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Question of the Day: What is your non-negotiable item, device, or app for international travel?
Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)
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Can I assume you're referring to a Telkom tech?
If so, it depends on their workload and availability in the area
Drop me a PM with your line number and I can follow up on the fault for you.Yes, TurboCharging sorted out the lag.
Very weird, I saw some positive feedback during late last week.
Have you been in touch with our team to troubleshoot further?
No worries Afriguy I left the router off for about 30min and then it came right.
Then you should be in the South network. I know demand is usually at it's peak just after 8pm, so we'll need to monitor this to see if there is anything happening at this time of the evening
so what you are telling me its better so start shopping for better service at another isp and take my R13 000 to them coz this problems are going on for more than 2 moths now even with the extra capacity...
Which game are you playing that's seeing higher than normal latency?
League of legends and team speak have packet loss and every few seconds it say attempting to connect...
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I'm not sure if we have asked this yet, but are you running any P2P downloads or updates in the background? Generally we have seen this happen on our testing when an active gaming session is happening, with P2P downloads running in the background as well as Teamspeak.
Mephisto_Helix
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Second night that it gets to after 10pm and my latency in DDO and Raidcall goes up. Just the game and raidcall running, nothing else.
My ping with prepaid AH, WA or Mweb ranged from 255-285, now I have this -
Come day 3, if I keep having this, I'm cancelling and would not even think twice about not paying.
My ping with prepaid AH, WA or Mweb ranged from 255-285, now I have this -
Come day 3, if I keep having this, I'm cancelling and would not even think twice about not paying.
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Why all the 100 questions it worked fine with everything running know for the past 2-3 weeks its an problem and even if i close everything its still not working.
Second night that it gets to after 10pm and my latency in DDO and Raidcall goes up. Just the game and raidcall running, nothing else.
My ping with prepaid AH, WA or Mweb ranged from 255-285, now I have this -
Come day 3, if I keep having this, I'm cancelling and would not even think twice about not paying.
Your ping results are very intermittent here, and it seems to be weird inside our network, though destination latency does not seem very poor.
I think we'll need to test further with you, it doesn't seem consistent with what we're seeing in general at the moment
I think it's definitely a valid question though. Services can contend with each other and cause varying experience. It's always good to test service individually and see which service, when added, seems to cause contention and disrupts normal performance.
Mephisto_Helix
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Your ping results are very intermittent here, and it seems to be weird inside our network, though destination latency does not seem very poor.
I think we'll need to test further with you, it doesn't seem consistent with what we're seeing in general at the moment
Thanks for the reply. What would be involved with 'further testing' then? I'll be honest, I don't have the patience for this performance past another day or 2 at the most. I don't want to sign up for something and have it crap out on day one, I'd rather save my stress and move to another account asap.
Are you only seeing the latency spikes up later at night when gaming? If so, could you try a turbocharge to see if this helps with anything?
Orihalcon
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I feel your pain Mephisto.
I've given up trying play anything p2p on Afrihost uncapped when shaping is active.
Either it gets shaped to hell, gets packet loss, or it works for a night or two and then relapses to a broken state. Add in software like Mumble that gets shaped etc and it's just a damn hassle I don't need. I've run tests, sent the results. Not interested in repeating this process ad infinitum when it just works on a competitor's network. I don't mind assisting with tests...up to a point.
WA account all the way I'm happy to say.
I've given up trying play anything p2p on Afrihost uncapped when shaping is active.
Either it gets shaped to hell, gets packet loss, or it works for a night or two and then relapses to a broken state. Add in software like Mumble that gets shaped etc and it's just a damn hassle I don't need. I've run tests, sent the results. Not interested in repeating this process ad infinitum when it just works on a competitor's network. I don't mind assisting with tests...up to a point.
WA account all the way I'm happy to say.
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Orihalcon
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AfriGuy...it's been said how many times the last 4 pages that turbo charging alleviates this problem...from various people, myself included.
Mephisto_Helix
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1 - Ye, latency spikes worse at night when it should be lessening. The slow pages and terrible streaming is all day. Downloading for now is pretty good, even more so during the day
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Not spending to test.
1 - Ye, latency spikes worse at night when it should be lessening. The slow pages and terrible streaming is all day. Downloading for now is pretty good, even more so during the day
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Not spending to test.
Do you have a traceroute that I can look at when the latency spikes up?
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