Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)

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I am interested to know just exactly how many clients Afrihost has lost already as a result of this ridiculous shaping. I used to recommend Afrihost to all my friends and now.....???? Whoops!! Not a good idea anymore. :(
 
stormiezzz said:
I am interested to know just exactly how many clients Afrihost has lost already as a result of this ridiculous shaping. I used to recommend Afrihost to all my friends and now.....???? Whoops!! Not a good idea anymore. :(
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You might aswell save yourself some stress and move on, you'll never know that figure, and I sure wouldn't trust AH's word.
 
What beats me is the fact that last month we went full steam in the south and this month all of a sudden we are shaped to 10% of our line speed. What happened here that all of a sudden there is such a bandwidth shortage....
 
Smokey_sa said:
What beats me is the fact that last month we went full steam in the south and this month all of a sudden we are shaped to 10% of our line speed. What happened here that all of a sudden there is such a bandwidth shortage....
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There was an iOS update :)
 
Just so that I'm not called a troll or whatever, I bought a 4mb home uncapped last night.

Pro Rata @ R140 for the rest of the month. I immediately cancelled to make sure I don't incur any more cost on MTN's crap network.

The reason I did this:

To evaluate the situation in the east.

Let's stick with Netflix quality for now and keep things simple.

Even though my account is stating "no shaping applied" in the client zone, I have noticed a serious discrepancy regarding AH's account.

When viewing NF on this account, the quality varies between 240-480p, and normally settles on 386p. This was for a few hours yesterday during the public holiday day, and now as we speak, 11pm on a saturday night.

When I compare this performance with my current provider, which gives me solid 720p no matter what, I deduce that, even tho AH say's no shaping applied, there still is (in the form of contention it must be - just like the business accounts in the south).

Therefore, mission accomplished in my eye, as I have proved shaping on netflix when "they" claim there is none.

Moral of the story:

Don't believe a word AH says, as I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent chap, and when an ISP tell's me otherwise, that's when I tell them to take a hike, like I did 2 years ago when they moved from IS to MTN.

Sort your **** out AH!

Your 4mb R397 uncapped account is being outperformed by the likes of connection.co.za's R260 as an example.

Best R140 I ever spent, explain yourselves out of this one hmmm...?
 
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Bl1zz4rd said:
I don't follow.
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It was a joke :)

The last time the network problems started was because of an iOS update many many moon's ago.

Not to beat around the bush, I know there was one last week so I don't think I'm lying when I say this.
 
Smokey_sa said:
What beats me is the fact that last month we went full steam in the south and this month all of a sudden we are shaped to 10% of our line speed. What happened here that all of a sudden there is such a bandwidth shortage....
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They gave it away to capped users for free.
 
wingnut771 said:
It was a joke :)

The last time the network problems started was because of an iOS update many many moon's ago.

Not to beat around the bush, I know there was one last week so I don't think I'm lying when I say this.
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Can you explain the connection between iOS updates and Afrihost's network speed please? I figure it has something to do with their using MTN infrastructure.
 
Bl1zz4rd said:
Can you explain the connection between iOS updates and Afrihost's network speed please? I figure it has something to do with their using MTN infrastructure.
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What I'm saying is that they are running their network like Eskom (no reserve capacity) and when there comes a time when there is a mass update ie: iOS or windows update etc, things turn pear shaped pretty quickly.
 
I have a 2Mb uncapped bundled with my line. I want to change this 2Mb uncapped to a free 1Gb capped while I try out some other ISPs (need to keep the AH account alive to save changing e-mail addresses until I decide who to go with). The question is, do I have to unbundle my line to make this change and if I do have to unbundle can I then re-bundle my line with the 1Gb free account?
 
Shamus said:
I have a 2Mb uncapped bundled with my line. I want to change this 2Mb uncapped to a free 1Gb capped while I try out some other ISPs (need to keep the AH account alive to save changing e-mail addresses until I decide who to go with). The question is, do I have to unbundle my line to make this change and if I do have to unbundle can I then re-bundle my line with the 1Gb free account?
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You don't have a "free 1gig" account already?

I set my mail up on mine, as this account is for life, so it doesn't matter if I chop and change accounts like you're wanting to do.

1. Setup email on free account.
2. unbundle.
3. cancel uncapped.
4. wait.
 
wingnut771 said:
What I'm saying is that they are running their network like Eskom (no reserve capacity) and when there comes a time when there is a mass update ie: iOS or windows update etc, things turn pear shaped pretty quickly.
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I wasn't aware that the same network capacity was used for MTN's cellular and ADSL networks.
 
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