Big Differance in Speed

[Morgisto]

Gooday all

Just a question that i dont seem to be able to understand on my normal knowledge.

I have a 4 meg line which is with Telkom and my ISP's are Openweb and Afrihost ( Both Uncapped)

My issue is as follows .................. During the daytime i get around 120 to 200 k/s and after 12 midnight it goes up to 400 to 430 k/s

Would that be our exchange or why would the diff be so vast

Any answers will help THX


Regards

Morgisto

 

[123Eish]

Probably Shaping protocols.The two ISP's are implementing shaping policies during the day, in other words downloads are given the lowest priority on their network. Thus the speeds are shaped and slowed down to allow other more important traffic on their network to function at full speed. It works at full line speed at night because the network is quiet. Other then that Im not sure what else it could be.
Good Luck

 

[Pada]

Get like a 1GB prepaid unshaped capped account from an ISP and test that during the day. If you get the same poor speeds during the day, then it is due to a congested DSLAM/exchange/Telkom infrastructure.

If that prepaid account gives you your 400kB/s during the day, then it is your uncapped account that is being shaped!

 

[Morgisto]

Well i actually wrote this today at 3.00 PM saturday afternoon . Both claim to be full speed and unshaped over week-ends.

I may add that both ISP's give the same speeds back to back

 

[lroachl]

I would suggest signing up for a free 1GB cap from Afrihost on the link below. If your using Afrihost capped data and you have a low SNR Margin/Attenuation on your routers stats, you should get full speed of what your line syncs at anytime of the day. The only thing that will fluctuate your line speed there on is congestion at your exchange. That you can't do anything about.

http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/adsl_capped?src=website_nav

 

[Morgisto]

I dont know too much about the telkom side of thing but i have signed up for the free gig per month and it is the same. BTW a telkom tech phoned me a while ago and commented that the port i am on at our local exchange is only 60% utilized. Is there any way in getting these guys to change ports or something. 150 is really pathetic .....cant even get an acceptable ping with an online game so now i gotto logon after 12 and thats when i am sleeping.

 

[Morgisto]

Download Speed: 924 kbps (115.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 423 kbps (52.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 29 ms
8/17/2013 4:48:41 PM Saturday Afternoon


Last Result:
Download Speed: 3419 kbps (427.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 429 kbps (53.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 35 ms
8/18/2013 2:30:33 AM Sunday Morning

 

[Pada]

I can't say for sure that the Telkom free GB per month is unshaped. Those latencies that you got doesn't show congestion at all, but its still possible that there is congestion.

My colleague has the same situation in Stellenbosch, where he's barely getting 100kB/s on his 4Mbps connection, but I'm pretty sure its congestion, because if he pings a local host, his latency fluctuates a great deal!

Could you perhaps go to www.pingtest.net and post your results for that too?

 

[AfriMan]

Gooday all

Just a question that i dont seem to be able to understand on my normal knowledge.

I have a 4 meg line which is with Telkom and my ISP's are Openweb and Afrihost ( Both Uncapped)

My issue is as follows .................. During the daytime i get around 120 to 200 k/s and after 12 midnight it goes up to 400 to 430 k/s

Would that be our exchange or why would the diff be so vast

Any answers will help THX


Regards

Morgisto

Sorry to hear you're having issues.

It's highly unlikely that our shaping will coincide exactly with another ISP's, given that we shape very differently to other ISPs. We shape dynamically based on capacity, and we strive to shape as few clients as possible (or none at all wherever possible) and to the least possible extent. Most other ISPs have fixed shaping hours, and then shape by contention.

What may be happening is congestion is causing both accounts to deliver the same results. The best way to see this would be to post a trace route from both accounts for comparison.

 

[Pada]

What may be happening is congestion is causing both accounts to deliver the same results. The best way to see this would be to post a trace route from both accounts for comparison.

Both his speedtests showed reasonably low latencies, so I doubt that a trace route would indicate any form of congestion - but I may be wrong...

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
If you are getting the same results with 2 ISP's then I would doubt that it is shaping. COngested exchange is the more likely answer.
Post a trace route to prove or disporve it.

Regards

Tim