Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt2)

[kripstoe]

How are things looking tonight guys? Hopefully we're seeing some improvements!

:-/ Realtime was shocking earlier. Its 0:45 and shaping is up to 50%. At least it improved by 25%.

 

[hawker]

Mine is 75%/75% its getting much better.

 

[frobbertze]

Went to bed last night with shaping still on 18.8 and 6.5. Woke up this morning on the same. Been shaped like this since Tuesday.

 

[killerbyte]

Shaping Policy: No Shaping Applied

My line is no longer being shaped.

 

[vangar316]

Shaping Policy: No Shaping Applied

My line is no longer being shaped.

Can confirm. Shaping off on my side as well. Speeds looking much better. Latency is horrible at the mo. But I can live with that, no realtime services running. That shaper is going to be the death of me. But since it saved our collective asses when bandwith is under strain I'll live with it.

However guys it would be great if we could get some form of alert when this is needed. Don't think anybodys has a problem with being shaped as long as we know it's a general thing. I think the shock was as well seeing how much shaping was applied. Because it's been ages since we've seen this.

All in all I still think Afrihost is the place to be. Sure you guys won't drop the ball and we'll get the hiccups sorted.

 

[XperiAnce]

Line being shaped again, Steam Download back to 20kb/s. ETA for download to complete: 22 days.

 

[MrGray]

Lol based on the jinx graph, it looks like usage spiked on Monday when gta5 was released, then spiked a bit higher today when ios7 was released.... Coincidence?

Probably not, but then you've got to wonder why the ISPs don't cache these things better, or at least have Akamai nodes, since AFAIK both steam and Apple use Akamai as their CDN. In theory, if this was working efficiently then jinx wouldn't see much of a blip at all.

 

[eddief1]

Probably not, but then you've got to wonder why the ISPs don't cache these things better, or at least have Akamai nodes, since AFAIK both steam and Apple use Akamai as their CDN. In theory, if this was working efficiently then jinx wouldn't see much of a blip at all.

Caching would not help at all, one has to remember that when a ISP is shaping is it normally because they are running out of Telkom IPC capacity, not international bandwidth...caching would not help because you will be caching upstream of the IPC, everything still needs to move through IPC first.

 

[vangar316]

Yup. Was great for all of an hour. Back to beyond terrible. Shaped again and latency to google is over 300ms.

 

[Peder]

I have no shaping policy and my internet is really grinding to a halt,feels like i am being shaped to death.

 

[snapple]

Jhb area - for most of this week - downloads have been shaped to 25%, P2P shaped to 12.5% (1Mbps uncapped).

 

[AfriGuy]

Morning all

Some updates on the latency and overall throughput issues being experienced currently:
We're still seeing high demand on our IPC links, this is suspected to be linked to OS, apps and game updates over the last few days. Our Engineers are working on every possible angle to manage the higher than expected demand on our network to ensure that it's smooth sailing.

Further updates to follow, we're constantly monitoring the network.

 

[eddief1]

Morning all

Some updates on the latency and overall throughput issues being experienced currently:
We're still seeing high demand on our IPC links, this is suspected to be linked to OS, apps and game updates over the last few days. Our Engineers are working on every possible angle to manage the higher than expected demand on our network to ensure that it's smooth sailing.

Further updates to follow, we're constantly monitoring the network.

So in a nut shell you have run out of IPC capacity

 

[AfriGuy]

So in a nut shell you have run out of IPC capacity

We haven't, just seeing massive demand which is causing some bottlenecks

 

[PurSpyk!!]

How does this affect the business accounts?

 

[Type RSA]

I am really getting fed up with this bs!!! My line is damn useless now. Can't even play online games due to the crap ping. If this isn't sorted soon (like in today!!!!) I will go somewhere else!!!

Shaping Policy: 25% Download/ 6.5% P2P

I am still paying for this useless crap!!!

 

[JazzeD]

I love Afrihost have done 153GB on my 2MB Uncapped.
Shaped some on Torrents all other stuff running smooth including iOS7 update.
Free MIFI running sweet, and got a mail today and getting free 5GB on my normal MTN number next month.

Afriman/guy can I send my CV to you?

 

[AfriGuy]

How does this affect the business accounts?

We're doing our best to make sure that realtime services are running as close to normal as possible. P2P can't be guaranteed at this stage

 

[AfriGuy]

I am really getting fed up with this bs!!! My line is damn useless now. Can't even play online games due to the crap ping. If this isn't sorted soon (like in today!!!!) I will go somewhere else!!!

Shaping Policy: 25% Download/ 6.5% P2P

I am still paying for this useless crap!!!

We're really sorry about the slow down, this isn't normal as our network is seeing an increase in load overall. Please see my post around the latest update http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...back-(Pt2)?p=11193472&viewfull=1#post11193472

 

[froot]

I am really getting fed up with this bs!!! My line is damn useless now. Can't even play online games due to the crap ping. If this isn't sorted soon (like in today!!!!) I will go somewhere else!!!

Shaping Policy: 25% Download/ 6.5% P2P

I am still paying for this useless crap!!!

The demand today is almost at the same level as it was yesterday. Which is still 54% higher than the daily average over the last month.