Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Getting 12Kb/s on a well seeded torrent on a 4mbs line, ive done 5 gigs so far this month on an uncapped account. Please please please sort out your network afrihost.
 
ClintonExsteen said:
1st the servers took forever to come up, then poor latency, didn't make it for an enjoyable day... like a Monday in most people's lives, today was

this is all i want and ask for

Test conducted on 07 November 2012 22:31
Download Speed: 2826 kbps (353.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 399 kbps (49.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 167 ms
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I have no idea what you are trying to say.
 
10mb line uncapped with nothing downloading or uploading and still I cant view a youtube clip with out it buffering for ever?
 
I think we're gonna see a lot of people using the money back guarantee this month...
 
4am in the morning and ftp downloads are flying at a whopping 9.2Kb/s :mad: . 4mb uncapped account
 
I'm usually what you might call an Afrihost fanboi ... well, usually. Didn't mind the slower bandwith after switching to uncapped. But ever since the migration to MTN my experience is less than satisfying. Incredible bad pings, low speed, and speedtest.net thinks my best ping local server is in JHB (I'm still living in CPT tho). International gaming isn't possible anymore, and unfortunately that's what I use my connection for mostly.
What I heard from AH support is that theer was a failure on my line and I must ask Telkom for a redesign of my port. Ok, so I did. Result: pfffrz. :wtf:
 
Last night everything was running well again but this morning, I'm down to 2mb on speedtest and 7KB/s on downloads. I'm using 4mb uncapped.
 
Local traffic is ok speedwise (6 meg on a 10 meg line) but international traffic is around 2 meg (to London servers).
 
Pete_A said:
Local traffic is ok speedwise (6 meg on a 10 meg line) but international traffic is around 2 meg (to London servers).
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I find speedtest to be pretty unreliable right now.
Nntp still doing 600KB/sec on 6mb line
 
So if they're only going to add IPC capacity to Cape Town early next year, does that mean everyone in Cape Town can expect sucky pings till then?
 
I tried downloading a file from download.cnet.com (avast free antivirus - it was the top download) and get 321kb/s since you indicated speedtest may be unreliable.

Ap per a reccomendation earlier in this thread if I download to files, then they both go at 300 odd kb/s. this would indicate to me that a p2p transfer with many connections can achieve your full line speed, but with a single download via http or https then you only receive around 3 meg. I find this strange, that I am effectively worse off than the torrent users, as I don't use this protocol (I am on a business account) it seems counter intuitive.

Pete
 
Well the international speedtest on my 4MB line this morning was looking much better but it is still early
Test conducted on 08 November 2012 07:40
Download Speed: 3028 kbps (378.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 409 kbps (51.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 236 ms
Just the latency is still the main issue... if that could get down to around 160+ all would be delighted
 
I don't think it is possible to get to 160 ping on any provider, due to the speed of light etc. please let me know if thsts wrong, I would love a provider that could offer that, but I just came from mweb and they are similar to afrihost.
 
Afrihost-Gian said:
However, I am confident that within the next day we will have solved this challenge and our user experience should be excellent again.
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Don't worry, guys. Your internet connections will all start performing perfectly today.

Yours truly,
The Iraqi Information Minister
 
Pete_A said:
I don't think it is possible to get to 160 ping on any provider, due to the speed of light etc. please let me know if thsts wrong, I would love a provider that could offer that, but I just came from mweb and they are similar to afrihost.
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Before the change over , we were getting 164-168ms and with another ISP I am getting 166-170ms, so it is not impossible...
 
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