Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

[Mr Scratch]

Nope. Currently have a very limited liquid link for only certain services. Temp Seacom bandwidth coming online soon but probably via a transit provider maybe IS not sure.

Whatever they do, I hope it mitigates the sh#tshow

 

[cavedog]

Whatever they do, I hope it mitigates the sh#tshow

Probably will. I still feel bad for Telkom users though. I doubt Telkom will buy additional capacity from any other transit provider except their own and since their own can't get anymore on EASSY they are screwed.

 

[Koosvanwyk]

Yeah Seacom capacity should come online soon.

My ISP uses Seacom. Internationally hosted IPTV still fine, no issues with streaming internationally. Speed tests to London still holding up at close to line speed. Ping to Coreix London have gone from 147ms to about 200ms (in Cape Town).Torrents, if well seeded, also still at full line speed.

 

[VegOtter]

UPDATE REGARDING INTERNATIONAL SPEEDS:
We have purchased additional international bandwidth on other undersea cables to restore internet services to as close to normal as possible. This is in addition to our existing failover capacity. This means that we will not be reliant on repairs to the damaged cables to deliver better international speeds and latency. Our team are currently working through the night to implement the additional capacity this evening or early tomorrow morning.

This right here, this will mean more to people than you know. Actually making a plan and on a Sunday of all things is what makes you stand out from the other ISP's.

 

[JFT96]

UPDATE REGARDING INTERNATIONAL SPEEDS:
We have purchased additional international bandwidth on other undersea cables to restore internet services to as close to normal as possible. This is in addition to our existing failover capacity. This means that we will not be reliant on repairs to the damaged cables to deliver better international speeds and latency. Our team are currently working through the night to implement the additional capacity this evening or early tomorrow morning.

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the update @AfriMan
Now I should stfu.

 

[cavedog]

Incoming traffic now going via Seacom.


TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 169.0.219.246 (169.0.219.246), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 Blizzard Blizzard 0.298 ms 0.279 ms 0.276 ms
2 37.244.24.131 (37.244.24.131) 0.695 ms 0.708 ms 0.827 ms
3 Blizzard Blizzard 1.134 ms 1.215 ms 1.242 ms
4 137.221.66.40 (137.221.66.40) 2.555 ms 2.559 ms 2.557 ms
5 137.221.78.66 (137.221.78.66) 1.165 ms 1.169 ms 1.168 ms
6 137.221.78.32 (137.221.78.32) 1.090 ms 1.195 ms 1.179 ms
7 seacom.equinix-am1.nl-ix.net (193.239.117.234) 1.069 ms 0.687 ms 0.639 ms
8 ae-5-0.er-01-ams.nl.seacomnet.com (105.16.9.13) 193.242 ms 193.259 ms 193.005 ms
9 xe-0-1-0-0.cr-02-mrs.fr.seacomnet.com (105.16.12.161) 195.846 ms 195.859 ms 195.875 ms
10 105.16.15.10 (105.16.15.10) 194.739 ms 194.739 ms 193.914 ms
11 xe-0-0-0-5.cr-02-cpt.za.seacomnet.com (105.16.11.185) 194.605 ms 192.786 ms 192.784 ms
12 xe-1-0-0-0.er-01-cpt.za.seacomnet.com (105.16.31.9) 192.612 ms 192.536 ms 192.512 ms
13 105.22.67.102 (105.22.67.102) 216.454 ms 219.191 ms 219.121 ms
14 vlan2004.terjhb-igw2.net.echosp.link (102.67.176.55) 225.240 ms 225.250 ms 225.247 ms
15 * * *


19/01/2020 18:58:28 UTC
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[Mr Scratch]

Incoming traffic now going via Seacom.

thats HOT

 

[Zertop]

My ISP uses Seacom. Internationally hosted IPTV still fine, no issues with streaming internationally. Speed tests to London still holding up at close to line speed. Ping to Coreix London have gone from 147ms to about 200ms (in Cape Town).Torrents, if well seeded, also still at full line speed.

Which ISP is this? Mine has gone to the dogs unfortunately (also seacom)

 

[Ex_Landy_Oke]

UPDATE REGARDING INTERNATIONAL SPEEDS:
We have purchased additional international bandwidth on other undersea cables to restore internet services to as close to normal as possible. This is in addition to our existing failover capacity. This means that we will not be reliant on repairs to the damaged cables to deliver better international speeds and latency. Our team are currently working through the night to implement the additional capacity this evening or early tomorrow morning.

Will Axxess customers also benefit from this?

 

[marjo]

Will Axxess customers also benefit from this?

It seems Echo has the Seacom link. My guess would be yes.

 

[bradza]

Durban gone dead here now, VPN, WARP, normal AH.... pings show traffic going through Telkom routing now when checking on AH. Interesting. On VPN its got bad international connection then on WARP its showing seacom but struggling still in Durban at dbn-os2.ip.adsl.co.za with over 30% packet loss. Edit: Make that 60% packet loss and climbing cap'n. Dunt noo if she cun hooold much lunger. Ok a little longer seems like AH straight seems to be working a little better now. Guess just to wait till they finished with what they doing and hopefully things start working again. 82% packet loss on the dbn-os2 and 30% PL on 10.189.30.13.

 

[Bryn]

Hmm... London speed test without using a VPN:

Not too bad. At least things are fine for general use.

 

[dotcat]

KZN still seems to be going through Telkom....

dbn-in1.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.204) 20.305 ms 103.975 ms 106.065 ms
7 rndf-ip-ll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.25.134.29) 72.068 ms 144.992 ms 129.866 ms
8 * 10.189.30.18 (10.189.30.18)

 

[cavedog]

Upload still going via Telkom but downloads go via Seacom and it shows. Much better.

 

[Luke7777]

Seems good ..

 

[AfriMan]

Will Axxess customers also benefit from this?

Yes, they should also see improvement.

 

[Naks]

Major improvement to the US:

 

[Prof.Merlin]

All my international traffic still appears to be going via Telkom and most sites still don't load - need to turn vpn on.

speedtest.net does not even load for me.

 

[AfriMan]

All my international traffic still appears to be going via Telkom and most sites still don't load - need to turn vpn on.

speedtest.net does not even load for me.

Looks like we're still fine tuning Telkom performance at the moment. Please hold on a little longer - we should have this wrapped up shortly.

 

[moms]

The repair ship still never yet leave the harbour due to the winds in cape Town...?