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Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread
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Hype
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Sadly same thing here, then you get the usual scripted replies. Nothing is wrong, check your FNO, Are you using a wired connection ... their intl routing is absolute rubbish of late. Getting any help is more unreliable than eskoms power grid. Cant blame broken cables now, Cool Ideas are getting proper pings to EU, while we sitting at 230+
wingnut771
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Hype
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I am now using my phone as a hotspot and thats a trillion times better, sad are the days that lte is better than fibre ...
And magically a few hours later when myself and probably most everyone else are going to bed, it magically fixes itself. This instability is just not ayoba.
If this keeps up then the next move is obvious...
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@AfriMan, @AfriFella, @AfriGuy 4 days and counting with no response from you.@AfriMan, @AfriFella, @AfriGuy Am getting <= 20Mbps on a 200Mbps line.
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Your support people insist on going round in circles asking me the most novice of questions. Can you please get someone more knowledgeable to look at my support ticket #HTJ-707-90675
Your support is still giving me the same bs answers. The latest is:
I studied the traceroutes and I found that this high latency occurs outside of our network and unfortunately we do not have any control of the routers that are outside our network. These ping rates are high because the servers are overseas and these rates are expected.
Are your support people for real ? Am i supposed to smile and go on with 5% of line speed
for international ?
Do you have an IP for me to test and to compare?
What game is that if I may ask?
Yes Telkom transit hands over to Cogent and then it goes to Telia so that is likely their network. There is something broken on that link that is out of Afrihost control. You will likely find that using a VPN will fix the issue and that would be because they use a different transit provider than Cogent so the traffic travels a different path than the current one. Does not mean that the issue is on Telkom or Afrihost side though. If Telkom maybe used telia direct or another path it might be fixed. Something likely broke hence this new routing.
General EU routing is pretty good currently with 165ms to London stable and 185ms to Amsterdam. Maybe not the best to Amsterdam but reasonable.
Pho3nix
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Having a bit of an issue with my locally hosted email addresses. Seems I can only connect to it when I’m on a VPN.
Anyone else having the same issues?
Anyone else having the same issues?
ShakeelH
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Yeah I get the same as you
ShakeelH
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What VPN do you recommend and which route?
Well you can't go wrong with Cloudflare Warp. It's free. They have local peering points and they usually have the best routing because they have a ton of money. That said any VPN should do and if you want to be 100% sure then any VPN that has a server in London and in LINX.
Cloudflare Warp
It's Final Fantasy 14.
It's at 160/170 on vox, which is what it was with AH.
And yea i always run a vpn for this game specifically as it helps with packet loss that occurs without it.
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