Afrihost POC Network - Afrigreen Feedback

[caroper]

I also expect that once performances start to be constantly good. People will migrate back as well.

And the cycle starts again.

I don't think they, or anyone else for that matter, can sustain low cost Business Uncapped and Capped Unshaped in the same pool at the current IPC cost and lead times.

Uncapped and Capped are in separate pools for a reason and the Afrihost Business Uncapped experiment appears to have broken the business model, or at least exceeded the planned network capacity. One can plan for capped, the data is purchased in advance, but unshaped Uncapped you are rolling the Dice.

This has only been seen as an issue by the majority of users in the last month but in the South and East we have been struggling with it for well over 6 months now and the issues, especially congestion in the evenings, go back several years.

Only Time will tell, maybe the new network will address the issues, they have the benefit of hind sight after all, but I personally think we need to see a change in the business model, and pooling, before it comes right and the different products stop impacting each other.

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[KoolDaffy]

And the cycle starts again.

I don't think they, or anyone else for that matter, can sustain low cost Business Uncapped and Capped Unshaped in the same pool at the current IPC cost and lead times.

Uncapped and Capped are in separate pools for a reason and the Afrihost Business Uncapped experiment appears to have broken the business model, or at least exceeded the planned network capacity. One can plan for capped, the data is purchased in advance, but unshaped Uncapped you are rolling the Dice.

This has only been seen as an issue by the majority of users in the last month but in the South and East we have been struggling with it for well over 6 months now and the issues, especially congestion in the evenings, go back several years.

Only Time will tell, maybe the new network will address the issues, they have the benefit of hind sight after all, but I personally think we need to see a change in the business model, and pooling, before it comes right and the different products stop impacting each other.

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Time will definitely tell. Impossible to really predict whether they can sustain this. Hopefully they can for all our benefits.

 

[Gavin107]

And the cycle starts again.

I don't think they, or anyone else for that matter, can sustain low cost Business Uncapped and Capped Unshaped in the same pool at the current IPC cost and lead times.
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Interesting that IPC costs continue to be the root cause of the problems in the ADSL market. Just a question, does IPC costing affect the fibre alternatives that are being rolled out? I'm not sure how the whole system hangs together...

 

[Gavin107]

Compared to previous experience on Saturday morning this is a vast improvement...



Still some congestion, but experiencing the same on other ISP's.


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.0.1 * 1.143 ms *
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.170.79.229 80.764 ms 208.678 ms 73.401 ms
4 41.170.79.230 115.81 ms 173.519 ms 119.724 ms
5 41.170.79.236 139.904 ms 143.78 ms 130.101 ms
6 41.160.2.33 135.719 ms 169.871 ms 100.176 ms
7 196.223.14.31 99.515 ms 196.563 ms 121.472 ms
8 196.44.0.223 132.188 ms 215.961 ms 135.111 ms
9 196.44.31.99 141.386 ms 222.471 ms 138.235 ms
10 196.30.1.53 142.982 ms
196.31.220.6 80.172 ms 174.504 ms
11 196.31.220.27 99.197 ms 105.577 ms
196.31.220.21 154.271 ms
12 196.31.63.202 131.639 ms 86.359 ms 129.73 ms
13 196.30.42.133 141.58 ms 46.927 ms 90.882 ms
14 197.242.144.102 142.621 ms 63.964 ms 93.576 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.0.1 * * *
2 Request timed out * * *
3 41.170.79.229 67.849 ms 160.178 ms 151.384 ms
4 41.170.79.230 96.984 ms 187.095 ms 114.99 ms
5 41.170.79.236 81.657 ms 227.489 ms 160.395 ms
6 196.46.25.166 96.841 ms 152.151 ms 172.737 ms
7 72.14.239.53 121.461 ms 285.552 ms
72.14.239.33 138.278 ms
8 8.8.8.8 86.652 ms 144.366 ms 208.588 ms

 

[Vulkyrie]

I still cannot download torrents...keeps connecting to peers. I tried a few to make sure that the problem wasn't with the torrent itself.
Works fine on my normal Afrihost account but not on my Afrigreen.

 

[Diedz]

Still can't stream YouTube at anything higher than 360p and even then the buffering it's super annoying.

 

[kyton]

Strange. I streamed at 1080p without any issues. I thought i would be seeing worse issues since in PE and having to route via CT. For me has been better than the normal account. Will try test some more and see if i still get packet loss in BF4

 

[Necuno]

Is this a pay to beta test?

 

[JesseG]

Is this a pay to beta test?

No, will get you the link if you didn't sign up as yet...

 

[Necuno]

No, will get you the link if you didn't sign up as yet...

No. Just curious if you guys are paying to test.

Would be madness if you did.

 

[JesseG]

No. Just curious if you guys are paying to test.

Would be madness if you did.

Well, technically we are paying to test but still have our old accounts active should we need to go back to it....

 

[Vulkyrie]

Can someone please explain to me why i have 3 *'s and a timeout on my second hop?

Tracing route to mybroadband.co.za [190.93.241.55]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 12 ms 13 ms 11 ms 41.170.79.229
4 41 ms 12 ms 12 ms 41.170.79.230
5 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms 41.170.79.236
6 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms africainx.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.135]
7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 41-66-181-59-3b.CLO008-CDN-local-VLAN-321.africainx.net [41.66.181.59]
8 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 190.93.241.55

Trace complete.

 

[caroper]

Your Telkom exchange is running the new software.
Telkom have blocked the ability to PING their equipment.
The 3rd Hop is where it actually connects to Afrihost.

 

[Diedz]

Streaming from iPad is horrible yet from laptop it works like a charm... guess streaming on wifi ain't the preferred option

 

[Vulkyrie]

Your Telkom exchange is running the new software.
Telkom have blocked the ability to PING their equipment.
The 3rd Hop is where it actually connects to Afrihost.

Thanx caroper...I'm still learning every day.

 

[mpdjhb]

Your Telkom exchange is running the new software.
Telkom have blocked the ability to PING their equipment.
The 3rd Hop is where it actually connects to Afrihost.

New software, same sh.tty exchange for me then.
Guess its asking too much for Telkom to make changes that improve things

 

[Johnatan56]

Streaming from iPad is horrible yet from laptop it works like a charm... guess streaming on wifi ain't the preferred option

Your Wifi has nothing to do with Afrihost. It's your Router/interference from other devices such as microwaves, fridges or other routers.

New software, same sh.tty exchange for me then.
Guess its asking too much for Telkom to make changes that improve things

They say they do it to help mitigate DDoS attacks.
Personally I think it is to stop people from blaming their exchange because of congestion.

 

[KoolDaffy]

download speed in the crapper again today

 

[giggity]

Google latency issues have been fixed:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                                10.0.0.2 -    0 |    1 |    1 |    1 |    1 |    1 |    1 |
|                   No response from host -    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                           41.170.79.229 -    0 |    1 |    1 |   27 |   27 |   27 |   27 |
|                           41.170.79.230 -    0 |    1 |    1 |  115 |  115 |  115 |  115 |
|                           41.170.79.236 -    0 |    1 |    1 |   23 |   23 |   23 |   23 |
|                google.jb1.napafrica.net -    0 |    1 |    1 |   33 |   33 |   33 |   33 |
|                           72.14.237.239 -    0 |    1 |    1 |   28 |   28 |   28 |   28 |
|                jnb01s07-in-f3.1e100.net -    0 |    1 |    1 |   24 |   24 |   24 |   24 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

And, subsequently, all sites on Google Chrome are loading much faster. www.up.ac.za still not working, however.

 

[Zertop]

What just happened

Just got very fast. Very quickly.

EDIT:


15Mbps Line