Anyone else having major issues with international traffic?

[CPTBoy]

Local is fine, but international is pretty much dead.

Pings are fine and traceroutes to international sites are also fine, but downloading / browsing / streaming is horrible on anything outside South Africa.

Tested on 3 account

Plugg 4mb uncapped
WebAfrica capped
Afrihost capped

I get the same results with all 3 of them. Can a faulty exchange or line do this? I highly doubt it, because my local traffic is ok.

 

[Napalm2880]

I get 565ms and 25% packet loss to local.. MWEB/Telkom tell me its exhcange congestion. I think thats become the new excuse for any fault.

>ping mweb.co.za

Pinging mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.2.63.110: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.2.63.110: bytes=32 time=565ms TTL=122
Request timed out.
Reply from 196.2.63.110: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 196.2.63.110:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 565ms, Average = 200ms

 

[Napalm2880]

Buuuut... under my circumstances... international is "ok".

>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=239
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=226ms TTL=239
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=239

Ping statistics for 212.58.241.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 156ms, Maximum = 226ms, Average = 183ms

 

[stricken]

afrihost uncapped jhb

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=190 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=190 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=190 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=189 ms

 

[mochi]

ping seems fine but speeds are crap tested on both OpenWeb and Afrihost on a 10MB:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2313080289.png