Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback (Pt3)

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1st weekend with Afrihost and it's the worst internet I've ever had. Can load absolutely nothing on that account.
 
Shadow07 said:
1st weekend with Afrihost and it's the worst internet I've ever had. Can load absolutely nothing on that account.
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Learn from these forums. There are guys (I'm one of them) that have been with Afrihost for years, and have just had enough of their poor performance. I have given them 2nd, 3rd and even a 4th chance, but their promises are empty. I'm leaving them at the end of the month! Yeah!
 
Line is basically unusable...so glad I possibly have an alternative from tomorrow
 
Terrible weekend from an Afrihost uncapped perspective especially the google services issue. What happened?
 
Morning everyone

I know that, from reading reports here and on social media, that performance over the weekend seems to have been very dismal. I personally couldn't do much on YouTube, and even just running speedtest was pretty awful.

Strange this is that our graphs on demand and latency showed that performance should have been great over the weekend, so we're not entirely sure what exactly went wrong here.

I saw many clients complain about Gmail and Google services. Does anyone have specifics for me, like which product this happened on and was it over DSL and Mobile? Also, please include your location and which Google service specifically was not working (Gmail was working for me, but YouTube was pretty dismal) :(
 
Hi,

was on uncapped adsl. Google search, youtube ,gmail was terrible over Chrome. I actually never tested another browser. youtube on mobile phone over adsl was very slow and timed out most of the time. In the Rivonia area.
 
derekc said:
Hi,

was on uncapped adsl. Google search, youtube ,gmail was terrible over Chrome. I actually never tested another browser. youtube on mobile phone over adsl was very slow and timed out most of the time. In the Rivonia area.
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Have Google services been OK using other browsers?
 
AfriMan said:
Morning everyone

I know that, from reading reports here and on social media, that performance over the weekend seems to have been very dismal. I personally couldn't do much on YouTube, and even just running speedtest was pretty awful.

Strange this is that our graphs on demand and latency showed that performance should have been great over the weekend, so we're not entirely sure what exactly went wrong here.

I saw many clients complain about Gmail and Google services. Does anyone have specifics for me, like which product this happened on and was it over DSL and Mobile? Also, please include your location and which Google service specifically was not working (Gmail was working for me, but YouTube was pretty dismal) :(
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Tried using Youtube on Chrome and on Android. Both absolutely horrible. I even got "Could not connect to server" on both my Android devices. Google Earth Pro was unusable.

Ping however was completely fine over the weekend.
 
Uncapped, Pinelands Cape Town. At one point had problems with YouTube, Google Search, Gmail. Even the Google DNS server seemed to be timing out (8.8.8.8)

Neither YouTube nor Google Earth are stellar this morning.
 
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Tried using Youtube on Chrome and on Android. Both absolutely horrible. I even got "Could not connect to server" on both my Android devices. Google Earth Pro was unusable.

Ping however was completely fine over the weekend.
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Did anything change if you used a different browser? What DNS were you using?
 
AfriMan said:
Did anything change if you used a different browser? What DNS were you using?
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I did not try other browsers unfortunately. The issue was persistent throughout the weekend on all YouTube clips. It would fluctuate wildly but never exceed ~800kbit. Multiple times clips just stopped using the net. As already said even the separate Google Earth Pro program had issues. I couldn't get speeds higher than ~200kbit.

I was using the standard Afrihost DNS. Auto DNS. 196.7.7.7.
 
Vorastra said:
I did not try other browsers unfortunately. The issue was persistent throughout the weekend on all YouTube clips. It would fluctuate wildly but never exceed ~800kbit. Multiple times clips just stopped using the net. As already said even the separate Google Earth Pro program had issues. I couldn't get speeds higher than ~200kbit.

I was using the standard Afrihost DNS. Auto DNS. 196.7.7.7.
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Would it be fair to say that only Google stuff was being weird?
 
twhitehead said:
Uncapped, Pinelands Cape Town. At one point had problems with YouTube, Google Search, Gmail. Even the Google DNS server seemed to be timing out (8.8.8.8)

Neither YouTube nor Google Earth are stellar this morning.
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Is everything else looking normal? What DNS do you use?
 
AfriMan said:
Would it be fair to say that only Google stuff was being weird?
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Overall I guess Google services were most affected. However, downloading from the Amazon/Google App stores was absolutely fine. The issue is that I mostly used Google services this weekend so to me it was very noticeable.

I did not notice sites loading slower or images on said sites loading slower than usual.

BTW. Service seems to be back to normal as of this morning.

EDIT: As I post this, Google Images/Search is running extremely poorly. Tried on both Chrome and IE. ~300kbit.
 
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