Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Got a test account from Afrihost, 10mb uncapped and testing this account began in earnest this morning. Initial performance figures were extraordinary but they were short lived and the account has tapered off considerably.

I’m hitting this account from different angles trying to max it. Multiple threaded downloads from a Rapidgator premium account, news servers, remote connection using ports 6783/4/5, youtube both embedded and downloading using IDM.

Occasionally it bursts to 700+KB/s but average is around 300KB/s (and as I’m typing this I’m seeing consistent speeds of 600+KB/s).

Here are some performance figures (to be taken with a massive pinch of salt).




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As mentioned earlier speeds fluctuate quite sharply but after an hour and a half the average looks pretty good.

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ainsin said:
Shaping and port prioritising is back. I'm stuck at 50kbps once again.
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Holding steady on the test account but hammering it with torrents, rapidgator, news servers, dropbox sync and remote connection to bandwidth intensive site.

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Test account. Say no more. What you need to see is when it falls off the cliff... what's the magic number in terms of Gb usage. I doubt you'd get there with a test account. Funny... I asked them for a test account some time back and was refused. I ended up buying one then getting double my money back a week later tho'
 
IPX-SPX said:
Test account. Say no more. What you need to see is when it falls off the cliff... what's the magic number in terms of Gb usage. I doubt you'd get there with a test account. Funny... I asked them for a test account some time back and was refused. I ended up buying one then getting double my money back a week later tho'
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Yip, hence why I stated take these stats with a huge pinch of salt.

AFAIK the account was an existing one with very little mileage on it, but vanilla nonetheless, with the same parameter settings as the standard 10mb uncapped accounts.
 
Okay, I'm not saying that AH doesn't have any issues (indeed I left because of them) but people really shouldn't expect to be maxing out their cheap consumer uncapped account during the day. Basically I would say you should only really expect decent browsing and light downloading during office hours.

My IS account doesn't run flat out 24/7, but it flies when I want it to work and that's what counts. When I get home from work my line is always running full out. Bottom line is that you should find an account that suits your requirements. If you want an uncapped account that runs flat out during the day, then you will have to pay for a business account - it's sad, but we're not in a first world country.
 
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Okay, I'm not saying that AH doesn't have any issues (indeed I left because of them) but people really shouldn't expect to be maxing out their cheap consumer uncapped account during the day. Basically I would say you should only really expect decent browsing and light downloading during office hours.

My IS account doesn't run flat out 24/7, but it flies when I want it to work and that's what counts. When I get home from work my line is always running full out. Bottom line is that you should find an account that suits your requirements. If you want an uncapped account that runs flat out during the day, then you will have to pay for a business account - it's sad, but we're not in a first world country.
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Agreed but within reason, 50KB/s on a 10mb account is unacceptable and the parameters need to be clearly defined, which currently they are not. It's pot luck.

All lines should be throttled equally on all protocols to 50% of their max during office hours and 80%-100% off peak.

Clearly established parameters around which people can plan the lives/gaming/series/browsing/mailing.

A bit of consistency is all folk want.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Okay, I'm not saying that AH doesn't have any issues (indeed I left because of them) but people really shouldn't expect to be maxing out their cheap consumer uncapped account during the day. Basically I would say you should only really expect decent browsing and light downloading during office hours.

My IS account doesn't run flat out 24/7, but it flies when I want it to work and that's what counts. When I get home from work my line is always running full out. Bottom line is that you should find an account that suits your requirements. If you want an uncapped account that runs flat out during the day, then you will have to pay for a business account - it's sad, but we're not in a first world country.
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Agreed. All I'm after though is an account that performs reasonably within those constraints. I'll give you a real-world example:

I have an HTC Sensation. I also had a bit of an obsession with always running the latest, greatest ROM on it. These ROMs run about 500MB in size, and they were easiest to obtain via torrent. Going back 4 months or so, because I didn't ever fall into the heavy downloader pool, I could grab those torrents at any time of the day or night at a solid 300 - 400 kB/s. I haven't had need to try recently, but if I interpret the experiences of others correctly it seems I might now get 10% of that rate outside of business hours. That ain't cool.

I hope that these are just teething troubles, although I have my doubts as anything I've ever seen linked to that-yellow-company has been a ****-up to some degree. If they aren't just teething troubles then I feel that Afrihost has fundamentally changed the nature of their product; that's even less cool.

As stated I haven't had need to repeat those patterns but I'd like to be able to. But judging by metrics such as Youtube's new fondness for buffering I'm not exactly filled with hope.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Okay, I'm not saying that AH doesn't have any issues (indeed I left because of them) but people really shouldn't expect to be maxing out their cheap consumer uncapped account during the day. Basically I would say you should only really expect decent browsing and light downloading during office hours.

My IS account doesn't run flat out 24/7, but it flies when I want it to work and that's what counts. When I get home from work my line is always running full out. Bottom line is that you should find an account that suits your requirements. If you want an uncapped account that runs flat out during the day, then you will have to pay for a business account - it's sad, but we're not in a first world country.
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I havent used my Afrihost account for a few days now but what i noticed was their "office hours" ran for 16-18 hours per day including weekends.
 
I'm just back from a little YouTube safari and it was cool. Everything was running smoothly, no buffering whatsoever. Yesterday it was a whole different story. Today browsing is resonably stabe yet on the other hand I have real problems with gaming. So let me join in the consistency choir here. I should know what to expect at any given time of the day, without experimenting and failing first.
 
Can anyone let me know what other "good" ISP's are out there who don't run on the Internet backbone that Afrihost/Axcess/Mweb are running on?
Thanks
 
What's going on today? My worst latency on my 10meg account even compared to the other bad internet days.

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Local Pings of over 300ms are just not acceptable.

I've tried on a capped account as well and getting the same result so it's not just my uncapped account behaving badly.

And what leaves me in the dark is that the AH site is reporting that everything is working and in good order.
 
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al4bb said:
What's going on today? My worst latency on my 10meg account even compared to the other bad internet days.

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Local Pings of over 300ms are just not acceptable.

I've tried on a capped account as well and getting the same result so it's not just my uncapped account behaving badly.

And what leaves me in the dark is that the AH site is reporting that everything is working and in good order.
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Im ok here in Durban
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Fluctuating between 200-1000KB/s but a reasonable average. I must stress TEST ACCOUNT!!! ADD SALT!!!

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Speeds Are Up and Down

:::.. Internet Speed Test Results ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 2252 Kbps or 2.3 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 3 MB or 3072 kB or 3145728 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 282 kB/s
Upload Connection Speed:: 566 Kbps or 0.6 Mbps
Upload Speed Test Size:: 256 kB or 262144 bytes
Upload Binary File Transfer Speed:: 71 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Test Time:: 2012-11-29 12:31:27 Local Time
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/eB4TrJy.relpIoB
More Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/965066860202
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0) [!]
 
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