So after
@ArtyLoop mentioned going back to Telkom, it reminded me that Telkom STILL has not cancelled my line. However with the issues that Octotel are giving I decided to boot up the old router and do a comparision between Telkom and Octotel. Things I want you to bare in mind before looking at these results. Telkom is VDSL with a 20/2 package, it uses a different router to the one my Octotel line is connected to and it uses the Telkom ISP included PPPoe details so also Telkom's network. Tests were done 20min apart (sadly they time to complete) on the same PC. With that out of the way lets dive in.
Speedtests:
Cape Town (Coolideas) Single-Threaded:
Octotel 100/25
Telkom 20/2
Johannesburg (Vodacom) Single-Threaded:
Ocototel 100/25
Telkom 20/2
London (Coreix) Single-Threaded:
Octotel 100/25
Telkom 20/2
Well Telkom's old copper infrustructure is quite honestly kicking Octotel's butt here. Not much else to say really, results speak for themselves.
Interestingly even MTR's had quite some disparities.
MTR to lmns.cisp.co.za (CISP's JHB server)
Octotel:
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| router.asus.com - 0 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 154.0.0.246 - 10 | 72 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| uwx-cust.coolideas.co.za - 7 | 80 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| c6t-backbone.coolideas.co.za - 5 | 84 | 80 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 18 |
| uoh-cust.coolideas.co.za - 5 | 84 | 80 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 19 |
| c72-backbone.coolideas.co.za - 5 | 84 | 80 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 19 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
Telkom:
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| router.asus.com - 0 | 117 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 105-187-232-46.telkomsa.net - 0 | 117 | 117 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 21 |
| ipc-aggr-2.south.dsl.telkomsa.net - 0 | 117 | 117 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 21 |
| ct1-pr-01-te0-0-0.net.telkomsa.net - 0 | 117 | 117 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 21 |
| 196-10-140-126.ixp.capetown - 0 | 117 | 117 | 21 | 23 | 104 | 21 |
| mi-za-cpt-p7-te0-0-0-0.ip.isnet.net - 0 | 117 | 117 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 22 |
| 168.209.100.101 - 0 | 117 | 117 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 38 |
| core1-pkl-tg0-7-0-0.ip.isnet.net - 0 | 117 | 117 | 37 | 40 | 54 | 43 |
| uva-cust.coolideas.co.za - 0 | 117 | 117 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 38 |
| 154.0.3.85 - 0 | 117 | 117 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 36 |
| uoh-cust.coolideas.co.za - 0 | 117 | 117 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 38 |
| c72-backbone.coolideas.co.za - 0 | 117 | 117 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 39 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
MTR to iperf.cisp.co.za (CISP's london server)
Octotel:
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| router.asus.com - 0 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| u6u-cust.coolideas.co.za - 5 | 88 | 84 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| uwx-cust.coolideas.co.za - 7 | 81 | 76 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| u166-cust.coolideas.co.za - 8 | 81 | 75 | 0 | 140 | 142 | 141 |
| v1000.core1.lon3.he.net - 4 | 89 | 86 | 0 | 142 | 296 | 141 |
| 100ge14-1.core1.lon2.he.net - 10 | 73 | 66 | 0 | 141 | 142 | 141 |
| 100ge7-1.core1.fra1.he.net - 10 | 73 | 66 | 0 | 153 | 154 | 154 |
| gw1.fra1.de.linode.com - 4 | 89 | 86 | 153 | 154 | 186 | 154 |
| 139.162.129.11 - 5 | 85 | 81 | 153 | 154 | 186 | 154 |
| li1673-197.members.linode.com - 8 | 77 | 71 | 153 | 154 | 185 | 154 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
Telkom:
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| router.asus.com - 0 | 101 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 105-187-232-46.telkomsa.net - 0 | 101 | 101 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 21 |
| ipc-aggr-2.south.dsl.telkomsa.net - 0 | 101 | 101 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 20 |
| 196.25.190.209 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 21 |
| 196.43.9.106 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 179 | 180 | 182 | 181 |
| gw1.fra1.de.linode.com - 0 | 101 | 101 | 183 | 184 | 197 | 185 |
| 139.162.129.15 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 181 | 181 | 183 | 181 |
| li1673-197.members.linode.com - 0 | 101 | 101 | 179 | 180 | 182 | 181 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
Hmm Octotel seems to have a packet loss issue going on here and Telkom doesn't?
Sadly iPerfs failed to function on Telkom's copper so I can't provide you a comparison there but what I can tell you is that Telkom managed to stream twitch just fine in the 10 or so minutes I tried using it. Octotel on the other failed to even get 2 seconds without buffering just like every other night with them since October.
It looks to me like Octotel is getting the dreaded C word and so far refuses to fix it. Hope someone finds this useful.
"ever"... Until I switch to Rain LTE and it loads instantly (using mikrotik and just change the distance to prefer my RAIN link...)
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