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Anyone else struggling to access websites? I have good speeds, but browsing is practically impossible.



Connecting through my office VPN I am able to browse normally, so seems like a broken proxy server at 8ta?
 
Saix is broken. I'm sure 8ta would be affected too.
 
I've also been struggling with websites today and especially DNS queries that intermittently time out.

Something I noticed is that the default gateway on my 8ta connection is set to 0.0.0.0 which seems strange. Maybe part of the SAIX issues Sinbad mentioned?

PPP adapter 8ta:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 8ta
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 41.150.x.x(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 196.43.45.190
196.43.50.190
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
 
Jaaaa telkom seems to be broken.
I logged on to WA all good now.
 
SarelSeemonster said:
Something I noticed is that the default gateway on my 8ta connection is set to 0.0.0.0 which seems strange.
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Win7? On XP is tha same as auto assigned IP address for this connection. It shouldn't really matter, as traffic goes through PPP connection anyway.
 
8ta seems to have constant DNS issues...

If you have problems connecting to a site, browse to http://www.ping.eu/ping and ping the site.

Next, open up Notepad in Administrator mode, and browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts, and add the values below.

Eg: BRmOH.png

EG: For Google, the 8ta servers mysteriously decide to make us use the US servers - So for a nice speed boost, add the following:

165.165.38.147 google.co.za
165.165.38.147 www.google.co.za

The values can be verified using a command-line ping

KTScL.png

Or, for examples when the DNS flat out refuses to resolve (As in the example you're having):

ln3W4.png makes the following difference: http://i.imgur.com/e7Ow9.png

Hope this helps - And good luck! \o/
 
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sajunky said:
Win7? On XP is tha same as auto assigned IP address for this connection. It shouldn't really matter, as traffic goes through PPP connection anyway.
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Yep, Win7. Reason I mentioned it is because I can always see an actual IP address next to 'default gateway' when I have the dongle plugged into my TP-Link router, but Friday when I had it plugged directly into my PC during the SAIX problems it showed 0.0.0.0 instead.

I hear what you're saying, though. I have "Use default gateway on remote network" ticked in TCP/IP settings for that connection so I guess 0.0.0.0 just means "use gateway of currently-active connection". And I can browse with it like that, just still very very slow for me from time to time.
 
Reelix said:
8ta seems to have constant DNS issues...

If you have problems connecting to a site, browse to http://www.ping.eu/ping and ping the site.

Next, open up Notepad in Administrator mode, and browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts, and add the values below.

Eg: View attachment 27986

EG: For Google, the 8ta servers mysteriously decide to make us use the US servers - So for a nice speed boost, add the following:

165.165.38.147 google.co.za
165.165.38.147 www.google.co.za

The values can be verified using a command-line ping

View attachment 27982

Or, for examples when the DNS flat out refuses to resolve (As in the example you're having):

View attachment 27980 makes the following difference: http://i.imgur.com/e7Ow9.png

Hope this helps - And good luck! \o/
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Thanks for the suggestions. I tend to think it's just my connection that goes to crap though because EVERYTHING would slow down to a crawl, including traceroutes to 8ta's DNS servers (which are actually SAIX's, I think... tpr-ip-dns.saix.net) or directly pinging IP addresses which shouldn't need any DNS. When this happens me trying to open a website would go something like this:

1. Enter website address
2. Click "Go". Browser status bar shows "Looking up <website_address>..." for the next minute or so. . . .
3. Browser shows "Server not found". Wonderful.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a number of times.
5. Website finally starts loading and if I'm luckly it would load enough content to actually be useable (think GMail). A lot of times it NEVER finishes loading all content.

I dunno the cause of this. My signal strength according to MDMA isn't that great (-99dBm on cell ID 12655) but I can still get decent enough speeds a lot of the times...like right now: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2300881612.png. Upload speed sucks though... maybe that's why? A DNS query needs to send data to the server first, before it can expect a reply back. Maybe this is what's timing out.

Anyway, I experience these problems at least once a day lately and what fixes it is never something that I do - it just "starts working" again at random. Dunno if it's my tower or the modem overheating or what. No such issues on Cell C, though...
 
I've got remote monitoring of my wifes 8ta modem and its been down for most of the day, started yesterday. Not impressed with 8ta as we have only had an 80% uptime.
 
Reelix said:
Meh - I've had that issue with a few towers - Note the tower ID you're connecting to (MDMA does this), and shuffle your modem around until it connects to a different one... It seems some towers are really problematic some nights :p
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I started out on tower 12642 when I first got the SIM (Feb 25, 2012) but I haven't seen it in a while. Guess it's gone AWOL. Things seemed much less slow and frustrating back then... Aaaah, the good ol' days! Now there's only one other tower I end up with occasionally (can't remember it's ID) but by far the most regular one is 12655. I don't like 12655 very much and I don't think 12655 likes me very much either :p

Isn't there a way to "lock" MDMA into using only a specific tower?

I thought of getting an external antenna at one stage (my Huawei e1820 can take one afaik) but it would probably be easier to just stick to Cell C now that they've launched their Giganite 200 promo.
 
Reelix said:
8ta seems to have constant DNS issues...

If you have problems connecting to a site, browse to http://www.ping.eu/ping and ping the site.

Next, open up Notepad in Administrator mode, and browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts, and add the values below.

Eg: View attachment 27986

EG: For Google, the 8ta servers mysteriously decide to make us use the US servers - So for a nice speed boost, add the following:

165.165.38.147 google.co.za
165.165.38.147 www.google.co.za
Click to expand...

While it is not solving problem experiencing by SarelSeemonster, it is interesting finding.
I see the same from my 8ta connection:
Code: 
C:\>ping www.google.co.za

Pinging www.google.co.za [173.194.34.184] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 173.194.34.184: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=57
Reply from 173.194.34.184: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=57
Reply from 173.194.34.184: bytes=32 time=201ms TTL=57
Reply from 173.194.34.184: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 173.194.34.184:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 194ms, Maximum = 203ms, Average = 199ms

C:\>ping 165.165.38.147

Pinging 165.165.38.147 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 165.165.38.147: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=59
Reply from 165.165.38.147: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=59
Reply from 165.165.38.147: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 165.165.38.147: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 165.165.38.147:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 38ms, Average = 35ms

C:\>nslookup www.google.co.za
Server:  tpr-ip-dns.saix.net
Address:  196.43.45.190

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.google.co.za
Addresses:  173.194.34.151, 173.194.34.152, 173.194.34.159


C:\>nslookup 165.165.38.147
Server:  tpr-ip-dns.saix.net
Address:  196.43.45.190

*** tpr-ip-dns.saix.net can't find 165.165.38.147: Non-existent domain
 
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