Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Its simple people having issues just cancel and move. Openweb is performing perfectly for me.
 
My last day on Afrihost! whoop!

Amazing thing is, I used to download more on my Webafrica 1mb uncapped than i did this month with my Afrihost 2mb uncapped. Webafrica is crappy but at least you know where you stand with them, they are upfront about shaping and rolling windows. Afrihost is just random and when I urgently need a file I'm throttled down to 15kb.

On to greener openweb fields :D
 
Everything was fine for me last night, did live streaming at 720p and was downloading at 1mb/s on my 10mb uncapped over torrents.

I also did speedtests to paris and was getting around 210-220ms so it seems fine
 
I was getting full line speed this morning, but I'm downloading at 30kbps now. Even on http downloads.
 
KoKaRoT said:
by far one of the worst nights for internet on afrihost today, dota 2 pings sit at 380ms to 420ms

Tracing route to 146.66.155.117 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 119 ms 100 ms 91 ms 105-236-2-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.
2.129]
3 126 ms 113 ms 107 ms ipc-recieve-jh-1a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.5]
4 26 ms 28 ms 24 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
5 28 ms 27 ms 26 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
6 228 ms 236 ms 251 ms 41.181.180.10
7 278 ms 232 ms 244 ms ct-cr-2.za--ct-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.35]

8 260 ms 291 ms 288 ms ls-pr-1.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.20
1]
9 271 ms 420 ms 290 ms TenGigabitEthernet8-2.ar6.LON3.gblx.net [208.48.
238.185]
10 318 ms 329 ms 315 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [213.248.81.73]
11 227 ms 233 ms 226 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.114]
12 347 ms 323 ms 307 ms hbg-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.247.212]
13 316 ms 331 ms 304 ms win-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.133]
14 263 ms 295 ms 285 ms win-b4-link.telia.net [213.155.132.129]
15 338 ms 356 ms 336 ms valve-ic-156665-win-b4.c.telia.net [195.12.255.1
86]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * ^C
C:\Users\idontknowwhatimdoing>tracert 146.66.153.84

Tracing route to 146.66.153.84 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 82 ms 91 ms 97 ms 105-236-2-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.
2.129]
3 130 ms 119 ms 104 ms ipc-recieve-jh-1a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.5]
4 60 ms 64 ms 66 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
5 55 ms 55 ms 129 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
6 269 ms 278 ms 274 ms 41.181.180.10
7 326 ms 320 ms 342 ms ct-cr-2.za--ct-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.35]

8 275 ms 265 ms 275 ms ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.18
7]
9 319 ms 310 ms 321 ms 195.50.122.181
10 319 ms 274 ms 261 ms ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.120]

11 279 ms 306 ms 333 ms ae-59-224.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.153.141]

12 334 ms 344 ms 287 ms ae-48-48.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.143.81
]
13 422 ms * 460 ms ae-7-7.car1.Luxembourg1.Level3.net [4.69.148.225
]
14 319 ms 334 ms 335 ms 212.73.249.18
15 331 ms 304 ms 285 ms 146-66-154-227.valve.net [146.66.154.227]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * ^C
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If your line was not used to do something else while you where doing these trace routes, I would say you have a problem at your exchange based on the 2nd lines of your trace being massively high.
 
Sinbad said:
Any timescale for the new capacity?
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Afriman said:

We placed orders for more IPC capacity months ago, for local capacity in CT and DBN, to compliment what we already have in Gauteng. This will give us more flexibility in managing bandwidth and give us the opportunity to allow more access to bandwidth for downloading. Reality is that this may only arrive in Feb (or later), due to Telkom infrastructure limitations. We simply cannot move any faster on this. What we are doing is also planning major infrastructure changes on MTN's network to handle the additional capacity, so that are no backhaul issues when Telkom gets their side sorted. Literally millions have and will be spent on getting things to where they should be.
 
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I am currently playing World of Warcraft, and latency is spot on. However, HTTP downloads are horribly slow. Getting about 15KB/s on those.
 
29KB/s on my NNTP,no like this shaping to death
Even torrents aren't shaped this heavily -.-
Otherwise all good
 
AfriMan said:
So what are things looking like today guys? :)
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Seems fine. However, it would be great if the SpecialOps guys could respond to a ticket when it's raised, not 18 hours later when the problem has already gone away...
 
new_in_za2 said:
Despite being an explicitly prioritised service, Youtube is going at less than half of line speed here. Other downloads go at roughly 1/16th of line speed. So much worse than usual.
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We'll need to look into that. YouTube should always get top priority as you say.

PM me? :)
 
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