Fibre speed on Vumatel

G

Grep

Senior Member
Joined
Nov 21, 2006
Messages
958
Hi guys

I know there is already a thread on this below but I didn't want to hijack it. I have a client with fibre in Protea Heights and he has speed trouble. During the morning it flies at around 28mb but in the evening it absolutely crawls. We have tried telkom, Axxess and also Afrihost account's and they are pretty much the same when testing. These are all capped accounts.

The tests were done on a laptop with an ethernet cable. Is it possible that the *fibre dslam* could become conjested? I was under the impression that fibre didn't have the same issues that DSL has.
 
S

sybawoods

Expert Member
Joined
Aug 4, 2003
Messages
1,230
In short - yes. Congestion is possible via Openserve fibre, at least. Not sure if via other providers too. I had a similar speed issue a month or two ago, shortly after installation in Rondebosch. Eventually after my ISP (MWEB) investigated with OpenServe, they explained that it was "congestion"on the OpenServe network at peak times. A fault was logged and it was eventually fixed 2 or 3 weeks later. I'm not sure what the technical explanation is - with ADSL it was congestion at the exchange, I'm sure that with Fibre there's another explanation. I was equally surprised that it was possible and may simply be down to the way OpenServe deploys its fibre.

Edit: I see it's with VumaTel. May be a similar explanation.
 
Kloon

Kloon

Expert Member
Joined
Nov 6, 2006
Messages
1,670
Vumatel does not have Fibre in Protea Heights yet, they are planning on rolling out beginning of next year. Chances are your friend is in Sonkring area, some houses there have Fibre with Openserv, and as previous poster said they can have congestion.

With Vuma you get an uncontended strand to the datacenter from what they said at the townhall meeting.
 
G

Grep

Senior Member
Joined
Nov 21, 2006
Messages
958
Kloon, yes you are right. Apologies, I meant Protea Heights.
 
Sinbad

Sinbad

Honorary Master
Joined
Jun 5, 2006
Messages
81,152
It's not vumatel if you can just try different accounts.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top