Hummercellc
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I don't mean to derail the thread but, I also wish Afrihost would move their Cloud hosting out of Gallo Manor to Teraco, MTN is a complete disaster....
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Sonic2k
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+10 what he said... that place is a complete disaster.. always has been...
Yep got an email from some dude from Afrihost that says.
I see your server is quite large so I suggest we create you a new server on our new Hyper V and you reinstall everything and move your data across and we will change your IP
500 clients and about 70 databases.
Hell no!!!
if I am going to do that I will move else where.
Account type
10mbps capped 200GB (on an 8.2mbps connection)
Location
Pietermaritzburg
Speedtest result from http://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/
Category/ categories tested & Comments
Nice work overall, Afrihost.
10mbps capped 200GB (on an 8.2mbps connection)
Location
Pietermaritzburg
Speedtest result from http://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/
Category/ categories tested & Comments
- Browsing is much snappier. WAY better than ever before.
- Video Streaming is about the same. Works, but tends to have problems at 1080p. (I think that this is due to MTN's Google cache servers being slow, since other cache servers are fine).
- Latency is far better:
You can clearly see that the POC is working as it should. - Torrents getting ~50KB/s better speeds. Took less time to find connections due to lower latency.
- FTP DOES NOT WORK!: FTP will not authenticate! Please fix this soon!!!
*Works on other ISP accounts. - HTTP Downloads are getting ~50KB/s better speeds.
Nice work overall, Afrihost.
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Account type:
6Mbps Business DSL
Location:
Pretoria
Tested:
Browsing so much better, pages open without issue
Downloads:
HTTP stable download and averaging just under 750KB/s
Quick test on NZB download and same average as above.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4505467635
Edit: What is the difference between Afrigreen and Afriblue?
6Mbps Business DSL
Location:
Pretoria
Tested:
Browsing so much better, pages open without issue
Downloads:
HTTP stable download and averaging just under 750KB/s
Quick test on NZB download and same average as above.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4505467635
Edit: What is the difference between Afrigreen and Afriblue?
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Francois Marais
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To make it easier to capture and process data, please try and get your feedback as follows:
Account type
2MB Business Uncapped
Location
Pretoria
Speedtest result from http://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/
http://netgauge.ookla.com/share/230823320.png
Can't update iTunes. P2P works great. Webpages takes a bit long to open some times (that seems to be fixed this morning. Will bring my Game Rig from the office and test the line to see if I can do COD AW or COD4 online. FTP works at full speed.
Will do some Apple Tests tomorrow and Friday. Problem can be with the Apple Servers as well.
Account type
2MB Business Uncapped
Location
Pretoria
Speedtest result from http://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/
http://netgauge.ookla.com/share/230823320.png
Can't update iTunes. P2P works great. Webpages takes a bit long to open some times (that seems to be fixed this morning. Will bring my Game Rig from the office and test the line to see if I can do COD AW or COD4 online. FTP works at full speed.
Will do some Apple Tests tomorrow and Friday. Problem can be with the Apple Servers as well.
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Definitely off topic for this thread
We're moving some systems between different technologies to make improvements in our cloud stability. So far, we're seeing better results, and most likely we'll be making bigger changes in the future. We feel the issues we've been facing are more connected to how we've built our environment, rather than MTN's facilities.
4mb/s Capped Account - Hilton KZN
Speedtest results
test before new settings: speed- http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4504570042
latency - http://www.pingtest.net/result/126912564.png
test after new settings (afrigreen): speed - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4504587064
latency - http://www.pingtest.net/result/126912934.png
Category/ categories tested
Browsing
Video Streaming ( Netflix / Hulu )
Gaming
Comments
Browsing ( not much of a difference )
Video Streaming ( seems to be better so far )
Speedtest results
test before new settings: speed- http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4504570042
latency - http://www.pingtest.net/result/126912564.png
test after new settings (afrigreen): speed - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4504587064
latency - http://www.pingtest.net/result/126912934.png
Category/ categories tested
Browsing
Video Streaming ( Netflix / Hulu )
Gaming
Comments
Browsing ( not much of a difference )
Video Streaming ( seems to be better so far )
That definitely shouldn't be happening. Can you PM me so I can check your logs?
Not updating iTunes is a biggie. Can you drop me a PM so we can use you as a guinea pig to get this sorted?
I'm also in Hilton, but getting way better results. Which area of Hilton are you from?
Also can you check if FTP is working for you?
Hey, can you please PM me so I can look into this. It might be related to geolocation issues or security settings. We should be able to replicate and sort this in a few minutes. Drop me your username and the FTP details and I'll sort that ASAP.
4Mb Business Uncapped, Kloof, Durban
Browsing OK, some images take long to load
Video Streaming YouTube at lowest resolution OK, anything higher buffers
Audio Streaming Apple Music worked at 6am, stopped around 8:20am
Voice Chat Skype lost Skype home page at 8:30am
Download or Upload Speed related issues - Evernote update went OK
Authentication (able to login to connect, time to authenticate) fine
Latency (local and international ping times) Generally good, below 25ms, at the moment high Jitter
Seemed to work well from about 6am. After that degenerated badly, at 8:20am most international services dead slow. Slowly recovering. This has been the same pattern as before with old account.
Will feedback later again
EDIT: Just ran test with other ISP - latency higher 230ms and throughput lower 0.35mbps. Too unstable to conclude but I suspect another bottleneck, Telkom?
Browsing OK, some images take long to load
Video Streaming YouTube at lowest resolution OK, anything higher buffers
Audio Streaming Apple Music worked at 6am, stopped around 8:20am
Voice Chat Skype lost Skype home page at 8:30am
Download or Upload Speed related issues - Evernote update went OK
Authentication (able to login to connect, time to authenticate) fine
Latency (local and international ping times) Generally good, below 25ms, at the moment high Jitter
Seemed to work well from about 6am. After that degenerated badly, at 8:20am most international services dead slow. Slowly recovering. This has been the same pattern as before with old account.
Will feedback later again
EDIT: Just ran test with other ISP - latency higher 230ms and throughput lower 0.35mbps. Too unstable to conclude but I suspect another bottleneck, Telkom?
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4mb uncapped line (6:30 am this morning - weltevredenpark, West rand)
Downloading was full line speed (speedtst.net)
Upload was 0.5
Youtube - 480p streamed fine. Let it buffer for 30 seconds and then watched 5 mins without an issue.
720p buffered constantly.
Latency was bad - 120ms to first (external) hop on traceroute.
No packet loss on pings (8.8.8.8)
Will stream some netflix tonight and see what happens
Downloading was full line speed (speedtst.net)
Upload was 0.5
Youtube - 480p streamed fine. Let it buffer for 30 seconds and then watched 5 mins without an issue.
720p buffered constantly.
Latency was bad - 120ms to first (external) hop on traceroute.
No packet loss on pings (8.8.8.8)
Will stream some netflix tonight and see what happens
Hey Guys
We've now also added a feature in ClientZone. Just Click on Connectivity and the AfriGreen DSL Username
Please submit as much info as possible. Like if it's a game, please tell us the title and the platform in the comments section so we can replicate is as close your setup as possible. If you have any other steps to replicate, like FTP details, etc, then that can also help a lot. The main benefit is that we can also collate this data and get a high level picture of what issues exist and cross reference across capped, uncapped and business - so we can make quick improvements as the information comes in.
You're welcome to keep feedback coming here as well, but it will probably have the most benefit through the ClientZone submission. Positive feedback is also great so we know which features are working well and don't need to be changed or tinkered with.
We'll also post any known issues here so we can eliminate those.
We've now also added a feature in ClientZone. Just Click on Connectivity and the AfriGreen DSL Username
Please submit as much info as possible. Like if it's a game, please tell us the title and the platform in the comments section so we can replicate is as close your setup as possible. If you have any other steps to replicate, like FTP details, etc, then that can also help a lot. The main benefit is that we can also collate this data and get a high level picture of what issues exist and cross reference across capped, uncapped and business - so we can make quick improvements as the information comes in.
You're welcome to keep feedback coming here as well, but it will probably have the most benefit through the ClientZone submission. Positive feedback is also great so we know which features are working well and don't need to be changed or tinkered with.
We'll also post any known issues here so we can eliminate those.
Smokey_sa
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