ADSL international connectivity problems

TENET CTO Andrew Alston however indicated that they have not experienced any SEACOM downtime which may suggest that the problem lies elsewhere.
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For a change..
 
And here I was trying to figure out wtf is going on my side from 10 and only now afrihost puts up that there is problems. Fk man they could have saved me an hour of trying to figure out wtf is going on if they had it up on their website earlier.
 
CrzWaco said:
And here I was trying to figure out wtf is going on my side from 10 and only now afrihost puts up that there is problems. Fk man they could have saved me an hour of trying to figure out wtf is going on if they had it up on their website earlier.
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Rebooted two rooter, my laptop and checked the phone line. So yea, same boat.
 
Services in south africa should be pay per day. rather than per month. as at this rate , its only about 70% uptime...
 
CrzWaco said:
And here I was trying to figure out wtf is going on my side from 10 and only now afrihost puts up that there is problems. Fk man they could have saved me an hour of trying to figure out wtf is going on if they had it up on their website earlier.
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traceroute to international server, going fine for 6 hops, then lost.

Hmm, guess it is SEACOM again :-P

Turns out the my free FNBConnect account is working fine. Whaddaya know!?
 
RoganDawes said:
traceroute to international server, going fine for 6 hops, then lost.

Hmm, guess it is SEACOM again :-P

Turns out the my free FNBConnect account is working fine. Whaddaya know!?
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Yeah could not connect at all earlier at least I got local atm. Wish I was not capped on my WA account then should have had no problems.
 
Update:

Internet Solutions and Afrihost informed their subscribers just after 12:00 that the international access problems has been resolved.
 
AndrewAlston said:
There are so many complex issues involved in the economics of bandwidth provision and the consumer needs to be cognizant of this, if you're buying a service, and its the cheapest available, you're *GOING* to have problems sooner or later, so the consumer needs to do some homework into what he is buying. What are the contention ratios? What are the backup plans? What is the reliability? Once that homework is done, the consumer can ask himself if he's willing to accept the risks, or pay the premium that comes with buying something of higher quality.
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Accepted, however there are quite a few local ISP's that I can list that are dishonest and ambiguous in their dealings with the consumer. Have you ever tried obtaining contention ratios from any local ISP?

Best advice I can give to the consumer is:

Stay away from ISP's that utilise shaping and or utilise IS' backbone.
 
My company is still experiencing Internation Connectivity problems to some IP's we use for business use. We run through IS Business
 
Axxess in turn informed their users via Twitter that “Users may experience no international connectivity due to an issue on the Seacom Cable.IS are investigating.No ETR at present”.
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How are their users with no international connectivity supposed to access twitter.

That tweet should of been replaced with, "If you can read this, your international connectivity works".
 
I wish Telkom Internet would introduce competitively priced options, because when things are down or slow, I switch to my extra 1GB TI account and all is ALWAYS WELL. Telkom may be cr@p in every other department but their adsl account is top class.
 
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