I have just spent about 30 minutes on the phone to Telkom trying to explain to them that for two weeks now I have not been able to view my hotmail email from my adsl connection. When connecting to my VPN at the office from the same machine (which has a leased line through IS), I can connect to hotmail fine, which tells me that there is a problem with Telkom Internets HTTP proxy. Finally I spoke to someone at SAIX who told me I should try changing my http proxy to dsl-cache.saix.net:8080. I will try this later but was wondering if anyone else has been having similar problems and if so, how they resolved it.
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PeterRbg
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Could be Telkom problem
About a month back I had a similar problem. Could not send any emails larger than a few kB, and could not connect properly using web email interface. Everything else appeared to be fine.
MWeb suggested it could be a Telkom port priority problem, as only traffic on this specific port was affected.
A day or two later the Telkom exchange went down for a few hours, and when it came back everything was back to normal.
About a month back I had a similar problem. Could not send any emails larger than a few kB, and could not connect properly using web email interface. Everything else appeared to be fine.
MWeb suggested it could be a Telkom port priority problem, as only traffic on this specific port was affected.
A day or two later the Telkom exchange went down for a few hours, and when it came back everything was back to normal.