Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)

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aybbleek said:
I don't know whats happening but network performance seems to be getting better in the South? Shaping is still maxed out for most of the day but I seem to be moving more traffic after hours...
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I think demand may be settling a little due to the known issues, and we're also optimising where we can for best performance.

Let's hope Telkom deliver on time for us :)
 
I just cancelled with openweb and am looking at afrihost. Hows the situation with speeds in KZN area and will the new IPC affect my area?
 
Arksun said:
I just cancelled with openweb and am looking at afrihost. Hows the situation with speeds in KZN area and will the new IPC affect my area?
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We are awaiting an IPC upgrade in the East (KZN area) as we're seeing increasing demand for the region. We should be receiving that capacity very soon. You should still be seeing good speeds, especially on priority real time services.

Have you signed up a Free GB to test our network?

http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/freegb/?src=socmed
 
Im currently using a topup account. It works very well, but using a capped account as a benchmark when wanting to go uncapped would be very retarded of me, because no way would it perform the same. My openweb account shuts down end of may, so we'll see when I sign up for an uncapped account in june.

I'm really not trying to sound like a trouble customer, but the reason im leaving openweb is because of poor performance and I don't want to find myself just hopping from one frying pan into another
 
Arksun said:
Im currently using a topup account. It works very well, but using a capped account as a benchmark when wanting to go uncapped would be very retarded of me, because no way would it perform the same. My openweb account shuts down end of may, so we'll see when I sign up for an uncapped account in june.

I'm really not trying to sound like a trouble customer, but the reason im leaving openweb is because of poor performance and I don't want to find myself just hopping from one frying pan into another
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Definitely understandable. They are very different products but it just gives an indication of how the network can perform, especially on real time services.

By May/June I'm confident that we'll have put our upgrades in place with Telkom, and hopeful additional capacity contingencies for future demand management improvements :)
 
4Mbps, EC

Afrihost International. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this does not qualify as broadband for a 4 Mbps line?

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RoMark said:
4Mbps, EC

Afrihost International. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this does not qualify as broadband for a 4 Mbps line?

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We're investigating some issues EASSy, which will probably affect East clients more than others. I'll give you more feedback as soon as I get an update on this.

Probably explains some international performance issues.
 
AfriMan said:
We're investigating some issues EASSy, which will probably affect East clients more than others. I'll give you more feedback as soon as I get an update on this.

Probably explains some international performance issues.
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Thank you.

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Pings are back to what I'm used for a 4Mbps line.
Download speed is also what I'm used too.

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Local:
Ping is about 34ms higher than when I joined 2 months ago, but speeds are on par what I'm used too.

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I am unable to open gumtree.co.za on my afrihost adsl, working fine on vodacom broadband. Anyone else have this problem?
 
attienel said:
I am unable to open gumtree.co.za on my afrihost adsl, working fine on vodacom broadband. Anyone else have this problem?
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Definitely seems to be working on my side. Can you please run a traceroute to the URL? And confirm if you're going via a firewall or directly over the router/WiFi.
 
AfriMan said:
We're investigating some issues EASSy, which will probably affect East clients more than others. I'll give you more feedback as soon as I get an update on this.

Probably explains some international performance issues.
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Confirmed with our team that international latency and throughput should be totally normal now :)
 
AfriMan said:
Definitely seems to be working on my side. Can you please run a traceroute to the URL? And confirm if you're going via a firewall or directly over the router/WiFi.
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no firewall

I am using a unotelly DNS, tried the afrihost one too. same result.


Tracing route to gumtree.co.za [5.255.154.67]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms 5 ms 4 ms 192.168.1.1
2 21 ms 17 ms 23 ms 105-236-5-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.5.
1]
3 24 ms 25 ms 37 ms 41.181.201.94
4 19 ms 20 ms 20 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
5 19 ms 20 ms 25 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 21 ms 20 ms 19 ms 196.44.31.106
7 162 ms 164 ms 165 ms am-cr-1.am--lt-cr-1.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.22
1]
8 170 ms 165 ms 163 ms ls-pr-1.uk--ls-cr-1.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.83
]
9 190 ms 169 ms 193 ms linx1.r2.gs.as41552.net [195.66.225.72]
10 376 ms 235 ms 240 ms po50.r2.ix5.as41552.net [5.255.154.15]
11 206 ms 218 ms 200 ms te2-2.r1.ix5.as41552.net [195.78.84.121]
12 217 ms 321 ms 219 ms 91.211.72.25
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
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