Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

[ThEoFuLeS]

Guys the Sun will shine again (One is one day), the grass is not always greener on the other side.....

 

[ainsin]

Well i was hoping the shaping would be relaxed a bit on the weekend. But its not. Stuck on 118kbps on 4 meg uncapped, no matter which port I use,


I guess if you want to download anything, Afrihost isn't for you.

 

[htpc]

http://speedtest.net/result/2313016016.png

Look much better Afrihost, Keep it up

 

[gregmcc]

Looking good here too.

 

[JerryMungo]

WHAT THE HELL? That just don't sound right. Bet you its a "training issue" again.

More likely they have to rely on Telkom there somewhere and can't commit as a result.

 

[ThEoFuLeS]

Speeds are good too here, downloading at +-450kb/s

 

[al4bb]

@Afriman
A suggestion to Afrihost regarding the throttling/shaping of extreme users.
I have no objection to the policy but to help the users not guess or phone it please add a 30 day rolling window calculator to the stats page and the mobile apps.
Either openly indicate what the present cutoff threshold is or at least notify users when their account has been limited.

 

[al4bb]

Been good last couple of days. Desperately need the Durban IPC though.

http://www.speedtest.net/android/293430398.png

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

On a 2Mb line. My testing is consistent regardless of the time of day

 

[ThEoFuLeS]

LOLOL Back to normal speeds again
4mb account... -+150kb/s
To good to be true. This means from 12:30am - 8:00am speeds are open than after that everything is throttling/shaping no matter what weekend or not day or nyt. So Afrihost's business hours are 8:00am - 12:30am - 7 days a week, leaving us to use the true speed for pay for, for 7h 30 mins. Which we can download +-12gb per day which is a ok.

 

[prodigyX]

10mb uncapped, Durban:

Left NZBs downloading last night.. got full speed from around 1am till they finished at 4am.

Woke up to find I've been throttled. Everything tops out (YouTube, speedtest.net, NNTP) at 250kBps (25% of my line speed). My usage for the month is 129gB. Surely that isnt considered 'high usage'?

@Afriman are you guys still working on it? What are the (new?) usage limits are for throttling? Isn't it supposed to be +- 400gB for 10mb uncapped?

 

[Kenpachi]

Does anyone know a possible ETA on when Afrihost is going to stop throttling us.

 

[FapCop]

I'm confused now, are the days of pulling 50GB a month over ?

That is correct.

@Afriman - Either openly indicate what the present cutoff threshold is or at least notify users when their account has been limited.

This will never happen. They will probably say something along the lines of "We can't disclose that information, because then people will target that threshold". I think the real reason is because the threshold is so low, that if people get the actual figure, they will realize that its not worth it and most will cancel their accounts.

My usage for the month is 129gB. Surely that isnt considered 'high usage'?

It is now.

Does anyone know a possible ETA on when Afrihost is going to stop throttling us.

Apparently we're looking at February, but one can only speculate.

 

[Kenpachi]

Apparently we're looking at February, but one can only speculate.[/QUOTE]

I guess its time to be looking for another ISP. Does anyone have one in mind.

 

[sand_man]

Mweb and Openweb seem to be good. You will pay more the equivalent packages though. I guess it's a case of you get what you pay.

 

[htpc]

Busy downloading openSUSE (4.14Gb) Estimate time : 05:07:17

Looks like 260KB/s on a 10Meg line = 25%

 

[Davedes]

Speed are good from my side today. 7ms ping to JHB from Mpumalanga

 

[justin-watokal]

Tracing route to www.google.com [173.194.67.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms sx762.dummy.porta.siemens.net [10.0.0.2]
2 53 ms 56 ms 60 ms 196-210-158-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.15
8.129]
3 56 ms 55 ms 69 ms cdsl2-rba-vl2563.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.213]
4 61 ms 55 ms 61 ms cdsl2-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.9]
5 63 ms 59 ms 63 ms core2b-pkl-te0-0-0-0.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.63]

6 248 ms 241 ms 248 ms core2b-dock-tenge-0-3-0-0-126.ip.isnet.net [168.
209.201.81]
7 420 ms 1644 ms 651 ms 195.66.236.125
8 * * 258 ms 209.85.240.63
9 247 ms 266 ms 303 ms 209.85.253.92
10 255 ms 266 ms 255 ms 72.14.232.134
11 242 ms 254 ms 253 ms 209.85.250.167
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 265 ms 256 ms 289 ms wi-in-f147.1e100.net [173.194.67.147]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\justin>

 

[kripstoe]

Tracing route to www.google.com [173.194.67.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms sx762.dummy.porta.siemens.net [10.0.0.2]
2 53 ms 56 ms 60 ms 196-210-158-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.15
8.129]
3 56 ms 55 ms 69 ms cdsl2-rba-vl2563.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.213]
4 61 ms 55 ms 61 ms cdsl2-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.9]
5 63 ms 59 ms 63 ms core2b-pkl-te0-0-0-0.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.63]

6 248 ms 241 ms 248 ms core2b-dock-tenge-0-3-0-0-126.ip.isnet.net [168.
209.201.81]
7 420 ms 1644 ms 651 ms 195.66.236.125
8 * * 258 ms 209.85.240.63
9 247 ms 266 ms 303 ms 209.85.253.92
10 255 ms 266 ms 255 ms 72.14.232.134
11 242 ms 254 ms 253 ms 209.85.250.167
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 265 ms 256 ms 289 ms wi-in-f147.1e100.net [173.194.67.147]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\justin>

ok?

 

[homerj]

my nntp traffic also at 25% of line speed :-(