50-75% packet loss and then it went dead...

[Leia]

I've been struggling with my connection at home for the last 5 days.
Can't play wow and I can't update steam.
Can't hear anything using a VoIP app - whatever the person on the other side is saying, just breaks up into noise.
Then last night I could not browse internationally. Could not use msn. Could not browse locally (could not even open the absa.co.za page). Only thing left was irc. I decided to try and ping some sites - google.co.za 75% packet loss; ananzi.co.za 50% packet loss.
And then it died completely. Gave up, went to bed... this morning still no luck with reconnecting.

Has anybody had similar problems?

[thisgeek]

Have you tried phoning 0800DSLDSL? (0800375375)

[Leia]

Yes I have already phoned them twice. Got BS'ed last nite and this morning's call did not help much either.

[Clipse]

that sucks, happened in various areas in cpt aswell selectively.. They targetting the WOW addicts? ;-)

[mikkelz_za]

Can't play wow and I can't update steam.

Thank God it's not just me. I've been "Preparing to play Counter-Strike:Source" since Sunday evening and am now a whopping 17% complete. Nothing like watching the download speed fluctuate between 4KB/sec and 0KB/sec.

[mikkelz_za]

Your line speed is approximately 422.5 Kbps or 51.8 kBytes/sec

You could have ****ing fooled me.