Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

[wingnut771]

Looks like whole area is down, Durban North, blegh

Happened to me last night at 10pm due to loadshedding, but came back after 30 mins after mfn fixed the power issue at their exchange.

 

[William1102]

I’m joining afrihost on vuma next month , anyone in Durban can check pings and speeds to Paris and London

 

[wingnut771]

I’m joining afrihost on vuma next month , anyone in Durban can check pings and speeds to Paris and London

Any IP's to test to?

 

[William1102]

Any IP's to test to?

Just some random speed test server in London maybe coreix and this IP. 8.209.112.253 , 8.209.245.30

Thanks

 

[Grassnyer]

Has anyone else noticed a bit of a drop in speed on the higher packages? Steam and pretty much everything else peaked at 62MB/s when the OS 500Mbit lines were released.

These days pretty much everything caps at around 37-41MB/s, but speed test still shows the normal 520ish Mbit

 

[wingnut771]

Just some random speed test server in London maybe coreix and this IP. 8.209.112.253 , 8.209.245.30

Thanks

Howzit, I've just moved to Glenwood so not on Vuma anymore but rather MFN, but I don't think there's much difference with routing so here are my results. Word of warning, I seem to have jitter on my line so just concentrate on the minimum column. MFN are investigating.



I'll link this post to the Glenwood thread, that way we will be able to compare multiple ISP's.

 

[AfriNatic]

Has anyone else noticed a bit of a drop in speed on the higher packages? Steam and pretty much everything else peaked at 62MB/s when the OS 500Mbit lines were released.

These days pretty much everything caps at around 37-41MB/s, but speed test still shows the normal 520ish Mbit

Is this only on steam?

 

[Vorastra]

Howzit, I've just moved to Glenwood so not on Vuma anymore but rather MFN, but I don't think there's much difference with routing so here are my results. Word of warning, I seem to have jitter on my line so just concentrate on the minimum column. MFN are investigating.
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I'll link this post to the Glenwood thread, that way we will be able to compare multiple ISP's.

Cross-posting the Glenwood, Umbilo, Bulwer, Berea thread for those who want to pop over.

UPDATE: Fibre in Glenwood, Berea and Bulwer (Durban)

Will do some testing later we have some projects in the works but mostly gaming related and latency focused. Single threaded isn't a large priority for pretty much, but, there are some tweaks we can try if you are interested. Don't worry, I get linespeed if I download international so all's...

mybroadband.co.za

 

[Grassnyer]

Is this only on steam?

Not only steam, but I do see that an actual linux iso downloads at full speed

https://www.speedtest.net/result/12167973060.png

At night though there's generally a bit of a drop. I'll download the linux iso again tonight and see what I get.

 

[AfriNatic]

Not only steam, but I do see that an actual linux iso downloads at full speed

https://www.speedtest.net/result/12167973060.png

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At night though there's generally a bit of a drop. I'll download the linux iso again tonight and see what I get.

You can also try different sources to see if it is slow in general or just a specific source.

 

[Grassnyer]

You can also try different sources to see if it is slow in general or just a specific source.

Other servers are worse (This is UK - London). Both Cape Town and JHB does not go above 42MB/s anymore


EDIT: I found the issue. After I disabled IPv6 I now get this on JHB server. Seems that something is wonky on my mikrotik ipv6 setup Will keep IPv6 disabled for now.

 

[AfriNatic]

Other servers are worse (This is UK - London). Both Cape Town and JHB does not go above 42MB/s anymore
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What does speedtest.net show you for different servers?

 

[Grassnyer]

What does speedtest.net show you for different servers?

I found the issue, see edit

 

[AfriNatic]

I found the issue, see edit

Okay great. IPv6 does take relatively the same path so much be something on the router itself causing the issue.

 

[Grassnyer]

Okay great. IPv6 does take relatively the same path so much be something on the router itself causing the issue.

My Mikrotik knowledge is very basic, but I assume it's because Mikrotik does not support fasttrack on IPv6 yet. Will keep it disabled for now. Thanks for your help!

 

[William1102]

Howzit, I've just moved to Glenwood so not on Vuma anymore but rather MFN, but I don't think there's much difference with routing so here are my results. Word of warning, I seem to have jitter on my line so just concentrate on the minimum column. MFN are investigating.
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I'll link this post to the Glenwood thread, that way we will be able to compare multiple ISP's.

it does seem like decent pings Coreix is especially good

Thanks

 

[William1102]

How does Vuma aerial work ? , is it PPPOE and just enter user name and password

Have an old HUAWEI LTE router not sure if it would work

It’s a B316

 

[wingnut771]

How does Vuma aerial work ? , is it PPPOE and just enter user name and password

Have an old HUAWEI LTE router not sure if it would work

It’s a B316

Think afrihost use DHCP (dynamic) for all networks except openserve so any router with a wan port would work.

 

[AfriNatic]

How does Vuma aerial work ? , is it PPPOE and just enter user name and password

Have an old HUAWEI LTE router not sure if it would work

It’s a B316

We use DHCP.

Simply set your router up for Dymanic IPv4/IPv6 and visit login.afrihost.com from the connection o activate it.

 

[gbyleveldt]

We use DHCP.

Simply set your router up for Dymanic IPv4/IPv6 and visit login.afrihost.com from the connection o activate it.

Any idea if Openserve has any plans to move away from PPPoE to DHCP?