Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)

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That is the maximum download speed that you would achieve of your linespeed percentage wise on Http and P2P downloads.
18% of 2, 4, or 10Mbps, etc
 
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holy smokes...does the percentage decrease or increase on a daily bases depending on usage?
 
gson said:
holy smokes...does the percentage decrease or increase on a daily bases depending on usage?
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It is all dependent on region usage. For example, CPT is probably under strain at the moment (New Capacity hasnt arrived yet), so there would be more shaping. Dont worry - at night it gets better :D

Im also on 12.5% Download/ 6.25% P2P at the moment - but it really doesnt affect me cause I schedule my downloads for night.
 
Zertop said:
It means that HTTP Downloads are shaped to 18.8% of your line speed. (100KBps = 18.8KBps Max), and P2P is shaped at 6.25% of your line (100KBps = 6.25KBps)
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That's harsh! It sounds like throttling, not shaping. Shaping is when things like P2P are curtailed, not HTTP.
 
Taranis said:
That's harsh! It sounds like throttling, not shaping. Shaping is when things like P2P are curtailed, not HTTP.
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Its only downloads :/ Its just that - if it were only P2P, people would just download via HTTP :-( Browsing/Streaming is not affected though.
 
Taranis said:
That's harsh! It sounds like throttling, not shaping. Shaping is when things like P2P are curtailed, not HTTP.
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They're very, very different :)
You need to remember that realtime services are always left un-touched so your browsing, streaming, gaming, VoIP etc etc is always unshaped.
 
Zertop said:
It is all dependent on region usage. For example, CPT is probably under strain at the moment (New Capacity hasnt arrived yet), so there would be more shaping. Dont worry - at night it gets better :D

Im also on 12.5% Download/ 6.25% P2P at the moment - but it really doesnt affect me cause I schedule my downloads for night.
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:)Hi Zertop, I enjoy your posts very much as they are informative (+75 I need all the help I can get). My P2P has been upto for a few weeks now and I'm situated 750 m form a DSLAM, just had my port reset can only download at 2-10 kB/s. Switched to nighttime only but only managing about 5 Gb. For my part I was much better off with Mweb 2 Meg uncapped than my 4 Mg uncapped Afrihost. Lets hope that the upgrades get to PE.
 
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Joy is me - I signed up to AH today .... Oh yes .... :):D

That Telkom issue .... Crock of sh.t ... AH account is running like a train - Ohhhh yes.....:D:D

Only problem .... In my excitement, I told the missus that the mother in law should see this ... now apparently the b.tch is on her way to visit :sick:
 
pedruid said:
:)Hi Zertop, I enjoy your posts very much as they are informative (+75 I need all the help I can get). My P2P has been upto for a few weeks now and I'm situated 750 m form a DSLAM, just had my port reset can only download at 2-10 kB/s. Switched to nighttime only but only managing about 5 Gb. For my part I was much better off with Mweb 2 Meg uncapped than my 4 Mg uncapped Afrihost. Lets hope that the upgrades get to PE.
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Just wait a bit, I think upgrades are on the way
 
AGREED!

I am still having issues. My Business Uncapped will not download torrents faster than 6kB/s, and my Dad's Uncapped 10MB is shaped to hell ALL THE TIME NOW. All tickets are still open, and nobody wants to take resposibility. All I want is for both lines to have their physical ports changed, but nothings is being done. I am told that MORE tests need to be done to justify such a request.
 
Zertop said:
It is all dependent on region usage. For example, CPT is probably under strain at the moment (New Capacity hasnt arrived yet), so there would be more shaping. Dont worry - at night it gets better :D

Im also on 12.5% Download/ 6.25% P2P at the moment - but it really doesnt affect me cause I schedule my downloads for night.
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It definitely affects me when I have to download updates for projects. I don't care much about torrents during the day, that's what nights are for. Downloads being at a tenth is quite annoying.
 
AfriMan said:
We'll only really know if it's related when we get our upgrade and these issues disappear, as they seem to have in the North :(
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What I found interesting, is that every time you guys hit a capacity issue, it happens very suddenly? Not a gradual thing. That's what happened to previous time for the South recently in the North and again now in the South?
 
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