Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[BGE]

Obviously all issues are Cape Town only issues, or at the very least it's impossible for an issue to affect Johannesburg, so if you think you're having problems in Johannesburg, then you must be hallucinating. Only the poor, persecuted people of Cape Town get to experience ADSL problems.

The re-routing of Cape Town data will negatively affect JHB's performance!

And I spoke too soon... performance is deteriorating again... local latency now 500ms+ grrrrrrr!

 

[new_in_za3]

The re-routing of Cape Town data will negatively affect JHB's performance!

Not according to Garp. I was attempting a parody of Garp and that other person with a Cape Town persecution complex from 20 or so posts ago.

 

[ClintonExsteen]

its falling over even after the re-route... 0.03Mbps and 800+ms

 

[MrGray]

We know that there is a problem in Cape Town. Telkom have said that this is affecting IPC's in the area. We've rerouted traffic for now, to minimise the impact. Most Cape Town users should be getting decent service - probably not what they've bee used to over the past few days.

We're waiting for Telkom to give us an update, their Tech's are on site looking at the problem.

If by "decent", you mean huge packet loss, high latency and 0.3 mbps throughput.

What is the point of these IPCs if they keep flaking out every other day?

What do we have to do to get just one week of fail free service?

 

[Shamus]

Terrible in East London also.

 

[BGE]

Knowing Telkom's employees, all the techies left for the weekend at 2:30 already... gone camping and fishing... now they've gotta get back to the office through peak traffic to see whats failed. Shame!

 

[BGE]

Terrible in East London also.

Isn't is always terrible in East London?? :twisted:

 

[new_in_za3]

If by "decent", you mean huge packet loss, high latency and 0.3 mbps throughput.

I'm also getting roughly 0.3Mbps in Pretoria. But hey, this is a Cape Town issue, right?

 

[Reap3r]

Things have gone backward in the Northern Cape too:

>ping -n 64 www.afrihost.co.za
Reply from 197.242.144.102: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=58
...
Ping statistics for 197.242.144.102:
Packets: Sent = 64, Received = 62, Lost = 2 (3% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 397ms, Average = 101ms

 

[Reap3r]

International test:
>ping -n 64 8.8.8.8
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=222ms TTL=42
...
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 64, Received = 63, Lost = 1 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 221ms, Maximum = 636ms, Average = 278ms

 

[fwwwn]

Yeah, the internet is pretty much unusable in central Cape Town.

Speedtest on 10mb line:

Download Speed: 596 kbps (74.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 144 kbps (18 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 686 ms
08 March 2013 4:14:50 PM SAST

 

[roadcat]

Obviously all issues are Cape Town only issues, or at the very least it's impossible for an issue to affect Johannesburg, so if you think you're having problems in Johannesburg, then you must be hallucinating. Only the poor, persecuted people of Cape Town get to experience ADSL problems.

Don't forget PE who route through CT

 

[Naks]

Things have gone backward in the Northern Cape too:

there are people in the NC? :wtf:

 

[Spamhater]

Update from from Afrihost ADSL

Slow ADSL throughput and Increased Latency in the Cape Town
High Impact
Opened: 14:26 Fri, March 08, 2013

Some of our clients are experiencing slow ADSL speeds and increased latency and packet loss in the Cape Town area. We apologise for the inconvenience. Our engineers are working with Telkom to find the cause of the problem and we hope to have this resolved in the shortest possible time.

UPDATE: 15:15 - A problem has been identified affecting Cape Town based IPCs, which Telkom are addressing. They have despatched technicians to resolve the problem. MTN have rerouted traffic via an alternate path to minimise impact, though some clients may still experience slower throughput than normal. We will update all our clients as soon as we have feedback from Telkom.

 

[Reap3r]

there are people in the NC? :wtf:

Yes, unfortunately. There are a few of us scratching out a living is this desert wasteland...

 

[ClintonExsteen]

Yes, unfortunately. There are a few of us scratching out a living is this desert wasteland...

is that like Namiba or something, didnt know the had internet that far away... )

 

[HermanTheGerman]

Seems to be a tad better now. At least I was able to load the speedtest.net site to get this stunning result.

And that on a 4 MB account.

 

[Reap3r]

is that like Namiba or something, didnt know the had internet that far away... )

:wtf:

 

[mulacasto]

Anyone else getting shaped to 30KB/s on NNTP? Hope this is just due to the temporary telkom thing and the shaping hasn't returned to what it was like pre-IPC.......

 

[Spamhater]

Test conducted on 08 March 2013 05:04:37 PM

ISP: Afrihost
ADSL Line: 1MB
Local speed
Download Speed: 854 kbps (106.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 329 kbps (41.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 520 ms