THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRIHOST!

[wingnut771]

Still better than Afrihost

 

[AthenianOwl]

AH shapes P2P/NNTP AND HTTP downloads between 7am and 12am (That's right, 00h00!) Tell me, is it totally reasonable?

 

[wingnut771]

AH shapes P2P/NNTP AND HTTP downloads between 7am and 12am (That's right, 00h00!) Tell me, is it totally reasonable?

I called "daylight robbery" in one of the other threads waaaay back when they were having their **** 6 months ago. I see nothing has changed.

 

[AthenianOwl]

I called "daylight robbery" in one of the other threads waaaay back when they were having their **** 6 months ago. I see nothing has changed.

I've had enough of this crap. I've cancelled my 1-week yo AH Home Uncapped account today.

 

[Dion Disco]

And that HTTP includes large images, like wallpaper pics
You cannot download anything from normal sites without being shaped - at 6kb speed during the day
VLC from their site took 1 h 30 min for 22meg

I think they want to phase out Uncapped and by doing this, move everyone to Capped

I am out of Afrihost month end - they really s@#$%&d us as customers over - we did not sign up for the this present service

 

[m0zy]

And that HTTP includes large images, like wallpaper pics

Normal JPG files?

 

[Dion Disco]

Just tested again - large image of 2 meg size are stuck on 6kb download speed.

 

[AthenianOwl]

Normal JPG files?

Depending on the size of the file. If it's > 1mb then it will be shaped. Any websites with such images will take loooonger than usual to be fully loaded regardless of your line speed. Test it for yourself.

 

[marduke]

Tested last night with multiple files. Seems Afrihosts shaper is bonked. Sometimes downloading a jpg under 1mb takes a couple minutes & never under 3min, & sometimes downloading a jpg over 1mb takes only seconds, very strange. Also behaviour seems to be a factor too. Downloading images "like a human" by clicking on them one by one, seems to be tolerated by the shaper. Tried downloading multiple jpg's with an image grabber from an image board thread, & some of the images downloaded quite fast & then the shaper caught on & started shaping me into the ground. Configured the image grabber to only download one image at a time, which seemed to please the shaper again, as it downloaded most of the images at near line speed again. But some of the images got shaped & I couldn't conclude what the criteria was, as they ranged from anything from 300kb up to 7mb. This also happened with .webm files, even though technically they should be classified as streaming imo. Downloading the webm's manually like a human, seemed to work though. Also tested downloading streaming videos using download managers & that doesn't seem to bother the shaper all that much.

 

[m0zy]

Just tested again - large image of 2 meg size are stuck on 6kb download speed.

That's just crazy.
Looks like website designers will be forced to optimize for slow SA bandwidth. Not a bad thing I think