Edgemead Congestion

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We moved to Edgemead in September and I had my ADSL installed on the 23rd. From that first day our internet was a lot slower than it should be. The 4mb line would get 0.8mb-1.2mb.... So on the 1st of October I logged a fault and the person on the other side of the line tells me its a network fault.

Since then I've phoned back every 4-5 days querying the fault and every time they told me the same story. "We will escalate the problem but they dont know what the cause of the network fault is. Inbetween this they were doing a network upgrade in the area and I was told that by the 29th of October the fault would be solved by this. That didnt happen so I phoned again. Same story, there's a network fault and they are trying to determine what the issue is. So I asked to speak to a supervisor and that was then not allowed and they told me that they will escalate the matter. I then asked them to make a note for the person receiving this escalation to phone me when they get it. That never happened.

Then the last time I phoned I asked them to just move my line to a different exchange because just down the road is another exchange and one of my friends are connected to it and he hasn't had any issues. That didnt work either so I phoned today and now they tell me that the network fault is actually the exchange that is congested and they do not have an ETA for when it will be resolved.

I am currently connected to the BOTHASIG (WBTG) Exchange

Does anyone know what I can do next?
 

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Hi,

Same boat as you. Also connect to the Bothasig exchange and it is pathetic. It's so bad that from 18pm to about 23pm even trying to download from the SAIX FTP or any local source nets me a solid 5KB/s (on 2Mbit line)...it's like going back to the 56Kb modem era. I am going to start hammering Telkom today. Been this way ever since the upgrades. The Bothasig exchange is screwed. Latency to the exchange is anywhere from 500 to 900ms. So damn frustrating. The only advice I can give is to keep nagging them about it and hopefully get a techie out to switch you (and me) to another DSLAM that is perhaps less congested or that to keep nagging them so they eventually upgrade the damn exchange.
 

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the three of you please PM me your telephone numbers and I will see what I can do

make 100% sure you connected to Bothasig

edit : and just make sure its CONGESTION related, and not ISP/ADSL related. There is nothing I can do about that.
 

phil1982

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the three of you please PM me your telephone numbers and I will see what I can do

make 100% sure you connected to Bothasig

edit : and just make sure its CONGESTION related, and not ISP/ADSL related. There is nothing I can do about that.

Thanks techead, greatly appreciate the offer. I sent you the PM with additional details on my situation. Thanks again.

-phil1982
 

techead

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Thanks techead, greatly appreciate the offer. I sent you the PM with additional details on my situation. Thanks again.

-phil1982

once I have the details of the other two, I will send all three together. I will post feedback...

**here**
 

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so isn't just me that notice super low speeds... i am getting pings well over 300ms on speedtest! thats on 2mb line as welll... and tested all the speedtest servers here! some times goes fast but last 2 weeks been terrible! dont know if Mweb or what but really frustrating!

also in Bothasig area.

also anyone notice an outage on Thursday at 11pm? me and friend down road were both affected...
 

phil1982

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so isn't just me that notice super low speeds... i am getting pings well over 300ms on speedtest! thats on 2mb line as welll... and tested all the speedtest servers here! some times goes fast but last 2 weeks been terrible! dont know if Mweb or what but really frustrating!

also in Bothasig area.

also anyone notice an outage on Thursday at 11pm? me and friend down road were both affected...

Hi,

Yeah there was an outage Thursday evening from about 10pm till 5am Friday morning. I think the outage was ATM related, meaning that no pppoe authentication could take place (the exchange could not communicate to other networking hubs so to speak). I don't know if it was maintenance or a fault. Either way...just glad it’s resolved. You should also log fault with Telkom; the more people that start pestering them the better. Hopefully this way they (or local management) will take note and escalate the matters.
 

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Hi,

Yeah there was an outage Thursday evening from about 10pm till 5am Friday morning. I think the outage was ATM related, meaning that no pppoe authentication could take place (the exchange could not communicate to other networking hubs so to speak). I don't know if it was maintenance or a fault. Either way...just glad it’s resolved. You should also log fault with Telkom; the more people that start pestering them the better. Hopefully this way they (or local management) will take note and escalate the matters.

Hi,

Thanks for info :) i shall call them tomorrow and start raging :) sound good? hahaha
 

Dion Disco

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Anyone offline in Edgemead area ? Been off since 10pm - was also off last Thursday as reported here

There is definately something happening at this exchange

Edit: Came back on after 1 hour - hope they are working on / upgrading it
 
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HApyM3al

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It took about 6 hours to download one episode of The Walking Dead yesterday.
About 350 megs in size and I have a 2 meg line.

that sounds like heavy throttling to me... what ISP you with? and on p2p(torrents) or NNTP(NZB) ? Torrents during day gets heavily throttled.

i also have 2mbps line and getting max 180kbps on in on http. also if downloading things like walking dead etc in the day on p2p, that pretty crazy... I use NNTP, download from NZBmatrix and use Mwebs news-server... then downloads at fullspeed. i downloaded Walking dead @ 175Kbps avg yesterday.

NNTP is bit tricky and cost few bucks but in end it worth it.

they separate file in parts in .rar so sometimes doesnt work then only will get that 1 file on p2p other wise NNTP all the way.
 

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No its not throttling. Any download I run goes at about 0.5kbps to 40kbps ^^... Torrentz, Steam, HTTP. Everything. Its a complete ballsup.
 

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No its not throttling. Any download I run goes at about 0.5kbps to 40kbps ^^... Torrentz, Steam, HTTP. Everything. Its a complete ballsup.

Ok that's pretty ridiculous! i would say call your ISP or telkom and ask to change port on there side... and see what happens after if that doesnt work rage on them to sort out our Dslam :)
 

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Ok that's pretty ridiculous! i would say call your ISP or telkom and ask to change port on there side... and see what happens after if that doesnt work rage on them to sort out our Dslam :)

I've raged at them quite a bit. Asked them to change my port and the guy just brushed it off. So I phoned sales and asked them to send a technician out to move my line to a new exchange. lol. No idea if that will work.... He's coming tomorrow.
 

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I've raged at them quite a bit. Asked them to change my port and the guy just brushed it off. So I phoned sales and asked them to send a technician out to move my line to a new exchange. lol. No idea if that will work.... He's coming tomorrow.

hahaha goodluck dude! hope works out for you! keep us up to date :)
 

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Went fishing with my father today. So my fiance met with the telkom guy and asked her what it is that i wanted. She told him, he said he will check with me which didnt work because we were outside of coverage... so nothing happened. .... Telkom make me sick. I explained it quite simply as well .... will phone them tomorrow. I dont have the willpower to deal with incompetence right now....


EDIT: http://postimage.org/image/4is7pqb5h/

I'm trying to download the update for my phone as well as get into my work email. Cant do either.... GMAIL TOO HARD!!!! Download speeds from 0.0kb to 4.3kb

Took me 2 minutes to upload the 588kb file and another 2 minutes to navigate to this post
 
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Ok so the Telkom guy came back today and I explained my predicament to him. He changed the telephone wiring in the house to twisted pairs. That didnt help. He told me that it wouldnt matter if he put me on the other Bothasig Exchange because its also congested and I'd be getting the same issue there, to which I replied "It cant be worse?". So what now? Its absolutely rediculous that you get sold a product that is faulty from day one and they dont care about fixing it... Surely the CPA should prevent this type of thing...
 

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Downloaded 10 GB at 10 Mbps this past weekend. Not perhaps an ISP issue?
 

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No its not because I've tried Axxess/Neotel/Telkom and MWEB. Which exchange are you on. I want to move there! Landgrab!!!!
 
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