Help me choose an ISP

[Harmonic]

So I've got two fibre lines running into my property:

- 50/50 line with Octotel and Vodacom (connected to some Huawei rubbish router)
- 200/200mbps line with Octotel and Afrihost (plugged directly into the little box the fibre terminates into, no router).

Both lines are absolute dog sh*t most of the time. As an example, I'm currently getting 0.4mbps on the 50 line and 0.6mbps on the 200 line to the Asia-Pacific region. Traceroutes are not showing anything specific, ping is consistent locally. Afrihost always just tells me to switch the router on and off . It works for about 2 min then back to fluffies excrement. Haven't bothered contacting Vodacom because Vodacom.

I frequently need to access servers in the US, EU and Asia-Pacific. I was considering trying Atomic Access on the 200mbps line but they only service the municipality of Cape Town.

Any recommendations for a good ISP to try or is it worth trying an OpenServe line?

I had OpenServe here two weeks ago but the location of their box means I have to trench about 50m of pipe to get the fibre to where I need it.

 

[NathanDrake]

 

[AfriNatic]

So I've got two fibre lines running into my property:

- 50/50 line with Octotel and Vodacom (connected some Huawei rubbish router)
- 200/200mbps line with Octotel and Afrihost (plugged directly into the little box they the fibre terminates into, no router).

Both lines are absolute dog sh*t most of the time. As an example, I'm currently getting 0.4mbps on the 50 line and 0.6mbps on the 200 line to the Asia-Pacific region. Traceroutes are not showing anything specific, ping is consistent locally. Afrihost always just tells me to switch the router on and off . It works for about 2 min then back to fluffies excrement. Haven't bothered contacting Vodacom because Vodacom.

I frequently need to access servers in the US, EU and Asia-Pacific. I was considering trying Atomic Access on the 200mbps line but they only service the municipality of Cape Town.

Any recommendations for a good ISP to try or is it worth trying an OpenServe line?

I had OpenServer here two weeks ago but the location of their box means I have to trench about 50m of pipe to get the fibre to where I need it.

Hi

Do you have a traceroute?

We are aware of packetloss to Unitas Global that might be affecting clients with traffic to/from Asia.

 

[borro]

So I've got two fibre lines running into my property:

- 50/50 line with Octotel and Vodacom (connected to some Huawei rubbish router)
- 200/200mbps line with Octotel and Afrihost (plugged directly into the little box the fibre terminates into, no router).

Both lines are absolute dog sh*t most of the time. As an example, I'm currently getting 0.4mbps on the 50 line and 0.6mbps on the 200 line to the Asia-Pacific region. Traceroutes are not showing anything specific, ping is consistent locally. Afrihost always just tells me to switch the router on and off . It works for about 2 min then back to fluffies excrement. Haven't bothered contacting Vodacom because Vodacom.

I frequently need to access servers in the US, EU and Asia-Pacific. I was considering trying Atomic Access on the 200mbps line but they only service the municipality of Cape Town.

Any recommendations for a good ISP to try or is it worth trying an OpenServe line?

I had OpenServe here two weeks ago but the location of their box means I have to trench about 50m of pipe to get the fibre to where I need it.

Mein Trelkrom 100\100 today

 

[PBCool]

If you have openserve I can give you a test account to try? Should then narrow down if transit or line related.

 

[Jaredza]

Don't go with supersonic