Only getting 60% bandwidth from Afrihost

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Wyzak

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Hey,

I decided to do a little speed test and see if I update all of my different games at once what kind of speeds I could get from Afrihost over a longer period of time.

I updated Starcraft II, Minecraft, Path of Exile and Rift while downloading the beta files for Defiance.

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My average download speed is 2443kbps. I supposedly have a 4Mbps line, but I'm basically getting 60% of my download speed. I would have been happy with a download speed of about 3500kbps taking the packet overhead into account. Essentially this means that I have to wait 30% longer for my downloads to complete. The test was done in Centurion at 10AM on Thursday the 21st of March.

After the screenshot was taken Starcraft II, Path of Exile and Rift were still updating. The Defiance files were also still downloading. Only Minecraft had completed.

I would be interested if other people can repeat this experiment and post their results.
 
49min to do 877MB... so that's 17.9MB/min = 305KB/s. Ideally, 100% of speed on a 4Mb line is around 425KB/s, so you're getting 72% of that.
In all honesty I'd call that shaping.
 
I repeated the same experiment at 2:31PM on Thursday the 21st of March.

This time Origin and Starcraft II were updating. Defiance beta was downloading.

afrihost2.png

2059kbps average over 49 minutes. That's 15% slower than what my results were this morning.
Update: afrihost3.png 2291kbps average over 95 minutes.
 
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I must have missed it, can't find the relative info, are you on an uncapped, capped, normal or business account, what speed is the account what is your line speed? You could have a 4Mb/s line and a 2Mb/s account although I doubt it. :-)
 
pgs said:
I must have missed it, can't find the relative info, are you on an uncapped, capped, normal or business account, what speed is the account what is your line speed? You could have a 4Mb/s line and a 2Mb/s account although I doubt it. :-)
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Looks like a 4Mbps shaped, uncapped line/product.
 
Have you tried a different ISP?

Remember telkom says it is a best effort service. Maybe it is your phone line and not your ISP?

Testing is the only way to know.
 
After 3 and a half hours my average download is 2474kbps. afrihost4.png
 
MickeyD said:
The ISP account may be "up to 10Mbps" but your ADSL line is only "up to 4Mbps". Your capped account will operate at the line speed.
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Yes thank you, I am aware of that. I was simply answering the question from pgs.
 
froot said:
Care to post some line stats then? SNR, Attenuation, etc. Also a traceroute to whatever website [when your line is idling].
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Upstream noise margin
relative capacity occupation: 77%
noise margin upstream: 11.0 db
output power downstream: 19.5 dbm
attenuation upstream: 19.0 db
carrier load: number of bits per symbol(tone)
tone 0- 31: 00 00 00 04 57 78 88 88 88 88 87 78 76 53 33 00
tone 32- 63: 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 23
tone 64- 95: 03 33 33 33 43 34 34 45 45 56 55 55 56 66 66 66
tone 96-127: 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 67 67 77
tone 128-159: 76 67 66 77 67 66 66 67 76 66 66 66 66 66 66 66
tone 160-191: 66 66 66 66 67 66 67 67 77 77 77 66 76 77 77 76
tone 192-223: 76 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 60 43 04 55 66 66 66
tone 224-255: 66 66 65 66 66 66 66 65 66 66 66 66 56 66 66 66

Downstream noise margin
relative capacity occupation: 72%
noise margin downstream: 14.0 db
output power upstream: 10.0 dbm
attenuation downstream: 31.5 db
carrier load: number of bits per symbol(tone)
tone 0- 31: 00 00 00 04 57 78 88 88 88 88 87 78 76 53 33 00
tone 32- 63: 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 23
tone 64- 95: 03 33 33 33 43 34 34 45 45 56 55 55 56 66 66 66
tone 96-127: 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 67 67 77
tone 128-159: 76 67 66 77 67 66 66 67 76 66 66 66 66 66 66 66
tone 160-191: 66 66 66 66 67 66 67 67 77 77 77 66 76 77 77 76
tone 192-223: 76 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 60 43 04 55 66 66 66
tone 224-255: 66 66 65 66 66 66 66 65 66 66 66 66 56 66 66 66

ATM status
[ SAR Counters ]
inPkts = 0x021b0519, inDiscards = 0x00000452
inF4Pkts = 0x00000000, inF5Pkts = 0x00000000
inDMATaskEnd = 0x00000000, inBufErr = 0x00000000
inCrcErr = 0x00000353
inBufOverflow = 0x00000009, inBufMaxLenErr= 0x00000000
inBufLenErr = 0x000000f6, inBufDescrOV = 0x00000000
outPkts = 0x022980c2, outDiscards = 0x0002a8ce
outF4Pkts = 0x00000000, outF5Pkts = 0x00000000
softRstCnt = 0x00000000
 
Ironically the most expensive ADSL account I have per GB does the worst - Openweb (IS) unshaped -1752kbps after 9 minutes.
 
Your line stats are normal.
Traceroute?

Go to command prompt, type in "tracert games.saix.net".
 
Tracing route to games.saix.net [196.43.22.251]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 112 ms 55 ms 69 ms 105-236-4-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.
4.129]
2 28 ms 20 ms 86 ms ipc-recieve-rb-3a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.77]
3 181 ms 614 ms 25 ms rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.14
6]
4 347 ms 26 ms 28 ms jh-cr-2.za--rb-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.95
]
5 96 ms 373 ms 172 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
6 89 ms 39 ms 197 ms rrba-ip-se-2-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.58.1
7]
7 341 ms 181 ms 96 ms 196.43.25.137
8 189 ms 607 ms 33 ms wblv-ip-esr-2-atm-5-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [19
6.43.23.110]
9 67 ms 1293 ms 305 ms wblv-ip-rcache-3-vif0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43
.22.251]

Trace complete.
 
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