Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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I'm up on MTN now...

4mbs speedtest from the MWEB server.

London:



Also the first time I've ever had an IP address in the 105.x.x.x range ;)
 
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pgs said:
Hello Mr Blunt

Mind telling me what you read into this? 2 meg line

traceroute to mail.google.com (173.194.67.17), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 6.936 ms 7.134 ms 7.230 ms
2 196-210-170-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za (196.210.170.129) 10.702 ms 11.010 ms 13.483 ms
3 cdsl1-ctn-vl2173.ip.isnet.net (196.38.72.113) 18.352 ms 21.705 ms 22.928 ms
4 196.35.115.128 (196.35.115.128) 25.137 ms 28.610 ms 31.099 ms
5 core1b-ctn-gi0-1.ip.isnet.net (168.209.2.4) 3872.779 ms 3875.771 ms 3878.412 ms
6 * 168.209.246.3 (168.209.246.3) 164.239 ms 160.449 ms
7 195.66.236.125 (195.66.236.125) 161.030 ms 163.615 ms 166.680 ms
8 209.85.240.63 (209.85.240.63) 168.646 ms 171.481 ms 195.995 ms
9 209.85.253.196 (209.85.253.196) 178.140 ms 180.046 ms 276.667 ms
10 66.249.95.173 (66.249.95.173) 282.312 ms 285.023 ms 72.14.232.134 (72.14.232.134) 5284.579 ms
11 209.85.250.161 (209.85.250.161) 5286.685 ms 209.85.250.163 (209.85.250.163) 5290.192 ms 209.85.250.161 (209.85.250.161) 167.499 ms
12 * * *
13 wi-in-f17.1e100.net (173.194.67.17) 172.434 ms 174.843 ms 177.285 ms
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hey pgs, IS also seems to route gmail internationally... those pings are good for international.

eg: MWEB's route to mail.google.com is local

michael@macserver:~$traceroute mail.google.com
traceroute: Warning: mail.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.233.21
traceroute to googlemail.l.google.com (74.125.233.21), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 dsl-gw (192.168.1.1) 2.306 ms 3.805 ms 1.258 ms
2 41-133-138-1.dsl.mweb.co.za (41.133.138.1) 10.404 ms 8.833 ms 12.699 ms
3 197-84-8-10.cpt.mweb.co.za (197.84.8.10) 27.092 ms 64.005 ms 69.919 ms
4 197-84-2-2.cpt.mweb.co.za (197.84.2.2) 77.804 ms 63.680 ms
197-84-3-2.cpt.mweb.co.za (197.84.3.2) 67.966 ms
5 tengige0-7-0-2.12.cpt-p-2.mweb.co.za (196.28.178.114) 67.450 ms 81.106 ms 73.506 ms
6 tengig0-0-0.cpt-pr-2.mweb.co.za (197.84.4.165) 84.773 ms 32.142 ms 33.974 ms
7 google.cinx.net.za (196.223.22.41) 27.346 ms 28.318 ms 30.535 ms
8 64.233.174.105 (64.233.174.105) 62.102 ms 33.763 ms 30.311 ms
9 cpt01s01-in-f21.1e100.net (74.125.233.21) 32.921 ms 46.531 ms 27.420 ms

pings are a little higher than normal 'cos im downloading...
 
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pgs said:
d7e7r7 Sorry but I do not understand your comment. You bought a 1meg data package from Afrihost. You get 1 meg. If you give them (at todays prices) R100 extra you can up your data to 2meg.
Me myself? I am not sure if I can afford the extra R100 per month.
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I'm paying R397 for a 1meg Afrihost uncapped bundle. This was before Telkom upgraded line speeds. So now I have a 1meg uncapped bundle but with a 2meg upgraded line thanks to Telkom. What don't you understand?
 
I'm not sure if it is because of the move to MTN or not, but tonight was the first night in a long time that my internet connection didn't disconnect during the night.
 
d7e7r7 said:
I'm paying R397 for a 1meg Afrihost uncapped bundle. This was before Telkom upgraded line speeds. So now I have a 1meg uncapped bundle but with a 2meg upgraded line thanks to Telkom. What don't you understand?
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Nothing is stopping you from changing to a 2 meg bundle. Why talk about it here. Just go ahead and get the 2 meg bundle. I get the impression you want one for free. As in buy a plain ice-cream then complain because it is not choc 99.
 
My NZBs are coming down at average 471KB/sec on the MTN 4mb account.

Very nice. Can't wait for the full speed switchon.
 
Sinbad said:
My NZBs are coming down at average 471KB/sec on the MTN 4mb account.

Very nice. Can't wait for the full speed switchon.
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Im getting similar performance, but have noticed increased latency. The IPC is only in JNB at the moment. Afriman, are there plans to have IPC in CPT too? I would still like sub 10ms pings to CPT servers!
 
Spyk3r said:
Im getting similar performance, but have noticed increased latency. The IPC is only in JNB at the moment. Afriman, are there plans to have IPC in CPT too? I would still like sub 10ms pings to CPT servers!
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+1 IPC termination in Cape Town is a must...makes a big difference on latency for us in the cape, especially if you got your voip servers in CT
 
Spyk3r said:
Im getting similar performance, but have noticed increased latency. The IPC is only in JNB at the moment. Afriman, are there plans to have IPC in CPT too? I would still like sub 10ms pings to CPT servers!
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Can you perhaps paste your traceroute to google.cinx.net.za ?
 
Spyk3r said:
Im getting similar performance, but have noticed increased latency. The IPC is only in JNB at the moment. Afriman, are there plans to have IPC in CPT too? I would still like sub 10ms pings to CPT servers!
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It might be an uncapped routing issue, cos of how the shaping and throttling works. I have asked the guys to look into this. There are IPC's in Durban and Cape Town, so not sure if they are only going to be used on unshaped .... Afriman must look into this and give you guys some feedback.
 
So guys, it turns out my speed issues are not related to Afrihost. Tested now with a Telkom guest account on SAIX Speedtest. Exact same results.

Just want to say thanks to AfriMan for helping and hope that your Telkom division or whomever it is there that handles that kinda stuff can help telkom fix it.
 
AfriMan said:
It might be an uncapped routing issue, cos of how the shaping and throttling works. I have asked the guys to look into this. There are IPC's in Durban and Cape Town, so not sure if they are only going to be used on unshaped .... Afriman must look into this and give you guys some feedback.
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Does AfriMan like referring to himself in the third person?

Please make them use CPT IPC for uncapped! I know you have nice big arms to arm wrestle with!
 
Spyk3r said:
Does AfriMan like referring to himself in the third person?

Please make them use CPT IPC for uncapped! I know you have nice big arms to arm wrestle with!
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indeed.. if CPT users are going to route via JHB then it'll be a total waste of time.
 
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