Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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LOL at "Turbocharge"... gets me 40kB/s extra so I'm at least breaking the 100kB/s mark on 4mbps line :(
 
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Usage for the month: still 11GB

20:59 Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P (still from midday?)

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Come on Afripeople. :mad: This surely isn't normal? Telkom tested my line today, and I don't have exchange congestion issues tonight.
 
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kripstoe said:
Usage for the month: still 11GB

20:59 Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P (still from midday?)

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Come on Afripeople. :mad: This surely isn't normal? Telkom tested my line today, and I don't have exchange congestion issues tonight.
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Shaping policy has been the same since 1.30 (25%http 6.5 P2P
 
Ridonkulous (CPT):

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At this rate might as well spend the 4mbs uncapped subscription on capped bandwidth. At least you'd be able to d/l > 25GB per month for the same money and without shaping.
 
garp said:
Ridonkulous (CPT):

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At this rate might as well spend the 4mbs uncapped subscription on capped bandwidth. At least you'd be able to d/l > 25GB per month for the same money and without shaping.
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Same as mine. Except I'm on half the data used.
 
m.zakariyya.g said:
Is that p2p?
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Hi Zak
Yes, I've basically torrented 30GB - Cape Town

I don't understand the "no shaping in the first 7 days though". I was under the impression that when the is pressure, everyone gets shaped, regardless of your usage.

Afriman - Can you clarify??

thanks
 
AfriMan said:
We don't shape generally during the first seven days, as there is not sufficient data to classify your usage or project usage based on the info we have. Thereafter, once we are able to establish a usage pattern, your shaping policy will be determined on an ongoing basis. based on the demand on the IPC at any given point in time.

Are we talking torrents here or straight HTTP file downloads?
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Torrents
 
garp said:
Ridonkulous (CPT):

AHCapture.JPG


At this rate might as well spend the 4mbs uncapped subscription on capped bandwidth. At least you'd be able to d/l > 25GB per month for the same money and without shaping.
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Actually, that's not a bad idea.

You can get 10Mbps 100GB/m for R697 if bundled, R200 cheaper than uncapped - where I download on average 98GB per month
 
Zertop said:
Actually, that's not a bad idea.

You can get 10Mbps 100GB/m for R697 if bundled, R200 cheaper than uncapped - where I download on average 98GB per month
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That's not a bad idea if you don't want the flexibility of uncapped.
 
rhodad said:
Hi Zak
Yes, I've basically torrented 30GB - Cape Town

I don't understand the "no shaping in the first 7 days though". I was under the impression that when the is pressure, everyone gets shaped, regardless of your usage.

Afriman - Can you clarify??

thanks
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As I mentioned, we don't have enough data during the first 7 days to correctly classify users. So we have a blanket policy to get decent usage stats so that we can create a profile based on actual data and project data based on usage patterns. As the user reaches a full month, for instance, then we have actual usage patterns so that they can be correctly classified onto various shaping policies, depending on demand in the region at any given time.
 
kripstoe said:
That's not a bad idea if you don't want the flexibility of uncapped.
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A lot of clients are opting for Business Uncapped since we introduced bundles, but capped bundles are also an excellent option.

If you're sticking with Uncapped, don't forget you always have 5 free Turbocharge sessions every month, and VERY cheap topup at R29 (number of sessions depends on your speed profile)
 
kripstoe said:
That's not a bad idea if you don't want the flexibility of uncapped.
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Yup, that came to mind as well. But I'm perfectly happy with my current uncapped product, despite the shaping, as afrihost stays true to its word for me and doesn't shape any browsing or streaming, and my downloads are schedualed at night, so they are unaffected.

Also @Afriman, have you guys (or telkom actually) done any modifications in the Somerset West area as my pings to Cape Town have gone down from +- 40ms to +- 11ms
 
Zertop said:
Yup, that came to mind as well. But I'm perfectly happy with my current uncapped product, despite the shaping, as afrihost stays true to its word for me and doesn't shape any browsing or streaming, and my downloads are schedualed at night, so they are unaffected.

Also @Afriman, have you guys (or telkom actually) done any modifications in the Somerset West area as my pings to Cape Town have gone down from +- 40ms to +- 11ms
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More likely to be on Telkom's side, possibly an upgrade to the exchange in your area to relieve congestion and improve throughput and latency.

From 40 to 11ms is a huge improvement, so that's awesome :)
 
AfriMan said:
A lot of clients are opting for Business Uncapped since we introduced bundles, but capped bundles are also an excellent option.

If you're sticking with Uncapped, don't forget you always have 5 free Turbocharge sessions every month, and VERY cheap topup at R29 (number of sessions depends on your speed profile)
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Afriman/Afriguy/Afrigirl,

Currently my uncapped is sitting on shaping policy: 50% Download/ 50% P2P. So I haven't seen 100% download in almost an entire day, and suspect it won't be changing. While my usage over the last couple of days have been negligible. Like I said in a previous post. Progressively getting shaped more often for longer periods in Cape Town.

Uncapped used to work 100% for me (majority of the time, barring the MTN move and some other occurrences that we never got feedback on). It's annoying that it's degrading to the point of having to choose between spending more money using Turbocharge sessions, or spending more money opting for business uncapped and/or losing the flexibility of my current product.

What is your opinion on the above?
 
/troll_on
That's what you get for having that bloody mountain. It just gets in the way of unshaped speeds.
/troll_off
 
I am shaped to 25% downloads for 16 hours a day.

Edit: The 8 Hours when it's not shaped is from midnight to 8am, When I want to sleep and don't have time to download and then watch HD episodes. Plus shaping sometimes stays even after 12
 
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Shaping Policy: 18.8% Download/ 6.25% P2P

Boom, pure uncapped awesomeness?

I don't really download much and am happy with my realtime and streaming but seriously, this is rather fail. CPT IPC needs an upgrade, stop making excuses.
 
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