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Hi Guys

We've had quite a few threads discussing Afrihost Uncapped products and bundles. If you're confused about where to get your questions asked, post them here or PM me, but otherwise I will still be checking the various threads to see where I can help out.

Anyone can sign up for an uncapped product from this link:-

http://go.afrihost.com/afrihost-uncapped-awesomeness

You'll get 50% off your uncapped pro-rata and your first full month (does not apply to bundles).

Enjoy! :D
 
Quiet thread, probably a good reflection on the product :)

For me - Gmail was rather slow yesterday but not un-usable, other than that it's been perfect.
 
blunt said:
Quiet thread, probably a good reflection on the product :)

For me - Gmail was rather slow yesterday but not un-usable, other than that it's been perfect.
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Gmail was down for me too during day time yesterday I struggled to log in.
 
Does gmail use local servers? I noticed that routing to google.co.za was via london yesterday
 
Sinbad said:
Does gmail use local servers? I noticed that routing to google.co.za was via london yesterday
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As far as I know, Google does have local servers, but they also change their routing depending on their own infrastructure. I don't think they post any notifications when they do :(
 
AfriMan said:
As far as I know, Google does have local servers, but they also change their routing depending on their own infrastructure. I don't think they post any notifications when they do :(
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The end of the traceroute was cape town, one of the hops was in docklands... fail of note.
 
Google/Gmail was down on Mweb also for about 20minutes yest ^

As for the Uncapped Bundle account - running like a gulf stream. Usage at 48gig since I signed up the day the bundles came out,not being overly aggressive with my downloads,but it's more than I had on my Capped account so all smiles :)
 
I am so happy with the service that I have moved my telkom line, and am also moving some domains/hosting :)
 
Has anyone noticed a slight increase in overall ping? mine used to be 9, now its stable, but at 11.

I know its not much, but still... just curious.
 
Just as a matter of interest, i fired up a couple of torrents this morning.

When I left home, was doing line speed (600KB/sec)... So torrent shaping doesn't seem to be as harsh as some people have made out.
 
My ping has gone up again, now to 12 (I have my own TS server, and set it to show my ping). When I initially got the account, the ping was good at sub 10ms on speedtest.net as well as on the TS server. I know that it is not a huge deal, but I like to see pings come down, not go up!

The speedtests initially showed 9ms to newlands server, and 10 to mweb, telkom etc in the cape, now to Newlands they are showing 15ms.

Anyone having similar ping increase? it could be my exchange...
 
I'm getting 15ms ping to the Telkom SAIX cape town server, 3.64mb down, 0.48mb up.
17ms to Web Africa newlands on speedtest, 1.59mbps down, 0.49mb up.

PING webafrica.co.za (196.220.58.66): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=0 ttl=115 time=43.306 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=10 ttl=115 time=11.580 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=11 ttl=115 time=13.748 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=12 ttl=115 time=10.712 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=13 ttl=115 time=11.643 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=14 ttl=115 time=12.111 ms
64 bytes from 196.220.58.66: icmp_seq=15 ttl=115 time=10.901 ms

PING afrihost.com (196.38.88.139): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 196.38.88.139: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=29.411 ms
64 bytes from 196.38.88.139: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=28.309 ms
64 bytes from 196.38.88.139: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=28.505 ms
64 bytes from 196.38.88.139: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=29.112 ms

PING www.mweb.co.za (196.2.63.110): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=0 ttl=117 time=10.067 ms
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=10 ttl=117 time=9.282 ms
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=11 ttl=117 time=8.879 ms
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=12 ttl=117 time=9.287 ms
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=13 ttl=117 time=9.682 ms
64 bytes from 196.2.63.110: icmp_seq=14 ttl=117 time=9.161 ms
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(skipped a few hops because my router gives redirect messages sometimes - lan issue)

Seems ok - I have a server hosted in Hetzner's CPT datacenter (newlands) and pings to that are between 8 and 9ms.
 
Nothing but praise from me so far on the 10mb account that I've been trialing with the signup special. Full speed on demand 24/7.

MWEB seem to believe that saying R1999/month for 10mb uncapped is good value for money will actually make it so. Come the end of the month, if nothing changes, they'll most likely be losing another customer to Afrihost's new bundle offer.
 
blunt said:
I'm getting 15ms ping to the Telkom SAIX cape town server, 3.64mb down, 0.48mb up.
17ms to Web Africa newlands on speedtest, 1.59mbps down, 0.49mb up.



(skipped a few hops because my router gives redirect messages sometimes - lan issue)

Seems ok - I have a server hosted in Hetzner's CPT datacenter (newlands) and pings to that are between 8 and 9ms.
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Thanks for the info blunt!

im pretty sure it has increased then overall... maybe the routing/peering on the pop in cpt has changed a bit...
 
Seeyou said:
Nothing but praise from me so far on the 10mb account that I've been trialing with the signup special. Full speed on demand 24/7.

MWEB seem to believe that saying R1999/month for 10mb uncapped is good value for money will actually make it so. Come the end of the month, if nothing changes, they'll most likely be losing another customer to Afrihost's new bundle offer.
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I'm currently with mweb 4mb uncapped , would like to get the 10mb uncapped from Afrihost but mweb got me still for anotha month. Can only move 1 August. How did u manage to get a trial account ? I really hate this 1 calendar notice from mweb. And their online user account systems can't beat Afrihost.
 
Voyager73 said:
I'm currently with mweb 4mb uncapped , would like to get the 10mb uncapped from Afrihost but mweb got me still for anotha month. Can only move 1 August. How did u manage to get a trial account ? I really hate this 1 calendar notice from mweb. And their online user account systems can't beat Afrihost.
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It's not a trial account - as I said, I'm "trialing" the account with the 50% off sign-up special that Afriman has been linking everywhere. For lack of an actual trial account, it was the next best thing, and it worked out for the best, as Afrihost's uncapped has exceeded my expectations and the bundle will now actually save me money, for more than double the speed.
 
I'm also stuck with MWEB until Aug, their cancellation process is horrific - been 4 days since I sent my cancellation form and still no response.
 
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