Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[biometrics]

Been five days since we gave up on our 50 GB Uncapped @ R399 account so I thought I'd give it a test, the network should be quiet now right ...

5 KB/s on a 10 Mbps line.

AH FAIL ... AfriFail.

 

[wingnut771]

Should be no hassle at all. In client zone when you cancel your bundle there will be an option to either cancel your line or to have it moved back to telkom. I may also do it soon, things cant go on like this, BF3 is again unplayable tonight.

I dont mind leaving my line with them, I kinda like the "test line" where it gives you your line stats, and "fix my adsl line" - use with caution apparently

 

[htpc]

Run a test line and my speed on News Server jumped to 815KB/s for 15 sec. Now its back to 210KB/s

 

[Davedes]

Strange, I'm picking up Cape Town servers at 25KM away on speed test and JHB has gone up to 1200KM.

I'm about 300km away from JHB

 

[Davedes]

 

[Dan C]

Gaming impossible at the moment on AH .. luckily I have Telskommel ISP still, and that seems to be working 100%

 

[new_in_za2]

Guys,

Where Speedtest.net guesses, or fails to guess, you are from has absolutely nothing at all to do with Afrihost and/or MTN. It doesn't matter if Afrihost's service is fantastic or appalling, Speedtest.net's guesses have absolutely nothing to do with it.

You can figure out which country a specific IP address belongs to simply by looking it up at the RIR's whois service, but Speedtest.net even fails at that. To guess which city a specific IP address belongs to, you have to assume that the ISP always allocates a certain IP to a certain geographical area, and then you have to rely on user surveys to guess which IP address ranges belong to which geographical area.

In short: Complaints about Speedtest.net failing to guess where you live is completely counter-productive in a thread about the quality (or lack of quality) of Afrihost's products,

 

[kohlhtor]

My speed test is fine http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/373725440.png

 

[stocksie]

Durban 10 mb line with 4 mb Afrihost uncapped
Speedtest to London 21:45pm
DL 0.39 Mb UL 0.30 Mb Ping 221ms
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2299354545.png

 

[Davedes]

Guys,

Where Speedtest.net guesses, or fails to guess, you are from has absolutely nothing at all to do with Afrihost and/or MTN. It doesn't matter if Afrihost's service is fantastic or appalling, Speedtest.net's guesses have absolutely nothing to do with it.

You can figure out which country a specific IP address belongs to simply by looking it up at the RIR's whois service, but Speedtest.net even fails at that. To guess which city a specific IP address belongs to, you have to assume that the ISP always allocates a certain IP to a certain geographical area, and then you have to rely on user surveys to guess which IP address ranges belong to which geographical area.

In short: Complaints about Speedtest.net failing to guess where you live is completely counter-productive in a thread about the quality (or lack of quality) of Afrihost's products,

Well if speed test 99 times out of 100 shows JHB servers as 500KM away then all of a sudden is showing CT server as 25KM away & JHB at 1200KM I sure as hell believe something has changed.

 

[new_in_za2]

Well if speed test 99 times out of 100 shows JHB servers as 500KM away then all of a sudden is showing CT server as 25KM away & JHB at 1200KM I sure as hell believe something has changed.

Correct, something has changed. Speedtest.net's guesses have changed. Nothing else than that, though.

 

[prodigyX]

Throttled to about just under 400kBps at the moment, all round - 10mb uncapped, Durban

 

[ThEoFuLeS]

Speeds are good
Torrents are good (+- 300kbs)
4mb account on a 10mb line

 

[pezulu]

Something has certainly changed.
I am suddenly located in Cape Town, which is probably better than London.
Speeds seem decent, but lag is terrible.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2299450638.png

Not sure how accurate the speedtests are anymore, as my DU Meter shows my connection speed as 0.2kbps.

 

[Peder]

the speeds were slow just now on just browsing the web, it seems ok now, but speedtest.net says its fast, i do find that it fluctuates very much.

 

[htpc]

From 30kB/s to average 300kB/s, still long way to go to 1MB/s

 

[new_in_za2]

Something has certainly changed.
I am suddenly located in Cape Town, which is probably better than London.

No, you have probably been in Cape Town the whole time.

Again, let me repeat: Where Speedtest.net claim you are has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of Afrihost's network or what speed, latency or quality you get out of your internet connection. It is merely where Speedtest.net claim you are. Nothing else. Please stop reporting Speedtest.net being wrong as an Afrihost problem. Create a dedicated thread for reporting Speedtest.net's wrong guesses or so. Constantly spamming this thread with how wrong Speedtest.net guesses your location just reduces the signal to noise ratio of this thread. Please stop it.

 

[Davedes]

No, you have probably been in Cape Town the whole time.

Again, let me repeat: Where Speedtest.net claim you are has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of Afrihost's network or what speed, latency or quality you get out of your internet connection. It is merely where Speedtest.net claim you are. Nothing else. Please stop reporting Speedtest.net being wrong as an Afrihost problem. Create a dedicated thread for reporting Speedtest.net's wrong guesses or so. Constantly spamming this thread with how wrong Speedtest.net guesses your location just reduces the signal to noise ratio of this thread. Please stop it.

Who the fck died and made you god? If people want to post their speed test results here then so be it.

 

[Davedes]

Played BF3 online with no DC for the past 3 hours. Network seems to be getting better

 

[new_in_za2]

Who the fck died and made you god? If people want to post their speed test results here then so be it.

Speed test results: Good.
Constant complaining to Afrihost because Speedtest.net can't guess right, 50 pages in a row: Bad.