International Bandwidth

[sunsoffun]

Where does Neotel currently get it's international bandwidth from? Do they have to go through Telkom, until Seacom arrives? Whats the story with that? If so, is this where the price drop will come in that has been mentioned so many times lately?

 

[Venom Rush]

As far as I know Neotel has their own access to the SAT3 undersea cable, but I could be wrong.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Yes, they lease capacity from SAT3 under the TATA licence. Totally separate from Telkom.

 

[RichardG]

I would recommend you do the following.

Start - run - cmd

type:tracert www.google.com

It will help you on what routes Neotel users to get you to google

Here are the routes I am using from Spain to gain access to Google

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.43.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 165 ms 276 ms 298 ms 192.168.1.1
2 437 ms 475 ms 408 ms 1.222.218.87.dynamic.jazztel.es [87.218.222.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 971 ms 865 ms 843 ms 146.216.106.212.static.jazztel.es [212.106.216.146]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 386 ms 453 ms 558 ms xe-10-0-0-232.mad-001-score-1-re0.interoute.net[212.23.53.89]
7 885 ms 1256 ms * ae3-0.par-gar-score-1-re0.interoute.net [89.202.161.22]
8 1176 ms 1386 ms 2419 ms 74.125.50.105
9 569 ms 2362 ms 2494 ms 209.85.251.40
10 1245 ms 1807 ms 1571 ms 209.85.248.95
11 1166 ms 988 ms 881 ms 216.239.48.11
12 1764 ms 1323 ms 1074 ms 64.233.174.29
13 973 ms 647 ms 624 ms 209.85.250.1
14 676 ms 886 ms 1133 ms bw-in-f99.google.com [74.125.43.99]

Trace complete.

 

[newklear]

Neotel Lite:
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [216.239.59.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 299 ms 179 ms 179 ms 41.174.0.1
4 318 ms 299 ms 299 ms 41.160.0.242
5 360 ms 177 ms 358 ms if-1-8.bb1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.41]
6 449 ms 588 ms 559 ms if-1-7.bb2.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.10]
7 577 ms 559 ms 559 ms if-3-7.core2.LDN-London.as6453.net [216.6.59.34]
8 456 ms 479 ms 481 ms if-3-2.mcore3.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.195.13]
9 459 ms 559 ms 479 ms ldn-b4-link.telia.net [213.248.74.1]
10 478 ms 639 ms 458 ms google-118150-ldn-b4.c.telia.net [213.248.104.58]
11 477 ms 498 ms 480 ms 209.85.252.40
12 477 ms 479 ms 479 ms 209.85.250.216
13 477 ms 620 ms 538 ms 64.233.174.185
14 474 ms 498 ms 499 ms 216.239.49.126
15 498 ms 640 ms 578 ms 216.239.59.103

Trace complete.