Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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On my logitech keyboard it seems shift has a delay that causes the double caps if I type fast.

I am happy to say I am now connected, 4meg line uncapped.

Presently Steam is dl'ing stuff at 353KB/s - 700KB/s. had a spike of 5.1MB/s but I think steam is just being daft, don't think that's possible
 
Like hayted already said the content of the http doesn't matter. I just wanna have the promised "pure internet joy". And I want it now! Always thought to myself, well, ya, let's give 'em a chance, in February everything will be sorted and we'll have the bestest interwebz, even here in die kaap. But no, speed seems to be getting worse every day. Gaming has become impossible now, P2P is hard to say since the speeed always depends on how many peers are connected to the individual torrent. But it has deteriorated as well, overall. Even normal mom'n'dad surfing is nervewrecking these days.

Obviously it's it's not long until February ... but every day on this "service" is a day too much. You don't even give us a date for when the CPT ICP is up, so we can't even know which day in February we can dare to use our connection again. We, your customers, have stuff to do on the internet, doesn't matter if it's business or private, and honestly non of your concern. The deal is pretty simple: we pay - you don't deliver.

AH, I always loved you guys and tried to be a loyal customer and sit the teething problems out with you, but my patience is slowly running out. DO SOMETHING!!! DO IT NOW!!! And with now I mean right now, today, in the next 30 mins if you don't mind.
 
With regards to the downloads. I have had various standard http downloads give terrible speeds, whether is Creative drivers, or just standard CNET downloads. I have a 10mb uncapped line / account and my http downloads barely go over 100kbps whereas not that long ago, I was getting 800-900kbps on torrents, never mind http downloads.
 
How much notice do i have to give to cancel a non-business uncapped afrihost account? I might actually need decent speeds next month (Feb) during the day so this QoS nonsense worries me...
 
Hi all...

Been looking at moving to Telkom for uncapped ADSL. See their speed ratings. Anyone been there and come from them? They seem better than current or is it a case of "out of the pan and into the fire"

6am - 6pm: up to 472 kbps
6pm - 10pm: up to 767 kbps
10pm - 6am: up to 1 Mbps
No restriction on local data
 
Hi Afriman

The content of the http does not seem to matter. Whatever it is drivers, updates, music, etc it is all slow through http download. Also going through any file hosters is the same thing (rapidshare, bitshare, etc), it is less than 10kb/s through the day. Hope this helps you.


+1
 
At least Telkom is being host, especially since they are the backbone provider.

What influences the download speed that I can expect with DSL?

Download speeds are affected by your PC performance, your access line, local network capacity, congestion on connections to remote networks, remote networks, the remote server's access line and the server performance.

As with dial-up and ISDN, DSL users share bandwidth on the Internet. Coupled with this, the performance of international servers will also affect download speeds. Also, the fact that we are situated in South Africa means that international bandwidth is purchased at a premium and is not unlimited.

Another limiting factor is the application you use your Internet connection for. This is explained in the next question.




Read this link: http://www.do.co.za/broadband/support/faqs/adsl/
 
Oddly enough, I just switched Steam to download from "South Africa - Johannesburg" and "South Africa - Johannesburg (IS Gaming) and got squashed to a 9KB/s download, then switched back to "South Africa - Johannesburg (MWEB)" and shot back up to 247KB/s... why would that be?

Anyone know which steam cloud/downloads setting gives the fastest connection then?
 
Like hayted already said the content of the http doesn't matter. I just wanna have the promised "pure internet joy". And I want it now! Always thought to myself, well, ya, let's give 'em a chance, in February everything will be sorted and we'll have the bestest interwebz, even here in die kaap. But no, speed seems to be getting worse every day. Gaming has become impossible now, P2P is hard to say since the speeed always depends on how many peers are connected to the individual torrent. But it has deteriorated as well, overall. Even normal mom'n'dad surfing is nervewrecking these days.

Obviously it's it's not long until February ... but every day on this "service" is a day too much. You don't even give us a date for when the CPT ICP is up, so we can't even know which day in February we can dare to use our connection again. We, your customers, have stuff to do on the internet, doesn't matter if it's business or private, and honestly non of your concern. The deal is pretty simple: we pay - you don't deliver.

AH, I always loved you guys and tried to be a loyal customer and sit the teething problems out with you, but my patience is slowly running out. DO SOMETHING!!! DO IT NOW!!! And with now I mean right now, today, in the next 30 mins if you don't mind.

You cannot make such wild accusations, if you read a few post back, or look at Afrihost site you will see there are dates and also announce by Afriman a few posts back
http://www.afrihost.com/site/newsroom?src=subfoot

No later then 25Feb.

http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/adsl_network/
 
Obviously it's it's not long until February ... but every day on this "service" is a day too much. You don't even give us a date for when the CPT ICP is up, so we can't even know which day in February we can dare to use our connection again. We, your customers, have stuff to do on the internet, doesn't matter if it's business or private, and honestly non of your concern. The deal is pretty simple: we pay - you don't deliver.

AH, I always loved you guys and tried to be a loyal customer and sit the teething problems out with you, but my patience is slowly running out. DO SOMETHING!!! DO IT NOW!!! And with now I mean right now, today, in the next 30 mins if you don't mind.

Wow. Next thing you'll be demanding double minimum wage and start looting a Cashbuild and a liquor store.

You're THIS unhappy? And still using AH? Maybe get another account until Feb?
 
You're THIS unhappy? And still using AH?

Yes and yes.
Of course I'm unhappy. Spending hours each day gaming you can't be happy with the current state of affairs.
And yet I'm not one of the guys to jump the gun quickly but, as I said, consider myself a loyal customer having made best experiences with AH. That was until the migration.

Considering your first assumption, you must be kidding. Double minimum wage? I wouldn't get out of bed for such a lousy pay. 30k/mth + healthcare + retirement plan and you can have me. But fear not, I'm kinda semi-retired and just in SA to relax.

@ Jannier: no later than the 25th??? LOL, what is that, who makes such plans? Not very professional if you ask me.
 
@ Jannier: no later than the 25th??? LOL, what is that, who makes such plans? Not very professional if you ask me.

Telkom South Africa ---- go blame them, you are in RSA not Germany, and that is how they operate, you take it or leave it, they have the menopoly-- you get the drift?
 
Considering your first assumption, you must be kidding. Double minimum wage? I wouldn't get out of bed for such a lousy pay. 30k/mth + healthcare + retirement plan and you can have me. But fear not, I'm kinda semi-retired and just in SA to relax.

@ Jannier: no later than the 25th??? LOL, what is that, who makes such plans? Not very professional if you ask me.

Touché. :D

Telkom promised 25th. AH is ready. So could be sooner.
 
Only been connected since early this afternoon, and according to clientzone i've moved 9.54Gb

Mainly ran updates for windows and antivirus etc on PC, laptop, server, brother's laptop, celphone and tablet.

Then started steam installs which will be going for quite some time yet, and watched a view youtube videos, brother's been streaming lee evans since this afternoon, smoothly

my PC's connection has been running a steady 350-400KB/s since steam settled in.
 
Only been connected since early this afternoon, and according to clientzone i've moved 9.54Gb

Mainly ran updates for windows and antivirus etc on PC, laptop, server, brother's laptop, celphone and tablet.

Then started steam installs which will be going for quite some time yet, and watched a view youtube videos, brother's been streaming lee evans since this afternoon, smoothly

my PC's connection has been running a steady 350-400KB/s since steam settled in.

Im guessing you're on the 10mbs?

I can JUST pull 6GB a day on my 4mbs...
 
No, I'm on a 4meg line

Data Statistics
Data Used: 11.13 GB

Line Statistics
Current Sync Rate: 4096kbps
 
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Only been connected since early this afternoon, and according to clientzone i've moved 9.54Gb

Mainly ran updates for windows and antivirus etc on PC, laptop, server, brother's laptop, celphone and tablet.

Then started steam installs which will be going for quite some time yet, and watched a view youtube videos, brother's been streaming lee evans since this afternoon, smoothly

my PC's connection has been running a steady 350-400KB/s since steam settled in.

If you check in ClientZone you can see the hour by hour statistics of your data usage. You can also request a data log of the raw bandwidth logs, to see how much data was used and when.
 
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