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Bar_Rat said:
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Any news on when latencies will be back to useable for gaming on the EU realms?
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Seems like there is a delay on getting EASSy fully repaired. They're having to dig up the cable that's buried under meters of earth that's already underwater. They're shipping out some special equipment to sort this out. That was the info I got a few days ago, so I'm hopeful this is all well underway by now.

Will post info as soon as they give an official ETR :(
 
AfriMan said:
Seems like there is a delay on getting EASSy fully repaired. They're having to dig up the cable that's buried under meters of earth that's already underwater. They're shipping out some special equipment to sort this out. That was the info I got a few days ago, so I'm hopeful this is all well underway by now.

Will post info as soon as they give an official ETR :(
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Thanks. It sucks that they(EASSy) don't give decent feedback to their clients.
 
Being too lazy to search through news feeds, what exactly happened to the cable to damage it?
 
Bufamotis said:
Being too lazy to search through news feeds, what exactly happened to the cable to damage it?
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As far as we know, a ship dragging it's anchor of the coast of Egypt damaged Seacom and EASSy, as well as some other cables that terminate in East Africa. There was another story in the media about diver's cutting undersea cables, but officially we have not been told that there is any link.
 
Just moved to Afrihost today after being really impressed with the free 1GB account, but now that I`m on the 4Mbps Uncapped account Steam and Origin downloads are crawling and even local browsing is sometimes slow. The only thing that worked fine was torrents. Speedtests give me 0.70Mbps :erm:
 
EtTA said:
Just moved to Afrihost today after being really impressed with the free 1GB account, but now that I`m on the 4Mbps Uncapped account Steam and Origin downloads are crawling and even local browsing is sometimes slow. The only thing that worked fine was torrents. Speedtests give me 0.70Mbps :erm:
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I had to change my server in steam to a non-mweb one when i changed to AH. Try that maybe. As for the other things im not sure.
 
ThumperZA said:
I had a Mweb 2mbps uncapped account and most days I couldnt stream 720p now that im with Afrihost i've never had a single problem so far SO AWESOME <3
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I take it you have a 2mbps account with Afrihost?
 
AfriMan said:
As far as we know, a ship dragging it's anchor of the coast of Egypt damaged Seacom and EASSy, as well as some other cables that terminate in East Africa. There was another story in the media about diver's cutting undersea cables, but officially we have not been told that there is any link.
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I also heard some guys got caught cutting the cable in Egypt....
 
Google Play Store download speeds are horrific on Afrihost (around 20-50KB/s after a few seconds of 100-150KB/s - should be at least a stable 250KB/s), which is my only complaint. Is there anything that can be done to sort it out? I got excellent download speeds at varsity today so it can't be Google.
 
HapticSimian said:
Could you post a tracert to, say, afrihost.com?
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Tracing route to afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms login.router [10.0.0.2]
2 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms 105-236-6-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.6.
1]
3 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms ipc-send-tb-3a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.53.214]
4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
5 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
6 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms ct-cr-2.za--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.134]

7 55 ms 53 ms 57 ms pb-ad-1.za--pb-sla-1-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.128]

8 38 ms 60 ms 55 ms 196.44.31.97
9 37 ms 34 ms 33 ms 196.31.220.10
10 54 ms 57 ms 53 ms tengigabitethernet1-1.gw20.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.n
et [196.31.220.23]
11 53 ms 54 ms * tengigabitethernet5-1.hr15.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.n
et [196.31.63.198]
12 34 ms 35 ms 38 ms afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]

Trace complete.



Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.251.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms login.router [10.0.0.2]
2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 105-236-6-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.6.
1]
3 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]

4 44 ms 9 ms 9 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.18
4.28]
5 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 182 ms 190 ms 154 ms am-cr-2.nl--am-cr-nl-b.mtnns.net [196.44.31.171]

7 176 ms 175 ms 215 ms ls-pr-1.uk--ls-cr-1.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.83
]
8 154 ms 158 ms 173 ms bbc-linx.pr01.thdow.bbc.co.uk [195.66.224.103]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 159 ms 154 ms 160 ms ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
12 158 ms 154 ms 154 ms 132.185.255.140
13 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms bbc.co.uk [212.58.251.195]

Trace complete.
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Clearly nothing wrong...
 
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