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MoE MaLi aLi

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Morning Folks

I've upgraded my Afrihost Aeirel fibre with Vumatel to a 1Gbps connection.

The maximum speeds ive seen so far is:
130Mbps DOWN
95Mbps UP

Other ISP's have fine print stating the 1Gbps is only for local bandwidth, I've contacted Afrihost, and they said its 1Gbps international bandwidth.

The Whatsapp support agent told me, my fibre modem cannot handle 1Gbps, and I would need to buy a new one myself, surely they should come in and upgrade my router for me?

Anyone have any experience with Afrihost & 1Gbps fibre, please let me know what speed you are getting and if you had to upgrade your fibre modem.

Thanks
 
@MoE MaLi aLi Why dont you post here and see if they can help

Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

@AfriFella what's the eta on eu routing? i'm mean literally everyone else has 170 or less: here is mind the speed: this is getting old and stale, still getting the odd buffer as the connection to RD just dies, even with advancedsettings.xml i'm sure if the routing was sorted, this issue would...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
 
Cowboy619 said:
@MoE MaLi aLi Why dont you post here and see if they can help

Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

@AfriFella what's the eta on eu routing? i'm mean literally everyone else has 170 or less: here is mind the speed: this is getting old and stale, still getting the odd buffer as the connection to RD just dies, even with advancedsettings.xml i'm sure if the routing was sorted, this issue would...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
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Thanks, will post on that thread :)
 
MoE MaLi aLi said:
Morning Folks

I've upgraded my Afrihost Aeirel fibre with Vumatel to a 1Gbps connection.

The maximum speeds ive seen so far is:
130Mbps DOWN
95Mbps UP

Other ISP's have fine print stating the 1Gbps is only for local bandwidth, I've contacted Afrihost, and they said its 1Gbps international bandwidth.

The Whatsapp support agent told me, my fibre modem cannot handle 1Gbps, and I would need to buy a new one myself, surely they should come in and upgrade my router for me?

Anyone have any experience with Afrihost & 1Gbps fibre, please let me know what speed you are getting and if you had to upgrade your fibre modem.

Thanks
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Post speed test results, both local and international.
 
If you're getting 130 Mbps down, chances are they provided you with a router with a Gigabit WAN port. While they don't do it well, the consumer 1 Gbps WAN capable routers generally deliver close to, if not full 1 Gbps performance. they just do so at the expense of any kind of decent routing/security features. 1 Gbps is hard work for a router, especially if it needs to firewall, NAT and route, let alone apply policies etc to your traffic.

The most common issue we see is related to the testing device (your PC) - bad drivers or cheap NICs in "gigabit" capable devices often can't push close to these speeds. So test with another laptop (or two) to ensure your results are consistent. Disconnect your router and connect your PC/Laptop directly to the ONT. Depending on AH's network config for GPON networks, you'll either receive a DHCP assigned address or need to create a PPPOE broadband connection from your PC directly. Install the speedtest.net app (Windows 7 for example has poor in browser TCP handling) and test from its own stack.
 
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