International browsing down?

Jhbgirl

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18:55pm Friday night. Gmail via outlook express works fine. Just no international websites.
 
It's one of those some-do and some-dont scenarios.

Nothing on the bulletin board but apparently Joburg had a major outage this morning and that didnt get a mention either.
 
no international access from tower 110 in cape town

i guess they're too busy building their VOIP network to care about just plain internet access...
 
I'm also down here in Durbs :mad: , think I was singing mywireless praises too soon:(. Does this happen often? And I thought we were above the rest - think i'll browse a bit on gprs for a while AND HOPE SOMETHING HAPPENS SOON
 
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as a rough, totally unscientific estimate, i guess i have experienced degraded or non-existent access (i.e. not being able to access local and/or international sites) at least 5 times in the last 2 months.

this might seem little but i think it is still unacceptable to be without internet for a few hours everytime, especially in comparison with international standards (and don't give me that 'but we're in africa crap')

firstly because i pay for it and i think sentech's customer service stinks like a dead fish left under the seat of a car parked in the sun and secondly, i need internet access for work.
 
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Even local is excrutiatingly slow.It took me almost 5 min to access this forum.I tried to download a 4M file from the Apache local mirror and my DL speed was 1KB/s and I'm on the 256k package.I'm connecting to some box with IP address 196.31.33.185.
 
Spoke to support guy and he said there's latency problems with the 256 connections
 
Are we stuck with this speed for the weekend ?

If this is Sentech's idea of highest priority then words fail me for the prospect of them managing the 2010 communications.
 
Are we stuck with this speed for the weekend ?

If this is Sentech's idea of highest priority then words fail me for the prospect of them managing the 2010 communications.

You'll be amazed, they will actually do a good job because of the big money involved.
Dave ,we're just small fish to them.Man I just can't wait til Virgin obliterates these motherPhuckers
 
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