Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback

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Want to try out Plugg for the rest of the month?

I've switched from Afrihost to Plugg at the end of last year, but I've now taken up a limited time offer by OpenWeb for a faster connection. If anyone wants to try out Plugg's 4mb/s uncapped connection, I'm selling my account that's expiring at the end of this month for a pro-rata amount (R350). I haven't downloaded much, so you shouldn't be shaped :D. Please PM me.
 
AfriMan said:
Awesome! Glad you got your discount in the end! The full IPC capacity should be live very soon, so please give us a chance to show you how we expect our network to run going forward.
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Yes, things are flying now since 1 March... I have to bug the accounts dept now though about my bill. :mad: No bundled pricing and no mystery discount applied for this month as promised... *sigh*
 
Whatever the guys at Afrihost did to our account, it seems to have worked so far. Been burned too many times in the past to say the issue is resolved, but our speeds have been better since yesterday.

Speedtest to Cape Town:
Download Speed: 6039 kbps (754.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 378 kbps (47.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 18 ms
06 March 2013 10:10:36 AM SAST
 
francoiswnel said:
Whatever the guys at Afrihost did to our account, it seems to have worked so far. Been burned too many times in the past to say the issue is resolved, but our speeds have been better since yesterday
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Yip, Cape Town is working well, but I fully agree with you, it's only been a couple of days (the weekend was awful but apparently a Telkom issue).

This is literally the first > 2 day continuous period of acceptable performance in 6 months!!! Which is why I'm also not quite ready to break out the champagne. Give us a month of stable, acceptable speed and get the Durban peeps up and running properly on their IPC and then maybe then we can call it a day on this epic thread of ISP infrastructure "upgrade" fail.
 
Spyk3r said:
Very Cool. Afrihost is now officially UN-THROTTLED permanently!! :)

http://www.afrihost.com/microsites/...=encapsulated&utm_campaign=uncapped_adsl_1303
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No Throttling!
We'll never throttle your connection speed. Realtime protocols like browsing, Youtube and gaming get full speed all the time. P2P and Large downloads may get shaped, depending on network capacity.
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This is their already implemented QoS policy, it's not technically 'new'...?

Do you mean Official because it is now being mentioned on the product advertising?
 
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Bufamotis said:
This is their already implemented QoS policy, it's not technically 'new'...?

Do you mean Official because it is now being mentioned on the product advertising?
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Correct... Also, I didnt say new :P

I said officially - Ie they made a new web page saying so!
 
Spyk3r said:
Correct... Also, I didnt say new :P

I said officially - Ie they made a new web page saying so!
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Sorry, I meant 'new' as in, it's not officially new news as the user policy had already been changed last month or January to reflect this so it's been official for a while.

They're now more visually advertising their policy. I actually think the microsite is a tad misleading; at first glance it may look like you get the same unshaped and unthrottled service as capped, but QoS is still dynamic throttling [depending on whether you are using the live services or the p2p and torrent services] . Nonetheless, my service has run unhindered irrespective of the protocol for a while now, I believe some the CPT IPC went live.

When there is ample bandwidth, we are essentially unthrottled.
 
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Hey guys

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Durban's IPC is now live and the network is working like a bomb.

At the moment throughput seems to be great all around, and local latencies are excellent (from our tests)

How are things looking from your side? Please post your experience (and include which city you're in). Would be great to see what you're seeing.

:)
 
Bufamotis said:
Sorry, I meant 'new' as in, it's not officially new news as the user policy had already been changed last month or January to reflect this so it's been official for a while.

They're now more visually advertising their policy. I actually think the microsite is a tad misleading; at first glance it may look like you get the same unshaped and unthrottled service as capped, but QoS is still dynamic throttling [depending on whether you are using the live services or the p2p and torrent services] . Nonetheless, my service has run unhindered irrespective of the protocol for a while now, I believe some the CPT IPC went live.

When there is ample bandwidth, we are essentially unthrottled.
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UnShaped? :D
 
Are there any CPT users on 4MB around - if so, how are you finding your speeds during the day - reaching a consistent 3.5-4mb on speedtests or averaging around 2.5MB like I found last month when I was on 4MB with AH?
 
blunt said:
Are there any CPT users on 4MB around - if so, how are you finding your speeds during the day - reaching a consistent 3.5-4mb on speedtests or averaging around 2.5MB like I found last month when I was on 4MB with AH?
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Unfortunately, Im not home during the day Blunt, so cant comment on speed.

Latency's and speeds in the morning and evening are good though. Why not go for a business uncapped if day speeds are worrying you?
 
AfriMan said:
Hey guys

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Durban's IPC is now live and the network is working like a bomb.

At the moment throughput seems to be great all around, and local latencies are excellent (from our tests)

How are things looking from your side? Please post your experience (and include which city you're in). Would be great to see what you're seeing.

:)
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Well this is a surprise :D, will be thoroughly testing later today and provide those tracerts you requested :). Way to go man....AfriMan :p
 
Spyk3r said:
Unfortunately, Im not home during the day Blunt, so cant comment on speed.

Latency's and speeds in the morning and evening are good though. Why not go for a business uncapped if day speeds are worrying you?
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Business is too expensive. I don't want to download bucketloads during the day just want to make sure my line speed is actually being reached with regards to normal activity - as it does on other "Home" uncapped accounts - for things like HTTP etc.

I'll give AH a month or two before I commit - waiting to see how all these new IPC's settle in.
 
hmmmmmmmmm

Uncapped means unlimited data. Whether you use 7GB or 700GB a month, you won’t have to worry about getting cutf
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No Throttling!
We'll never throttle your connection speed. Realtime protocols like browsing, Youtube and gaming get full speed all the time. P2P and Large downloads may get shaped, depending on network capacity.
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Still pondering if the cape town region is getting owned by increased lat and slower speeds..

cuz you cant advertize this and give people anything less
 
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