On 3G and outgoing mail not sending? Chances are, you need to set the SMTP server specific to your network. Here’s the list that may grow over time: (more…)
Tag: afrihost
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Afrihost ADSL Uncapped – throttled at 32GB to 0.56Mbps
So – Afrihost ADSL uncapped… the promise of “Pure Internet Joy” is part of the offering’s headline.
On a 4Mbps line, the offering of the uncapped account is quite good. Then came the warnings — throtteling may occur based on usage patterns. Then came the notification that there would be an hour-to-hour usage analysis to control the access to consistent line speeds for the “other 93%” of users using the IS-resold Afrihost bandwidth.
To my mind, that’s understandable – if someone’s pulling 210GB a month on an “uncapped” account, they should be throttled as that can be seen as excessive. (more…)
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[UPDATE] SEACOM down again: A ship, a ship…
New update at 5am SAST: So they have initiated the deployment of the ship to the wet plant. That does not mean, though, that the ship is actually is already on its way – it’s deployment is initiated…
Official communications from SEACOM have been promised to follow…
In addition:
SEACOM’s investigations have revealed that an offshore repeater has failed on the cable’s segment 9, to the north of Mombasa. This unexpected failure affects traffic towards both India and
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[UPDATE] SEACOM down again
One of my service providers have forwarded me an update to the latest SEACOM outage:
According to the update, SEACOM has sent out notification that they are currently localising the fault from both Mumbai and Dar-es-Salaam (in Tanzania). (more…)
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SEACOM down again – cable break in Kenya
Afrihost, as well as a range of other resellers of SEACOM bandwidth, again had to post notifications today of network downtime:
We are experiencing an intermittent International ADSL connectivity problem. Our upstream service providers’ engineers are investigating the cause of the problem. We will post more details here shortly once we have more information.
Services such as Instant Messenger and websites hosted overseas(google,facebook) have been affected.
From my datacentres’ notification reports, I can say that this is related to a failure on the SEACOM link in Kenya; as Afrihost’s only redundancy would be their hosting infrastructure, which their proxy is running on, they’re pointing users to http://www.afrihost.co.za/proxy.pac as the proxy solution for now.
Data centres are using other redundancy links through London and DC on a very congested local network with now high latency… (more…)