Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt2)

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No shaping applied at the moment but I'm really battling to use twitch on low quality even (4mb normal account), international browsing also feels pretty slow. Tested on telkom account and twitch and browsing is perfect so it's the afrihost account.
 
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Ouch :cry:

Shaping Policy : 50% Download/ 25% P2P


Of course, i know why , so i'm not entirely surprised, now to see how long it lasts as my usage return to normal.
 
Elbad said:
This ^ would be awesome!

Edit : even if it was inside the clientzone, for uncapped clients only. Wouldn't wanna scare off new clients who go to the site and see the network is taking strain :wtf:
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hmm inside the client zone would be nice! but if afrihost really wanted to be transparent, They would put it on their site for the world to see ;)
 
Well, something has gone seriously wrong...

Latency is through the roof and speeds are generally poor. Afrihost and Telkom account tested, both with poor results.
 
Hush9300 said:
Well, something has gone seriously wrong...

Latency is through the roof and speeds are generally poor. Afrihost and Telkom account tested, both with poor results.
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Try a traceroute.
and post the results here
 
wez1007 said:
Try a traceroute.
and post the results here
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I've done it for both accounts...

Getting hops in excess of 2500 ms on both accounts when I usually don't exceed 20 ms.

Afrihost 4 Mbps Business Account btw.

Afrihost Account

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings>tracert telkom.co.za

Tracing route to telkom.co.za [196.43.22.222]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 1584 ms 1547 ms 1610 ms 105-236-2-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.2
.65]
3 1847 ms 1809 ms 1815 ms ipc-recieve-jh-3a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.29]
4 1983 ms 2001 ms 1976 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
5 2319 ms 2330 ms 2378 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
6 2438 ms 2505 ms 2560 ms 41.181.139.109
7 2553 ms 2606 ms 2467 ms rrba-ip-se-2-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.58.1
7]
8 2624 ms 2668 ms 2714 ms 196.43.25.137
9 2855 ms 2856 ms 2244 ms 196.43.39.162
10 1506 ms 1497 ms 1612 ms rrba-ip-bssr-1-ge-2-48.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.4
3.23.6]
11 1797 ms 1797 ms 1866 ms nbsc-ip-bssr-1-atm-5-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [1
96.43.23.30]
12 2129 ms 1912 ms 1557 ms nbsc-ip-rcache-1-vif0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43
.22.222]

Trace complete.
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Hush9300 said:
I've done it for both accounts...

Getting hops in excess of 2500 ms on both accounts when I usually don't exceed 20 ms.

Afrihost 4 Mbps Business Account btw.
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I'd call up telkom then and ask them what's up... theres probably a problem in your area...
 
Hush9300 said:
I've done it for both accounts...

Getting hops in excess of 2500 ms on both accounts when I usually don't exceed 20 ms.

Afrihost 4 Mbps Business Account btw.

Afrihost Account
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Either you're downloading, or you've got serious congestion.
 
froot said:
Either you're downloading, or you've got serious congestion.
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I wasn't downloading anything... Called up Telkom about the fault and they recreated my ports which has resulted in me being without internet now as the router does not establish a connection.

A technician will have to sort it out.
 
Orihalcon said:
Judging from that 1500ms on his 2nd hop I believe his exchange is on fire :)
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It's a line issue. I've never experienced any issues with my exchange and speeds are in excess of 3.2 Mbps pretty much all day on my Afrihost account.
 
Hush9300 said:
I wasn't downloading anything... Called up Telkom about the fault and they recreated my ports which has resulted in me being without internet now as the router does not establish a connection.

A technician will have to sort it out.
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I had this happen to me once.
The idiot call centre person did a port recreate instead of a port reset and didn't go through the full steps involved for a port recreate, thus leaving me with no internet but i got hold of their manager and he identified the problem and fixed it.
 
Phinix said:
I had this happen to me once.
The idiot call centre person did a port recreate instead of a port reset and didn't go through the full steps involved for a port recreate, thus leaving me with no internet but i got hold of their manager and he identified the problem and fixed it.
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Thanks for this. Will call them up again and see what happens.
 
AfriMan said:
Sorry to see this, I see you've also PMed me. Assuming it's about this same issue, so will reply to your PM ASAP :(
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Thanks Afriman. Now Eskom has again decided to shape me - second time today and again in the middle of a download - at least when AH shape it is not 100% like Eskom:D Will wait for your pm.
 
On a lighter note , I would like to say thank you AH , my experience since I started has been great.
 
Macabre25 said:
No shaping applied at the moment but I'm really battling to use twitch on low quality even (4mb normal account), international browsing also feels pretty slow. Tested on telkom account and twitch and browsing is perfect so it's the afrihost account.
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I'm seeing the occassional buffering - not quite slit your wrists though. Otherwise seems perfect :(
 
Shamus said:
Thanks Afriman. Now Eskom has again decided to shape me - second time today and again in the middle of a download - at least when AH shape it is not 100% like Eskom:D Will wait for your pm.
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Electricity throttling. At least if they just shaped your geyser to 25% you could still have a cup of tea :)
 
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