Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[gregmcc]

Things looking pretty good.

 

[Necuno]

10 nov 2012 / saturday / product 10mbs uncapped afrihost / location pretoria

3:26pm - 3:40pm
speedtest to Midrand


speedtest to CT


speedtest to UK


speedtest to US


ping test to CT


ping test to UK
Attempt 1: Couldn't connect to perfrom test
Attempt 2: Couldn't connect to perfrom test

ping test to USA
Attempt 1: Test is not completing, stuck at ping 1396ms and jitter 1857 ms

pathping to Escapist magazine
[will post later... lightining on its way]

 

[Sh@shone]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2298625948.png

:wtf: where did this speed come from all of a sudden? Just 10 minutes ago i couldnt stream Youtube for the life of me!

 

[ClintonExsteen]

i honestly CBA with local, local doesn't really define much seriously... most websites visited are international and herein lies the speed issues.. gaming locally also doesnt seem to suffer, my son plays PS3 on local and still has an awesome connection, but WoW, D3, Dota2, SWTOR is pitiful...... connection runs for abouts 20-30mins, does a mini dc and alas we are dead.. was playing WoW had ingame of 209ms (best since changeover - prior change over 164ms), thought excellent but then urghhhh lag spike and dc... cant even access the login anymore...
pay for a 4mb line, this is what i am getting

Test conducted on 10 November 2012 15:44
Download Speed: 109 kbps (13.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 41 kbps (5.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 337 ms

 

[Sh@shone]

pathping to Escapist magazine
[will post later... lightining on its way][/QUOTE]

Yeah, damn lightning!! Fried 3 modems and a PC already. (Sorry, not an uncapped message - I know)

 

[Sh@shone]

Can anyone please enlighten me as to how one knows whether shi**y speed is due to Telkom or the ISP?

 

[new_in_za2]

Can anyone please enlighten me as to how one knows whether shi**y speed is due to Telkom or the ISP?

Easiest way is to test another ISP as well. If both ISPs are showing problems, there's a fair chance that it's Telkom.

 

[ClintonExsteen]

Thanks Sydney @ Afrihost
Test conducted on 10 November 2012 16:00
Download Speed: 3765 kbps (470.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 476 kbps (59.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 234 ms

now just the latency

 

[Sh@shone]

Excuse the ignorance here. Just do a speed test to another provider or actually connect to another provider?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Mine was definitely due to isp.

I'm back on IS now and everything working 100% again.

 

[ClintonExsteen]

Thanks Sydney @ Afrihost
Test conducted on 10 November 2012 16:00
Download Speed: 3765 kbps (470.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 476 kbps (59.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 234 ms

now just the latency

spoke too soon

Test conducted on 10 November 2012 16:08
Download Speed: 608 kbps (76 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 496 kbps (62 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 235 ms

 

[ClintonExsteen]

Excuse the ignorance here. Just do a speed test to another provider or actually connect to another provider?

use another providers account to connect and test.. so basically get a trial from say Mweb and see how that sppedtest runs against your current Afrihost account.. if there is major differences then its ISP, else line

 

[ClintonExsteen]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2298695128.png

 

[prodigyX]

10mb uncapped, Durban

Downloading a file from Astraweb, and for the first time since the move I'm seeing the old familiar (and acceptable) shaping behaviour that I know from the IS days: Full speed for about 30 seconds (1mBps), then dip down to about 300kBps for a second or two, then back up to full speed for another 30 seconds.

Pings are acceptable, getting expected speeds from all speedtests, and YouTube is performing like a champ (for the most part)

Looks like things are starting to shape up

 

[Sh@shone]

use another providers account to connect and test.. so basically get a trial from say Mweb and see how that sppedtest runs against your current Afrihost account.. if there is major differences then its ISP, else line

Thanks for feedback.

 

[prodigyX]

Just got disconnected. After reconnecting everything is slower. Not throttled per se, but overall worse performance. Can't buffer 1080p YouTube. Speedtest reports 6.7mbit (30ms ping from Durban to Jhb MTN).

Side note: I've just noticed that speedtest.net now recognizes my IP range as belonging to 'MTN Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd', as opposed to 'unknown ISP' or whatever it used to say - Not sure when that happened, but thats another step in the right direction

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Side note: I've just noticed that speedtest.net now recognizes my IP range as belonging to 'MTN Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd', as opposed to 'unknown ISP' or whatever it used to say - Not sure when that happened, but thats another step in the right direction

Traceroute to local .co.za IP? Can you do it and post output?

 

[semaphore]

Performance is still terrible latency is through the roof for gaming.

 

[Davedes]

Speeds dropping again

 

[prodigyX]

Traceroute to local .co.za IP? Can you do it and post output?

sure

tracert www.ford.co.za

Tracing route to a1075.b.akamai.net [196.26.223.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 8 ms 10 ms 192.168.1.1
2 14 ms 15 ms 8 ms 105-236-0-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.0.129]
3 31 ms 23 ms 19 ms ipc-recieve-rb-2a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178.65]
4 * * 24 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.120]
5 20 ms 20 ms 28 ms jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.42]
6 23 ms 19 ms 20 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.115]
7 * 49 ms 25 ms jh-pr-1.za--jh-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.222]
8 50 ms 19 ms 19 ms 41-208-29-125.mtnns.net [41.208.29.125]
9 * 26 ms 19 ms csw6-pkl-te1-7.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.189]
10 22 ms 20 ms 20 ms a196-26-223-16.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [196.26.223.16]

Trace complete.