Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 3...

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Streaming is fine as, same with downloading anything ...... just seeing odd spikes ingame (N.American servers)
 
Crystal Web Management said:
You as the end user cannot stop or prevent yourself from being affected by a DDoS. Not on any ISP, and we are not the only ones hit when it happens. All ISPs are hit and we are seeing cycles in how this plays out, over which ISPs. By the time you try to do something on your network it has already traversed the network operator transit, so realistically you cannot do anything. Computerphile have a good video I've linked to below about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDZS7iYNsA
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Couldn't a simple means of mitigating unauthorised data loss be to just have an opt-in alert system at CW for capped customers upon sign-up, where CW will give you a ring if a suspicious amount of data is used in a 24 hour period. Seems like a simple thing to set up?

I would have only lost 100GB if someone rang me on the morning of the 2nd to say, "Sir, are you aware that you've used up 25% of your cap in one day?" I would have said "Holy s**t - suspend my account while I go Postal".

requiem said:
International borked again.

3 Days with the service - 3 days with problems.

Whomever is doing this to CW - GO **** YOURSELF
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Are you on fibre? I've been seeing frequent status updates from CW on Twitter about fibre customers being impacted.
 
Official Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 3...

Bryn said:
Minutes after my Afrihost account died, my CW one did too. Anyone else experience downtime? Switched back to Afrihost and their problem was sorted out by then.



Thanks. I'll do some more research and give it some consideration. Another option is to simply buy a Ubiquiti UniFi gateway - R4.8k for something like this is probably not much more expensive than buildling a Linux terminal. You unlock loads of monitoring capabilities when pairing a UniFi AP setup with a UniFi gateway.



Throwing toys seldom helps anyone. And CW has not behaved unreasonably.



I don't see this one getting resolved. It's just going to remain mystery theft.
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You could drop a Mikrotik in there for much less.

But then you need expertise to make it work.

The only thing that still remains really weird with your setup is that it only happens on CW.
 
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so CW's web site is advertising up to 50% price cuts on home and business (doesn't give exact details) but when I check the prices for 10mb and 20mb basic uncapped, I see the prices are the same.

possible news that need to be announced and the prices reflected accordingly?
 
crackersa said:
so CW's web site is advertising up to 50% price cuts on home and business (doesn't give exact details) but when I check the prices for 10mb and 20mb basic uncapped, I see the prices are the same.

possible news that need to be announced and the prices reflected accordingly?
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It's been saying that for a while already if memory serves me correct.

EDIT: I mean it's been saying that even before the announcement last week.
 
Surv0 said:
Anybody notice any issues last night? Had degraded performance, locally even. Hosting a local game of arma and desync at 10000 or something.
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Yeah - heading into day 4 now with issues.

seems to be the DDOS attack according to CW.

Wonder if / when it will be fixed.
 
Bryn said:
Which is why I installed GlassWire on every desktop and laptop. Other wifi devices can't pull 40Mbps.
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I've had a similar problem to yours last year while still being with Vox.

I picked up a mikrotik router for under 1k and dropped it in between my ADSL modem and wifi router. I monitored my network using this: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=77193

Have a look at it. Bit of a pain to setup, but works golden.
 
Bryn said:
Are you on fibre? I've been seeing frequent status updates from CW on Twitter about fibre customers being impacted.
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SauRoNZA said:
The only thing that still remains really weird with your setup is that it only happens on CW.
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Good news - sort of:

I've been following this debate and pondering this DDoS stuff, seemed a bit iffy to me BUT it just happened to a client of mine also in PE but on TI capped - 40GB gone in one day.

Fortunately their network is behind an IPCop box so you can see the traffic on the WAN side (RED) but nowt on the LAN (GREEN):
DDoS-Wed14.jpg

Here's the corresponding SAIX data:
DDoS_SAIX_Totals.png

DDoS_SAIX_sessions.png

Guess both Bryn & CW are vindicated.
 
Should go a long way to disable ICMP responses from the internet as well as silently dropping illegitimate traffic instead of blocking it outright.

Just remember that you did it should you need to troubleshoot later.
 
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