Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Ok, funny, the whole engine is like dead but we will tell them one of the spark plugs is mis-firing. There are more wrong here than just disconnects. If that's your only problem then call yourself lucky.

Sinbad said:
They have acknowledged a problem though?

There's a problem with disconnects on our network. We're hunting for the reason. Sorry for the pain #Afrihost
-Gian Visser on twitter
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Im having plenty problems...too many to name, was fine earlier.
 
Zewp said:
It's possible they're whitelisting Speedtest so the results show up normal, while everything else is shaped to death.

Hate to say it, but this whole fiasco seems a lot like what WebAfrica had at the start of the year. Terrible speeds and latencies, constant disconnects, etc. Back then, WA finally owned up and admitted their network didn't have enough capacity for the amount of clients they had. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the exact same thing that's happening with Afrihost.

It certainly shows a lot of signs of their network being oversubscribed.
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I concur !
 
OMG I have HAD it! Seriously! Try playing a clan match and getting 30 second DC's EVERY 3 minutes!! Its after 9 and its been happening ALL day, counter strike and Dota!

If you say torrents are the issue, then why not just BLOCK all torrents until you fixed it? Coz its making EVERYONE else have **** internet! Last week same story, over the weekend it was okay. Still happened but today its the WORST!

Tomorrow I am getting Black Ops and luckily I get a free 40GB account with the game. So I hope I wont have trouble playing my new game!

Plz fix this ASAP! Its been getting very bad!
 
Testmy.net

:::.. Internet Speed Test Results ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 640 Kbps or 0.6 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 640 kB or 655360 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 80 kB/s
Upload Connection Speed:: 290 Kbps or 0.3 Mbps
Upload Speed Test Size:: 256 kB or 262144 bytes
Upload Binary File Transfer Speed:: 36 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Test Time:: 2012-11-12 21:18:00 Local Time
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/2RZdDsA.O5dDXst
More Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/965062549458
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25 [!]
 
Zewp said:
It's possible they're whitelisting Speedtest so the results show up normal, while everything else is shaped to death.

Hate to say it, but this whole fiasco seems a lot like what WebAfrica had at the start of the year. Terrible speeds and latencies, constant disconnects, etc. Back then, WA finally owned up and admitted their network didn't have enough capacity for the amount of clients they had. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the exact same thing that's happening with Afrihost.

It certainly shows a lot of signs of their network being oversubscribed.
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doubt the are whitelisting speedtest - mine is dismal on 4mb uncapped

Test conducted on 12 November 2012 21:21
Download Speed: 594 kbps (74.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 386 kbps (48.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 237 ms

latency is just ok for dailies in WoW but the 20mins dc's
 
This morning I was downloading @ 830KB/s now the latency is awesome, but the rest is useless

Test conducted on 12 November 2012 21:10:48 SAST

Download Speed: 919 kbps (114.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 514 kbps (64.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 36 ms
 
On 4Mb/s line and 4Mb/s unacapped - Line + Account R1000 p.m. - using testmy.net -

Download :: 89 Kbps 11 kB/s Upload :: 69 Kbps 9 kB/s

I should be gratefull, it's faster than my old 56kB/s modem. What a joke!
 
Arksun said:
What doesn't make sense is speedtest is reporting 90KBps download internationally, but downloading things like winamp etc from their websites hovers between 4-9KBps. I don't get it.
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The only way that makes sense is if they are unshaping speedtest and shaping everything else
 
9:00pm - 9:23pm
speedtest to JHB


speedtest to CT


speedtest to UK


speedtest to US


ping test to CT


ping test to UK


ping test to USA


testmy 50 meg



path ping to FirstShowing.Net (Packet loss indicating)
Code: 
C:\Windows\System32>pathping www.firstshowing.net

Tracing route to firstshowing.net [69.167.174.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  JadeX64 [105.236.212.45]
  1  105-236-3-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.3.129]
  2  ipc-recieve-jh-4a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178.41]
  3  qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.115]
  4  jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.114]
  5  am-cr-2.nl--am-tpr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.218]
  6  xe-4-1-0.edge5.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [212.72.41.89]
  7  4.69.162.145
  8  ae-59-224.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.153.213]
  9  ae-46-46.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.74]
 10  ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.78]
 11  ae-4-4.ebr1.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.141.18]
 12  ae-1-100.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.135.254]
 13  ae-2-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.65]
 14  ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.140.190]
 15  ae-104-3504.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.158.13]
 16  CWIE-LLC.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.59.29.82]
 17  lw-core4-te91.rtr.liquidweb.com [209.59.157.206]
 18  lw-dc3-dist7-po5.rtr.liquidweb.com [69.167.128.129]
 19  host.firstshowing.net [69.167.174.4]

Computing statistics for 475 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop  RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0                                           JadeX64 [105.236.212.45]
                                3/ 100 =  3%   |
  1    9ms     3/ 100 =  3%     0/ 100 =  0%  105-236-3-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.3.129]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  2   11ms     3/ 100 =  3%     0/ 100 =  0%  ipc-recieve-jh-4a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178.41]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  3   11ms     3/ 100 =  3%     0/ 100 =  0%  qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.115]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  4   11ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.114]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  5  199ms     5/ 100 =  5%     2/ 100 =  2%  am-cr-2.nl--am-tpr-1.nl-a.mtn.net[209.212.111.218]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  6  204ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  xe-4-1-0.edge5.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [212.72.41.89]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  7  205ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  4.69.162.145
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  8  192ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-59-224.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.153.213]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  9  200ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-46-46.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.74]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 10  ---     100/ 100 =100%    97/ 100 = 97%  ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net[4.69.137.78]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 11  286ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-4-4.ebr1.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.141.18]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 12  286ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-1-100.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net[4.69.135.254]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 13  297ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-2-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.65]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 14  ---     100/ 100 =100%    97/ 100 = 97%  ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.140.190]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 15  290ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  ae-104-3504.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.158.13]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 16  298ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  CWIE-LLC.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.59.29.82]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 17  297ms     4/ 100 =  4%     1/ 100 =  1%  lw-core4-te91.rtr.liquidweb.com [209.59.157.206]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 18  314ms     3/ 100 =  3%     0/ 100 =  0%  lw-dc3-dist7-po5.rtr.liquidweb.com [69.167.128.129]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 19  312ms     3/ 100 =  3%     0/ 100 =  0%  host.firstshowing.net [69.167.174.
4]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\System32>
 
Zewp said:
It's possible they're whitelisting Speedtest so the results show up normal, while everything else is shaped to death.

Hate to say it, but this whole fiasco seems a lot like what WebAfrica had at the start of the year. Terrible speeds and latencies, constant disconnects, etc. Back then, WA finally owned up and admitted their network didn't have enough capacity for the amount of clients they had. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the exact same thing that's happening with Afrihost.

It certainly shows a lot of signs of their network being oversubscribed.
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+1
 
I reckon that earlier today when they said "All systems are performing within specified parameters", they actually meant "All systems are performing within *THE NEW* specified parameters :S
 
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