Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

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yeah the reps not being on the forum when they're so many is v strange
 
Speeds look normal for me on Openserve in PE. Haven't noticed degraded service in quite a while now.
 
Bryn said:
Speeds look normal for me on Openserve in PE. Haven't noticed degraded service in quite a while now.
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We suspect it’s isolated to Vumatel but they refuse without your ISP getting involved first which I understand but how much screenshots do we need to send. There’s a thread on twitter running with a few of us across multiple ISPs complaining to Vumatel.
 
oh my goodness. I was running like 8 twitch tabs without any buffering... What is this sorcery. Since the cable breaks I could barely manage a single twitch stream.
 
@AfriMan has the old routing been reverted back to now that the WACS is back on line?
My pings to mainland EU servers are on average 30-40ms higher than they used to be pre break.
play.atlantiss.eu is one of the addresses I'm using - it has ICMP denied but see MTR below.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.0.2 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 102.182.229.1 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 2 | 4 | 45 | 2 |
| 169.1.1.165 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 2 |
| 169.1.1.193 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| 169.1.21.91 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 196.25.199.141 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 1 | 4 | 50 | 7 |
| 10.189.30.2 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 163 | 163 | 177 | 164 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 213.251.130.102 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 196 | 201 | 288 | 199 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
 
I saw a message warning me about using VPN to access geo-locked content, I am not sure who the message was from or if it emanated from Afrihost's side because it just popped up on my screen. I did not read the terms and conditions entirely when I signed up (who does, right?)... I would like to know if it is against Afrihost policies to circumvent content geo-locking by using VPN or any other methods. Is it illegal? Should I stop? I need a bit of clarity - otherwise the service has been par excellence so far!
 
zulucat said:
I saw a message warning me about using VPN to access geo-locked content, I am not sure who the message was from or if it emanated from Afrihost's side because it just popped up on my screen. I did not read the terms and conditions entirely when I signed up (who does, right?)... I would like to know if it is against Afrihost policies to circumvent content geo-locking by using VPN or any other methods. Is it illegal? Should I stop? I need a bit of clarity - otherwise the service has been par excellence so far!
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ignore, carry on.
 
Hype said:
@AfriMan has the old routing been reverted back to now that the WACS is back on line?
My pings to mainland EU servers are on average 30-40ms higher than they used to be pre break.
play.atlantiss.eu is one of the addresses I'm using - it has ICMP denied but see MTR below.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.0.2 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 102.182.229.1 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 2 | 4 | 45 | 2 |
| 169.1.1.165 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 2 |
| 169.1.1.193 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| 169.1.21.91 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 196.25.199.141 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 1 | 4 | 50 | 7 |
| 10.189.30.2 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 163 | 163 | 177 | 164 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 213.251.130.102 - 0 | 275 | 275 | 196 | 201 | 288 | 199 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
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Hi Hype, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The WACS is stable according to reports and the SAT cable is in the process of being repaired. Please email us at [email protected] if you need any further assistance.
 
bradza said:
On the phone it seems to be depending on area, while traveling, the mobile connection is almost non-existent. On the fibre, its hit and miss, streaming and browsing giving issues, haven't been able to get down to a specific time as such. Most likely a range of issues, local cell tower problems, routing, submarine etc. Looking forward to the cables working again soon. Thanks.
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Hi Brad, I also think the loadshedding could also be affecting the stability of your connection. What are speedtests showing with your connections in terms of performance?
 
dotcat said:
As WACS is now fixed - what is the plan to transition back over? @AfriMan

WACS S4 UK Break: The SA NREN WACS connectivity restored at 22h20 UTC and has been stable for the past 2 hours. We are awaiting confirmation that this is the final fix.
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Sorry I haven't received feedback yet regarding any transition. But I will let you know once we have some sort of feedback.
 
eosman said:
Early hours of the morning.

I’m getting good speeds again. Logic tells me that a fibre break issue shouldn’t be time specific unless I’m mistaken here.

So either the issue is fixed now? Or the fibre break on the West Rand is not actually the problem and the Fibre Support team are piggy backing off that issue for all speed related calls without actually investigating if there’s a different issue on Vumatel’s network.

Just last week we had an issue that didn’t exist until it was fixed.
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How are your speeds today?
 
Jedi-Kalin said:
Really struggled with international last night around 9PM. Nothing was watchable using real-debrid, no matter what quality I selected. Tried using NordVPN and that seemed to do the trick.
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How are your internet speeds now?
 
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