network failed to load up another site....
 
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