Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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It seems to have improved a bit now. I'm able to get up to 1Mbps (on a 2Mbps line) with a handful of concurrent downloads.
 
It's been like that for a lot of people since around Monday.
1/4 line speed during office hours. 1/2 line speed until about 19:00 - 20:00.
Around 3/4 line speed from 20:00 - 23:00. Then full speed.
I've tried with Afrihost IS, Afrihost MTN and Telkom Guest account. All 3 do exactly the same.
I suggest you log a call with telkom, cause it isn't ISP problem most likely.
My fault was logged with telkom today. I'll give feedback here as soon as they say anything.
 
It's been like that for a lot of people since around Monday.
1/4 line speed during office hours. 1/2 line speed until about 19:00 - 20:00.
Around 3/4 line speed from 20:00 - 23:00. Then full speed.

That's more than I've had. Up until yesterday when I got the MTN test account, I've _never_ been able to get more than 6-700kbps on my (then) 1Mbps and now 2Mbps line. Afriman gave me a capped test account which maxed out my line just fine. The MTN test account has also been maxing out my line just fine until about 2 hours ago.

I've tried with Afrihost IS, Afrihost MTN and Telkom Guest account. All 3 do exactly the same.
I suggest you log a call with telkom, cause it isn't ISP problem most likely.
My fault was logged with telkom today. I'll give feedback here as soon as they say anything.

Well, the problems I've had previously have 100% surely been with Afrihost/IS as they went away when I tried an Afrihost capped or MTN test account.
 
It's been like that for a lot of people since around Monday.
1/4 line speed during office hours. 1/2 line speed until about 19:00 - 20:00.
Around 3/4 line speed from 20:00 - 23:00. Then full speed.
I've tried with Afrihost IS, Afrihost MTN and Telkom Guest account. All 3 do exactly the same.
I suggest you log a call with telkom, cause it isn't ISP problem most likely.
My fault was logged with telkom today. I'll give feedback here as soon as they say anything.

Our ADSL has been crawling since late Sunday after the local exchange went down (phone lines, and cellphones were dead for a couple of hours). Since then the connection is almost unusable during the day. Websites time out and there's lots of packet loss. This is with an Axxess acount though. Still not sure if it's a Telkom or ISP fault. All I know is something is really wrong somewhere.
 
indeed.. if CPT users are going to route via JHB then it'll be a total waste of time.

PE also seems to be routing through JHB instead of Cape Town - line speed very erratic and slow, latency all over the place.
And thats after 6 in the evening...
 
My account has also gone bonkers, the MTN test account's speeds are very erratic, and I can't connect to Steam for some reason.
My normal uncapped account can, however connect to Steam, but it runs at half speed.
 
Crisis alert - can't connect to Steam! (On MTN)

Speedtest looks glorious but Steam will not connect (on two different PC's)

EDIT: Now I've seen Pitbull's post I feel better somehow.
EDIT 2: Speedtest form International and Local over 3mb.
 
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I had nonperformance as well. Traceroute looked fine but tcp packets did not come back down the line.
Rebooted router and it worked again
 
Also, it seems I cannot connect through Apple Update through the Apple Store for my Mac - it times out.... - on MTN
Then I have this funny issue where, through speedtest, the test runs and the "download" speed shows about 3.6mb/s and the downloading then sorta gets stuck in the middle of the test...... and the test does not complete it gets stuck at 2.47mb/s!
 
Our guys are busy tinkering with the priority to give maximum blend of browsing, Voip and downloads (torrent or nntp). There may be a few hiccups while they change things around, but we need you guys to keep giving us feedback on what you're experiencing.

Please send me a PM and please also put your username in the message, that way I can forward it to our team of developers and engineers and they can check from their end.

Your help is truly appreciated :)
 
Welcome Back AfriMan!

youve been very quiet today!

You won't believe the weird feedback to Gian's announcement (some people honestly live on another planet methinks), but also so much PR to do now that we've won the ISP of the Year thing - eish, sleep would be nice :)
 
Our guys are busy tinkering with the priority to give maximum blend of browsing, Voip and downloads (torrent or nntp). There may be a few hiccups while they change things around, but we need you guys to keep giving us feedback on what you're experiencing.

Please send me a PM and please also put your username in the message, that way I can forward it to our team of developers and engineers and they can check from their end.

Your help is truly appreciated :)

Speaking about nntp. Will you guys have your own news server?
 
Skype stopped working just now. Logged in but it couldnt make calls. Swapped back to the IS account and it worked. Now the IS account is dead and I'm back on MTN. havent tested Skype though.
 
From Gian's Q&A on the Afrihost website

Will access to IS's News Server be affected and will MTN be putting up it's own News Server?

At this stage we expect that access to IS news server will be affected, and mostly unavailable. We are exploring a news server with MTN, and we'll publish this information as soon as we have a goal in sight. We'll also explore other alternatives should we not be able to setup our own news servers in a reasonable time.
 
You won't believe the weird feedback to Gian's announcement (some people honestly live on another planet methinks), but also so much PR to do now that we've won the ISP of the Year thing - eish, sleep would be nice :)

I know what you mean!

good luck with that.

@blunt:

Tracert to google.cinx.net.za

tracert google.cinx.net.za

Tracing route to google.cinx.net.za [196.223.22.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms BEZEQ [10.0.0.2]
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 105-xxx-x-xxx-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.xxx.x.xxx]
3 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms ipc-recieve-rb-4a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178.89]
4 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.146]
5 37 ms 30 ms 29 ms jh-cr-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.95]
6 33 ms 35 ms 30 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.115]
7 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms rb-cr-2.za--jh-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.43]
8 31 ms 59 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
9 31 ms 30 ms 32 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
10 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
11 43 ms 33 ms 39 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
12 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
13 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
14 31 ms 30 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
15 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
16 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
17 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
18 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
19 32 ms 32 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
20 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
21 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
22 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
23 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
24 55 ms 75 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
25 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
26 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
27 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
28 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]
29 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms xp-dca-1.za--xp-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
30 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.154]

Trace complete.
 
Our guys are busy tinkering with the priority to give maximum blend of browsing, Voip and downloads (torrent or nntp). There may be a few hiccups while they change things around, but we need you guys to keep giving us feedback on what you're experiencing.

Please send me a PM and please also put your username in the message, that way I can forward it to our team of developers and engineers and they can check from their end.

Your help is truly appreciated :)

Hope all the tinkering is stable on Tuesday. :-)
 
Spyk3r - you seem to be very fortunate :-(
This is my TraceRoute this morning...

traceroute to google.cinx.net.za (196.223.22.41), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.579 ms 0.315 ms 0.301 ms
2 105-236-8-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za (105.236.8.129) 6.698 ms 6.157 ms 6.123 ms
3 ipc-recieve-rb-4a.za.mtnbusiness.net (41.181.178.89) 844.481 ms 843.837 ms 155.775 ms
4 rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.120) 873.794 ms
rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.146) 862.508 ms 961.205 ms
5 jh-cr-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.95) 1016.746 ms 1009.145 ms 912.194 ms
6 qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net (41.181.165.115) 977.378 ms 67.588 ms 810.767 ms
7 rb-cr-1.za--jh-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.94) 140.116 ms
rb-cr-2.za--jh-cr-1.za.mtnns.net (196.44.0.43) 53.062 ms 590.818 ms
8 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.035 ms 47.939 ms 52.581 ms
9 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 819.421 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 46.774 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 149.363 ms
10 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 45.725 ms 50.923 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.291 ms
11 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 85.249 ms 832.369 ms 159.185 ms
12 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.238 ms 51.226 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.601 ms
13 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 794.252 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 98.012 ms 844.675 ms
14 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 57.708 ms 51.377 ms 53.134 ms
15 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 850.459 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 913.718 ms 232.058 ms
16 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.081 ms 46.290 ms 46.016 ms
17 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 791.573 ms 862.833 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 983.201 ms
18 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.769 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.292 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 53.344 ms
19 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 867.047 ms 989.516 ms 1009.185 ms
20 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.472 ms 51.384 ms 52.167 ms
21 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 854.833 ms 1009.705 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 995.062 ms
22 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.463 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.301 ms 47.657 ms
23 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 875.764 ms 967.346 ms 1009.150 ms
24 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.945 ms 47.354 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.895 ms
25 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 886.265 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 943.623 ms 194.140 ms
26 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.305 ms 57.806 ms 51.615 ms
27 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 801.873 ms 814.508 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 197.085 ms
28 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 49.920 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.664 ms 51.386 ms
29 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 780.734 ms 57.918 ms 47.971 ms
30 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.997 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.474 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.907 ms
31 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 743.398 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 57.591 ms 827.940 ms
32 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.510 ms 48.019 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 53.070 ms
33 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 67.458 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 870.396 ms 85.979 ms
34 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.255 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.088 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.892 ms
35 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 818.385 ms 825.794 ms 194.325 ms
36 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.785 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.943 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.563 ms
37 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 854.815 ms 832.010 ms 169.525 ms
38 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.279 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 89.061 ms 52.335 ms
39 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 778.703 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 872.867 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 967.713 ms
40 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 53.161 ms 52.025 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.097 ms
41 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 894.307 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 956.553 ms 971.784 ms
42 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.774 ms 52.137 ms 53.081 ms
43 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 896.895 ms 984.884 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 967.751 ms
44 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.112 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.172 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.212 ms
45 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 908.370 ms 947.081 ms 986.305 ms
46 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.938 ms 48.100 ms 47.289 ms
47 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 966.606 ms 965.137 ms 951.946 ms
48 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 51.661 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.231 ms 46.689 ms
49 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 853.518 ms 105.193 ms 106.151 ms
50 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.578 ms 65.630 ms 46.489 ms
51 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 714.532 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 104.207 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 860.125 ms
52 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 73.318 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.208 ms 53.269 ms
53 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 825.283 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 107.119 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 841.840 ms
54 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.517 ms 53.199 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 48.114 ms
55 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 863.490 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 91.879 ms 854.219 ms
56 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.600 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.921 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.242 ms
57 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 847.081 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 122.442 ms 127.751 ms
58 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.667 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.101 ms 51.973 ms
59 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 724.554 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 123.556 ms
rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 852.837 ms
60 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.069 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.645 ms 47.723 ms
61 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 867.044 ms 127.725 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 870.511 ms
62 rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.377 ms 81.656 ms 51.925 ms
63 rb-dca-1.za--rb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.122) 820.109 ms 941.958 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net (196.44.0.155) 115.645 ms
64 xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 46.986 ms
rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.31.123) 52.313 ms
xp-cr-1.za--xp-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net (196.44.0.154) 47.591 ms

On the MTN Trial....
I have no hope :-(
 
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Can't connect to XBOX Live using the MTN trial account either. Xbox moans about an MTU Error... IS works fine, albeit slow.
 
Well I was downloading last night on the MTN trial. The speeds werent great. Then I went back to my standard Afrihost account and the speeds remained above 500kB/s until this morning. So maybe Afrihost moved all their HEAVY Downloaders over to the trial, and now the other pipeline is free to flow :D

Afriman, Do you have an ETA on when gaming and general downloads will be sorted on MTN? Please let me know if you need any tracerts or ping tests done?
 
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