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I have Super Downloads speed on my Afrihost uncapped (Parow)
Your Latest Results
Test conducted on 16 Augustus 2012 11:27:19 PM
Download Speed: 7962 kbps (995.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 845 kbps (105.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 44 ms
Your Latest Results
Test conducted on 16 Augustus 2012 11:27:19 PM
Download Speed: 7962 kbps (995.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 845 kbps (105.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 44 ms
Hi All
Im currently on the afrihost 10mb uncapped bundel and was considering the business 6 mbps unshaped account.
My Questions are
1) Can I unbundel my ADSL line and data account and cancel the data account and setup my business account in Clientzone ? And if yes how are there additional costs ?
2) I'm a home user so most of my use will be during the afternoon and weekend, will I experience worse internet than the shaped accounts ?
3) What is the threshold ? I would expect more than the 450 GB threshold on the 10mb shaped account?
4) The static IP has been in a coming soon state for ages now, howcome is this and when will they be available, (I don't need 5 static IPs but one will be a fantastic bonus) ?
5) Are these accounts more resistant to cable breaks and failures ?
6) Are these accounts less contended than the shaped ones
7) And finally is the quality really better than the shaped accounts ?
Thanks All
Im currently on the afrihost 10mb uncapped bundel and was considering the business 6 mbps unshaped account.
My Questions are
1) Can I unbundel my ADSL line and data account and cancel the data account and setup my business account in Clientzone ? And if yes how are there additional costs ?
2) I'm a home user so most of my use will be during the afternoon and weekend, will I experience worse internet than the shaped accounts ?
3) What is the threshold ? I would expect more than the 450 GB threshold on the 10mb shaped account?
4) The static IP has been in a coming soon state for ages now, howcome is this and when will they be available, (I don't need 5 static IPs but one will be a fantastic bonus) ?
5) Are these accounts more resistant to cable breaks and failures ?
6) Are these accounts less contended than the shaped ones
7) And finally is the quality really better than the shaped accounts ?
Thanks All
Hi All
Im currently on the afrihost 10mb uncapped bundel and was considering the business 6 mbps unshaped account.
My Questions are
1) Can I unbundel my ADSL line and data account and cancel the data account and setup my business account in Clientzone ? And if yes how are there additional costs ?
2) I'm a home user so most of my use will be during the afternoon and weekend, will I experience worse internet than the shaped accounts ?
3) What is the threshold ? I would expect more than the 450 GB threshold on the 10mb shaped account?
4) The static IP has been in a coming soon state for ages now, howcome is this and when will they be available, (I don't need 5 static IPs but one will be a fantastic bonus) ?
5) Are these accounts more resistant to cable breaks and failures ?
6) Are these accounts less contended than the shaped ones
7) And finally is the quality really better than the shaped accounts ?
Thanks All
1) You can unbundle at any time and upgrade your account to the new package.
2) The Business account is unshaped so there should be less contention and slightly faster speeds (it should achieve the same speeds as an unshaped capped account)
3) There is a 7 day rolling window threshold, but speeds will always be unshaped during office hours, and only affected after hours
4) At this stage we do not have an ETA for Static IP's but this is looking very likely once we've moved networks.
5) I don't think any ISP account can overcome cable breaks or failures. Even with redundancies, this results in higher contention across all ADSL products. However, we will have more redundancies in place n the new network, so it will be to a much lesser extent.
6) Yes, my understanding is that there is less contention for Business - in that it gets highest priority as with a Capped product.
7) That is difficult to say, we do very little shaping on the normal Uncapped account, so generally we'd like to think speeds are comparable when contention is low. But you should get better performance shaped traffic like torrents, nntp and p2p.
Whew! Now I need a coffee
TheRedBar0n
Senior Member
Seems most issues are with 4 and 10Mb lines, my 1Mb uncapped bundle is running as expected, no issues so far. Anyone else have problems with 1Mb uncapped bundle?
1) You can unbundle at any time and upgrade your account to the new package.
2) The Business account is unshaped so there should be less contention and slightly faster speeds (it should achieve the same speeds as an unshaped capped account)
3) There is a 7 day rolling window threshold, but speeds will always be unshaped during office hours, and only affected after hours
4) At this stage we do not have an ETA for Static IP's but this is looking very likely once we've moved networks.
5) I don't think any ISP account can overcome cable breaks or failures. Even with redundancies, this results in higher contention across all ADSL products. However, we will have more redundancies in place n the new network, so it will be to a much lesser extent.
6) Yes, my understanding is that there is less contention for Business - in that it gets highest priority as with a Capped product.
7) That is difficult to say, we do very little shaping on the normal Uncapped account, so generally we'd like to think speeds are comparable when contention is low. But you should get better performance shaped traffic like torrents, nntp and p2p.
Whew! Now I need a coffee
Thanks Afriman
How's everyones speeds today in CT?
Had my line speed capped back to 4095/507 instead of it floating between 4500 and 7000 to see whether that would help my speed issues. So far so good but I'm wondering if it's not just a good day for IS.. Unfortunately I didn't have any non IS accounts to test on when the speeds were bad.
Had my line speed capped back to 4095/507 instead of it floating between 4500 and 7000 to see whether that would help my speed issues. So far so good but I'm wondering if it's not just a good day for IS.. Unfortunately I didn't have any non IS accounts to test on when the speeds were bad.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Performing well within parameters. No issues so far.
We're hoping the changes we've made will carry on through the weekend and stabilise speeds to an acceptable level.
If I ever want to kill my speeds, I should just post that all is well in this thread
Currently barely cracking 300k/sec on NNTP on a 10mb account. But I've come to expect that from IS at this time of day. If it returns to full speed after hours as usual I suppose I can live with that.
Currently barely cracking 300k/sec on NNTP on a 10mb account. But I've come to expect that from IS at this time of day. If it returns to full speed after hours as usual I suppose I can live with that.
Yeah.. roundabout 2pm to just before 6pm every week day, it seems. There's no chance they couldn't have found the congested link by now, so I guess it's been categorised as "good enough".
Last night... 999 latency again.
"Good enough" is not what we aim for, we're really pushing every angle to get it back to "Awesome". Right now we're limited to the current bandwidth limits until the network issues and upgrades get sorted out, and we are assured by IS that this will be done very soon.
We are also learning from this, and planning all sorts of redundancies so that we cater for this type of scenario when we move over to MTN.
We are also learning from this, and planning all sorts of redundancies so that we cater for this type of scenario when we move over to MTN.
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