Afrihost POC Network - Afrigreen Feedback

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8-BALL said:
Oh my, when the boss talks....
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That is why I had to jump on the VOX offer.

But they have now hit the same problems with peek use in the evenings from Cape Town, but at least the Data carries over so you are not totally wasting money on unused data and they are chasing Telkom for the promised capacity.

With 2 Afrihost accounts plus 3G, a Telkom account and a VOX account I can now weather most storms.

But reliable internet is getting slower and more expensive, shouldn't it be the other way round.
 
Devilish said:
Did a Trace route to 188.65.200.200 which was blocked by PeerBlock.

Code: 
Tracing route to ns345728.ip-188-165-200.eu [188.165.200.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1  General failure.

Trace complete.
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Hmm no idea why as it is my MC server hosted by OVH in France, most likely an incorrect blacklist by PeerBlock. Tbh I stopped using Tinfoil hat software and invested in a good quality VPN if I need anonymity....

Tracing route to ns345728.ip-188-165-200.eu [188.165.200.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 43 ms 39 ms 97 ms ipc-tx-a-access.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.249]
4 28 ms 36 ms 29 ms ipc-rx-a-access.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.250]
5 31 ms 29 ms 32 ms 41.170.79.236
6 33 ms 29 ms 29 ms 41.160.2.33
7 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms ix-0-3-0-0.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.37]
8 206 ms 206 ms 209 ms if-4-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.178.2]
9 266 ms 273 ms 236 ms if-1-0-0-4.core2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [195.219.214.37]
10 205 ms 205 ms 207 ms if-0-0-0-2000.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.158.1]
11 202 ms 203 ms 206 ms if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.158.30]
12 201 ms 202 ms 202 ms if-19-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.138.22]
13 211 ms 210 ms 209 ms if-15-2.tcore2.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.118]
14 208 ms 206 ms 211 ms ldn-1-a9.uk.eu [213.251.130.109]
15 205 ms 205 ms 205 ms rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu [91.121.128.86]
16 293 ms 211 ms 207 ms vss-3-6k.routers.ovh.net [94.23.122.237]
17 208 ms 205 ms 204 ms ns345728.ip-188-165-200.eu [188.165.200.200]

Trace complete.
 
ATM

racing route to www.afrihost.co.za [41.181.185.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 169-0-4-1-access.afrihost.co.za [169.0.4.1]
3 22 ms 21 ms 51 ms 41.170.79.230
4 44 ms 21 ms 79 ms 41.170.79.236
5 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 41.160.2.33
6 25 ms 24 ms 36 ms mtnns-2.jinx.net.za [196.223.14.31]
7 24 ms 28 ms 25 ms jh-cr-1.za-jh-pr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.73]
8 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms jh-dca-1.za--jh-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.217]
9 25 ms 41 ms 25 ms 18.185.181.41.in-addr.aserv.co.za [41.181.185.18]

Trace complete.


:) Looking good
 
caroper said:
That is why I had to jump on the VOX offer.

But they have now hit the same problems with peek use in the evenings from Cape Town, but at least the Data carries over so you are not totally wasting money on unused data and they are chasing Telkom for the promised capacity.

With 2 Afrihost accounts plus 3G, a Telkom account and a VOX account I can now weather most storms.

But reliable internet is getting slower and more expensive, shouldn't it be the other way round.
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^ Amen brother... a shotgun shell of accounts just to be able to use the internet at any given time.

AfriGreen was a bit meh this weekend... let's hope it is not a regular thing now... like VOX here in the Cape too... iffy becoming meh.
 
8-BALL said:
Yeh, thing is different ISP it goes away... been down the congestion route and it only occours on Afrihost.

TBH I'm not happy tonight.
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If you've proved it's not congestion, then we should look elsewhere.

Going by reports, something seems to have been up and we need to isolate who experienced these issues and what the commonalities are - Product. Location, etc.

We had mixed results on our side. For me I was getting decent throughput, but one of the other reps seems to have the same poor experience (i.e. slow throughput).
 
caroper said:
Running fine here, watching RWC Feed on iTV direct from ITV UK stream running at 300+KBs no stuttering or buffering.
Also in cape Town on 10Mbs line.
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Awesome - glad to hear it. But by the sounds of it, most people are trying to forget our game on Saturday :(
 
pumbaa said:
Have you all ever trying to cancel AH! Heaven forbid then you are really sucking hind tit, slow to no speeds, interrupted service sometimes disconnecting 4 to 6 times a day, 4 gig download takes 5 days plus to get to 60% with active seeds and peers. guess it serves me right I am a naughty boy, have cancelled. BUT I HAVE STILL PAID FOR THE MONTH!! and yes those are capital letters
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This is definitely not the norm. While we may have had some slow throughput (seems like mostly Sunday), which we are still investigating - being disconnected 4-6 times a day is definitely not happening on AfriGreen in general. Have you done any troubleshooting around this? Again, I must make it clear that P2P can't be used as an indication of line speed, especially a single file (no matter how many seeds and peers). It depends on the whether that seeder has limited upload, whether they have the complete file and other factors. I loaded up a ton of links and pushed my line to max the entire weekend (moved over 200GB), with only a single disconnection (when I switched accounts to test). I don't believe that this particular issue is directly linked to AfriGreen.

This was on a Capped account. If you are on Uncapped (not business) you may also want to factor in if you were being shaped. Although we are mostly seeing light to no shaping on most users, shaping is active on Afrigreen and will be enabled when required.
 
Rickster said:
I did 1080p on a 4meg once :)
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That's quite an achievement though I guess technically possible. My experience is that 1080p, for YouTube especially, like around 8Mbps to give it that initial burst buffer slightly ahead.

If you have trade secrets, please share ;)
 
Clayman said:
P2P dead. 0.6Mbps on speedtest.
P2P dead on normal Africrap, speedtest fine there though.

Time to actually move
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P2P was definitely working, but it may have been slow throughput as some others reported for Afrigreen. Definitely not the same on regular Afrihost though, these networks are not linked in any way whatsoever.

Did you run any tests we can see?
 
koosbeer said:
Latency was very unstable earlier on Afrigreen 2mb business account. Moved to the normal biz account and things are looking better then on afrigreen.
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That's terrible. Latency should have been consistent, though some here reported slow speeds, which we also saw on other channels - we're still looking into that.

Any test results we can look at?
 
PsyWulf said:
Afrigreen latency ingame is getting bit derp,Diablo3 and World of Warcraft is hovering between almost-instant to click-and-pray levels
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We tested a ton of games this weekend on Afrigreen, will have to check if these were on the list. All checked out great, but depends on whether you tested it during the time when reports of poor performance came in.

I'll check on whether WoW and D3 we included in the list.

UPDATE: Definitely were included in the tests and all should be goo. Maybe also take note of this report from Battle.net

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ArnoVermeulen said:
My internet has been good this weekend so far. Downloaded ios9 on 2 devices in less than 20 minutes on a 10mb line this morning. Earlier I watched Live WCR on dstv app on ipad while wife and daughter streamed netflix in bedroom. No complaints, thanks
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Wow, that's awesome. Sounds pretty perfect :)
 
Slaught3r said:
:mad:


Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.223.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 366 ms 366 ms 278 ms 169-0-5-1-access.afrihost.co.za [169.0.5.1]
3 229 ms 239 ms 252 ms 41.170.79.230
4 334 ms 307 ms 364 ms 41.170.79.236
5 468 ms 469 ms 468 ms google.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.166]
6 454 ms 467 ms 409 ms 72.14.237.239
7 223 ms 232 ms 275 ms jnb01s07-in-f4.1e100.net [216.58.223.4]

Then:

Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.223.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 169-0-5-1-access.afrihost.co.za [169.0.5.1]
3 12 ms 13 ms 36 ms 41.170.79.230
4 14 ms 10 ms 11 ms 41.170.79.236
5 425 ms 460 ms 462 ms google.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.166]
6 479 ms 516 ms 509 ms 72.14.237.239
7 684 ms 518 ms 558 ms jnb01s07-in-f4.1e100.net [216.58.223.4]

Trace complete.
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We seem to see that traceroutes show higher latency than normal but a direct ping shows better results. We're not sure why this is, but generally speaking the ping result is a little more reliable, especially a constant ping over time.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Browsing really, really slow.

Code: 
Tracing route to vienna.at [194.183.128.94]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  home.gateway.pace.net [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    33 ms    30 ms    32 ms  41.170.79.229
  4    32 ms    29 ms    30 ms  41.170.79.230
  5    42 ms    51 ms    45 ms  41.170.79.236
  6    31 ms    32 ms    31 ms  41.160.2.33
  7    35 ms    32 ms    39 ms  ix-0-3-0-0.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.37]
  8   208 ms   205 ms   209 ms  if-4-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.178.2]
  9   176 ms   176 ms   178 ms  if-1-0-0-2.core2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [195.219.214.30]
 10   203 ms   203 ms   203 ms  if-0-0-0-2000.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.158.1]
 11   209 ms   208 ms   209 ms  if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.158.30]
 12   208 ms   209 ms   207 ms  if-19-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.138.22]
 13   206 ms   205 ms   205 ms  if-15-2.tcore2.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.118]
 14   208 ms   209 ms   208 ms  80.231.62.6
 15   219 ms   223 ms   220 ms  nl-ams05a-rd2-xe-4-1-0.aorta.net [84.116.130.9] 
 16   221 ms   221 ms   222 ms  uk-lon01a-ri4-ge-4-0-0.aorta.net [84.116.132.18]
 17   216 ms   216 ms   216 ms  uk-lon01b-rd1-xe-7-1-2.aorta.net [84.116.134.229]
 18   216 ms   217 ms   217 ms  ch-zrh01b-ra1-ae-9-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.22]
 19   232 ms   227 ms   227 ms  62-179-117-106.ch-zrh01a-ra1.aorta.net [62.179.117.106]
 20   222 ms   221 ms   222 ms  gi0-0-1-74-asr1k-2-swz1.net.tele.net [194.183.142.142]
 21   227 ms   227 ms   227 ms  service.tele.net [194.183.128.94]

Trace complete.
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This seems mostly OK for international. What was speedtest showing you in terms of throughput?
 
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