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@AfriMan does the fact that i signed up like 2 weeks ago make me not get a mystery discount :(
 
vash87 said:
things are crawling right now.. anyone else?
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Yes there is something seriously wrong on the Telkom Network.

Compare my tracert from this morning, average 7ms now!!!!

Tracing route to mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 261 ms 274 ms 271 ms 105-236-8-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.193]
3 317 ms 297 ms 299 ms ipc-send-tb-3a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.53.214]
4 261 ms 253 ms 253 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
5 210 ms 222 ms 208 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 249 ms 266 ms 258 ms 196.44.31.106
7 251 ms 247 ms 231 ms ct-cr-2.za--ct-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.108]
8 182 ms 203 ms 196 ms 196.44.0.74
9 201 ms 192 ms 193 ms 196-28-178-141.adsl.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.141]
10 193 ms 195 ms 184 ms tengig0-0-0-1.cpt-p-2.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.166]
11 149 ms 161 ms 146 ms vlan11.cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.99]
12 147 ms 137 ms 134 ms 196.28.178.66
13 145 ms 151 ms 163 ms cte-core-sw2.vwol.net [196.41.144.35]
14 182 ms 193 ms 203 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]


But this even happens with my Webafrica account

Tracing route to mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 287 ms 286 ms 283 ms wblv-ip-bb-1.ipnet.wa.co.za [41.185.100.1]
2 300 ms 252 ms 247 ms wnls-ipc1-vl-108.wa.co.za [196.220.59.238]
3 254 ms 238 ms 259 ms wnls-cr2-vl-801.wa.co.za [41.185.0.66]
4 259 ms 269 ms 248 ms wnls-cr1-vl-10.wa.co.za [41.185.0.42]
5 268 ms 268 ms 250 ms mweb.ct1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.15]
6 227 ms 226 ms 230 ms tengig0-0-0-1.cpt-p-2.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.166]
7 260 ms 257 ms 246 ms vlan11.cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.99]
8 285 ms 283 ms 272 ms 196.28.178.66
9 232 ms 242 ms 245 ms cte-core-sw2.vwol.net [196.41.144.35]
10 * 291 ms 297 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

The one moment it is perfect the next moment ****ed.
Is it because I mentioned on which Exchange I am on- getting targeted now?
 
jannier said:
Yes there is something seriously wrong on the Telkom Network.

Compare my tracert from this morning, average 7ms now!!!!

The one moment it is perfect the next moment ****ed.
Is it because I mentioned on which Exchange I am on- getting targeted now?
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Hmm.. seems too odd to be a coincidence - just this weekend I've had spikey pings from the 1st hop - never had exchange issues before @ all. Emailed Afrihost support they asked me for traceroutes, suddenly it was all 100% again, this morning and now - back to 100-200ms on first hop, tried IS as well as Telkoms guest account - high pings on first hop for all. Speeds fine though.

I hope there's something unusual and my exchange hasn't suddenly gotten congested from Saturday.

PS: In Plumstead but on Grassy Park exchange
 
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Haven't been able to stream a YouTube video on a 4mb line this whole weekend!

This new IPC better work wonders otherwise I'm out of here.

Afriman your QoS is set up to crap at the moment.
 
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jannier said:
Yes there is something seriously wrong on the Telkom Network.
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The one moment it is perfect the next moment ****ed.
Is it because I mentioned on which Exchange I am on- getting targeted now?
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blunt said:
Hmm.. seems too odd to be a coincidence - just this weekend I've had spikey pings from the 1st hop - never had exchange issues before @ all. Emailed Afrihost support they asked me for traceroutes, suddenly it was all 100% again, this morning and now - back to 100-200ms on first hop, tried IS as well as Telkoms guest account - high pings on first hop for all.
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This is exactly what I've been experiencing. It's very erratic. But happens more often that not now. I've had first hops of 1400ms. Already opened a ticket this week with AH to relay to Telkom - not sure how that's going to help.
 
blunt said:
Hmm.. seems too odd to be a coincidence - just this weekend I've had spikey pings from the 1st hop - never had exchange issues before @ all. Emailed Afrihost support they asked me for traceroutes, suddenly it was all 100% again, this morning and now - back to 100-200ms on first hop, tried IS as well as Telkoms guest account - high pings on first hop for all. Speeds fine though.

I hope there's something unusual and my exchange hasn't suddenly gotten congested from Saturday.

PS: In Plumstead but on Grassy Park exchange
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Well lets hope it is the Telkom Technicians doing maintenance.

If you read the Telkom forum posts, there was talk about them doing some work in Cape Town area due to high latency and so on, I don't know if this has been done or completed.

Also maybe the activation of the MTN Cape Town IPC, the Web Africa moving over to IS backbone.

Maybe with all this shuffling of traffic some idiot has put the patch cord or network cable into the wrong hole as usual.
 
This weekend I experienced Pure Internet Joy! Thanks Afrihost!

I don't know what changed but honestly this was the best overall performance I've seen from my line since Christmas holidays. Gaming sub 210ms to EU, Youtube maxed line speed, Skype perfect quality and p2p/downloads amazing! (PTA - 1mbps uncapped)

My feedback to Gian from the SMS survey was a 6 but if this keeps up the next survey will get a 10 definitely.
 
Seems to be slowly recovering now!

Tracing route to mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 105-236-8-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.193]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms ipc-send-tb-3a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.53.214]
4 19 ms 6 ms 7 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.184.28]
5 7 ms 6 ms 42 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 10 ms 6 ms 7 ms 196.44.31.106
7 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ct-cr-2.za--ct-cr-1.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.108]
8 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms 196.44.0.74
9 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 196-28-178-141.adsl.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.141]
10 9 ms 11 ms 11 ms tengig0-0-0-1.cpt-p-2.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.166]
11 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms vlan11.cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.99]
12 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 196.28.178.66
13 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms cte-core-sw2.vwol.net [196.41.144.35]
14 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

Ping is good, but download speed is awful, 10Mbps
 
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Much better than 1800 today but still dog-slow

Test conducted on 24 February 2013 22:00
Download Speed: 263 kbps (32.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 440 kbps (55 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 280 ms
 
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