Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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I'm about to switch to Plugg but ... please correct me if I'm wrong ... Plugg is IS, which means Seacom, while MNet is on WACS, which is far better capacity- and latency wise. Not?
 
HermanTheGerman said:
I'm about to switch to Plugg but ... please correct me if I'm wrong ... Plugg is IS, which means Seacom, while MNet is on WACS, which is far better capacity- and latency wise. Not?
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I guess you meant MTN and not MNet.

WACS has a higher maximum potential capacity IIRC, but that does not mean that MTN has more international bandwidth than IS. You purchase as much bandwidth as you want on the cable. MTN may have less than IS even though they are on a newer cable. I don't think anybody other than MTN and IS will be able to tell you that.

As for latency, the latency on WACS may be a bit lower than Seacom (I have never tested it) but I am convinced that it is not 40ms lower, and at the moment you are losing 40ms due to not having an IPC in Cape Town on the MTN network. This is assuming you are in Cape Town like your location states. If someone has accounts on both networks they can test it, but my international latencies were much better on a Seacom based ISP than Afrihost a week or two ago before my Afrihost cap ran out. They may have improved it in the meantime though.
 
hahaha, just had Telkom technical on the line, we did a speedtest of the saix site and the test to CPT server gave me 27mbps, DBN server 18mbps and rosebank 8mbps... all on a 4mb line that was only syncing at 512kbps.... so they reset the ports and now, CPT 4.24mbps, DBN 4.19mbps and JHB 4.08... mybb speedtest local 4.19mbps and in 3.13mbps... getting theret
 
I have a PluGG and MWEB test accounts so I'll post some latencies for the people that have asked:

Pinging to WA for local (so that you don't ping to something on your own network). Pinging to BBC.co.uk for international. Average is from about 50 pings. I'm based in Cape Town (Table View) at the moment.

PluGG local - 17ms average
PluGG international - 165ms average

MWEB local - 14ms
MWEB international - 159ms average

Afrihost local - N/A
Afrihost international - N/A

And MY MY would you look at that. My Afrihost uncapped details have disappeared from the client zone so I can't log in and test. GJ Afrihost. :sick:
 
elk said:
I guess you meant MTN and not MNet.

WACS has a higher maximum potential capacity IIRC, but that does not mean that MTN has more international bandwidth than IS. You purchase as much bandwidth as you want on the cable. MTN may have less than IS even though they are on a newer cable. I don't think anybody other than MTN and IS will be able to tell you that.

As for latency, the latency on WACS may be a bit lower than Seacom (I have never tested it) but I am convinced that it is not 40ms lower, and at the moment you are losing 40ms due to not having an IPC in Cape Town on the MTN network. This is assuming you are in Cape Town like your location states. If someone has accounts on both networks they can test it, but my international latencies were much better on a Seacom based ISP than Afrihost a week or two ago before my Afrihost cap ran out. They may have improved it in the meantime though.
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international latencies
Afrihost 230+ms from CPT
Plugg 174ms from CPT
 
Kwerty said:
And MY MY would you look at that. My Afrihost uncapped details have disappeared from the client zone so I can't log in and test. GJ Afrihost. :sick:
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Try the old client zone, i just got mine from there.
 
AfriMan said:
Arksun said:
Would like to see where that faith is gonna go when they get back home from work on Monday afternoon and find speeds right back to 7KB/s until 2:00 in the morning
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That doesn't sound like faith at all :(

I think we have shown that we are getting better and better, so it's actually not a matter of faith so much as a matter of time:)
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"I told you so" in T-minus 10 hours.
 
[video=youtube;UxuPYJwOycQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxuPYJwOycQ[/video]

Thanks for 5 months pure internet joy(no sarcasm)
If only you stayed on IS:confused:
 
i have been getting around 300kb/s all day on torrents on 4 meg ? seems ok.
 
It would be interesting to have a poll to see how many people are staying with AH and how many people are planning to or have cancelled their accounts because of the issues.

Obviously it would only count for the MyBB AH users and not the wider userbase, but it would be interesting nonetheless.
 
Personally i am staying and although i am not using the account extensively if i had more time to :D, it is allowing for streaming of the cricket matches and other services from our devices at home.

Will continue to monitor it as time goes.

This is the 2MB uncapped account.

I haven't had a chance to catchup on this thread since a few pages after the changover to MTN.

To AfriMan, take a swim or something as you have many weeks ahead of work awaiting :)
 
Staying... for now. All ISPs have their issues; issues they seem to develop only shortly after I move my business there. So I'll wait it out this time 'round, partly because I still respect Afrihost for starting the affordable dsl ball rolling all those many moons ago. Mostly because my account seems fine at present. I moved more data this month than at any time in the previous 6 or so. We'll see what the following month or 2 bring.
 
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My line's been down for the past 4 days, finally got it fixed to find download speeds maxing out at 7kB/s on 1mb line. What is actually going on Afrihost? Seems everyone is experiencing degraded service today. Last week was much better than this (from my experience)
 
For the past week i have been maxing out at 1.7Mb/s on various speed tests, this on a 10Mb/s package. Not too sure what the problem is.

Joined Afrihost about 1 month before all the recent problems started... starting to get that bitter taste in my mouth. Really don't want to leave, will be staying till end of the year, if things don't change i will probably change.
 
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