Colbyn, Pretoria - ADSL exchange problems

Refugee_ZA

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Been having major instability, high pings and disconnects in Colbyn area (West of Gordon Road) for the better part of 2 weeks now. About two blocks down there is a telkom exchange standing completely open near a building site with no one in attendance. Traceroutes show major *** at the DSLAM. Pings jumping between 40-50 and 200+ ms.

Anyone else seeing this or in surrounding areas? (Queenswood, Hatfield etc)

Traceroute:

Note: this is only my most recent test and not the worst performance by a long shot. Try 500-600 spiking pings to local gaming servers.

Tracing route to telkom.co.za [196.43.22.222]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (My router)
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 27 ms 154 ms 62 ms 41.181.178.6
4 7 ms 51 ms 59 ms ipc-recieve-jh-1a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178.5]
5 31 ms 41 ms 30 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165.115]
6 34 ms 12 ms 53 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-q.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.180.4]
7 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 41.181.139.109
8 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms rrba-ip-se-2-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.58.17]
9 12 ms 20 ms 85 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0-102.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.25.137]
10 24 ms 49 ms 24 ms 196.43.39.162
11 23 ms 15 ms 26 ms rrba-ip-bssr-1-ge-2-48.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.23.6]
12 11 ms 14 ms 10 ms nbsc-ip-bssr-1-atm-5-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.23.30]
13 * 15 ms 72 ms nbsc-ip-rcache-1-vif0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.22.222]

Trace complete.

And yes I am well aware that the performance from the MTN business network is also screwed at the moment, and I am also pursuing that with my ISP, but the tests are showing that the local exchange is buggered. Congestion issues or something? I don't know, but it's been absolutely fine for the last 9 months or so since I moved here.
 
Ask your neighbors to run some trace routes, else lodge a fault with Telkom. When the tech comes, he should see the open exchange.
 
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