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There does look to have been a momentary hiccup in the Southern Region, but it looks like things are back to normal now.

Can you guys please test and advise on your current experience.
 
Slow everywhere I go. Facebook is crawling, but local sites are fine. I had several issues while podcasting last night as well. Things just don't seem to be very awesome today.
 
AfriGenie said:
There does look to have been a momentary hiccup in the Southern Region, but it looks like things are back to normal now.

Can you guys please test and advise on your current experience.
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International downloads still slow.

Ping on local is bit higher now too. 35ms

South of JHB.
 
The North IPC link is still down, so speeds in the North will still be off momentarily.

Telkom is in the process of bringing the link back up now.
 
In Durban, Youtube still defaults to 480p on a 20MB connection. Setting to 1080p and it hardly keeps ahead with the odd buffer.

Speedtest is fine with 17 down and 0.8 up.
 
whatwhat said:
In Durban, Youtube still defaults to 480p on a 20MB connection. Setting to 1080p and it hardly keeps ahead with the odd buffer.

Speedtest is fine with 17 down and 0.8 up.
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Could you please run a traceroute to Afrihost.com, I just want to make sure you are resolving to the local Google cache.

EDIT: Yes... I meant Youtube... My apologies.
 
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How perfect is my internet.


Tracing route to www.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms 105-236-14-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.14.1]
3 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 41.181.221.218
4 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms rb-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.118]
5 18 ms 16 ms 17 ms rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.mtnns.net [196.44.31.122]
6 17 ms 18 ms 16 ms jh-dca-2.za--jh-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.221]
7 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 196.31.220.12
8 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 196.31.220.25
9 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 196.31.63.206
10 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms vl9-ah-ha-2.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.42.133]
11 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]

Trace complete.
 
Looks like international speeds is running fine now. Downloads back to normal.
 
Looks like I'm going to the UK and back to JHB. Why is hop #5 so high, is that Rosebank?

C:\Users\Me>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.233.0]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 105-236-14-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.14.1]
3 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 41.181.221.218
4 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms rb-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.118]
5 222 ms 222 ms 222 ms rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
6 222 ms 222 ms 221 ms jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.42]
7 214 ms 214 ms 215 ms ls-cr-2.uk--rb-cr-1.za-g.mtnns.net [196.44.31.114]
8 221 ms 221 ms 240 ms ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.187]
9 221 ms 222 ms 222 ms google-peering-ls-pr-2.uk.mtnns.net [209.212.99.13]
10 226 ms 224 ms 230 ms 209.85.255.76
11 197 ms 197 ms 198 ms 66.249.95.9
12 198 ms 197 ms 197 ms 72.14.237.239
13 197 ms 197 ms 197 ms jnb01s07-in-f0.1e100.net [74.125.233.0]

Trace complete.
 
whatwhat said:
Looks like I'm going to the UK and back to JHB. Why is hop #5 so high, is that Rosebank?

C:\Users\Me>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.233.0]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 105-236-14-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.14.1]
3 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 41.181.221.218
4 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms rb-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.118]
5 222 ms 222 ms 222 ms rb-cr-2.za--rb-dca-2.za-b.mtnns.net [196.44.0.155]
6 222 ms 222 ms 221 ms jh-cr-1.za--rb-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.0.42]
7 214 ms 214 ms 215 ms ls-cr-2.uk--rb-cr-1.za-g.mtnns.net [196.44.31.114]
8 221 ms 221 ms 240 ms ls-pr-2.uk--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.187]
9 221 ms 222 ms 222 ms google-peering-ls-pr-2.uk.mtnns.net [209.212.99.13]
10 226 ms 224 ms 230 ms 209.85.255.76
11 197 ms 197 ms 198 ms 66.249.95.9
12 198 ms 197 ms 197 ms 72.14.237.239
13 197 ms 197 ms 197 ms jnb01s07-in-f0.1e100.net [74.125.233.0]

Trace complete.
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I believe hop 5 is where the connection joins one of the undersea links.

Which region are you in?
 
I am having excellent speeds. Things are really looking up :) *touch wood

Something strange that I have never seen is happening, however: my 2nd hop (exchange?) is coming up with Request timed out.

Code: 
Tracing route to afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.2
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    50 ms    52 ms    53 ms  41.181.221.213
  4    45 ms    60 ms    39 ms  41.181.221.214
  5    62 ms    59 ms    40 ms  rb-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.118]
  6    58 ms    45 ms    45 ms  rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.mtnns.net [196.44.31.122]
  7    45 ms    57 ms   117 ms  jh-dca-2.za--jh-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.221]
  8   101 ms    39 ms    40 ms  196.31.220.12
  9    43 ms    43 ms    51 ms  196.31.220.25
 10    42 ms    45 ms    39 ms  196.31.63.206
 11    47 ms    52 ms    48 ms  vl9-ah-ha-2.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.42.133]
 12    93 ms    56 ms    47 ms  cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]

Trace complete.

Is that the exchange? Should I be worried? :confused:
Also, ping is a little high in comparison to other ISPs. My mates in the same area on other ISPs get 205~220ms international (gaming). I get 230 minimum and it spikes up to ~310ms every now and then.

Code: 
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=228ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=264ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=301ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=50
 
giggity said:
I am having excellent speeds. Things are really looking up :) *touch wood

Something strange that I have never seen is happening, however: my 2nd hop (exchange?) is coming up with Request timed out.

Code: 
Tracing route to afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.2
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    50 ms    52 ms    53 ms  41.181.221.213
  4    45 ms    60 ms    39 ms  41.181.221.214
  5    62 ms    59 ms    40 ms  rb-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.118]
  6    58 ms    45 ms    45 ms  rb-dca-2.za--rb-cr-1.mtnns.net [196.44.31.122]
  7    45 ms    57 ms   117 ms  jh-dca-2.za--jh-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.221]
  8   101 ms    39 ms    40 ms  196.31.220.12
  9    43 ms    43 ms    51 ms  196.31.220.25
 10    42 ms    45 ms    39 ms  196.31.63.206
 11    47 ms    52 ms    48 ms  vl9-ah-ha-2.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.42.133]
 12    93 ms    56 ms    47 ms  cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]

Trace complete.

Is that the exchange? Should I be worried? :confused:
Also, ping is a little high in comparison to other ISPs. My mates in the same area on other ISPs get 205~220ms international (gaming). I get 230 minimum and it spikes up to ~310ms every now and then.

Code: 
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=228ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=264ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=301ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=50
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The second hop is a recent trend we have noticed since Telkom made some changes, we are working with them to once again display the correct information there.

You should start to see some improvement on the international latency over the next few hours.
 
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