Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

nakedpeanut said:
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!! :D
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Well that means its something on my side thats bust :-/.
 
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.
 
50-60ms locally for me, 180-230ms are international latency brackets (well if you get less than 200 thats awesome)
 
I'm also happy so far, pulled 10gig last night on my Hotfile account. Doubt will do that much again in one day!
 
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.
 
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.
 
Speed is excellent as expected, latency is a little high though - Will check later again, might be something to do with the shaping.
 
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.
 
Torrents were slow and spiking between 8-10pm last night, but after a router reset, full speed all the way! :D
 
I'm happy with it... I'm going 100% line speed all day
Youtube still fast, sites load.. Contempt :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
Alestorm said:
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.
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I can confirm this. As the clock hit 5:01pm on my side the speed went up from 25kb to 280kb-380kb/sec.
 
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.
 
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blogbytes said:
I can confirm this. As the clock hit 5:01pm on my side the speed went up from 25kb to 280kb-380kb/sec.
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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.
 
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!
 
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