HapticSimian
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And that 'other' ISP would be who, for interest's sake?
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And that 'other' ISP would be who, for interest's sake?
Sad but true...
Which ISP did you manage to get Super HD on with no issues?
I assume you're also on a 10Mb line?
I'm guessing you'll probably be able to stream 3D on this ISP as well....
Without a steady connection on AH, streaming 3D is a pipe dream.
Axxess,
Yup, 10mb line, and 3D I half got working, but UK is much faster then US, so 3D is still sorta off the table till 3D comes to UK.
Thanks...
I'm using US, but worth a shot to try UK and see how that runs. Should be the same content minus 3D.
HapticSimian
Honorary Master
Bizarre, seeing that - as far as I have it - Axxess and Afrihost are two faces of the same company, offering pretty much identical services.
You'll be surprised how much better UK is, content can be quite different though, I switch often.
Yes, very odd that they are both using MTN bandwidth, but I also have a colleague using Netflix on Axxess, he says most of the time it runs like a dream, but sometimes he does have the occasional slow day.
Hi all
Sorry for only jumping in here now
I'm trying to go through as many posts as possible - everyone should get a reply
To touch on shaping, our team is still reviewing the policies on our end. As soon as I have any feedback from them I'll have it posted. So far though, no issues with the shaping policies themselves.
We're still seeing a higher demand than usual but there are some small marked improvements.
Sorry for only jumping in here now
I'm trying to go through as many posts as possible - everyone should get a reply
To touch on shaping, our team is still reviewing the policies on our end. As soon as I have any feedback from them I'll have it posted. So far though, no issues with the shaping policies themselves.
We're still seeing a higher demand than usual but there are some small marked improvements.
HapticSimian
Honorary Master
Hi all
Sorry for only jumping in here now
I'm trying to go through as many posts as possible - everyone should get a reply
To touch on shaping, our team is still reviewing the policies on our end. As soon as I have any feedback from them I'll have it posted. So far though, no issues with the shaping policies themselves.
We're still seeing a higher demand than usual but there are some small marked improvements.
Glad to see you haven't run for the hills...
Glad to see you haven't run for the hills...
Never! We're just busy with a lot of everything today
This looks very strange indeed, please PM me if you're still noticing these timeouts.
Have you noticed any improvement here?
Shaping does cover HTTP, but only kicks in once shaping does. Let me know if you're still seeing these issues
Concerning that realtime is being affected, as it definitely shouldn't be
Please PM me if you're still having issues.
kripstoe
Expert Member
Will do. Seems to happen during "shaping" periods.
It's happening again... Speeds are all over the place!! 160kb/s, then 280kb/s, then back down to 120kb/s. This ain't right.
There must be some sort of shaping or QoS going on somewhere...
Traceroute to el Goog shows some really worrying results:
Code:Tracing route to google.com [173.194.34.168] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.1 2 824 ms 438 ms 127 ms *************esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [***.***.***.***] 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ipc-send-tb-3a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.53.21 4 30 ms 33 ms 30 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-c.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.18 8.188] 5 8 ms 9 ms 11 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2] 6 160 ms 152 ms 204 ms ls-cr-2.uk--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31. 7 174 ms 186 ms 167 ms am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.3 3] 8 165 ms 179 ms 235 ms am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.1 41] 9 164 ms 191 ms 179 ms core2.ams.net.google.com [195.69.145.100] 10 195 ms 170 ms 171 ms 209.85.254.95 11 306 ms 305 ms 310 ms 72.14.238.69 12 342 ms 311 ms 306 ms 209.85.240.221 13 326 ms 369 ms 346 ms 72.14.242.221 14 189 ms 204 ms 230 ms 209.85.253.93 15 165 ms 174 ms 163 ms 209.85.253.175 16 171 ms 167 ms 174 ms lhr14s22-in-f8.1e100.net [173.194.34.168] Trace complete.
Speed test:
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Hi
From the looks of your traceroute it looks as though your exchange may be seeing some issues/ congestion here. The 2nd hop is supposed to see fairly low, consistent response times.
Please PM me your ADSL number and I'll get this checked out if you're still noticing erratic speeds.
Shaping shouldn't be affecting realtime services, and definitely not the overall connectivity either.
Please drop me a PM with your details and I'll run a few checks on my end for you.
It quiet here without Afriguy and Afriman. Maybe Gian shaped them.
Afriguy last posted on Friday night and Afriman on Saturday morning.
We're still around, just quite busy today
We do try and post as much as absolutely possible, even over the weekends - but we're guaranteed to be here from Monday - Friday.
So I think this is the end. No BF4 or downloading for me. My ping is "out of this worldly good" and I am shaped to hell and back. Afrihost has just gone for a ball of ****!!!
Shaping Policy: 25% Download/ 6.5% P2P
And their once great myBB support guys are nowhere to be found!! Thanks guys!!
Hi Type RSA
I've noticed you've been posted a lot in this thread, it seems like it's out of frustration. Off the bat, I fully understand that you are - and that you're not used to this level of shaping.
While your frustrations are justified, I don't think personally attacking us is. Let's try and come to a solution here.
We're doing everything we can to shape the smallest amount of clients as absolutely possible. Along with this, we have a team running through our shaping policies as we speak. If you're seeing a worse/ poorer experience than every else please PM me ASAP so I can take a look at this - as a line/ exchange may aggravate the shaping above what it's supposed be.
Once I've run through some tests and you're still not satisfied with your experiences let's discuss some alternatives via PM
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