Afrihost POC Network - Afrigreen Feedback

[AfriMan]

I switched to Afrivanilla last night to watch some TI5, but Twitch was buffering like a mofo. Seems twitch is a general problem with AH, thought it was just Afrigreen. Even tried tethering to my phone, but same experience (with HSDPA) buffers every 30-40 seconds for 10 seconds then rinse and repeat. Even tried dropping the quality to medium (auto assigned high), but even that didn't work.

Whatever settings you have for your network has been replicated to the Afrigreen network. I know you are working on it, but this is now becoming a case where I can't watch a tournament which I paid in USD in order to watch.

Please guys. Get this sorted.

Twitch has been working pretty well on AfriGreen according to the testers. Pretty sure AfriGenie was testing this as well, so we'll have to make sure nothing changed there. Will test it out as well, got my line to test with today.

 

[Purply]

Tried twitch on the normal afrihost account last night, was really really bad, switched to afrigreen and everything worked fine, not 100% , but usable. Woke up this morning and Afrigreen is dead in the water, it's connected with zero throughput, didn't bother doing any tests as I left for work.

 

[AfriMan]

FYI, there is a possible DNS issue on our side - the team busy looking into it.

Router reboot seems to help with the no throughput situation (it did for me). Will keep you updated from our side as well.

 

[AfriMan]

Looks like there is a an issue with our DNS, should be resolved shortly.

We're serving alternate DNS settings on reboot, so a router reset will usually sort this out now, until we resolve whatever is affecting our regular IPs.

 

[User52]

When can i expect afrigreen details? signed up ages ago and really wanting to test the new network. Any way of speeding it up?

 

[acp]

AG problematic last night and this morning.
Restart router, works for a while, then dead. No throughput whatsoever. Pages time-out.

Switched to AfriOld and all working great. 15ms local and 180ms international ping. Full speed DL and UL.
Go figure...

 

[AfriMan]

When can i expect afrigreen details? signed up ages ago and really wanting to test the new network. Any way of speeding it up?

They do the invitations in batches, so there should be one coming you way soon. If you want to PM me, I'll see what I can do for you

 

[AfriMan]

AG problematic last night and this morning.
Restart router, works for a while, then dead. No throughput whatsoever. Pages time-out.

Switched to AfriOld and all working great. 15ms local and 180ms international ping. Full speed DL and UL.
Go figure...

Can you switch back to AfriGreen now? Should be fine - looks like a DNS problem

 

[Hummercellc]

AfriGreen running pretty well today.

Running downloads in background so not the best test.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4555932259

 

[AfriGenie]

AfriGreen running pretty well today.

Running downloads in background so not the best test.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4555932259

Good to see!

How is the streaming at the moment? Could you try out Twitch.tv perhaps?

 

[Hummercellc]

Good to see!

How is the streaming at the moment? Could you try out Twitch.tv perhaps?

Sorry don't use twitch, not a gamer

YouTube = 100% at 1080p
Torrents = Full Line Speed
Latency = 500% better than MTN Accounts
HTTP Downloads = Full Line Speed
Web Browsing = Very snappy and no problems

 

[AfriGenie]

Sorry don't use twitch, not a gamer

YouTube = 100% at 1080p
Torrents = Full Line Speed
Latency = 500% better than MTN Accounts
HTTP Downloads = Full Line Speed
Web Browsing = Very snappy and no problems

That's all very positive!

Thank you for indulging me.

 

[AfriGenie]

For the next few minutes AfriGreen accounts may have connectivity drop out, we're doing maintenance and updates on our side quickly.

 

[steel_dog]

Neotel was mentioned as one (of the many) providers that AH are using for AfriGreen.
Neotel peering in the South is saturated - http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/133944-neotel-peering-saturation-concerns.html
Arrggg nooo... Doesn't anyone luv CPT? IPC luv I mean.

 

[AfriGenie]

Neotel was mentioned as one (of the many) providers that AH are using for AfriGreen.
Neotel peering in the South is saturated - http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/133944-neotel-peering-saturation-concerns.html
Arrggg nooo... Doesn't anyone luv CPT? IPC luv I mean.

This shouldn't affect AfriGreen at the moment at all. Since AfriGreen IPC is located in the North, and all AfriGreen users are connected to it.

I don't know.... I'm beginning to think you guys in Cape Town need to stop trying to download the entire internet each night.

 

[KoolDaffy]

Browsing feeling a bit sluggish at the moment.

 

[AfriGuy]

Browsing feeling a bit sluggish at the moment.

I know we had some tweaks run earlier, are other services slow too?

 

[caroper]

I'm beginning to think you guys in Cape Town need to stop trying to download the entire internet each night.

If they paid for capped data in advance they are entitled to do so.....
I'm beginning to think you guys in Afrihost need to supply the capacity that has been paid for in Cape Town each night.

 

[AfriGuy]

If they paid for capped data in advance they are entitled to do so.....
I'm beginning to think you guys in Afrihost need to supply the capacity that has been paid for in Cape Town each night.

I think AfriGenie meant it pretty tongue in cheek...

 

[KoolDaffy]

I know we had some tweaks run earlier, are other services slow too?

Downloading from mightyupload.com was slow as well.

Browsing seems fine now. Haven't tested any other downloading again today.

Well apart from Facebook which continues to have loading issues (was fine weekend though)