Impossible to get 300Kbits from USA????

[Tunasashimi]

I am wondering if ANYBODY in South Africa can get a constant 300Kbits stream, fed from:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nflgamepass

(The site has a test button and test feeds)

I have, at 6am, tried from Cape Town, but only get 300kbits in bursts, averaging at about 180kbits. I mean, come on, really?!

I have tried with Telkom, Telkom Unshaped, Webafrica, Webafrica Unshaped (same difference), Webafrica Verizon Unshaped (terrible!).

Please, if anybody knows of an ISP that allows reliable 300kbit throughput, PLEASE LET US KNOW!!!

Here are some traceroutes:

SAIX Unshaped:
# traceroute 68.142.195.119
traceroute to 68.142.195.119 (68.142.195.119), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 dsl-146-20-01.telkomadsl.co.za (165.146.20.1) 15.556 ms 15.897 ms 15.596 ms
2 196.43.35.49 (196.43.35.49) 15.937 ms 15.533 ms 15.473 ms
3 196.43.35.49 (196.43.35.49) 16.099 ms 16.092 ms 15.539 ms
4 196.43.33.2 (196.43.33.2) 37.517 ms 38.699 ms 39.329 ms
5 196.43.33.5 (196.43.33.5) 36.774 ms 36.799 ms 37.796 ms
6 lon-ip-dir-telecity-gig-4-0-1025.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.18.121) 250.882 ms 251.257 ms 250.172 ms
7 213.228.221.202 (213.228.221.202) 361.128 ms 362.305 ms 360.642 ms
8 ge-1-1-0-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.107) 346.515 ms ge-1-1-0-p111.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.111) 347.353 ms ge-0-1-0-p111.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.103) 360.531 ms
9 ten-8-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.25) 361.998 ms ten-9-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.31) 358.734 ms ten-8-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.27) 359.825 ms

Verizon Unshaped:
# traceroute 68.142.195.119
traceroute to 68.142.195.119 (68.142.195.119), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 * * *
2 atm4-0-0sub106.gw11.jnb6.alter.net (196.7.196.21) 37.729 ms 38.428 ms 37.845 ms
3 pos8-1-0.gw11.jnb6.alter.net (196.30.121.157) 36.876 ms 37.016 ms 37.843 ms
4 fe4-1-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net (196.30.156.34) 38.426 ms 36.746 ms 37.866 ms
5 other-side.s0-1-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net (196.30.229.245) 222.228 ms 229.137 ms 224.055 ms
6 so0-0-0.ir1.par6.alter.net (196.30.229.109) 241.343 ms 254.925 ms 242.675 ms
7 0.so-3-1-0.IH1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.16.109) 320.970 ms 323.253 ms 322.574 ms
8 500.at-6-3-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.19.90) 302.555 ms 324.217 ms 302.697 ms
9 0.so-1-1-0.XL1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.19.86) 305.854 ms 311.834 ms 310.070 ms
10 0.so-6-1-1.XL3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.21.22) 324.213 ms 310.035 ms 306.782 ms
11 0.ge-6-0-0.BR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.18.5) 306.006 ms 309.036 ms 302.698 ms
12 204.255.173.54 (204.255.173.54) 329.027 ms 307.718 ms 330.725 ms
13 4.68.16.62 (4.68.16.62) 328.985 ms 303.997 ms vlan79.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.16.126) 323.220 ms
14 ae-63-63.ebr3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.97) 317.875 ms ae-94-94.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.125) 333.638 ms ae-63-63.ebr3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.97) 307.233 ms
15 ae-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.93) 312.243 ms ae-3.ebr3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.89) 317.985 ms 330.401 ms
16 ae-63-63.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.162) 316.413 ms 311.337 ms 313.213 ms
17 ae-11-69.car1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.17.3) 308.035 ms 327.876 ms ae-21-79.car1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.17.67) 383.859 ms
18 4.79.228.2 (4.79.228.2) 307.930 ms 343.991 ms 389.656 ms
19 so-0-0-0.pat1.dax.yahoo.com (216.115.101.145) 421.679 ms 611.713 ms 380.237 ms
20 216.115.104.105 (216.115.104.105) 359.628 ms 216.115.104.101 (216.115.104.101) 383.491 ms 216.115.104.97 (216.115.104.97) 358.707 ms
21 ten-9-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.29) 359.432 ms ten-8-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.27) 360.852 ms ten-9-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.31) 381.303 ms

Thanks

 

[Tunasashimi]

Amazing. It really seems to be impossible for a normal ADSL client in South Africa, to get 300kbits from the US. So much for 100GBits of undersea cables.

 

[Browser]

Don't worry, when that 1.5Tb cable is up and going we should be getting 400Kb speeds. lol

 

[dabouncer]

I managed to view the demo video at 100k and 300k without any problems. Speed test told me insufficient bandwidth on every test...

 

[Tunasashimi]

I managed to view the demo video at 100k and 300k without any problems. Speed test told me insufficient bandwidth on every test...

Cool... Well, what time of day and what account and line? I'm guessing 4Mbit ADSL and SAIX-based account... Works sometimes... but that's the catch. Seems you can't guarantee someone that it'll work. :|

 

[Tunasashimi]

I managed to view the demo video at 100k and 300k without any problems. Speed test told me insufficient bandwidth on every test...

Tried it lately? For more than 10 minutes at a time?

Anyone on Diginet? I see the prices have dropped somewhat in recent years...... getting better connectivity than on ADSL? Supposedly guaranteed throughput, right... 1:10, 1:5, 1:2 and 1:1 Contentions available?

 

[krycor]

just thinking with the drastic reductions in cost expected mebbe instead of reducing people's monthly bills every can now upgrade to leased lines

 

[medicnick83]

Don't worry, when that 1.5Tb cable is up and going we should be getting 400Kb speeds. lol

How long till this happens? You think it might happen in our life time?