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fxit_man said:
Thanks AfriGuy. Any way I can push myself back to a "normal" profile? It's not gaming friendly :(
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I've seen Telkom do this, however I don't think it's a permanent fix.
The small increase of latency really shouldn't affect your overall experience though.
 
AfriGuy said:
I've seen Telkom do this, however I don't think it's a permanent fix.
The small increase of latency really shouldn't affect your overall experience though.
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:( but there's quite a difference from 15-20ms pings in gaming to sub 50ms pings. They just go and kill us gamers like that! :(

Man...fiber can't come quick enough!

Thanks though.
 
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fxit_man said:
:( but there's quite a difference from 15-20ms pings in gaming to sub 50ms pings. They just go and kill us gamers like that! :(

Man...fiber can't come quick enough!

Thanks though.
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I got tired of asking Charl to change me back to fast path every other day. I wish you could disable interleaved on your router to force fast path. Anyone know if this is possible?
 
Hummercellc said:
I got tired of asking Charl to change me back to fast path every other day. I wish you could disable interleaved on your router to force fast path. Anyone know if this is possible?
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It's a value dictated by the DSLAM itself I'm afraid.
While changing it back may/ can work for now - I'm pretty sure it'll be rolled out as a standard pretty soon.
 
Had a look at my routers, tried 3 different ones on the same line and I get this.

Edimax AR-7211A
Latency: Interleaved
ADSL Mode: G992.5 ADSL2+
Down Sync: 22184kbps
Up Sync: 1022kbps
Attenuation Downstream: 4
Attenuation Upstream: 4
SNR Margin Downstream: 9.9
SNR Margin Upstream: 6.8
Test ping 32ms to afrihost.com

Zyxel VMG1312-B10A
Latency: Interleaved
Mode: ADSL2+
Attenuation Downstream: 1
Attenuation Upstream: 1
SNR Margin Downstream: 10.4
SNR Margin Upstream: 11.7
Down Sync: 24001kbps
Up Sync: 1023kbps
Test ping 31ms to afrihost.com

Billion 7402x
Latency: Fast Path
Mode: G.Dmt.BisPlus (ADSL2+)
SNR Margin(Upstream) 14.5 dB
SNR Margin(Downstream) 7.65 dB
Line Attenuation(Upstream) 0.5 dB
Line Attenuation(Downstream) 9.0 dB
Down Sync 20480kbps
Up Sync 1024kbps
Test ping 16ms to afrihost.com

It would seem for some reason the Billion routers don't sync using interleaved?

If that is the case changing all my routers to Billion, going to test this on more lines.

Anyone else on interleaved at the moment, who has an older Billion router lying around they can test with?
 
fxit_man said:
Interesting Hummercellc. Wish I could see what mode it syncs on a netgear dgn2200. Pretty sure it's interleaved though judging by my pings..
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What speed do you pay for and what is your line currently syncing at?

you can Telnet into your router and use this command: adslctl info --stats

Look for Channel: INTR or FAST
 
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Hummercellc said:
Then you are on interleaved, you can only sync past your paid for speed on interleaved not on fastpath
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:( yeah happened about early December when Telkom started "tweaking" everyone's lines.

But I doubt that means that if I tell them to put it back to 10mb then I'll stay off of interleaved...?
 
AfriGuy said:
It's a value dictated by the DSLAM itself I'm afraid.
While changing it back may/ can work for now - I'm pretty sure it'll be rolled out as a standard pretty soon.
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Can you, as a major ISP, tell them not to do it?
 
Afri*

Haven't connected to my capped account this month at all, yet 2% of my cap was used. Keenan M said this was an error and that this would be corrected, nothing has been done yet. Do I wait or call back? (initial contact was made on Monday.)
 
MikeKee said:
Afri*

Haven't connected to my capped account this month at all, yet 2% of my cap was used. Keenan M said this was an error and that this would be corrected, nothing has been done yet. Do I wait or call back? (initial contact was made on Monday.)
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Hey MikeKee! That sounds super weird... Happy to look at your account and usage, and sort you out! Just drop me a PM with your deets. :)
 
AfriFella said:
Unfortunately we are all at the mercy of Telkom regarding infrastructure decisions. :(
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Yes, but can't you go and ask them? I am sure DJ/CrystalWeb would support you, interleave is not very good for anyone who does gaming. Are they trying to make copper looking even worse to get more people to move to fiber?
 
Slow for me tonight. 1.42mbps on my 8mbps line. Latency is at 44ms

100% packet loss

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Dell>ping bras.afrihost.com

Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),


Tracing route to mybroadband.co.za [104.20.72.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 80 ms 5 ms 95 ms 10.0.0.2
2 14 ms 103 ms 99 ms 169-0-37-1.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.0.37.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 87 ms 101 ms 101 ms cpt-rx1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.94]
5 123 ms 167 ms 100 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
6 116 ms 100 ms 101 ms africainx.ct1.napafrica.net [196.10.140.7]
7 115 ms 100 ms 100 ms CORE.GP-ID-DCE-3.TO.GP-ID-MEC-2.AINX.P2P.10G.za [41.84.13.228]
8 104 ms 32 ms 118 ms 41-66-181-59-3b.CLO008-CDN-local-VLAN-321.africainx.net [41.66.181.59]
9 131 ms 97 ms 101 ms 104.20.72.110

Trace complete.

ok grant it im on wifi at the moment, but that doesnt look good :(
 
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Browsing also slow as fck tonight for me though streaming seems to be managing just fine.

Pings also seem just fine.

traceroute to mybroadband.co.za (104.20.71.110), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 router.....za.net (192.168.1.1) 3.891 ms 3.408 ms 1.744 ms
2 * * *
3 cpt-rx2.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.82) 12.140 ms 12.349 ms 15.117 ms
4 cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za (169.1.5.128) 12.366 ms 9.582 ms 17.479 ms
5 africainx.ct1.napafrica.net (196.10.140.7) 11.978 ms 10.156 ms 11.024 ms
6 core.gp-id-dce-3.to.gp-id-mec-2.ainx.p2p.10g.za (41.84.13.228) 45.932 ms 33.030 ms 29.094 ms
7 41-66-181-59-3b.clo008-cdn-local-vlan-321.africainx.net (41.66.181.59) 28.928 ms 26.754 ms 34.742 ms
8 104.20.71.110 (104.20.71.110) 26.699 ms 30.455 ms 27.080 ms

Last Result:
Download Speed: 3424 kbps (428 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 319 kbps (39.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 11 ms
Jitter: 12 ms

4mb uncapped

Just http/s traffic thats really sluggish.
 
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