Afrihost Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

latency is KAAAAK with Afrihost 4MB uncapped

well today I gave Axxess the boot, and moved over to afrihost

for 50% of the price, kinda hard to resist :D

so some feedback...

I find HTTP downloads slightly slower. Normally get full 440K/sec with axxess, get about 400K/sec with Afrihost... (cant really complain there!)

But the worst is the latency, OMFG :cry:

Axxess

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3107/axxessexpressatellite.jpg

Afrihost

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2396/afrihost.jpg

Im not really one to moan about much, but seriously...

This connection via two baked beans tins and a piece of string or what!? :wtf:
 
ponder said:
Did you honestly expect the same level of service?
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nah I suppose you right. Ill stick to using my webafrica account for gaming and this one for downloading/general useage...

kudos to them for coming to the party though! :)
 
HTC_guy said:
nah I suppose you right. Ill stick to using my webafrica account for gaming and this one for downloading/general useage...
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That would be a good compromise I reckon, would probably do the same thing.
 
hmmm... interesting... just did a hard reset of my router and off she goes!!!

latency now totally acceptable :)
 
@HTC_guy

It's odd. When I try that address on Afrihost I average about 320ms. Can you try it again and see if it is still so bad?


EDIT: Ah didn't see your latest. No worry.
 
I am getting terrible speeds and my ping is 299ms to the Pretoria server on Speedtest.net. It was fine till 17:30 today and now all of a sudden, everything is slow...even local browsing.
Anyone else experiencing this?
 
Nope, I have yet to experiance any problems with afrihost after 5pm, I know mid-day speed test reported 1.5mbps so about 40% speed roughly but other than that, everythings cruising nicely
 
Maestr0

Your not the only one , upped my account this afternoon and was running fine ( playing wow on 2 pc's , speednet ping 56 - 70) at +-300ms each , then at around 6:50pm getting 9000ms + and speedtest ping > 120

but i do know that they are in a "trial phase"
 
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ok cool :). could also be that when everyone got home after 17:00 they started downloading the internet. So hopefully it will go fast during the day :). Guess we will just have to grind our teeth until they get their **** sorted out.
 
torrents have been going really well since 5pm as mentioned earlier. did a spedtest while utorrent was at 150kb/s:

not too bad - so far very happy with the afrihost offering.
 
Maestr0 said:
ok cool :). could also be that when everyone got home after 17:00 they started downloading the internet. So hopefully it will go fast during the day :). Guess we will just have to grind our teeth until they get their **** sorted out.
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Based on comments earlier on today, at 5pm, they seemed to have removed the shaping on torrents, which may have contributed to the downloading of the internet. I used nntp today via Astraweb and got maximum speeds. Back on Axxess tonight, though. Don't want any black marks against my new Arfrihost account... yet.
 
haha good point, I still have a week of my axxess express left!, gonna change it now for tonight.
 
well wierd thing is speed test is still giving me ****ty results, but my download from Astraweb is getting between 200KB/s and 400KB/s...so I probably don't have anything to complain about ;).
 
Afrihost has some very interesting shaping going on.

I have 30MS ping to saix.net standard, but when I exceed 50/100kb per second, it jumps to 400+ until I stop them, no matter what speed they do. This is the same up to 400kb/second ( and yes, I have throttled them to the specific speeds to test.)
 
Hi Guys

Rest assured - again from my trusted inside source, IS is apparently bringing to the masses ( afrihost - axxess and the lot ) a new product, which is the uncapped offerings we are seeing now. This is to be in direct competition to Mweb and later Telkom. They ( IS ) are working on streamlining/tweaking the new uncapped products, hence the eratic speed results we all see....

It will settle in due course.......

I too get up and down speeds & latency - so just sit back and enjoy your new found interwebz joy ! .....:D
 
Anyone notice their ip starting with 196.215.x.x these days instead of the old 196.209.x.x or 196.210.x.x
 
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