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RVFmal

RVFmal

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Can iBurst or someone explain to me why if my speeds as per below are reasonable (in terms of iBurst that is.....), why is it that sites such as Facebook, GMail and a few other international sites do not resolve, are exceptionally slow and time out. On 3G I have no such issues.



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Johannesburg

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Cape Town

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RVFmal said:
Can iBurst or someone explain to me why if my speeds as per below are reasonable (in terms of iBurst that is.....), why is it that sites such as Facebook, GMail and a few other international sites do not resolve, are exceptionally slow and time out. On 3G I have no such issues.


International

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You are aware that every ISP in the country have priority routes for speedtest.net ? The speedtest results is what it would be like without shaping on port 80. Why do you think there is no speedtest for the high port range or simple service like port 22 for ssh. Its because they shape the living crap out of it.

When you go to another site your normal speeds kicks in with the shaping.

Smoke and mirrors.
 
RVFmal said:
Can iBurst or someone explain to me why if my speeds as per below are reasonable (in terms of iBurst that is.....), why is it that sites such as Facebook, GMail and a few other international sites do not resolve, are exceptionally slow and time out. On 3G I have no such issues.
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Is your MTU set correctly? It must be 1392.
 
GoofySmurf said:
You are aware that every ISP in the country have priority routes for speedtest.net ? The speedtest results is what it would be like without shaping on port 80. Why do you think there is no speedtest for the high port range or simple service like port 22 for ssh. Its because they shape the living crap out of it.
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Proof please? On iBurst and Cell-C my speedtest.net scores are lower than what I can get from international bittorrent peers.
 
RVFmal said:
It was set to 1352. Changing it to 1392 has not made an iota of difference.
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So some websites are OK, and others not?
Can you post traceroutes and nslookups of ones that work and ones that don't?
 
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