South Africa's 500,000% Internet traffic surge
Internet traffic travelling through South Africa's biggest Internet exchange — NAPAfrica — has jumped by over half a million per cent in just over a decade.
Africa's largest data centre company — Teraco — launched NAPAfrica as a vendor-neutral...
Africa Data Centres and INX-ZA launch free remote peering
Africa Data Centres has announced that it is now offering remote peering through its partnership with INX-ZA, allowing customers to use any network service provider's infrastructure to reach Internet exchange points (IXPs).
INX-ZA — a...
Hi everyone
Frogfoot is currently trenching in Pinelands, WC, with completion estimated to be end August. We have Openserve at the moment, but their prices are way too high (and it is Telkom!).
Looking at the Frogfoot website, it seems like SAFibre is by far the most cost effective option...
Hi Guys and Gals in the industry.
Since the Apple and Windows updates have been released in the last 2 days, NAP Africa has been HAMMERED!!
NAP JHB in particular today, seem to have limited their bandwidth to 90Gbps in total, which is killing ISP's with anything more than a 2Gbps link to...
A couple of times since the launch of Homefront I have tried to get some "Friends Only" matches going.
Between me and 3 of my friends 3 of us are on MWEB and one is on an IS account.
Firstly I tried hosting (on my MWEB uncapped 4096). Everyone was able to connect. My 2 friends also on MWEB...
So,
For those of you who do not know, Black Ops released on Tuesday. And Many gamers were upset as they came home to their beloved PC's only to realise that the game was BROKEN... It was riddled with Lag issues, Bug, Ping through the roof, etc etc.
So last night (I believe) Treyarch sent...
I've been with MWeb for the past 6/5months now and have been very satisfied with their service. So I've decided to upgrade my line from a 512kb to a 4mb line. I checked with them and they said yes my line can be converted.
So I sent through all my documentation and they replied saying it...
Vodacom to Mweb peering/ Affects on online gaming
Hi guys/gals,
Just wondering what vodacom has planned to do to sort out the peering issues it now has with mweb? If things stay as they are, COD black ops as well as all the other gaming servers that MWEB hosts are no longer avaliable locally...
Telkom slates MWEB’s transit cut decision
Telkom says MWEB’s decision to unilaterally cut of transit links “is not in the spirit of the Internet community”
MWEB peering cuts ‘a storm in a teacup’ says MTN Business
MTN Business dismisses MWEB’s decision to cut its paid transit links as insignificant, arguing that free peering should only take place where it is mutually beneficial
Just read the article regarding MWEB cutting local transit links, and am wondering where iBurst fits in to all this?
Put bluntly, does iBurst have local peering with MWEB (assuming we're not already using MWEB in some way as a provider)? If not, what is being done?
EDIT: I see IS and MWEB have...
MWEB peering changes begin - fallout imminent
MWEB started making the configuration changes which will see terminating local transit routes to MTN and Vodacom
MWEB cuts local transit links: The peering war begins
MWEB will today sever their local transit to MTN and Vodacom, with Telkom to follow early next week. Expect a few fireworks in the SA Internet space!
MWEB won't pay to peer: What will happen next?
MWEB recently said it will not pay one cent for local transit as of November and the first links are set to be cut in days
I remember this related article a while back here on my BB...
I have received this email from Hetzner now...
Slower connectivity for MWeb subscribers
Dear Hetzner Customer,
MWeb recently announced that they will no longer pay other local internet service providers (ISPs) e.g...