It depends on what your area setup is.
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It depends on what your area setup is.
Icemanbrfc
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think im still on a Dslam, so im assuming ADSL
Sorry to hear
The guest account isn't always 100% accurate - do you have any test results you can paste up here either way?
Sorry to hear
The guest account isn't always 100% accurate - do you have any test results you can paste up here either way?
Sorry to hear
The guest account isn't always 100% accurate - do you have any test results you can paste up here either way?
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Usually get a good 3.5 -> 3.8 Mbps on the line but since yesterday its been unbearable
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Johnatan56
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Usually get a good 3.5 -> 3.8 Mbps on the line but since yesterday its been unbearable
That's a lot of latency on the telkom guest account and quite high jitter for being within Cape Town.
EDIT: To compare on my 10Mbps line:
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Tracert:
Code:
Tracing route to 129.232.196.50 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms home.gateway.pace.net [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 26ms 26 ms 25 ms cpt-up1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.105]
4 26 ms 26 ms 35 ms cpt-up2.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.106]
5 26 ms 56 ms 26 ms cpt-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.128]
6 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms africainx.ct1.napafrica.net [196.10.140.7]
7 65 ms 65 ms 42 ms CORE.GP-CN-HET-MEE-1.TO.GP-HV-ICT-MEE-1.DFA.P2P.10G.za.africainx.net [41.84.13.66]
8 44 ms 45 ms 44 ms 41-66-132-242-f2.HET001-CPE-1-to-GP-CN-HET-MEE-1.africainx.net [41.66.132.242]
9 45 ms 46 ms 48 ms core-access-switch1.jnb1.host-h.net [197.189.193.1]
10 45 ms 49 ms 46 ms row-access-switch1-pod4.jnb1.host-h.net [197.189.193.47]
11 52 ms 57 ms 47 ms 129.232.196.50
Trace complete.
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It's the Afrihost account, cant switch over to telkom guest since I'm remoting into my machine from work
Johnatan56
Honorary Master
Would you be able to show the line stats and ping bras.afrihost.com?
EDIT:
tracert
Code:
Pinging bras.afrihost.com [155.239.255.250] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=63
Reply from 155.239.255.250: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=63
Ping statistics for 155.239.255.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 24ms, Average = 23msQuite a bit of latency here - can you grab a ping to bras.afrihost.com please?
Also just a heads up - that OpenServe test lists your public IP - may want to remove it.
Johnatan56
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That looks like a problem between your home and (including) the exchange.
Looks like high ping to your exchange - can you paste a ping instead though? That'll show the response over a few ICMP requests.
Yeah but when I called yesterday they insisted the line looks fine.
Ever since they stole our cables we've been downgraded from 10Mb to 4Mb and nothings been stable
The line sync and throughput may look good, but the latency doesn't
Have you tested a backup ISP to see if the experience is replicated there too?
Johnatan56
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Check PM for links to some free ones.
Icemanbrfc
Honorary Master
Johnatan can you delete this post please or remove the Telkom speed test bit in my post?
You'd better hope Rickster doesn't read this post or he'll tell you to reboot your router.
Oh are you suppose to reboot the router
He said it himself
Reboot it and you will see a difference in line stats.
I recommend a solid 30 min reboot (off for 30 Min)
Prove me wrong.
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