Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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jannier said:
Still looking good on my end

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Test conducted on 15 March 2013 15:47:00

Download Speed: 4901 kbps (612.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 807 kbps (100.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 181 ms
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throughput is much better now but latency still is horrid... was getting used to the 190subs

Test conducted on 15 March 2013 17:06
Download Speed: 3012 kbps (376.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 338 kbps (42.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 235 ms
 
OMG OMG OMG I am able to once again 720p Youtube videos again
 
Oh ffs now starts my Telkom Exchange Congestion! There goes Youtube :cry:
 
my Afrihost performance capped and uncapped, the result that I've circled in red is my first speedtest after switching to uncapped at the end of January this year, that history starts on 14th March 2012 so shows performance over a year

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HapticSimian said:
I can't any more. This afternoon's excitement was short-lived. :(

AfriMan, surely it can't be that difficult to figure out what's different between the two accounts?
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Might, and I stress *MIGHT*, have been my wife streaming goddamn Simon's Cat in HD on her Galaxy S3. :o Will monitor over the weekend...
 
I see HTTP downloading is running between 300KBs and 400KB/s
 
AfriMan said:
At this stage we are still reviewing and as far as I am aware everyone is still unshaped :)
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Keep it unshaped, c'mon. You guys can do it :D. It seems my post went missing but how many votes you need to prove to you guys, 100 / 1000 / 10000 :p. We are all here ...
 
Lino said:
Hi Afriman

Can you confirm the thresholds are still the same? As 160GB a week on a 4mb line is a excellent deal. Once normal Afrihost goes back to shaped I am moving to unshaped
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We published them a while back in this thread - But that sounds about right. Send me a PM and I'll dig those numbers up :)
 
I seem to be getting spikes on Afrihost uncapped. Especially in BF3, its fine stable pings, and then it starts jumping around. Sometimes even spiking into the 400+, with nothing running on the line.

Same issues in Dota2 (local servers now). Works 100% no issues, then it gets jittery :/
 
Latency still bad... no idea what is going wrong, want my sub 190 back

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Test conducted on 15 March 2013 23:49
Download Speed: 1659 kbps (207.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 286 kbps (35.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 371 ms :mad::mad::mad:

Torrents running at 10,4 kB/s :erm::confused:
 
2mb international
Test conducted on 15 March 2013 23:50:14
Download Speed: 1767 kbps (220.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 374 kbps (46.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 48 ms
 
AfriMan said:
As far as I know we're still unshaped, but officially it was only guaranteed for a week (which has passed). As we said in the article, we're reviewing and monitoring so that when we do shape, we can still deliver a great experience.
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This is the first line in the article that appeared in My BB on 8th March "Afrihost has announced that it will ‘un-shape’ all its uncapped ADSL traffic following an upgrade to its ADSL network." Further down in the article it says "Afrihost said that its upgraded network is performing at excellent levels, which gave them the confidence to “completely unshape all uncapped ADSL traffic”.

“The decision to do this is mainly intended to thank and reward our uncapped ADSL clients for their patience and support while the upgrades were in progress,” said Afrihost.

“The second objective is to demonstrate the capabilities of the upgraded network – in terms of delivering exceptional throughput and a low latency ADSL experience.”

Afrihost is confident that their additional capacity will more than handle the additional traffic, and after a week has passed they will re-assess their current shaping policies.

“We will absorb the cost of additional unshaped bandwidth completely,” the company said.

I hope that this spokepersons pants are still on fire!!
 
Raysmith said:
This is the first line in the article that appeared in My BB on 8th March "Afrihost has announced that it will ‘un-shape’ all its uncapped ADSL traffic following an upgrade to its ADSL network." Further down in the article it says "Afrihost said that its upgraded network is performing at excellent levels, which gave them the confidence to “completely unshape all uncapped ADSL traffic”.

“The decision to do this is mainly intended to thank and reward our uncapped ADSL clients for their patience and support while the upgrades were in progress,” said Afrihost.

“The second objective is to demonstrate the capabilities of the upgraded network – in terms of delivering exceptional throughput and a low latency ADSL experience.”

Afrihost is confident that their additional capacity will more than handle the additional traffic, and after a week has passed they will re-assess their current shaping policies.

“We will absorb the cost of additional unshaped bandwidth completely,” the company said.

I hope that this spokepersons pants are still on fire!!
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So this shows excellent latency, so so throughput on a 4MB line, http fine, youtube zero buffer, torrents 10.1kb/s (dismal really)

Test conducted on 16 March 2013 07:34
Download Speed: 2446 kbps (305.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 368 kbps (46 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 165 ms
 
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