Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[absk300]

what speeds are you guys getting during the day?

 

[Monkey101]

Ya did a little testing last nyt.. was pulling 1 rapidshare (free user), 1 megupload (free user), 3 torrents, streaming lastFm and browsing.... Working like a charm!!

Tested torrents this morning and they sit under 20kbs, meh shaped bad? think it was crappy torrent... Played COD4 a lil and latency was around 30ms So i'm HAPPY!!

Well that means its something on my side thats bust :-/.

 

[Ratwiz]

On Afrihost uncapped . Great speeds so far and upgrading the account was quick!

 

[KinsZA]

Astraweb news server 10:00am I ran a test

420KB/s

 

[l_c_cicero]

I used to get about 30ms ping to Joburg on speedtest while on a 20gig package, upgraded to uncapped and now get between 180 - 230ms. Anyone else have this massive ping increase?
Downloads are super quick though, did solid 385KB/s last night.

 

[KinsZA]

50-60ms locally for me, 180-230ms are international latency brackets (well if you get less than 200 thats awesome)

 

[SirFooK'nG]

I'm also happy so far, pulled 10gig last night on my Hotfile account. Doubt will do that much again in one day!

 

[aj11]

I get 55ms local and 452ms to uk. thats pretty normal as my capped afrihost ran the same. Downloading is between 380kBps and 480kBps on a cached news item this morning at 9:00am. I'm happy. I only play fifa10 online with ps3 and very little and sometimes no lag with international players. So i'm happy and here to stay.

 

[vash87]

anyone else a little slow right now? international speed tests are averaging around 0.6mb/s local around 2.2mb/s. latencies are fine. actual download speeds seem to correlate with the speedtests. im not sure if i have some hardware fault at the moment though :/ everything was pretty good last night and it makes sense if they are shaping during office hours but im used to my speed. id like a little of it back haha.

 

[bullzeye.za]

Speed is excellent as expected, latency is a little high though - Will check later again, might be something to do with the shaping.

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

On Afrihost uncapped:
Torrents are not going higher than 22kb/sec
Pings locally 60-120ms
Pings Int 250-500ms

Just switched the account back to my telkom account:
Torrents, full blast with 420kb-460kb
local ping 15-30ms
int ping 250-350ms

Will see what I will get at night. If I get the same specs, I'll cancel as quick as I signed up. But, I think all ISP's are going into the right direction with this.

 

[BLaZor2]

Torrents were slow and spiking between 8-10pm last night, but after a router reset, full speed all the way!

 

[boramk]

I'm happy with it... I'm going 100% line speed all day
Youtube still fast, sites load.. Contempt

 

[johnjm]

I signed up today from an axxess account (which I have now cancelled).

Youtube is very quick, torrents range between 15kb/s and 60kb/s during peak times. Will see how it performs tonight. So far im happy, just saved R500 a month from axxess. I only hit the 500GB amonth mark twice on axxess over the past year, on average I use 190MB so the afrihost suits me perfectly.

 

[Alestorm]

Interesting, as it hit 5.00pm my torrent went from it's day time shaped speed of <100Kb straight to 400Kb+. Looks like they might apply time-based shaping rules. It's okay with me anyway, full speed on torrents from 5pm.

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

Interesting, as it hit 5.00pm my torrent went from it's day time shaped speed of <100Kb straight to 400Kb+. Looks like they might apply time-based shaping rules. It's okay with me anyway, full speed on torrents from 5pm.

I can confirm this. As the clock hit 5:01pm on my side the speed went up from 25kb to 280kb-380kb/sec.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Been using it today. It's a great account. So far no serious shaping I could detect (but I don't use torrents). So no more Linksys script. Just gotta control my appetite... a bit.

I guess go for Mweb if you want "more unlimited but more shaped uncapped" and go for Afrihost if you want "more limited but less shaped uncapped." I prefer the latter.

 

[Gatecrasher]

I can confirm this. As the clock hit 5:01pm on my side the speed went up from 25kb to 280kb-380kb/sec.

The question is whether that is general IS shaping of bandwidth, or specific to this account. I always found that IS shaped torrents more heavily than SAIX during working hours in the past.

 

[johnjm]

Yup, my total torrent speed is now 350kb/s.

 

[BLaZor2]

Well was uploading the entire morning at around 48 KB/s which is good for a 512kbit upstream rate.

Also, I think it's IS that shapes the p2p protocols, NOT Afrihost. Nevertheless, I've never been heavily affected by the shaping. News servers were just as fast!