Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt2)

[HapticSimian]

Bear in mind that it's more than a dns. It's also a proxy service. Just changing dns servers can't make you miraculously appear from another country. So you'll also need to check latency and bandwidth to the proxy service, as well as its capacity...

The proxies only factor into region checking though; the streaming connection is direct.

 

[Zertop]

Why not skip the proxy altogether and just use a specialised DNS - allows for full speed as well as US usage.

And no... im not just advertising a company here.

tunlr.com

So it seems tunlr.com does the same thing as Unotelly and its free.

Just tested it and it works fine for the registration process - didn't try and watch but i'll do that when I get home.

 

[Zertop]

Hey Everyone - good news!

Once again Afrihost has kept to their word... Just received this email:

Dear ******* **********

Customer Service from Afrihost has requested us to collect an item and deliver it to:

*******************************************************

If this address is incorrect please reply to this e-mail with the correct address.

We will notify you as soon as we have collected the item from Afrihost

This parcel contains a SIM card and therefore requires RICA verification.

Blah blah blah it carries on...

Great to know they are checking address's.

 

[HapticSimian]

Why not skip the proxy altogether and just use a specialised DNS - allows for full speed as well as US usage.

And no... im not just advertising a company here.

tunlr.com

Your favourite service is missing?

There are a number of sites which we won’t support for several reasons which we sum up under the term “not Tunlr-friendly”. Not Tunlr-friendly are: Youtube, Amazon Instant Video, Cinemanow, Vudu, Teleboy, Wilmaa, Starz, HGTV, Foodnetwork, Channel 4 live streams and 4OD, BBC live streams, TVCatchup, ESPN, MLB, Google Play and Spotify.

... for a start.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

First time I've seriously "abused" my uncapped account... this beats my personal record of 60Gb the last time...



Still going on strong.

FWIW I don't use it heavily like this month, usually my usage is around 20-25Gb's tops....

 

[JohnJuniorV3]

Hi Afriman,

Does Afrihost allow different DNS's? To work with Netflix? Does the business unuapped allow it?

Oliver

 

[Seriously]

Hi Afriman,

Does Afrihost allow different DNS's? To work with Netflix? Does the business unuapped allow it?

Oliver

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=11019351#post11019351

 

[whatwhat]

Hi Afriman,

Does Afrihost allow different DNS's? To work with Netflix? Does the business unuapped allow it?

Oliver

DNS is set on your router, you can use whatever DNS servers you want to use.

 

[whatwhat]

First time I've seriously "abused" my uncapped account... this beats my personal record of 60Gb the last time...

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Still going on strong.

FWIW I don't use it heavily like this month, usually my usage is around 20-25Gb's tops....

Same here. Signed up for a business account to test on the 15th, and have done 500Gb already. I usually do 300-400Gb a month, but needed to see what restrictions I might end up with so that I can cancel before the 25th. So far, very impressed and have put in my request to cancel my Telkom Uncapped.

 

[Zertop]

Guess which night I had friends over...

 

[new_in_za2]

So, I wanted to see just how fast I could download on a 2Mbps Afrihost uncapped ADSL connection, so I've fired up a few different torrents as well as started up two different HTTP downloads, with 8 threads each. That should be enough to fully saturate most internet connections. My grand total download speed is fluctuating somewhere between 900 and 1000kbps, so that's less than half of the promised speed. I decided to check out Clientzone to see if they are officially throttling me or not. Unfortunately it took about a minute to load up the login page for the Clientzone, despite the fact that there should be about 1Mbps of available bandwidth on my ADSL line, and Afrihost at least claim that they don't throttle browsing. Anyway, I managed to log in in the end, and here's what I saw:

Shaping Policy: No Shaping Applied

Yet I am being throttled to half of my supposed internet connection speed?

 

[Seriously]

Shaping Policy: No Shaping Applied

Yet I am being throttled to half of my supposed internet connection speed?

there is a big difference between shaping and throttling, no?

 

[Seriously]

DNS is set on your router, you can use whatever DNS servers you want to use.

Still does not say that the ISP will resolve it.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

So, I wanted to see just how fast I could download on a 2Mbps Afrihost uncapped ADSL connection, so I've fired up a few different torrents as well as started up two different HTTP downloads, with 8 threads each. That should be enough to fully saturate most internet connections. My grand total download speed is fluctuating somewhere between 900 and 1000kbps, so that's less than half of the promised speed. I decided to check out Clientzone to see if they are officially throttling me or not. Unfortunately it took about a minute to load up the login page for the Clientzone, despite the fact that there should be about 1Mbps of available bandwidth on my ADSL line, and Afrihost at least claim that they don't throttle browsing. Anyway, I managed to log in in the end, and here's what I saw:



Yet I am being throttled to half of my supposed internet connection speed?

I've found that the "No Shaping Applied" means that no extra shaping is applied on top of the standard network shaping. This is my experience at least as mine has never shown as shaped but there was most definitely shaping at times.

 

[Zertop]

So, I wanted to see just how fast I could download on a 2Mbps Afrihost uncapped ADSL connection, so I've fired up a few different torrents as well as started up two different HTTP downloads, with 8 threads each. That should be enough to fully saturate most internet connections. My grand total download speed is fluctuating somewhere between 900 and 1000kbps, so that's less than half of the promised speed. I decided to check out Clientzone to see if they are officially throttling me or not. Unfortunately it took about a minute to load up the login page for the Clientzone, despite the fact that there should be about 1Mbps of available bandwidth on my ADSL line, and Afrihost at least claim that they don't throttle browsing. Anyway, I managed to log in in the end, and here's what I saw:



Yet I am being throttled to half of my supposed internet connection speed?

Were you by any chance uploading/seeding. Because that stuffs up everything. Download something like IDM (internet download manager). It maxes out my 10meg all the time.

 

[Bryn]

Supersport streaming used to be terrible on Afrihost, but the F1 is playing fine for me. This was my only grievance with my business connection, so really chuffed.

 

[Zertop]

I've found that the "No Shaping Applied" means that no extra shaping is applied on top of the standard network shaping. This is my experience at least as mine has never shown as shaped but there was most definitely shaping at times.

No... I dont think so. If there is no shaping applied - there is no shaping applied whatsoever. However, you are right in the sense that this does not include local exchange congestion.

Do a traceroute to find the point of congestion:

Problems at the second hop would indicate exchange congestion – it should always be sub 20ms for it not to be service-affecting.
If the third or fourth hop is greater than 80ms it is more likely that the ISP is throttling the account in some way.


How to do a Traceroute

The following is a basic guide to do a traceroute to Telkom.co.za. If you want to do a traceroute to another website, just replace ‘telkom.co.za’ with the other domain (like ‘google.com’)

Windows

Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt
Type the following in the window: tracert Telkom.co.za

Mac OS

Open Utilities >> Open up the Terminal (command line)
Type the following in the window: traceroute Telkom.co.za

 

[new_in_za2]

there is a big difference between shaping and throttling, no?

Absolutely. The former is what Afrihost claim they do, the latter is what they actually do. And of course nearly no one on Mybroadband understands what any of these two terms mean, so I'll get attacked for pointing out that Afrihost throttle.

 

[new_in_za2]

Were you by any chance uploading/seeding. Because that stuffs up everything.

I had my uploading restricted to 15kB/s. I was watching the throughput the whole time, and upload rarely touched 200kbps.

Download something like IDM (internet download manager). It maxes out my 10meg all the time.

wget normally maxes out a 1Gbps connection. With Afrihost uncapped ADSL, I have to use several threads for downloading to get close to the advertised speed, though, and today it is completely impossible.

 

[Seriously]

Absolutely. The former is what Afrihost claim they do, the latter is what they actually do. And of course nearly no one on Mybroadband understands what any of these two terms mean, so I'll get attacked for pointing out that Afrihost throttle.

Of course they throttle, they are open about it. it maybe also depends on what you do or how you use this service? But remember Afrihost makes it easy for yo no contract thus you are free to leave at any time.