Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Heksmeester]

What are you streaming Netflix through, and have you watched more than 30 seconds of anything? Netflix adjusts video quality dynamically, and it always starts out looking crap.

Streaming through my Xbox360. Watched a whole episode of Burn Notice just now and it remained at terrible quality throughout the entire show. Occasionally, it would improve a little bit, only to go back to an ugly, blurry picture. :/

 

[Lord Nikon6]

Streaming through my Xbox360. Watched a whole episode of Burn Notice just now and it remained at terrible quality throughout the entire show. Occasionally, it would improve a little bit, only to go back to an ugly, blurry picture. :/

UK or US?

 

[HapticSimian]

Streaming through my Xbox360. Watched a whole episode of Burn Notice just now and it remained at terrible quality throughout the entire show. Occasionally, it would improve a little bit, only to go back to an ugly, blurry picture. :/

That's odd. We haven't watched anything tonight (yet), but I've got video quality set to the middle option on netflix.com & it usually settles on better-than-DSTv-SD quality within 40 seconds or so through our WDTV Live media player. I don't feel the need to watch American Dad in HD.

 

[Heksmeester]

UK or US?

Xbox is set to UK. I did stream Arrested Development just now with SD quality, and then at around 15 minutes in, it actually made the switch to HD. Could it be that some shows just stream slower than others?

 

[Bar_Rat]

Getting sub 200ms latency to UK:wtf:

EDIT: Now over 300ms

 

[Heksmeester]

Getting sub 200ms latency to UK:wtf:

EDIT: Now over 300ms

180ms over here. Latency seems fine.

 

[Bar_Rat]

180ms over here. Latency seems fine.

I assume you not from the east coast then.

 

[Bar_Rat]

Speed test shows problems.

 

[HapticSimian]

Xbox is set to UK. I did stream Arrested Development just now with SD quality, and then at around 15 minutes in, it actually made the switch to HD. Could it be that some shows just stream slower than others?

Yeah, not just you tonight. Netflix is up to ****, and hulu won't play without buffering on 1mb/s streams... on a 10mb line. Something ain't right...

 

[jannier]

Speed test shows problems.

Not all servers give good results, some are on real crappy networks.

Do a test to OOKLA server in Amsterdam - The Netherlands

 

[Bar_Rat]

Not all servers give good results, some are on real crappy networks.

Do a test to OOKLA server in Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Latency looks great but its so random at the moment. Speeds are terribad though.

 

[Lord Nikon6]

yeah currently getting about 350 KBps on a 10 mbps line....dodgey

 

[Vrikkidel]

I'm new to this topic but I'm taking it's for giving feedback on whatever Afrihost service you are running.

I'm running a 2mb/s Uncapped Afrihost line and here are some results:

 

[waterwiel]

International gaming was excellent yesterday, today it's gone to hell again...

 

[Slartibartfast]

So i signed up with afrihost with an existing telkom 2mbps line and it was soooo good. (netflix and youtube streaming on multiple devices at the same time with an awesome picture and no buffering)

i was so impressed that i decided to transfer my line to afrihost and upgrade it to a 4mbps line and data bundle.... and this is where it seems to have gone pear shaped... The afrihost 4mbps line is craaaaaap, it syncs at about 3.3Mbps, i get about 1.9Mbps on speedtest (about the same i got on my 2Mbps line) youtube buffers all the time and netflix plays on the lowest quality and still buffers.

Afrihost say they are working on it but im staring to get the feeling that they are out of ides....

Update on this: Word from afrihost is that a technician was assigned to this but if anything its getting worse. now my line is syncing even slower at 2Mbps, to add insult to injury, im being shaped to 50% so i get to use less than a quarter of the line and data im paying for. Im really starting to regret my move to afrihost....

 

[Heksmeester]

Yeah, not just you tonight. Netflix is up to ****, and hulu won't play without buffering on 1mb/s streams... on a 10mb line. Something ain't right...

At least that's a little comforting. Couldn't even use it at all just now with the constant buffering. YouTube is also abysmal.

 

[pgs]

What's going on? nntp 15 KB/s on a 2Mb/s line/package.

 

[Bar_Rat]

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.66] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.66: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.66: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.66: bytes=32 time=197ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.66: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.66:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 196ms, Maximum = 197ms, Average = 196ms

Everything seems great. Speeds and pings are very good this morning.

 

[Nirv]

My ping and packet loss went haywire (400-1000 on local and international servers regardless, up to 20% loss on the MWEB Teamspeak server (!!!)) from Monday evening and gaming was impossible last night, but things seem to be back to normal this morning. I'm going to monitor it periodically today (Stellenbosch, 1meg line uncapped).

Test conducted on 4/17/2013 8:42:15 AM (LOCAL)

Download Speed: 1001 kbps (125.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 427 kbps (53.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 65 ms

 

[AfriMan]

After a fair bit of research, I finally got my NetFlix up and running using UnoTelly. Awesome little service btw!

http://www.unotelly.com

All this aside, @Afriman - The video quality on Netflix is pretty appalling on my 4Mb Uncapped currently. Any idea why this might be? Youtube, etc all stream without issue.

If other video services are streaming well, it's difficult to say without investigating fully. I've chatted to a few guys around the office, there did seem to be a few hiccups over the weekend. But as far as I know international service should be pretty normal, aside from the EASSy story.