Afrihost POC Network - Afrigreen Feedback

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AfriGuy said:
Is the site maybe cached on your end?
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I had opened the site with afrihost account, but once I clicked or refreshed the site everything just failed with a connection time out.

been testing other sites that I frequent - everything seems to be running smoothly.
 
Anyways, AH said they will be checking it out. Hope it comes right.
 
fishfly said:
I had opened the site with afrihost account, but once I clicked or refreshed the site everything just failed with a connection time out.

been testing other sites that I frequent - everything seems to be running smoothly.
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Coolios :)
Just shout if you notice anything weird and we'll get it passed on.
 
Just to let you know - was going through the chrome settings and "data savings" was on for some reason. Switched it off and boom, carbonite.co.za doesn't work.
 
AfriGuy said:
Coolios :)
Just shout if you notice anything weird and we'll get it passed on.
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my only question is regarding the reporting of the account:

511GB
REMAINING
Data Statistics
Total Account Data: 5.00 TB
Data Used: 2.66 GB
Average Daily Usage: 181.76 MB


Is this reporting correctly?
 
Just a fyi Afriguys, had to switch to google DNS or your old one to play GTA Online, not sure why :)
 
Account: 4Mbps Home Uncapped.

Area: Durban (East IPC)

DNS: Auto.

Speedtest:
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Tested:
Browsing.
Video Streaming.
HTTP/HTTPS Downloads.
Torrents.
Latency.
Gaming.
Services.

Comments:
Browsing seems quite good. Image heavy sites load fairly quickly. Some use full speed while others not. Overall they load quick enough.
AfriMan would probably remember the whole Chrome QUIC protocol issue and how it affects Google Images with extreme slow speeds. Tried with QUIC on and off. Both gave me full speed when loading a Google image page full of images.

Video Streaming seems to be a mixed bag. Youtube will not always use full speed and thus 720p will buffer. It will randomly drop to sub 2mbit speeds.
Twitch is still very bad to the point of hitting 384kbit speeds and hovering around 600kbit. I tried multiple streams. Vimeo, as usual, does not falter. Full speed all the time. Never drops.

HTTP/HTTPS Downloads seem overall good. This time of day I would be shaped.
-NVIDIA Driver download: ~3600kbit (full speed)
-European Southern Observatory 55MB image: ~2400kbit
-MEGA Cloud service: ~3600kbit (but this has always been even when shaped) *HTTPS
-MS Visual Studio 2013 Community download: ~3600kbit
-K-Lite Codec Pack download: Depends on mirror. 2nd mirror was 3600kbit (based in Croatia)
-Steam download (server: Joburg) ran at 3600kbit.
-Amazon App Store downloads: 3600kbit.
-Google Play Store downloads: 3600kbit.
-Podcast downloads using Android podcast app (dependent on source of podcast): all ran at 3600kbit. (always full speed even when shaped on old account)

Torrents seemed to be working perfectly. I tried 2 torrents with a good amount of seeds. Both ramped up to full speed rather quickly.

Latency as can be seen in the speedtests is still good. I tried some games such as War Thunder & Path of Exile for international and then BF4 for local ping. Contrary to what AfriGuy wrote above, I am actually getting BETTER international ping with a reduction of ~10ms. I will go further under Gaming comment. However BF4 local ping has risen from around ~20ms to ~40ms which is to be expected as said above.

Gaming experience is good especially international. No packet loss and lower ping.
-War Thunder ping to EU is ~214ms, before it was ~224ms and to RU it is 263, before it was ~257ms. One thing to expand on War Thunder. When using the launcher to update, it would take FOREVER when "Preparing download" (basically it's trying to download an index which it then checks and knows what files you need) and then when it does eventually get past that it would then download the update through a mixture of P2P and HTTP. Well with this Afrigreen it ran perfectly. "Preparing download" was as quick as a capped account and the update download was at full speed.
-Path of Exile was quite surprising. Ping to EU is ~199ms, before it was ~215ms. I have never had sub 200ms in POE.
-Battlefield was to be expected as I played on the Telkom Gaming server and got double my usual ping.

Services: This was a special category specifically for Google Maps (Web), Google Earth (Windows client) and Email (Gmail).
-Google Maps (Web) ran flawlessly with full speed, 3600kbit.
-Google Earth (Win. client) was very mixed bag. Map mode was very slow whereas street view was full speed.
-Gmail opens very quickly. No issues at all.

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Overall: So far everything runs very well. However I can't stress how important YouTube is. It's my main form of media consumption and it just does not run consistently well and does not utilise the ADSL line fully. Twitch is also not a factor for me any more ever since I started Afrihost as Twitch is just abysmal and always has been on for this ISP.

My concern with this is how much of this performance will actually be in the final product. Is my current performance indicative of what we would expect on the final product? I would assume not. However my performance so far is similar to that of when people used to praise Afrihost back in 2013(?) except for the streaming performance of course.
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Account type:

2MB capped account

Location:

Cape Town

Speedtest:

Cape Town http://netgauge.ookla.com/share/231041437.png

Johannesburg http://netgauge.ookla.com/share/231042221.png

EU- International

Category/ categories tested:

Gaming
Latency (local and international ping times)
VOIP (TeamSpeak, Curse Voice and Skype)


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I use my account mainly for gaming, I play Dota 2, League of Legends, Smite, World of Warcraft, H1z1, Counter Strike Global Offensive, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty Ghost / Black Ops 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, Dying Light, Dragonball Xenoverse. That is all the games I play online. So all my tests was on these games I mentioned on the new network.

Dota 2 60ms- 220ms

League of Legends: 230-250ms

Smite: 221-260ms

World of Warcraft: 221-290ms

Counter Strike: 45ms-90ms

Battlefield 4: 30ms- 60ms

Grand Theft Auto 5: I couldn't get online at all.

When everything were working fine, all my International pings were 180-220ms, my Local ping from 9ms-25ms. My latency drastically increased. Team Speak, I tested from 12pm till now, highest it gotten was 2%-4% packetloss then went back to 0% then suddenly it completely disconnected me and I cannot come back online on TeamSpeak, Usually when that happens I have also LAG in some games e.g. Smite, but this time I didn't had lag on Smite, but still couldn't connect to TeamSpeak.

On previous Afrihost network, my local ping were 9ms, but had packet loss of 20% but my international ping stayed the same like it is now at the moment just way more packet-loss lag in gaming.

This is far my feedback on the Afrigreen network, I'm not that much bother in Torrenting and youtube, but I did download a Smite file and it was downloading at normal speed of 210kb/s.

Hopefully will see more improvement! Can actually play Gaming without worrying of lagging but still have 40ms increase in International which can be bother to land some attacks.
 
8-BALL said:
Nope kept telling me it couldn't verify the profile, changed the dns and flushed it bob was then my uncle.
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Maybe something to do with geo-IP stuff. I know we ran some changes around that earlier though.
 
Henri, see my comment just above yours, try using google or afrihost's old DNS's (196.7.7.7 and 196.7.8.9) that worked for me.
 
@AfriGuy
Apparently high usage users have been moved to the AfriGreen POC, can we have some clarification on how your clients were chosen to be on the POC
 
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