{"id":70038,"date":"2014-10-25T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70038"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T08:29:53","slug":"this-is-why-your-afrihost-adsl-connection-is-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/70038-this-is-why-your-afrihost-adsl-connection-is-slow","title":{"rendered":"This is why your Afrihost ADSL connection is slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Afrihost ADSL subscribers are complaining about slow speeds and poor network performance. To address these problems, Afrihost is upgrading its ADSL network across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Capped and uncapped Afrihost ADSL subscribers have noted they are experiencing\u00a0speeds well below what their ADSL lines offer and what they expect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m getting anything from 1Mbps to 2.5Mbps on a 4Mbps line with a capped Afrihost account,\u201d said one user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy speed tests are hovering at 4Mbps on a 10Mbps ADSL line. I\u2019ve never had such slow speeds since I moved to a 10Mbps line,\u201d said another user.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost director Greg Payne said that the company had seen increased ADSL usage in all regions recently, and to address the increased demand for data Afrihost was upgrading its ADSL network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week we upgraded our East IPC (Durban and Eastern Regions). This week and next week we are in the process of upgrading our North IPC (Johannesburg and Northern regions) and our South IPC (Cape Town and Southern regions),\u201d said Payne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully within the next 10 days or so we will be back to normal,\u201d Payne said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see: <a title=\"Afrihost capped ADSL discussion\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/473778-Afrihost-CAPPED-ADSL-Feedback-(MTN)\"><strong>Afrihost capped ADSL network discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Also see: <strong><a title=\"Afrihost Uncapped ADSL Feedback\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596703-Afrihost-Uncapped-ADSL-Feedback-(Pt3)\">Afrihost uncapped ADSL discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/112510-afrihost-adsl-network-upgrades.html\"><em><strong>Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70013-far-cry-4-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">Far Cry 4 pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/69897-gtx-980m-970m-gaming-laptops-sa-pricing.html\">GTX 980M, 970M gaming laptops \u2013 SA pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/69859-playstation-tv-sa-pricing-and-launch-date.html\">PlayStation TV \u2013 SA pricing and launch date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Afrihost customers are complaining about slow ADSL speeds and network problems \u2013 here is what Afrihost is doing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":51331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[293,2289,21],"class_list":["post-70038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}