Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

[Gandalf the Gray]

@cavedog

My Afrihost last mile provider is Openserve. Shouldn't speeds be the same?

 

[cavedog]

Just to mention a few points and maybe I will get in trouble for it but that is what is happening currently.

Inbound traffic is a mix of Seacom and Angola Cables.
Outbound Traffic is Openserve/Telkom.

Currently Afrihost is picking up inbound traffic via Cape Town. This means the Following.

Gauteng people would have outbound go via Telkom JHB to KZN > EASSY > EU and inbound traffic Seacom > Durban > Cape Town > JHB. This causes latency.

Durban will in some cases go outbound straight over EASSY to EU but inbound EASSY > Durban > Cape Town > Durban. This is causing latency.

Traffic needs to be transit to respective pickup points there might be congestion on there. Currently there isn't enough international transit available. Peak time like now will have an issue. It's not shaping or throttling it's just there isn't any available in the short term without any very lengthy expensive contracts. That is just what it is.

Local remains unaffected. All 3 peering points are operational and if not traffic will go to the nearest one from there but NAP-DUR, NAP-CPT and NAP-JHB peering is working fine.

IPC will obviously not congest as other ISPs did mention before IPC bursts over allocations and won't ever congest on Afrihost and with the new Openserve models that would be a thing of the past.

Quickly doing a trace or ping to bras.afrihost.com will point out congestion. If you experience high latency that is a problem on Openserve side as bras.afrihost.com does not hit the Afrihost network








ping bras.afrihost.com

bgp.he.net

speedtest.mybroadband.co.za

 

[cavedog]

@cavedog

My Afrihost last mile provider is Openserve. Shouldn't speeds be the same?

Your cable provider is Openserve. Your ISP is Afrihost. That FTP server is hosted on Telkom side. S Traffic from Openserve cable will go to IPC Receive on Afrihost. No it's on Afrihost network. Then it will go to NAP Africa. Then it will peer with Telkom at NAP Africa Afrihost >nap ix< Telkom. Then go to the server for up and download.

In this case it does not matter who the cable provider is as the Server is on Telkoms network not Afrihosts network.

 

[Nimz]

NZB's aren't working on my side - tried with Warp + as well

Tried different servers and nzbs - no luck

 

[moms]

Built a gre tunnel from my mikrotik to my brothers mikrotik (he is on cool ideas) I am sending all my server downloads over the GRE Tunnel he assigned me 20Mbps and I am getting the full 20Mbps over our GRE TUNNEL.

Cool Ideas saving a Afrihost client. SHAMEFUL @AfriFella

Now that's a damn epic way to get fill download speeds can it only work on Cisco and mikrotik devices...

 

[Ex_Landy_Oke]

Good Morning **Update on SAT-3/WASC: Final splice was completed and the cable repair vessel lowered the cable onto the seabed. The power ramp-up from Melkbosstrand was successfully completed, restoring an additional 70GB to international bandwidth. 140GB of international traffic is now available, alleviating severe congestion affecting international traffic.

 

[AfriGuy]

@AfriMan - Could your guys sort out the London routing pretty please? Unplayable online gaming since that cable went down.

Hey Shaun, Are you still having issues?

 

[AfriGuy]

Weird timing on these cable breaks.

It is very unfortunate

 

[Gandalf the Gray]

@AfriGuy

Is the migration to Seacom complete? I am still getting excruciatingly slow downloads on a lot of sites. Even some South Africa sites downloads are slow. I have been trying to download Driver Packs and Snappy Driver installer via torrent, and that is still slow.

What bugs me is that I use an OpenServe account for testing purposes, downloads etc are fine

 

[AfriGuy]

Any reason why the only 2 staff members we have on AH are unable to VPN to the office?
(both on uncapped/unshaped fibre)

Got them both a 4G modem/router and now VPN working perfectly with exactly the same hardware........

edit: make that 3 users; just had another call from a user to say VPN is not working; guess who the fibre service provider is :-(

Hey, OCP, I'm sorry 3 of your users cannot connect. Things like login details have been double checked?

 

[AfriGuy]

@AfriGuy

Is the migration to Seacom complete? I am still getting excruciatingly slow downloads on a lot of sites. Even some South Africa sites downloads are slow. I have been trying to download Driver Packs and Snappy Driver installer via torrent, and that is still slow.

What bugs me is that I use an OpenServe account for testing purposes, downloads etc are fine

Yes the rerouting is complete. How slow are your speeds at the moment?

 

[Treschen]

Now that's a damn epic way to get fill download speeds can it only work on Cisco and mikrotik devices...

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, I should be getting a refund on my not so pure fibre line

 

[Gandalf the Gray]

Speedtest with Ookla is fine 195MBit/s. Downloading a 512MB testfile from ftp://ftp-test.telkomadsl.co.za/ gives 800kb/s. Downloading Ubuntu 19.10 from ftp.is.co.za gives 25MB/s.

Some overseas sites are doing 800kb/s, some (like sourceforge)are 25MB/s. PostgreSQL 800kb/s

Torrents max 1.2MB/s

 

[OCP]

Hey, OCP, I'm sorry 3 of your users cannot connect. Things like login details have been double checked?

Login details for VPN?

All 3 users use laptops and have been using the same VPN settings for years / can connect to VPN via 3/4G no problem.
I would not have posted here if it was not a confirmed AH problem....

 

[AfriGuy]

We understand about the international traffic, but how do you explain THIS!????

View attachment 809221

Hey Naks, What package are you on?

 

[Treschen]

Yes the rerouting is complete. How slow are your speeds at the moment?

Can we all please agree you guys have no good capacity in place ???? For scenarios like this (WACS AND SAT3 BREAKS)

Stop misleading your customers with all the rerouting junk and work on getting your peering more redundant

 

[JFT96]

Can we all please agree you guys have no good capacity in place ???? For scenarios like this (WACS AND SAT3 BREAKS)

Stop misleading your customers with all the rerouting junk and work on getting your peering more redundant

This ^^

And stop with repetitive mentioning of a cable break as if it’s not your fault. We know you didn’t go snip the cable on purpose. But what you have not done is plan for this to protect your customers after a previous event of the exact same thing.

That is your fault. It’s an epic management fail always using cost as an excuse. If the smaller ISP’s can do it Afrihost definitely can , but choose not to.

 

[Gandalf the Gray]

Mmmm

Automagically my download speeds are fine. (Except torrents) Edit: Torrents also working now. LOL. Who did what?

 

[Treschen]

Mmmm

Automagically my download speeds are fine. (Except torrents)

Oh yeah pure fibre throttling, ask @AfriGuy and @AfriFella to send us the configs for the packet shaper and all will be revealed

 

[cavedog]

SAT-3 Back online.

Traffic now going over over SAT-3 via Telkom transit

TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 169.0.212.233 (169.0.212.233), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1  Blizzard Blizzard  0.379 ms  0.347 ms  0.353 ms
2  37.244.24.131 (37.244.24.131)  0.550 ms  0.606 ms  0.684 ms
3  Blizzard Blizzard  1.201 ms  1.283 ms  1.391 ms
4  137.221.66.42 (137.221.66.42)  9.236 ms  9.250 ms  9.250 ms
5  137.221.78.84 (137.221.78.84)  6.997 ms  6.999 ms  6.997 ms
6  137.221.65.90 (137.221.65.90)  6.816 ms  6.854 ms  6.822 ms
7  137.221.79.32 (137.221.79.32)  106.577 ms  102.859 ms  102.825 ms
8  lon-ip-hsll-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za (195.66.226.42)  26.593 ms  26.452 ms  26.434 ms
9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  169-0-212-233.ip.afrihost.co.za (169.0.212.233)  188.608 ms  188.873 ms  188.878 ms


31/03/2020 07:24:56 UTC
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