Is Afrihost reporting Bandwith usage correctly

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Correct me if i'm wrong but on a 4meg line you can get at most 1.5 gig per hour.
i have a usage graph from Afrihost stating i did 3 GIG in one our of one day , just bringing it up since they seem to be very intent on throttling at certain usage levels. I'm not sure if they actually getting the bandwidth right.

Anybody else seen something similar?
 
There is/was something horribly wrong with the bandwidth usage / my connectivity / client zone tab .....
Mine showed no usage between 1st-6th April. :)

Send many an e-mail with screen-shots back & forth ..... they kept insisting nothing is wrong .... well the amount i used over those days is not my loss :whistle:

Have canceled in the meanwhile...had enough :twisted:
 
There is definitely a problem with their bandwidth stats.Over this last week-end I used about 8 GB's and it shows that I used 3GB's.

It all seems to be going very pear shaped for them.......
 
I concur. I have had same problems. So much so that Im planning to put a server in between my network and router to do nothing else but collect stats.

I suspect the results will be very interesting....
 
I've found their usage is at least an hour out of sync with reality [on specific types of downloads] . I did not notice the totals being far out wrong [per month], just that if i downloaded 1 GB between 1pm and 2pm , it will show on their report as used between 2pm and 3pm.

This is not generally a problem BUT it becomes an issue at month end / midnight . Suddenly that 11pm usage rolls over to after midnight usage and suddenly it counts as usage for the NEXT DAY/MONTH.

I think this time-shift might relate to specific protocols [i.e. bulk downloading with long open sessions] and when the session opened/closed/ended . So browsing might be "in realtime", but that 5GB download might shift out an hour+..and suddenly if you browsed/streamed AND downloaded you get that overlapping "used 2GBs in one hour" thing.


In other words: I think the usage of bigger downloads that span across an hour might actually get "rounded to the nearest hour" . So your download started at 7h30 and ended 8h15 , the entire download might actually be shown as used between 8h00 and 9h00 .
 
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diabolus said:
I've found their usage is at least an hour out of sync with reality [on specific types of downloads] . I did not notice the totals being far out wrong [per month], just that if i downloaded 1 GB between 1pm and 2pm , it will show on their report as used between 2pm and 3pm.

This is not generally a problem BUT it becomes an issue at month end / midnight . Suddenly that 11pm usage rolls over to after midnight usage and suddenly it counts as usage for the NEXT DAY/MONTH.

I think this time-shift might relate to specific protocols [i.e. bulk downloading with long open sessions] and when the session opened/closed/ended . So browsing might be "in realtime", but that 5GB download might shift out an hour+..and suddenly if you browsed/streamed AND downloaded you get that overlapping "used 2GBs in one hour" thing.


In other words: I think the usage of bigger downloads that span across an hour might actually get "rounded to the nearest hour" . So your download started at 7h30 and ended 8h15 , the entire download might actually be shown as used between 8h00 and 9h00 .
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very good point thx.
 
I cannot prove it, but it feels like my afrihost gigabytes are "smaller" than my telkom ones.
 
Mine seems fine, looking at the stats from Bandwidth Monitor there seems to be only a few megs difference between it and my client zone stats....
 
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