International sloooow

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HermanTheGerman

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Hey all,
today around 17:40 speed went down to almost zero. Sites stop loading at around 50% and then ... nothing.
Can anybody please enlighten me?

I'm on ADSL 4096 and OpenWeb unshaped IS fiber account. What's wrong???
 
I'm on Webafrica SAIX - international timeouts and slowness everywhere...

Local is fine.
 
Thank you very much!

I've been swearing the whole day at the slow international browsing, now I see I am not alone.
 
Yep, International is all but dead. Also on OpenWeb Semi-shaped IS.
 
Reading between these lines...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/9335.html


While SEACOM has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps, only 80 Gbps of bandwidth is currently available on the cable. To put this in perspective, Telkom recently announced that the SAT3-SAFE capacity will be upgraded from its current 120 Gbps to 340 Gbps. The SAT-3/SAFE cable system therefore has a significantly higher capacity than SEACOM.
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I think what's happening is that when we experience poor international speeds, the ISP's are trying out SEACOM.
 
While SEACOM has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps, only 80 Gbps of bandwidth is currently available on the cable. To put this in perspective, Telkom recently announced that the SAT3-SAFE capacity will be upgraded from its current 120 Gbps to 340 Gbps. The SAT-3/SAFE cable system therefore has a significantly higher capacity than SEACOM.
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I would love to know how 340 Gbps is "a significantly higher capacity" than 1.28 Tbps... :)
 
Lightscribe said:
I would love to know how 340 Gbps is "a significantly higher capacity" than 1.28 Tbps... :)
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+1.
SAT-3's total capacity, even after it's upgrade, still wont be comparable with that of Seacom's... however the current maximumly USED figures do show that after SAT3's upgrade, they (Telkom) will have more capacity than Seacom's currently max USED figure. That could show that the 1.28 Tbps is probably overkill and the competition may be pretty even, but we must not forget that Seacom has only just gone live and the figure may rise - don't think I'll know at what rate though...
 
Wednesday 26 Aug 7:45 My international is still slow. Anybody else with the same problem?
 
Lightscribe said:
I would love to know how 340 Gbps is "a significantly higher capacity" than 1.28 Tbps... :)
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They say they are only using 80Gbps at the moment. Compare that to the 120Gbps that SAT3 has at the moment.

Even at full capacity, SEACOM won't have 1.28 Tbps to the UK and US. The 1.28Tbps is only to our neighbouring African countries.
 
Two seperate ADSL lines on Telkom SAIX unshaped and international is dead slow.
Been slow since yesterday afternoon...
 
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