How does one now detect exchange congestion?

[giggity]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/621501-Detecting-a-congested-ADSL-exchange-Guide

This doesn't work, because the exchange doesn't respond to the tracerts.

 

[HavocXphere]

This doesn't work, because the exchange doesn't respond to the tracerts.

I find that rather hard to believe...

Whats the exchange IP?

 

[Johnatan56]

I find that rather hard to believe...

Whats the exchange IP?

Lots of exchanges now don't respond to tracerts.
It looks like this now:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  home.gateway.pace.net [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     7 ms     6 ms     7 ms  41.181.221.253

 

[Rickster]

As per feedback previously received the mentioned BNG is an Alcatell unit and it does not respond to the ICMP request. Third hop should however be an indication for will be directly impacted by higher latency on the ESR port.

My exchange apparently.

 

[giggity]

I find that rather hard to believe...

Whats the exchange IP?

I can't find out because it doesn't respond to any form of packets.

 

[HavocXphere]

Lots of exchanges now don't respond to tracerts.
It looks like this now:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  home.gateway.pace.net [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     7 ms     6 ms     7 ms  41.181.221.253

Well thats a rather lame development....

 

[giggity]

Well thats a rather lame development....

Yea

 

[AntiGanda]

Not sure. Soon after the issue appeared two or three people here claimed to have phoned Telkom about it and were told that it was a measure to prevent a suspected DDoS attack.

I heard this phenomena is caused by their new software. The package causing the other problems.

 

[Gouko_Tenrou]

Does anybody know of a way for me to test if my exchange is congested?

Does ping 155.239.255.250 work?

 

[Bryn]

Does anybody know of a way for me to test if my exchange is congested?

Does ping 155.239.255.250 work?

Users are reporting that exchanges no longer respond to pings. What response did you get? Your best bet is to compare your overall latency during peak and off-peak times. If your latency goes to hell in the evenings then your exchange is probably congested. Your ISP might also be able to help.

 

[Gouko_Tenrou]

Users are reporting that exchanges no longer respond to pings. What response did you get? Your best bet is to compare your overall latency during peak and off-peak times. If your latency goes to hell in the evenings then your exchange is probably congested. Your ISP might also be able to help.

Just ran it and got this response:

Will test tonight to see if the results change drastically.

 

[Zertop]

Basically telkoms new hardware/profiles at the exchanges block ping requests by default. I'm busy editing my LineTool to work around this.

Z

 

[Gouko_Tenrou]

Basically telkoms new hardware/profiles at the exchanges block ping requests by default. I'm busy editing my LineTool to work around this.

Z

Yeah I downloaded that tool this morning, quite a nice idea.

Saves me time by not having to type so much lol, will download the updated version when it's out.

 

[ponder]

Well thats a rather lame development....

I'm not big on conspiracy theories but I won't be surprised if this was a deliberate action by telkom to hide 'exchange' congestion from their clients

 

[giggity]

Does ping 155.239.255.250 work?

Works for me.

Basically telkoms new hardware/profiles at the exchanges block ping requests by default. I'm busy editing my LineTool to work around this.

Z

Awesome. Let us know when you've finished that!