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acp said:
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I agree with other posters - we need more accurate guidance as to when AH plans for testing to be complete, decide on a POC and finalise.

Today is the 24th... If one wants to throw in the proverbial Afrihost towel or 'pause the service' without being billed for a full August up front, it needs to be logged today - am I right?
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I'm afraid we can't give you guys fixed dates, setting up a brand new network doesn't work like that I'm afraid :( We're working through as many points as possible, building up everything on the network.
When you guys see a more stable Afrigreen we'll start the next phase.
 
Afrigreen possible email issue.
I have windows 7 running windows livemail as email client. I have two ISP's - now Afrigreen and Vox.
When connected to Afrigreen, my ####@afrihost.zo.za mails are received but not sent. gmails received and sent no problem.
When connected to Vox the same happens.
My afrihost email account SMTP is smtp.afrihost.co.za
Please advise what the settings should be for Afrigreen and for Vox if anybody knows.
EDIT
I got Livemail to send afrihost mail while connected to Afrigreen using smtp.afrihost.co.za
When connected to Vox, the mail client cannot find smtp.afrihost.co.za
Any suggestions please
 
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freedom123 said:
Afrigreen possible email issue.
I have windows 7 running windows livemail as email client. I have two ISP's - now Afrigreen and Vox.
When connected to Afrigreen, my ####@afrihost.zo.za mails are received but not sent. gmails received and sent no problem.
When connected to Vox the same happens.
My afrihost email account SMTP is smtp.afrihost.co.za
Please advise what the settings should be for Afrigreen and for Vox if anybody knows.
EDIT
I got Livemail to send afrihost mail while connected to Afrigreen using smtp.afrihost.co.za
When connected to Vox, the mail client cannot find smtp.afrihost.co.za
Any suggestions please
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Your mail should still work when using Afrigreen, not sure when using other network though.
What errors are you seeing when you try and send mail?
 
Getting some really bad latency and packet loss to my Minecraft server

Confirmed with other players it's just me :(

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Downloads were going at 1mbps

Started streaming football game. Was streaming fine at first. But now bit laggy at 200kbps.

Browsing also struggling a bit too.
 
AfriGuy said:
That is very odd. Would you mind sharing the download source so I can see if we can get this replicated?
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This is not something I can easily do I'm afraid. You would need a user account on the box itself which I can't give you.

I just repeated the test with a 1gig file. Downloaded via http (port 80) and it came down at 8mbps. Immediately downloaded the file via sFTP (port 7040) and it is coming down at about 2.5mbps. Hard to believe there's no port-level shaping going on here based on those results. Is Afrihost's "business optimization" on by default with AfriGreen accounts perhaps?

Furthermore, I am SSHing into my box at home, also on a non-standard port, and let me tell you, it takes about 20 seconds for anything to appear on-screen after typing! Definitely something odd going on here!
 
StNick said:
This is not something I can easily do I'm afraid. You would need a user account on the box itself which I can't give you.

I just repeated the test with a 1gig file. Downloaded via http (port 80) and it came down at 8mbps. Immediately downloaded the file via sFTP (port 7040) and it is coming down at about 2.5mbps. Hard to believe there's no port-level shaping going on here based on those results. Is Afrihost's "business optimization" on by default with AfriGreen accounts perhaps?

Furthermore, I am SSHing into my box at home, also on a non-standard port, and let me tell you, it takes about 20 seconds for anything to appear on-screen after typing! Definitely something odd going on here!
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I'd advise checking the business optimization, mine was off then I checked again and boom on. Not sure if its actually implemented yet tho.
 
Heya guys.

Seeing a few posts here around packet loss - could you please grab a traceroute/ MTR to mybroadband.co.za and twitter.com and paste them here please?
 
Rickster said:
please dont use speed of me, its inaccurate.
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Relative to what?
What did you use as a calibration standard to arrive at that statement?
Can you prove that any of them are accurate, all speed tests are transient and relative?
 
Tracing route to twitter.com [199.16.156.198]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 473 ms 33 ms 11 ms 41.170.79.229
4 403 ms 11 ms 11 ms 41.170.79.230
5 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 41.170.79.236
6 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms 41.160.2.33
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms ix-0-3-0-0.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [2
16.6.55.37]
8 187 ms 208 ms 187 ms if-4-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.1
78.2]
9 154 ms 153 ms 154 ms if-1-0-0-3.core2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [195.219.
214.34]
10 189 ms 192 ms 189 ms if-0-0-0-2000.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.2
31.158.1]
11 189 ms 190 ms 190 ms if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.
158.30]
12 190 ms 191 ms 190 ms if-19-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.138
.22]
13 187 ms 188 ms 187 ms if-2-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.
2]
14 190 ms 190 ms 189 ms if-17-2.tcore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.130
.130]
15 188 ms 187 ms 188 ms 195.219.83.186
16 187 ms 188 ms 187 ms ae-3.r02.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.1
19]
17 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 82.112.115.166
18 281 ms 282 ms 280 ms ae62.er1.atl1.twttr.com [192.133.76.55]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * 279 ms * 199.16.156.198
21 2637 ms * * 199.16.156.198
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * 285 ms * 199.16.156.198
27 * 1128 ms 301 ms 199.16.156.198

Trace complete.


Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [190.93.240.55]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * 2308 ms 12 ms 41.170.79.229
4 842 ms 12 ms 34 ms 41.170.79.230
5 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 41.170.79.236
6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms africainx.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.135]
7 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 41-66-181-59-3b.CLO008-CDN-local-VLAN-321.africa
inx.net [41.66.181.59]
8 1488 ms 10 ms 11 ms 190.93.240.55

Trace complete.



Tracing route to star.c10r.facebook.com [31.13.93.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 2134 ms 58 ms 20 ms 41.170.79.229
4 2083 ms 144 ms 250 ms 41.170.79.230
5 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms 41.170.79.236
6 123 ms 10 ms 11 ms 41.160.2.33
7 10 ms 13 ms 10 ms ix-0-3-0-0.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [2
16.6.55.37]
8 183 ms 187 ms 186 ms if-4-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.1
78.2]
9 168 ms 156 ms 154 ms if-1-0-0-3.core2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [195.219.
214.34]
10 190 ms 190 ms 190 ms if-0-0-0-2000.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.2
31.158.1]
11 190 ms 190 ms 190 ms if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.
158.30]
12 188 ms 187 ms 187 ms if-2-2.tcore2.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.
139.1]
13 190 ms 189 ms 189 ms if-11-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.139
.42]
14 196 ms 189 ms 191 ms if-17-2.tcore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [80.231.130
.130]
15 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 195.219.83.186
16 190 ms 191 ms 190 ms ae-4.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.2
4]
17 194 ms 195 ms 195 ms ae-3.r21.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
38]
18 195 ms 196 ms 194 ms ae-1.r02.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.1
63]
19 226 ms 267 ms 228 ms 213.198.77.190
20 193 ms 194 ms 194 ms be12.bb01.fra2.tfbnw.net [31.13.29.202]
21 193 ms 193 ms 193 ms ae1.pr02.fra2.tfbnw.net [31.13.27.206]
22 * 197 ms 196 ms po102.psw01b.fra3.tfbnw.net [31.13.31.255]
23 196 ms 197 ms 196 ms msw1ai.01.fra3.tfbnw.net [173.252.66.115]
24 196 ms 196 ms 197 ms edge-star-shv-01-fra3.facebook.com [31.13.93.3]


Trace complete.

All really bad here.

Also quick question. Should Business Optimization be active or should deactivate it?
 
Some info:

Location: Cape Town

Account Type: 4Mbps Business

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Sorry about size.Image seemed to have resized itself
 
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Rickster said:
please dont use speed of me, its inaccurate.
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Have to agree with caroper here...
That is a dangerous statement.

I've posted in the past how speedof.me rendered more accurately what my actual web (in particular streaming) experience was.
All this while Ookla's various iterations were mostly showing blistering speeds, regardless of the actual experience. You can look it all up: multi-threading types, vs bla bla bla etc etc etc which I frankly don't understand.
From what I've read, many 'experts' actually support my theory, that HTML5-based test like speedof.me would show more accurately what the actual experience is.
Admitted, I don't understand too much of it, yet speedof.me more consistently confirms my suspicions when things go awry, and also when they are great :)

NB: In fact... you should try it! ;)
 
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8-BALL said:
I'd advise checking the business optimization, mine was off then I checked again and boom on. Not sure if its actually implemented yet tho.
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Yup, mine was active. Doesn't seem to have made any difference though. It's really bad at the moment; I'm going back to my normal account for now.
 
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