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Question of the Day: Have you ever been scammed?
Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)
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DuidelikeDave
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Hi, What impact does the IPC capacity have on the business uncapped ADSL? If I switch to business uncapped will I be less likely to be shaped?
HapticSimian
Honorary Master
So this is the second night of atrocious throughput in the North. The entire Easter weekend was fine but last night and this I can't even maintain a medium quality Hulu steam...
There are no obvious indications of anything being wrong - local traces are at sub 18ms and to the US at 200ms or so. Throughput just sucks arse. Testmy.net gives me below 1mbps on a 4mb line.
Oh, no shaping... Supposedly.
There are no obvious indications of anything being wrong - local traces are at sub 18ms and to the US at 200ms or so. Throughput just sucks arse. Testmy.net gives me below 1mbps on a 4mb line.
Oh, no shaping... Supposedly.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
You won't(shouldn't) be shaped at all on business.
So this is the second night of atrocious throughput in the North. The entire Easter weekend was fine but last night and this I can't even maintain a medium quality Hulu steam...
There are no obvious indications of anything being wrong - local traces are at sub 18ms and to the US at 200ms or so. Throughput just sucks arse. Testmy.net gives me below 1mbps on a 4mb line.
Oh, no shaping... Supposedly.
Tried other ISP accounts?
If you pause now, it will only pause at the end of the month
Remember, this only pauses the data portion - you will still be charged for your line (as Telkom does not offer line pausing)
Z
If this is shaping easing in the south, then I dread to see how it is when it is worsening. Almost 10 pm and still at 12.5%/ 6.25%. No change or let up whatsoever.
This does not seem to be true - I cannot believe that the network usage remains consistently the same all day until past 10.30 pm.
I think so too
I have never seen Afrihost shape like this until this year (and i'm talking for years) and they've run out of excuses now in my opinion, we're not as stupid as they may think, time to come clean guys, whats the real issue here? Is the company in financial trouble? These are the lines we're starting to think along because you're not giving us the proper transparent answers. The proof is in the pudding, something is wrong here
We've been absolutely upfront about what is happening. We've ordered additional capacity, and we're only receiving it in instalments, and delayed at that. There is no question of us not having the money or the desire to effect the upgrades we've promised - in fact, we're making some pretty big commitments to our upstream providers in order to make sure that we have plenty of capacity to deliver the internet experience we want our clients to have. The problem here is nothing to do with any of those things, it literally comes down to delivery turnaround time for IPC, which is unfortunately hampered by issues which are out of our control.
Our long term plan is to make some more radical changes to this process to give us more freedom to optimise our network. If those plans do go through, we should never be in this situation, or at least not for this length of time.
Fatality07
Senior Member
Probably before the extra IPC capacity was in place.
Obviously i wasn't always awake to check...
The upgrade has definitely made a difference, though it was not as dramatic as we hoped. We had hoped to get our full order in order to give Business and Capped full expected performance, improve overall realtime services and to shape less and give clients a period of little to no shaping (Uncapped clients, that is). So for now, it's only shaping that is still quite present, but I do see that we are able to unshape (even though it's after midnight) and the network only sees pretty much full shaping by mid-morning - which is better but maybe not as dramatic as we'd have liked.
Hopefully Telkom will come through quickly for us and we can still deliver that awesome experience we've had in mind since this all started
From what I can see - shaping started to ease in the South well after midnight, so demand is consistent till pretty heavy till pretty late. Remember that this is just for shaping, what we're seeing is improved real time services across the board, whether shaped or unshaped - so we believe the upgrade has definitely improved the overall internet experience in the South.
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