It's been a week I'm fighting with Afrihost about my low download speed and high latency with international websites / servers.

I'm like to play xbox online and latency is a major issue. However, I use to get 200 – 220 ms to UK which was pretty decent for online games (considering we are thousands of miles away from the old continent).

Lately my latency jumps as high as 800 ms, and varies a lot. My download speed is 10% of normal local speed. So this is so disappointing. I decided to sign with Axxess ADLS PRO UNSHAPPED which uses SAIX from Telkom. I got my latency back to 220ms and download speed back to normal.

However this is quite frustrating since the second option is far more expensive and I have to have two ISP accounts…