DigiChilli Network Status

[froot]

Downloads this morning still slow, below 10 kbs, but the pings look good, and no request time outs. Now Dave and Co must just get the speed to a guaranteed 32 kbs...

Mine's also a wee bit slower this morning.
My Gtalk suddenly stopped working.....

 

[TelkomUseless]

Didn't read the whole thread again..

But it's slower than 56k. (0-2kb)

 

[adrenaline]

My PPoe connection to DC seems to drop every now and then, but besides that HTTP is still blazingly fast for me - Thanks Digichilli guys

BUT i cant get to FTP it is super slow and times out, do you think you can look at this ?

 

[Gekco]

A little bit annoying, my pppoe connection keeps on dropping. Always before a download completes.

Same here.
Had 2 downloads (same file of 200MB) drop last night - one at 150MB & the other at 50MB.

Downloads have become very slow again.
I'll give it a rest again until the network improves.

 

[Lostee]

I've been lucky this morning coz I have been getting 15-20ish kB on my torrents, but when it goes down, it gets to 0.0kB without notice. But I trust that they wont bring me down to 0.1k...

Sometimes I even see -1.0kB, and then realize that times are rough!!
:L

 

[UserName_CT]

News still cronically slow - less than 2 kB/s - DC plz fix !

 

[rward]

Browsing is ok, haven't tried downloading today, but any chance that the Steam ports could get a little bit of loving?

Even at night they're dead..

* UDP 27000 to 27015 inclusive (Game client traffic)
* UDP 27015 to 27030 inclusive (Typically Matchmaking and HLTV)
* TCP 27014 to 27050 inclusive (Steam downloads)
* UDP 4380

 

[Moodtec]

I've been lucky this morning coz I have been getting 15-20ish kB on my torrents, but when it goes down, it gets to 0.0kB without notice. But I trust that they wont bring me down to 0.1k...

Sometimes I even see -1.0kB, and then realize that times are rough!!
:L

What line speed are you on, I am lucky :twisted: getting 5KB or less on torrents :wtf:

 

[Valerion]

Guys can I ask you to please manage those newz and torrents for a while.

R100K or so til things are settled. The usage is shooting through the roof and there may be issues.

Ta.

Dave,

What are the timelines for implementing DPI?

After you implement DPI, do you think there will be spare capacity available for torrents and/or news servers, or will you shape it at the current rate? Right now this is completely unusable. While I don't mind throttling on it, especially during business hours, it would be nice to not have it effectively banned from the network, like it is now.

Currently my torrents are running at a max of 5 kB/s. Over the course of a month, this will allow me to fetch 12GB of data. At Afrihost rates, I can get 15GB of data for R435. I am paying half of R1000 per month, or R500. So, with the current trend here my DC account is actually more expensive for what I get than a capped account.

I will see how the network changes towards the end of the month, whether it actually becomes usable or not.

EDIT: As I mentioned above, I am on a 512kbps package, not a 256 kbps. 5kB/s is round about 7% of the package size. HTTP is decent, but I can get HTTP speeds anywhere else as well. I don't expect full speed on downloads, by no means, but something more realistic (50%?) of package speed is more appropriate, I think, especially after business hours.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Dave,

What are the timelines for implementing DPI?

After you implement DPI, do you think there will be spare capacity available for torrents and/or news servers, or will you shape it at the current rate? Right now this is completely unusable. While I don't mind throttling on it, especially during business hours, it would be nice to not have it effectively banned from the network, like it is now.

Currently my torrents are running at a max of 5 kB/s. Over the course of a month, this will allow me to fetch 12GB of data. At Afrihost rates, I can get 15GB of data for R435. I am paying half of R1000 per month, or R500. So, with the current trend here my DC account is actually more expensive for what I get than a capped account.

I will see how the network changes towards the end of the month, whether it actually becomes usable or not.

If they throttle the crap out of us, then I'm cancelling. I don't mind not getting 384 line speeds, but hell throtteling 256k is just frieking insane.

 

[CambodiaDave]

Browsing is ok, haven't tried downloading today, but any chance that the Steam ports could get a little bit of loving?

Even at night they're dead..

* UDP 27000 to 27015 inclusive (Game client traffic)
* UDP 27015 to 27030 inclusive (Typically Matchmaking and HLTV)
* TCP 27014 to 27050 inclusive (Steam downloads)
* UDP 4380

Aaaaah. So that's steam.... Will grab a techie's ear..... hard.... but they're scurrying for cover.

Thanx for info. That's what they need.

 

[Moodtec]

Dave,

What are the timelines for implementing DPI?

After you implement DPI, do you think there will be spare capacity available for torrents and/or news servers, or will you shape it at the current rate? Right now this is completely unusable. While I don't mind throttling on it, especially during business hours, it would be nice to not have it effectively banned from the network, like it is now.

Currently my torrents are running at a max of 5 kB/s. Over the course of a month, this will allow me to fetch 12GB of data. At Afrihost rates, I can get 15GB of data for R435. I am paying half of R1000 per month, or R500. So, with the current trend here my DC account is actually more expensive for what I get than a capped account.

I will see how the network changes towards the end of the month, whether it actually becomes usable or not.

EDIT: As I mentioned above, I am on a 512kbps package, not a 256 kbps. 5kB/s is round about 7% of the package size. HTTP is decent, but I can get HTTP speeds anywhere else as well. I don't expect full speed on downloads, by no means, but something more realistic (50%?) of package speed is more appropriate, I think, especially after business hours.

Dave, please could we have feedback, what is Digichilli's plans for torrents, I am on the 256kbps package and can only get average of 3KB, this is really useless. What is the timeline for implementation? and what will the throttled speed be on torrents for the various packages?

 

[thezman]

Aaaaah. So that's steam.... Will grab a techie's ear..... hard.... but they're scurrying for cover.

Thanx for info. That's what they need.

Please will you let us know when you think this problem has been sorted out so that I can try to log in to steam again.

 

[CambodiaDave]

Dave,

What are the timelines for implementing DPI?

After you implement DPI, do you think there will be spare capacity available for torrents and/or news servers, or will you shape it at the current rate? Right now this is completely unusable. While I don't mind throttling on it, especially during business hours, it would be nice to not have it effectively banned from the network, like it is now.

Currently my torrents are running at a max of 5 kB/s. Over the course of a month, this will allow me to fetch 12GB of data. At Afrihost rates, I can get 15GB of data for R435. I am paying half of R1000 per month, or R500. So, with the current trend here my DC account is actually more expensive for what I get than a capped account.

I will see how the network changes towards the end of the month, whether it actually becomes usable or not.

EDIT: As I mentioned above, I am on a 512kbps package, not a 256 kbps. 5kB/s is round about 7% of the package size. HTTP is decent, but I can get HTTP speeds anywhere else as well. I don't expect full speed on downloads, by no means, but something more realistic (50%?) of package speed is more appropriate, I think, especially after business hours.

Hi Valerion,

This throttling 'shape' is a temporary measure at the moment.

We will tweak the network over the next few days to get to better user experience. We are working on the priorities from the top down. Http, etc.

Torrents are important, etc.

Cool, Grasshoppers.

Wax on, wax off.

 

[Valerion]

Hi Valerion,

This throttling 'shape' is a temporary measure at the moment.

We will tweak the network over the next few days to get to better user experience. We are working on the priorities from the top down. Http, etc.

Torrents are important, etc.

Cool, Grasshoppers.

Wax on, wax off.

Thanks, Dave, that's good to hear.

 

[Moodtec]

Hi Valerion,

This throttling 'shape' is a temporary measure at the moment.

We will tweak the network over the next few days to get to better user experience. We are working on the priorities from the top down. Http, etc.

Torrents are important, etc.

Cool, Grasshoppers.

Wax on, wax off.

Thanks for the update, I am looking forward to seeing the improvements.

 

[Nerhzelok]

wh00t wh0000000t

 

[rsd]

@Dave, while you're beating the techies with the dont-shape-that-port stick. I run SSH over port 54312 (non-standard for security reasons) to a server in the US. Any chance it could be given some priority? I can't even establish a connection half the time and when I do it times out quickly. Works fine on my shaped Telkom account, so I guess their shaping is very different.

Edit: Or would it be possible to explicitly shape torrents and news rather than shape everything and make exceptions for stuff... would be way better from my perspective. I can't sign into BF2 authentication servers either because they're on some funny port. If you keep having to make exceptions you'll end up adding ports for the rest of your life

BF2 uses:
TCP Ports
4711, 27901, 28910, 29900, 299
UDP Ports
1500-4999, 16567, 27900, 29900

 

[TelkomUseless]

Hi Valerion,

This throttling 'shape' is a temporary measure at the moment.

We will tweak the network over the next few days to get to better user experience. We are working on the priorities from the top down. Http, etc.

Torrents are important, etc.

Cool, Grasshoppers.

Wax on, wax off.

I hope nntp/news fall in the category to look into.

Thanks!

 

[s0lar]

what is http like speed wise? i am looking at this account for my mother place she surfs alot. averages 5-8g a month mostly doing research etc. that being just plain old http. everytime she gets capped she calls me to top-up her package, i dont always have the time.