Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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AfriMan said:
That is very odd. I'm racking my brain to think of how that is even possible, but honestly stumped. General reports from Cape Town are that speeds are good and stable, basically what they've been since the IPC went live. If this was the case for a whole month, you would have been routing through JHB prior to the IPC going live, so it doesn't really explain. It may be coincidence that congestion on your exchange abated for a short time. Just reaching here, but I think we'd have to get our specialists on this to find out exactly what is happening.

Will you drop me a PM?
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Afriman to the rescue - things zipping along in Stellenbosch. Long may it last.
 
What the **** is going on with International now again?! AfriMan, you are not helping me in convincing the wife that we can ditch DSTv! :mad:

 
AfriMan - why am I routing through Durban on Speedtest.net and not CapeTown? My latency is :sick:
We normally route through Cape Town with a latency of 22ms, now its 55ms through Durbs :(
 
Test conducted on 3/11/2013 6:18:24 PM

Download Speed: 443 kbps (55.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 786 kbps (98.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 191 ms

Mine on a 10Mb line. Sigh.
 
psynapt1k said:
AfriMan - why am I routing through Durban on Speedtest.net and not CapeTown? My latency is :sick:
We normally route through Cape Town with a latency of 22ms, now its 55ms through Durbs :(
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Also in Cape Town routing:

Tracing route to www.google.com [74.125.233.80]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 15 ms 18 ms 14 ms 105-236-6-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.6.
1]
3 41 ms 102 ms 97 ms ipc-recieve-tb-1a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.53.150
]
4 220 ms 10 ms 11 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
5 33 ms 33 ms * unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 65 ms 65 ms 62 ms 41.181.139.109
8 82 ms 115 ms 68 ms 72.14.194.74
9 42 ms 41 ms 53 ms 64.233.174.57
10 61 ms 44 ms 51 ms jnb01s02-in-f16.1e100.net [74.125.233.80]

Trace complete.
 
Off the Afrihost site:

Medium Impact
Opened: 18:03 Mon, March 11, 2013
There has been a cable break affecting traffic over the EASSY link.

Traffic has been routed via other alternative paths and there is no impact on latency to international sites.

Engineers are investigating the cable break.

Please accept our sincere apologies for all inconveniences.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Figures that'd happen when I'm trying to impress the wife with Hulu... :sick:
 
That third hop...

1 1 ms 2 ms <1 ms router [172.25.160.1]
2 46 ms 44 ms 45 ms 105-236-4-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.4.193]
3 * 108 ms * ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 63 ms 65 ms 66 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
5 72 ms 75 ms 75 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
...
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1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [172.25.160.1]
2 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 105-236-4-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.4.193]
3 92 ms 133 ms 129 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
...
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1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms router [172.25.160.1]
2 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 105-236-4-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.4.193]
3 63 ms 81 ms 66 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
...
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Latency is good though

Test conducted on 11 March 2013 18:33
Download Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 294 kbps (36.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 173 ms
 
b1scu1t said:
Also getting insane disconnects this last week... :( Sometimes it disconnects and doesn't reconnect for like 10 minutes... I can restart the router, and do whatever a want, it just doesn't want to connect. I just now just leave it and eventually noticed the internet is working again.

The speeds for me has also been all over the place lately. Sometimes it goes great, but all of a sudden it disconnects, minutes later it reconnects and then I can't even open the speedtest.net website. Everything just times out. then I need to restart the router again and then it's better.

One thing i've also noticed is, for a while now, I can't watch two youtube videos right after each other.
I'll watch one, and it streams fine, when I play the next one, judging from the progress bar, it seems to load at about 80kB/s. I need to refresh the page, and only then it loads fine again.

The thing I don't understand is, our 1mbps Openweb uncapped at work streams 480p video just fine but the 4mbps Afrihost at home often struggles. Last year I was able to stream 720p without any buffering, video after video.
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Noticed this aswell since DBN IPC went live, wasn't here to post but very annoying :p.
 
grim said:
Bump

Anyone been able to test?
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Doesn't work. No internet bliss with AH. :cry:


EDIT: Whoohoo, my 400st post in 5 years on MYBB. Still feeling like a total n00b and also wondering how little was achieved for South Africa's internet infrastructure in that long time. It is a crying shame.
 
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Seems like there is an issue on WACS. We're still investigating with them but we've diverted traffic onto EASSy to ensure we don't get latency and packet loss. Throughput might be affected, but pings should be stable.

This only affects international traffic, local traffic should be as normal.
 
AfriMan said:
Seems like there is an issue on WACS. We're still investigating with them but we've diverted traffic onto EASSy to ensure we don't get latency and packet loss. Throughput might be affected, but pings should be stable.

This only affects international traffic, local traffic should be as normal.
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WACS or EASSY? Your website states cable break on EASSY

Also can you get the guys to look into why this url isn't working on your network:
http://www.farefinder.virgintrains....=BHM&dest=EUS&out=20130315&monthview=outbound
 
HermanTheGerman said:
EDIT: Whoohoo, my 400st post in 5 years on MYBB. Still feeling like a total n00b and also wondering how little was achieved for South Africa's internet infrastructure in that long time. It is a crying shame.
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I think you'll find that, if you take a minute to think about it, isn't really a fair estimation. We've come a long way - it's just that we still have even further to go.
 
HapticSimian said:
I think you'll find that, if you take a minute to think about it, isn't really a fair estimation. We've come a long way - it's just that we still have even further to go.
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I agree, although in the last couple of months it does feel like we've taken a couple of steps back. In Cape Town at least. I don't feel that I get the same value that I got 6 months ago any more. Internet issues were normally a rare occurrence. Now it feels like a weekly thing... sometimes more than once a week.
 
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