Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt2)

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Zertop said:
Okay. wow, wo, wo, wo, wow. Hold up...

I havnt seen this is a LONG time.. last time I was shaped was sometime in June just before they fixed the CPT IPC. But seriously, shaped on 33GB's 17days into the month -_-

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That's weird. Happened to me just now too.
Shaping Policy: 50% Download/ 25% P2P
Was fine this morning, even this afternoon still. 2Mb and 49GB used, but that's just because I reinstalled Windows. My usage shouldn't even be hitting 70GB for the month.
 
This is not what I'm paying for. And don't come with the excuse that realtime services aren't affected, I was battling to open mybroadband's site! Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P.

I have a 4mbps line, and at 9pm for the second night in a row I'm unable to even browse properly.

This is definitely not what I'm paying for!
 
froot said:
That's weird. Happened to me just now too.
Shaping Policy: 50% Download/ 25% P2P
Was fine this morning, even this afternoon still. 2Mb and 49GB used, but that's just because I reinstalled Windows. My usage shouldn't even be hitting 70GB for the month.
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Now it's
Shaping Policy: 25% Download/ 12.5% P2P
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Weird much?
 
I'm on a 4Mb line, and I've also been shaped big time. 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P to be precise. But I have downloaded a lot this month, so I can't really complain :D

I'm taking a wild shot in the dark, but I think Afrihost is struggling with all their new clients (All the mobile data users and the mweb refugees). I'm hoping Afrihost will start doing some upgrades to cope.
 
I'm on 4MB as well , last month did 140GB with no shaping, and now I'm being shaped to 50% DL / 25% P2P for doing 50 GB. It's kind of ridiculous. I basically have a 2mb line now.
 
I will be monitoring this thread closely between now and the 1st of October, it's definitely going to get crowded as more mweb premium uncapped subscribers get throttled.....
 
They are merely doing exactly what they state they would do when the network is put under strain.

I too am shaped heavily at present. And guess what? I can still stream and play HD youtube flawlessly on my 4mb line. So my dl's take a day or three longer to finish. Shame. Rather keep having a great internet experience than having everything slow to a crawl.

You don't agree? Go to Mweb and see how that works out for ya :rolleyes::p
 
I don't understand how their shaping actually works, mine is 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P but NNTP is flying at 400kbps on my 4meg. So yeah the shaping never seems to actually affect me. That said don't change a thing Afrihost :)
 
AlanActually said:
This is not what I'm paying for. And don't come with the excuse that realtime services aren't affected, I was battling to open mybroadband's site! Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P.

I have a 4mbps line, and at 9pm for the second night in a row I'm unable to even browse properly.

This is definitely not what I'm paying for!
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Our shaping should not affect your browsing or any real time service. If you can't browse, it might be another issue coinciding with shaping. Also though, if you're still trying to max out P2P on your line while shaped, it could have an impact on realtime - though we do our best to minimise this through QoS.

We'd need to test to get more detail - but we've tested it from our end extensively and our shaping works exactly the way we say it does. We never touch your browsing or real time anything :(
 
reactor_sa said:
I will be monitoring this thread closely between now and the 1st of October, it's definitely going to get crowded as more mweb premium uncapped subscribers get throttled.....
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We're definitely monitoring signups and traffic increases and trends all the time to ensure we have adequate capacity to offer the best possible service. If we see that our service might diminish in any way, we'll respond accordingly :)
 
froot said:
That's weird. Happened to me just now too.
Shaping Policy: 50% Download/ 25% P2P
Was fine this morning, even this afternoon still. 2Mb and 49GB used, but that's just because I reinstalled Windows. My usage shouldn't even be hitting 70GB for the month.
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Remember that shaping is capacity dependant - we dont use rolling windows or thresholds. Anyone could be potentially shaped if the demand is heavy enough, but we start from the heaviest users downwards (by usage pattern) and try to shape as few people as possible (to the least extent possible) to bring demand in line with capacity :)
 
Nduimiso said:
I don't understand how their shaping actually works, mine is 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P but NNTP is flying at 400kbps on my 4meg. So yeah the shaping never seems to actually affect me. That said don't change a thing Afrihost :)
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That's odd. NNTP should definitely be shaped if that is your shaping policy. I hope you'll drop me a PM (for the good of the other folks who need the bandwdith) :(
 
ainsin said:
I'm on a 4Mb line, and I've also been shaped big time. 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P to be precise. But I have downloaded a lot this month, so I can't really complain :D

I'm taking a wild shot in the dark, but I think Afrihost is struggling with all their new clients (All the mobile data users and the mweb refugees). I'm hoping Afrihost will start doing some upgrades to cope.
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Hey, it's worth a shot - but not the case :)

Our mobile data does not go via our IPC, it's directly on the MTN network. So our capacity is essentially the MTN network. With DSL though, we have to break out of Telkom's network. The rate at which we can break traffic out of the network (via IPC) is the capacity we can provide at any given point in time.

So no danger of Mobile Data ever affecting DSL service :)
 
AfriMan said:
That's odd. NNTP should definitely be shaped if that is your shaping policy. I hope you'll drop me a PM (for the good of the other folks who need the bandwdith) :(
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It is from the afrihost news server though, I have noticed slower speeds from the international servers before.
 
AfriMan said:
Remember that shaping is capacity dependant - we dont use rolling windows or thresholds. Anyone could be potentially shaped if the demand is heavy enough, but we start from the heaviest users downwards (by usage pattern) and try to shape as few people as possible (to the least extent possible) to bring demand in line with capacity :)
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Ah, coolios. So last night was just a tough night and you had to tighten the shaper.

Nduimiso said:
It is from the afrihost news server though, I have noticed slower speeds from the international servers before.
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My NNTP was running at line speed too (I tested to see how the shaper influenced it). Doesn't bother me, I only download in the early mornings.
 
froot said:
Ah, coolios. So last night was just a tough night and you had to tighten the shaper.



My NNTP was running at line speed too (I tested to see how the shaper influenced it). Doesn't bother me, I only download in the early mornings.
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Funny enough my torrent was flying last night at about my line speed. Browsing was a bit slow. But I'm not complaining, still waaaaayyyyy better than M-Web.

Then again, I'm only sitting on 74gb on my 2mb uncapped bundle so far this month.
 
pjjdp said:
Funny enough my torrent was flying last night at about my line speed. Browsing was a bit slow. But I'm not complaining, still waaaaayyyyy better than M-Web.

Then again, I'm only sitting on 74gb on my 2mb uncapped bundle so far this month.
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The only thing I could find that was slow, was when downloading an update for some software (http). Everything else was pretty much flying. I don't really do p2p so didn't test that.
 
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