Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Grubscrew]

What's the notice period for cancellation normally?

if you cancel before the 25th your subscription will end on the last day of the month and you won't be billed again.

 

[Space_Chief]

if you cancel before the 25th your subscription will end on the last day of the month and you won't be billed again.

That's very cool of them. So you in effect give them a 5-6 day notice period.

 

[Grubscrew]

Replies to my statement are different

http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/adsl_network/?src=nav

Afrihost uses seacom part of their redundancy plan, main data back haul are via EASSY and WACS.

 

[PsyWulf]

Replies to my statement are different

Here's a reply to confirm i'm unaffected

 

[Spamhater]

Just to confirm i'm unaffected , my internet speed in flying this afternoon

 

[eltherza]

Seems like afrihost just can't provide good internet for the weekends?

4Mb line
Download Speed: 58 kbps (7.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 115 kbps (14.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 179 ms

 

[Grubscrew]

Seems like afrihost just can't provide good internet for the weekends?

4Mb line
Download Speed: 58 kbps (7.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 115 kbps (14.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 179 ms

Mine is looking great

1mb uncapped

Download Speed: 870 kbps (108.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 422 kbps (52.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 41 ms

 

[Spamhater]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2596520315.png

1Mb line uncapped

not bad ping at all

 

[Space_Chief]

4Mbit uncapped - about 106KB/sec on http

 

[gregmcc]

torrents started crawling at 5:30. very slow now. 40Kbps instead of 4Mbps

 

[zs6cey]

Not impressed with the 4 Mbps uncapped:

Test conducted on 3/24/2013 8:02:25 PM

Download Speed: 865 kbps (108.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 726 kbps (90.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 204 ms

 

[zs6cey]

Not impressed with the 4 Mbps uncapped:

Test conducted on 3/24/2013 8:02:25 PM

Download Speed: 865 kbps (108.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 726 kbps (90.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 204 ms

This was a MBB speed test on international.

 

[gregmcc]

I switch over to FNB and I get 400Kbps!

 

[Sneeky]

torrents started crawling at 5:30. very slow now. 40Kbps instead of 4Mbps

Well I don't download torrents much but currently on my 4mb line I am sitting at 25k, youtube over 360p a nogo.

 

[Supreme Element]

Speeds are bad again my side as well on 10mb line. Ping now 37ms from previous 12ms earlier.

 

[Lino]

Afrihost 4mb business running at 0.30mb

 

[gregmcc]

And things were running so nicely yesterday.

 

[SpleenPoker]

What is the R397 uncapped 4mb non business package like normally? For gaming mostly wow and downloading 100gb or so a month?

 

[MrGray]

So what does "Shaping Policy: 5% Download Speed" mean?

Having had the first full week of decent Internet with Afrihost since last October, it all slowed to a halt this afternoon presumably because my client zone says "Shaping Policy: 5% Download Speed". And this is on far less bandwidth usage than the level at which we were usually more or less throttled at last year when Afrihost still functioned properly.

As far as I am concerned, if 5% of download speed means 5% of the 4mbps line speed (i.e. ~25KB/s), then this is actually a CAP for all intents and purposes, so can we know at what level we're being capped and would Afrihost kindly advertise the accounts as such - i.e. in my case 4mbps "uncapped" actually means 90GB capped? The "100% Realtime Speed" seems to apply to web browsing and absolutely nothing else, including the office VPN and Apple TV.

 

[MrGray]

Speeds are bad again my side as well on 10mb line. Ping now 37ms from previous 12ms earlier.

Have you checked in the client zone to see if you're [-]capped[/-] shaped?