Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Lord Nikon6]

Could it be the router? It does support ADSL2+ though...

Your router should adjust to the line sync rate.

 

[jannier]

Could it be the router? It does support ADSL2+ though...

Yes it is ADSL2+ capable

 

[burn]

And say what? My router mode is g.dmt so that means the DSLAM is not upgraded right?

http://www.broadbandstats.co.za/search/phone/

See what results you get here. Not official Telkom but a pretty good indication of your exchange's speed.

 

[Malooga]

And say what? My router mode is g.dmt so that means the DSLAM is not upgraded right?

G.DMT can support speeds of up to 8megs, so if you getting less than 8megs sync speed then its fine

 

[Malooga]

A Telkom DuoPlus 300w

I also have this modem router. It does support G.992.5 (ADSL2+)......
If its not changing from g.dmt, you can manually set it to ADSL_2plus. Go to 'Advance' tab, then 'WAN' and then 'ADSL Modulation', it will then give the option to manually select the modulation type.

 

[saa044]

Get yourself a billion modem (or something similer)

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_i...8121106__1_Billion_5200SRD__4a944c30cbd06.jpg

and a RouterBoard 951 5 LAN, 2,4GHz AP

http://www.scoopdistribution.co.za/product_info.php?cPath=100_119&products_id=1330

That combination is awesome. Can set up q trees for instance http priority 1, nzb priority 2 etc, so you can download at full speed, but as soon as wify opens up youtube, netflix or facebook then http gets 90% of the traffic.

 

[jUgg3rnAutZA]

http://www.broadbandstats.co.za/search/phone/

See what results you get here. Not official Telkom but a pretty good indication of your exchange's speed.

Thanks burn, that's a very cool site. It says my exchange is enabled for 10 Mbps, but the max ADSL rate is 4096. I am connected to the Rondebosch WRBS exchange

 

[Slartibartfast]

How are you able to stream netflix?

I have an Unblock US account for 5usd per month and a normal netfix account for 8usd per month

 

[jUgg3rnAutZA]

I also have this modem router. It does support G.992.5 (ADSL2+)......
If its not changing from g.dmt, you can manually set it to ADSL_2plus. Go to 'Advance' tab, then 'WAN' and then 'ADSL Modulation', it will then give the option to manually select the modulation type.

Thans Malooga. Tried forcing to ADSL2+, but it just jumps back to g.dmt. I'm assuming this is because of the reason mentioned in my previous post

 

[Compton_effect]

I'm now getting curious here. I know Seacom is still giving issues, but what performance should I be getting? I have a 2mb uncapped with Afrihost and a Telkom Faster account.
I can stream Netflix and Crackle without issues (Unotelly account). But BBC iPlayer and Hulu is dead slow and has a lot of buffering.
I'll post a speed test later on.

 

[Sinbad]

Thans Malooga. Tried forcing to ADSL2+, but it just jumps back to g.dmt. I'm assuming this is because of the reason mentioned in my previous post

If your exchange supports 10mb, then call Telkom and ask them to upgrade you.

 

[buyeye]

My ping has gone up again, now to 12 (I have my own TS server, and set it to show my ping). When I initially got the account, the ping was good at sub 10ms on speedtest.net as well as on the TS server. I know that it is not a huge deal, but I like to see pings come down, not go up!

The speedtests initially showed 9ms to newlands server, and 10 to mweb, telkom etc in the cape, now to Newlands they are showing 15ms.

Anyone having similar ping increase? it could be my exchange...

Must say good job afriman for giving us first world problems, now where is my yatch?

 

[AfriMan]

Hey Everyone.

So Ive been running a ping monitor for a few days now and if you look at the graphs below, you can see that pings skyrocket at 12 pm everynight? Afriman, what happens at that time?

http://i.snag.gy/8SNOg.jpg


And also, whats happening today?

http://i.snag.gy/DYwtL.jpg


UK:

Local (SA)

At 12 we update our policies between our Radius servers and management servers that look at shaping, etc. It's really not a big event data wise though, so it should really not effect performance in any meaningful way.

 

[AfriMan]

Must say good job afriman for giving us first world problems, now where is my yatch?

Hot girls have problems too

 

[Afrigirl]

I'm now getting curious here. I know Seacom is still giving issues, but what performance should I be getting? I have a 2mb uncapped with Afrihost and a Telkom Faster account.
I can stream Netflix and Crackle without issues (Unotelly account). But BBC iPlayer and Hulu is dead slow and has a lot of buffering.
I'll post a speed test later on.

Afrihost doesn't use Seacom as a primary undersea cable, so whatever issues Seacom is having, they won't affect your Afrihost account. We'll await your speed tests and trace route posts and see where the problem lies.

 

[saffakanera]

So when am I not going to get 260ms to the UK? Has the issue been sorted?

 

[AfriMan]

So when am I not going to get 260ms to the UK? Has the issue been sorted?

We're very hopeful that EASSy will be fully restored soon. As in completely repaired and back to optimal performance. We think once this happens we should see a reduction latencies for clients being routed on that path.

 

[saffakanera]

We're very hopeful that EASSy will be fully restored soon. As in completely repaired and back to optimal performance. We think once this happens we should see a reduction latencies for clients being routed on that path.

So when restored, will my Afrigamer account give lower latency than my Telkominternet one?

 

[jUgg3rnAutZA]

If your exchange supports 10mb, then call Telkom and ask them to upgrade you.

I doubt they will do this on the request of one customer?

 

[Compton_effect]

Afrihost doesn't use Seacom as a primary undersea cable, so whatever issues Seacom is having, they won't affect your Afrihost account. We'll await your speed tests and trace route posts and see where the problem lies.

Its a monday - I meant EASSy. Will do as soon as I'm home, thanks Afrigirl.