Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Just to test, 3.75 mbps on a 10 mbps line with 20 threads. Throttled from almost full speed to 3.6 mbps in 5 seconds.

For me that means internally I have to throttle any downloads down to ~2 mbps to allow for other services to remain usable for the case that someone were to download.
 
The first month, i had amazing speeds was getting full line speeds, now im getting half the line speed (if im lucky). Ive been with afrihost since 2009, any assistance would be appreciate.


Lucky you!

I had my Afrihost account for a month before I was actually able to use it due to Afrihost not being able to figure out how to get the ADSL line itself to work, which means that Afrihost had recorded a month of me downloading exactly 0 bytes, yet I have never, never, never, even my very first download, been able to get anything near my line speed.

I am currently getting between 10 and 20 kB/s on a download. That's at 19:45 currently. I know that when I go to bed, I might be lucky to get about 60kB/s while I'm sleeping. The highest speed I've ever seen is 80kB/s, and that was just a fluke basically. I have a 1Mbps uncapped account with Afrihost.
 
I upgraded today to the 4MB but there's still buffering on youtube(360p), I've only seen a 10kb improvement from my previous 384 line.
I'll wait a few days as I was instructed by telkom and try an mweb trial account meanwhile just to see if my problem is the same accross ISPs.

Other improvement is initial load of a web page, but that's it.
 
Seems better. 4Mbps line. Hold thumbs.

Test Date: Sep 25, 2012 8:13:39 pm
Connection Type: Wifi
Server: Cape Town
Download: 3.35 Mbps
Upload: 0.62 Mbps
Ping: 20 ms
 
Well I'm getting 140KB/s on a 4Mbps line tonight! This slow Internet is really starting to piss me off!

Afriman are we only going to be charged for 2Mbps uncapped this month? This is really pathetic....

Edit... Can't even watch a damn YouTube video without it buffering every 30 seconds. This is a joke
 
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I'm on the 4Mbps unshaped/uncapped business account, and I'm still struggling to get 1Mbps, business hours or not.
 
My 4MB connection absolutely sucks at the moment. Seriously considering moving to maybe Mweb. Sick of this.

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Seriously? WTF am I paying out my nose for????????? I could be on a 1MB uncapped line and be saving myself a bucket load of cash and still have the same connection.
 
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Tracing route to www.afrihost.co.za [196.38.88.139]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 14 ms 196-215-156-1.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.156.
1]
3 261 ms 265 ms 258 ms cas2-blm-1.dial-up.net [196.38.72.193]
4 282 ms 281 ms 270 ms 196.35.115.136
5 263 ms 262 ms 260 ms core2a-ctn-gi0-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.2.6]
6 295 ms 300 ms 307 ms 168.209.100.213
7 295 ms 287 ms 286 ms 168.209.100.206
8 340 ms 335 ms 329 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.218.2
1]
9 333 ms 331 ms 328 ms 196.34.134.105
10 314 ms 318 ms 310 ms gw.aserv.co.za [196.33.227.1]
11 50 ms 49 ms 50 ms www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.139]

Trace complete

Still the same **** from Somerset West as from this morning :( I even did the pm thing and this is local dont even try EU servers that is a joke on its own getting fraakend fed up .I mean my traffic routes CPT then Bloem and back too CTP wtf ???
 
Lol, my speed is fine now but latency has shot through the roof too. Don't mind too much as I'm not a gamer so would rather have speed over ping.

Code:
traceroute to afrihost.co.za (196.38.88.139), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.279 ms  0.643 ms  0.639 ms
 2  196-210-170-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za (196.210.170.129)  9.300 ms  12.201 ms  14.668 ms
 3  cdsl1-ctn-vl2173.ip.isnet.net (196.38.72.113)  385.287 ms  387.176 ms  390.600 ms
 4  196.35.115.128 (196.35.115.128)  392.556 ms  395.495 ms  398.206 ms
 5  core2a-ctn-gi0-2.ip.isnet.net (168.209.6.6)  401.645 ms  405.569 ms  406.526 ms
 6  168.209.100.213 (168.209.100.213)  429.955 ms  398.565 ms  413.344 ms
 7  168.209.100.206 (168.209.100.206)  416.693 ms  418.413 ms core2a-bry-ge1-1-0.isnet.net (168.209.100.242)  421.818 ms
 8  csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-1.ip.isnet.net (168.209.217.21)  422.786 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-2.ip.isnet.net (168.209.218.21)  425.240 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-1.ip.isnet.net (168.209.217.21)  427.191 ms
 9  196.34.134.105 (196.34.134.105)  430.622 ms  433.078 ms  435.298 ms
10  gw.aserv.co.za (196.33.227.1)  442.652 ms  443.113 ms  456.692 ms
11  www.afrihost.com (196.38.88.139)  65.728 ms  68.096 ms  70.504 ms
 
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