Crystal Web DSL performance feedback thread Part 4...

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This thread is intended for customers to interact with Crystal Web about the performance of the DSL network and to post feedback about the performance of the network and accounts. This channel is intended for existing customers to request assistance and to interact with Crystal Web.

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Mod_note: These threads are clearly designed/intended for customers to provide feedback to their respective ISPs - not for disgruntled former customers to vent, not for other ISPs to promote their services, etc - and, one hopes, for the relevant ISP to respond.
 
How do I stay of interleave?

I have a 10mb adsl line with 10mb uncapped premium.

Telkom keeps upping my sync speed to 12mb, which hurts my SNR and puts me on interleave. I've called them.. told them to sync me at 10, and use fastmode.. it works great for a few days, then I'm all of a sudden on 12 again and my snr is lower, and ping is affected.

If I use WinMTR and ping exchange.crystalweb.co.za when I'm in fast mode I get about 10ms.. but on interleave it's about 25.. which makes a difference in Battlefield.

I used to use an old Telkom provided Billion router that showed that it was on fast mode or interleave, but after a lightening strike killed it - I swapped to a TP-Link Archer D20 and I cannot find anywhere in the settings where it can tell me if I'm actually in Interleave or not, but I'm pretty sure I am based on winmtr and my previous experience checking the ping etc.

Is there any way I can check if I'm on interleave for sure if the router doesn't display that stat?

And any tips on getting Telkom to lower my speed to 10 which is all I need, and leave it on fastmode which works great.

I'm assuming this has to do with the ASSIA system that tries to manage the line, and it thinks it's doing me a favour bumping me up to 12(interleave) vs 10(fast)?

Here's a screencap of my stats:

When I have them put me on 10mb, the SNR margin almost doubles.

adslstats.JPG

Thanks!
 
So the problem of my sync speed being 8 instead of 10Mb/s has been solved, seemingly automatically, as last they told me it won't change.

Now, I had 4 disconnects on Friday evening/Saturday morning, and again 2 tonight. I reported it, and the support person told me I need to switch off my router in the evenings when I go to sleep - not every night, but at my discretion. Now, I get into bed and use my wifi on my phone, til I wanna fall asleep, and just put it on my bedside, so this solution isn't really practical.

Now, since 2012 I've not had these disconnects, nor have I left my router switched off during the evening, ever. Is this a bit far-fetched or is he speaking the truth? I've never heard of anyone switching off their routers at night.

Also, he says he can 100% see on his side that the router is the cause. Is this true? Can't an unstable sync cause this as well?
 
Ho3n3r said:
So the problem of my sync speed being 8 instead of 10Mb/s has been solved, seemingly automatically, as last they told me it won't change.

Now, I had 4 disconnects on Friday evening/Saturday morning, and again 2 tonight. I reported it, and the support person told me I need to switch off my router in the evenings when I go to sleep - not every night, but at my discretion. Now, I get into bed and use my wifi on my phone, til I wanna fall asleep, and just put it on my bedside, so this solution isn't really practical.

Now, since 2012 I've not had these disconnects, nor have I left my router switched off during the evening, ever. Is this a bit far-fetched or is he speaking the truth? I've never heard of anyone switching off their routers at night.

Also, he says he can 100% see on his side that the router is the cause. Is this true? Can't an unstable sync cause this as well?
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Sounds like that dude is talking ****.
 
Ho3n3r said:
So the problem of my sync speed being 8 instead of 10Mb/s has been solved, seemingly automatically, as last they told me it won't change.

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Can't an unstable sync cause this as well?
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If ASSIA kept downgrading you to 8Mbps and they've disabled it to keep you on 10Mbps I wouldn't be at all surprised to see disconnects.
 
So I am still having issues where I get full line speed everywhere except streaming...


Any idea how to fix this ? (apparently your tech staff is stumped by this)
 
So my line or internet connection just went bonkers. DSL light is showing, but no internet light. Had the Telkom dude try and do a port reset, but no luck. Sigh so fault has been logged

Any ideas? Exchange issue somewhere? Line fault? There is no noise on my line, and the voice works fine. My latency was around 5000ms lol before it just went potty
 
Waylander said:
Sounds like that dude is talking ****.
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Well technically the high end expensive routers, have options to reboot at a specific set time. Generally its a good idea to reboot the router now and then, if the up time has been going for a long time. But yeh not sure what turning it off during the evenings is supposed to do.
 
Anyone else having issues accessing Supersport? It's up according to isdown.me and I can access it via my Afrihost mobile data. But it's down on CW. Wtf.

@MickeyD The old CW thread is still a sticky and this one isn't...
 
I just tried Supersport, working through the browser and on the DSTV Now app on my iDevices.
 
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