International dead?

Notifications from IS Ops team.

We are currently experiencing a critical degradation in international fibre
access services between our London, New York and Rosebank points of
presence.This is due to a Telkom fibre ring failure at the NDF Exchange.No
estimated time of repair is available.
 
LoneGunman said:
as this is my first post ON ADSL - all installed - this is hardly the wild thing I'd been expecting, pings to yahoo in the 1100ms range, with 20% packet loss, irc stuttering between 0.7 and 2k, dc++ not really working..

as a brand new.. - wooo - mid-b*tch I see a PHAT difference suddenly..
okay, irc d/l 9 - 10k, which for me is fine.. pings to yahoo down to 300ish, no packet loss

still dont seem to be able to get DC++ downloading anything - not even peoples file lists - if anyone has info or config info needed for happiness on Axxess+DC++, please advise.
Also there's no extra 'proxy settings' needed for any appz is there? (IRC, DC++)

(sorry to hijack the thread, I wont do it again :P
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It's a pretty rare occurance - at least, since Nov last year when I got ADSL at home, it's happened maybe 5 times all told.

BTW, are you going through your router ?
You may need to open up some ports - as I've never used DC++ (not enough HD space right now ;) ), I'm not sure what ports you'll need to open. There should be some info around.

For bittorrent, you'll be wanting to open up ports 6881 - 6999
 
LoneGunman said:
as this is my first post ON ADSL - all installed - this is hardly the wild thing I'd been expecting, pings to yahoo in the 1100ms range, with 20% packet loss, irc stuttering between 0.7 and 2k, dc++ not really working..

as a brand new.. - wooo - mid-b*tch I see a PHAT difference suddenly..
okay, irc d/l 9 - 10k, which for me is fine.. pings to yahoo down to 300ish, no packet loss

still dont seem to be able to get DC++ downloading anything - not even peoples file lists - if anyone has info or config info needed for happiness on Axxess+DC++, please advise.
Also there's no extra 'proxy settings' needed for any appz is there? (IRC, DC++)

(sorry to hijack the thread, I wont do it again :P
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Change yourself to passive mode. If it works then, then get no-ip or something and enter your no-ip address in the domain box when selecting active. Of course you'll need to open/forward the ports you use on your router.

[edit]Passive mode is generally a bad mode to be in (as you can only connect to active users), but is a quick fix if you're too lazy to do the no-ip method[/edit]

Cheers
Marnitz
 
Yeah thanks Glipsie re the passive mode - I was fiddling around grumpily, and thought hmm lemme try that - boom - suddenly things are working.. IRC seems the best speeds for things thus far though.. still, I'm happy, any speeds are good compared to sente- I mean 'IBurst' :)
 
Dead internet

Hi

Anyone else experiencing a severe browsing problem today (esp. International) since from 7 am in the Cape Town/Bellville area?

Thanks
 
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electrofreeze said:
Hi

Anyone else experiencing a severe browsing problem today (esp. International) since around 6 - 7 am in the Cape Town/Bellville area?

Thanks
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I haven't experienced anything, but I live in Constantia.
 
Notifications from IS Ops team.

We are currently experiencing a critical degradation in international fibre
access services between our London, New York and Rosebank points of
presence.This is due to a Telkom fibre ring failure at the NDF Exchange.No
estimated time of repair is available.
Click to expand...

awww man.... you would think with 6billion profit they would have better redundancy
 
Cant access any international sites at all, this has been happening alot lately.

oh, and hey ppl this is my first post :)
 
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