Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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That is exactly what states in my email.And the reason I believe it ,is because if I do a speed test I get full line speed.
 
Afrihost is simply lying about capacity. If they have x capacity and shaping is in effect and we all get 25% odd of the line speed, then if they doubled their capacity to 2x, then qos would continue the same with all of us getting 50% of our line speed. There is no magic trick here, there is just over subscription plain and simple. Call it qos, call it throttling, windowing, whatever. It's the same bull****.
 
Ok it looks like there is more to it. Everybody who posted their numbers, also post your usage. this way we can figure out at the same time roughly where the abuse line is. Working on an updated list
 
Can the guys who's downloads are throttled confirm that rapidshare does not get throttled by testing this link and posting their speed
 
My download speed is stuck at 118kbps on a 4-meg uncapped in Jozi.

So bottom line is that if you want to download or do anything that will require more than 20 gigs a month, go look for another ISP. If you barely use your internet, then stay with Afrihost.
 
It seems that the majority of users experiencing issues are CPT based, I'm going to take a guess and say that somewhere between CPT and JHB there isn't enough bandwidth on the Telkom network, before the users get to the MTN network.
 
I've got 5 concurrent downloads running from 3 different servers. I'm on a 2048kbps line and account, and I'm measuring 430.90kbps average over 51 seconds. Thus I'm getting 21% of what I should get.

PS. I'm not in Cape Town.
 
1024: Arksun - 23.4375%
twicode - 23.4375%

2048: new_in_za2 - 21.04%

4096: wingnut771 - 23.4375%
ainsin - 23.046875%

10240: htpc - 23.4%
 
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new_in_za2 said:
I knew that Telkom were greedy, incompetent con artists, but that they were asking R1200 per megabit for what is essentially just peering completely blows my mind. Back in Europe I can get 1 Gbps international connectivity for about R10000 per month...

Have you got a source for those numbers, BTW?
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Here you go:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...ad-next-week?p=8000004&viewfull=1#post8000004

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Go look at this: http://www.kpn.com/glasvezel/glasvezel-pakketten.htm

500Mbps synchronous connection for R1000/m :cry:
 
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grim said:
It seems that the majority of users experiencing issues are CPT based, I'm going to take a guess and say that somewhere between CPT and JHB there isn't enough bandwidth on the Telkom network, before the users get to the MTN network.
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Just no.
 
Yep, people from Cape Town, despite being told time and time again that everyone is affected, decide to keep claiming that this is a Cape Town issue.
 
new_in_za2 said:
Yep, people from Cape Town, despite being told time and time again that everyone is affected, decide to keep claiming that this is a Cape Town issue.
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Can you give it a rest and keep the thread on topic please?
 
Pete_A said:
Afrihost is simply lying about capacity. If they have x capacity and shaping is in effect and we all get 25% odd of the line speed, then if they doubled their capacity to 2x, then qos would continue the same with all of us getting 50% of our line speed. There is no magic trick here, there is just over subscription plain and simple. Call it qos, call it throttling, windowing, whatever. It's the same bull****.
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It has nothing to do with capacity otherwise it would have been like the last month on IS when everything is affected. Browsing, youtube and rapdishare is not being throttled. The problem is the fixed QoS rules.
 
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