Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)

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Sigh, it would seem the only way to get decent internet is to move to CPT or JHB. This 18.8% and 6.5% BS in PE is really becoming unacceptable. I really did love AH, but having constant shaping is just plain wrong, hell even MWEB wasn't this bad, provided you didn't download too much.

Afriman, give those MTN monkey's a kick in the butt with the long overdue IPC, or you're going to lose a lot of customers...
 
Quag said:
Sigh, it would seem the only way to get decent internet is to move to CPT or JHB. This 18.8% and 6.5% BS in PE is really becoming unacceptable. I really did love AH, but having constant shaping is just plain wrong, hell even MWEB wasn't this bad, provided you didn't download too much.

Afriman, give those MTN monkey's a kick in the butt with the long overdue IPC, or you're going to lose a lot of customers...
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Moving to Cape Town won't help, shaping here is really bad and we are in desperate need for additional capacity. I've been shaped from 9AM to 1AM everyday this week.
 
TwilightWalker said:
Moving to Cape Town won't help, shaping here is really bad and we are in desperate need for additional capacity. I've been shaped from 9AM to 1AM everyday this week.
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^This. I'm in the Tableview area and my newsgroup downloads max out at 30 kilobytes/sec during the above times. This is on a 10 Mb line. Fortunately all the realtime services (surfing, youtube etc.) still get full speed otherwise I would've cancelled ages ago.
 
Just a few weeks ago Cape Town was the most unshaped region for AH :(
 
Dubes said:
I'm actually starting to favour the throttling method. Mention was made of hogs. With "dynamic shaping" if all the hogs are going balls to the wall it affects my downloads etc as we all experience shaping. With throttling caps if they go balls to the wall they reach their limit quicker but it (theoretically) doesn't affect me. I get to use what is mine, they get to use what is theirs.
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Please, please dont be taken in by the whole story MWEB have sold.

There is no such thing as a hog. If someone has bought bandwidth, at a speed and is getting a certain contention ratio for the price they pay, then - as sold, they are entitled to UNLIMITED download or uncapped.

If the ISP has over sold its bandwidth or Telkom has over extended its exchanges - then the delivery of bandwidth will be an issue.

Throttling is applied by MWEB in attempt to "clean up" their customer base, buy associating it to their AUP.
 
Dubes said:
I'm actually starting to favour the throttling method. Mention was made of hogs. With "dynamic shaping" if all the hogs are going balls to the wall it affects my downloads etc as we all experience shaping. With throttling caps if they go balls to the wall they reach their limit quicker but it (theoretically) doesn't affect me. I get to use what is mine, they get to use what is theirs.
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No, on MWEB if I downloaded 1GB every day and then one day downloaded more than 4GB I would be throttled for the next 3-4 days with the internet unusable. Let's all just be patient and wait for the additional capacity in the south before we discuss the possibility of something as insane as throttling.
 
ravingDIODE said:
Ah so that we don't have too many users? ;)




I did think of it.. since I would be scoring, but I won't be happy with another ISP :/ So pointless lol




Sign up is great right!.. I get an average of 430 kbps download.. Really happy.



If you are going to be using so much data, I would say go straight for the business package.

Also, take it out just for the month. You don't need to give a month's notice to cancel. Take out the standard uncapped, try it. If not happy, upgrade it immediately to business uncapped. Everything is worked out pro-rata. If still not happy, just cancel the service and it will end at the end of the month. Just cancel before the 25th, before the billing cycle starts.



On the business, I doubt you will. Just remember to turn OFF Protocal Prioritisation in your client zone. Otherwise p2p etc will be 10kbps less. Turn it off and everything flies.
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Where do you turn OFF Protocol Prioritisation?
 
Reading the above, it seems afrihost is no longer the isp to go for in Cape Town. What are the alternatives?

Won't accept 30kb on 10mb. Even Telkom was better than that.
 
xrapidx said:
Reading the above, it seems afrihost is no longer the isp to go for in Cape Town. What are the alternatives?

Won't accept 30kb on 10mb. Even Telkom was better than that.
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yup terrible speeds here in Southern Suburbs. +1 for alternatives
 
Terrible speeds in Durban for the last week or 2...

Probably running into IPC problems again...
 
My daily shaping pic.
4Mbps Kirkwood EC

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Browsing slow it seems.

Anybody else having slow access to the Clientzone?

Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=1 ttl=58 time=54 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=58 time=41 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=3 ttl=58 time=41 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=58 time=41 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=5 ttl=58 time=41 ms


ping 8.8.8.8

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=45 time=203 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=45 time=202 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.1.1 1 ms 1 ms
2 105.236.8.1 8 ms
41.181.53.2 59 ms
3 41.181.53.2 33 ms
41.181.198.1 48 ms
4 41.181.198.1 19 ms
196.44.18.2 19 ms
5 196.44.18.2 19 ms
196.44.31.1 23 ms
6 196.44.31.1 20 ms
196.44.31.6 48 ms
7 196.44.31.6 48 ms
196.44.31.9 48 ms
8 196.44.0.2 48 ms
196.31.220.2 44 ms
9 196.30.1.5 80 ms
196.31.63.2 54 ms
10 196.31.220.2 43 ms
196.30.42.1 42 ms
11 197.242.144.1 112 ms 41 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.1.1 1 ms
2 41.181.53.2 149 ms
3 196.44.18.2 85 ms
4 196.44.31.1 27 ms
5 41.181.139.1 47 ms
6 72.14.194.7 55 ms
7 Request timed out *


DNS Test:

nslookup www.afrihost.com

Name: www.afrihost.com
Address: 197.242.144.102


nslookup www.google.com

Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.177
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.176
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.179
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.180
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.178


nslookup thishouldfail.afrihost.com

** server can't find thisshouldfail.com: NXDOMAIN
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Does anyone use NTV with business uncapped? (10MB)

Besides downloading nntp, and browsing - NTV is used throughout the house.

EDIT: Wrong thread.
 
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RoMark said:
My daily shaping pic.
4Mbps Kirkwood EC

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Browsing slow it seems.

Anybody else having slow access to the Clientzone?
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Hi RoMark, here's mine.
Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=1 ttl=59 time=93 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=59 time=146 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=59 time=62 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=5 ttl=59 time=118 ms


ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=46 time=194 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=46 time=223 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=46 time=261 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=46 time=188 ms


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.0.1 1 ms 1 ms
2 105.237.62.1 9 ms 8 ms
3 41.181.54.8 39 ms 135 ms
4 196.44.18.2 87 ms 30 ms
5 196.44.31.1 79 ms 27 ms
6 196.44.31.6 70 ms 91 ms
7 196.31.220.1 381 ms
Request timed out *
8 196.31.63.2 92 ms
197.242.144.1 207 ms
9 Request timed out *
10 197.242.144.1 186 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.0.1 1 ms
2 Request timed out *
3 Request timed out *
4 Request timed out *


DNS Test:

nslookup www.afrihost.com

Name: www.afrihost.com
Address: 197.242.144.102


nslookup www.google.com

Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.145
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.148
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.147
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.146
Name: www.google.com
Address: 173.194.34.144


nslookup thishouldfail.afrihost.com

** server can't find thisshouldfail.com: NXDOMAIN
Traceroute was RED. does that mean it's BAD? How did you take the image showing %?
 
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