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.................. Im thinking of leaving Afrihost now, coz I can't take this now it like I have a 1mb account while im paying for a 4mb....
Prices where to good to be true. Pure Internet Joy.. lolol
 
twicode said:
It has nothing to do with capacity otherwise it would have been like the last month on IS when everything is affected. Browsing, youtube and rapdishare is not being throttled. The problem is the fixed QoS rules.
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The qos just decides what gets shaped. When you are getting shaped then how much you get is dependant on capacity. They can't fix the rules to give you more, since they only have that 25% odd each to hand out. If 50% of their traffic was YouTube, they could add that to the qos mix, and slow it down, and the rest would speed up so (warning example) so we all got 40% of the line when shaped. If they had the bandwidth to hand out to everyone at the same time they would, there is no benefit on making you run slower if they have unused bandwidth during that time. The guy that posted under you gets it (new_in_za). Fact : afrihost are befuddling us with conflicting information, and removing impared ADSL status from their website hoping most customers won't notice or be confused enough to just believe whatever they say.
 
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well i guess it was a mistake when i chose not to cancel last month~! definitely wont make that mistake twice
 
Is this the new pricing structure of Afrihost ?

256kbps - R297 (Used to be 1Mbps)
512kbps - R497 (Used to be 2Mbps)
1024kbps - R697 (Used to be 4Mbps)
2560kbps - R897 (used to be 10Mbps)

No price hike for the future, just reduce to speed ?????
 
Throttled here aswell.. Speeds spike and drop down to 200k +- on local. Done 27gb for the month. Gotta love the ISP of the year :)

Anyone looking for a new ISP, take your money elsewhere until Afrihost sorts this **** out!
 
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Pete_A said:
The qos just decides what gets shaped. When you are getting shaped then how much you get is dependant on capacity. They can't fix the rules to give you more, since they only have that 25% odd each to hand out. If 50% of their traffic was YouTube, they could add that to the qos mix, and slow it down, and the rest would speed up so (warning example) so we all got 40% of the line when shaped. If they had the bandwidth to hand out to everyone at the same time they would, there is no benefit on making you run slower if they have unused bandwidth during that time. The guy that posted under you gets it (new_in_za). Fact : afrihost are befuddling us with conflicting information, and removing impared ADSL status from their website hoping most customers won't notice or be confused enough to just believe whatever they say.
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And that's how shaping should work, however, we've all noticed that we're being throttled to approx 23% of line speed on ALL protocols, which is not shaping, it's throttling, and it's about as sophisticated a network management tool as using a sledgehammer is to knock in a nail.
 
garp said:
And that's how shaping should work, however, we've all noticed that we're being throttled to approx 23% of line speed on ALL protocols, which is not shaping, it's throttling, and it's about as sophisticated a network management tool as using a sledgehammer is to knock in a nail.
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Sme people are reporting it is not all protocols. Regardless, with too little capacity, the qos rules have no meaning (it can't reserve some bandwidth for VoIP if there is none left to reserve because it's being reserved already by YouTube (as an example))
 
Clearly its throttling if 1mb = 30kB/s 2mb = 60kB/s and 4mb = 120kB/s from what ppl have posted.
 
Either they have lowered the bar of whats considered 'abuse' to somewhere around 20GB, or they're just telling the people they've been throttled for usage as an easy excuse for ****ty speeds
 
Arksun said:
Either they have lowered the bar of whats considered 'abuse' to somewhere around 20GB, or they're just telling the people they've been throttled for usage as an easy excuse for ****ty speeds
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Ok well on a 10meg business line, with poor speeds all month, since the 1st till now (15 days aprox 50% of the month) I have used 52.743 gb according to their portal. Call it 53, so I guess I'm on path to use 106 odd per month. So yeah, guess the limit is lower than 100gb allowed per month on a business account.
 
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