Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[Davedes]

AfriMan is off Ill btw

So everything come to a standstill?

 

[ClintonExsteen]

the youradsl test account suddenly just stopped doing anything (all the lights were green just ZERO connection to the world), thought maybe the hamster fell out its' wheel... so tried the specialops login, well back online with
Test conducted on 13 November 2012 22:21
Download Speed: 38 kbps (2.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 39 kbps (2.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 554 ms
clearly the hamster has resigned....

 

[ClintonExsteen]

the youradsl test account suddenly just stopped doing anything (all the lights were green just ZERO connection to the world), thought maybe the hamster fell out its' wheel... so tried the specialops login, well back online with
Test conducted on 13 November 2012 22:21
Download Speed: 38 kbps (2.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 39 kbps (2.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 554 ms
clearly the hamster has resigned....

A little better
Test conducted on 13 November 2012 22:24
Download Speed: 304 kbps (38 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 348 kbps (43.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 248 ms

 

[justin-watokal]

im going to ask a stupid question but how do i paste the trace route info from cmd?

 

[ClintonExsteen]

im going to ask a stupid question but how do i paste the trace route info from cmd?

right click, select all, copy

 

[Jimmeh]

I really miss the old IS setup. Things worked well back in the day..

Afrihost is being very helpful but unfortunately I don't have enough free time to troubleshoot their network. They are definitely trying though which is very odd as they flagged my account for shaping based on the massive amount of data downloaded (45GB). They are quite honest about why it is so slow yet they want to investigate and fix stuff. That would mean that the bandwidth be increased which is definitely not why accounts get shaped in the first place. Very confusing situation!

Now that I'm oficially an internet abuser I'll try to make the most of it till the account is de-activated at the end of the month :twisted:

 

[justin-watokal]

C:\Users\justin>tracert www.afrihost.co.za

Tracing route to www.afrihost.co.za [196.38.88.139]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms sx762.dummy.porta.siemens.net [10.0.0.2]
2 49 ms 47 ms 49 ms 105-236-7-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.
7.193]
3 * 140 ms 69 ms ipc-recieve-jh-1a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.5]
4 64 ms 63 ms 60 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
5 67 ms 88 ms 114 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
6 64 ms 222 ms 135 ms jh-cr-2.za--jh-dca-2.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.22
4]
7 55 ms 58 ms 55 ms jh-pr-1.za--jh-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.222]

8 149 ms 70 ms 69 ms 41-208-29-125.mtnns.net [41.208.29.125]
9 77 ms 90 ms 94 ms 168.209.1.140
10 142 ms 68 ms 73 ms core2a-bry-ge1-1-0.isnet.net [168.209.100.242]
11 * 59 ms 233 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.217.2
1]
12 62 ms 151 ms 85 ms 196.34.134.105
13 72 ms * 58 ms gw.aserv.co.za [196.33.227.1]
14 63 ms 58 ms * www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.139]
15 74 ms 81 ms 79 ms www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.139]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\justin>

 

[justin-watokal]

what do you clever people see?

 

[JMP]

Do we really need to cancel before the 15th to avoid having to pay for another month or can we perhaps cancel just before the end of the month?

 

[ClintonExsteen]

if i chopped my legs and arms off, i could still move faster than this blazing speed we having tonight

Getting faster
Test conducted on 13 November 2012 22:47
Download Speed: 254 kbps (31.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 357 kbps (44.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 245 ms

 

[justin-watokal]

yes

 

[justin-watokal]

watsonm at afrihost support.
it is time to wake up.
your piss poor response just lost afrihost another customer

 

[FapCop]

They are definitely trying though which is very odd as they flagged my account for shaping based on the massive amount of data downloaded (45GB).

What is normally considered a "massive amount"? Under normal circumstances, how much bandwidth is considered abuse by the average ISP? Just asking, because I'm trying to figure something out.

 

[FreddyB]

On the Afrihost website they say network is fully operational. If they consider 60kbps on a 2mb line as fully operational then I'm done. Cancellation sent, now just deciding between what Openweb account to get

 

[Vrotappel]

Diablo 3 was much better tonight. Good latency and no disconnects.

 

[Necuno]

Diablo 3 was much better tonight. Good latency and no disconnects.

I'm getting DCs now on mweb as well. Have not tried AH again today.

 

[FapCop]

On the Afrihost website they say network is fully operational. If they consider 60kbps on a 2mb line as fully operational then I'm done. Cancellation sent, now just deciding between what Openweb account to get

I have a theory. Their site says the network is fully operational, thus everybody who is experiencing crappy speeds are flagged as abusers and are shaped.

I may sound like a ****-spouting idiot, but I think we should be able to test this. Perhaps if someone creates a thread where we all post our current usage along with the speed experienced?

 

[4cer]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2305858735.png

getting decent speeds (4 meg) you dam abusers

 

[FreddyB]

you dam abusers

You cant abuse uncapped. You can however call a poor service uncapped. If I signed up for a shaped uncapped service I'd expect to be shaped. To me its a matter of principle.

 

[giovannidc]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2305858735.png

getting decent speeds (4 meg) you dam abusers

Same this side. I'm using the 10Mbps uncapped package and I've already downloaded 40GB this month.

.

Hope it stays that way, will be keeping an eye on it during the day tomorrow, else i'm signing up for the gold unshaped package from openweb!