International Slow

[mothersruin]

When last did we have it as bad as this?

 

[Fayera]

Anyone know the estimated time of completion ?

 

[DeSLAM]

End of the month ; and it appears some SA banks host their servers North of the cable break along the coast of Portugal, and not in SA.

Amazing.

 

[AfriMan]

Some international access has been restored. Should be much faster.

 

[sydCPT]

No one is willing to pay even 10% more for their Internet but is ready to start complaining the moment there is a blip.

Thats right, I'm not willing to pay 10% more, I already pay over R1000 a month for a simple 4mb connection... How can you say I must now pay extra for the ISP to secure redundancy, surly, somewhere along the line, someone at one of these ISP's realized "hold on, what if this cable breaks, we should have a spare one in case." For example, I pay for a Openweb gold account, on DSL Heaven (which runs beautifully), and have an afrihost 2 gig account for backup, ie redundancy. However, that was useless this morning, as neither Webafrica nor Afrihost seemed to have redundancy in place.

\Rant over

Anyway, it seems to be working now, but I hope they have learnt their lesson, because this is bound to happen again.

 

[Unhappy1]

Some international access has been restored. Should be much faster.

Nope

 

[DarkStreet]

Some international access has been restored. Should be much faster.

Not here.

Bought a R 25 FNBConnect account instead and now I can finally get some work done.

 

[Big Bean]

Tracert to BBC is really odd
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 27 ms 29 ms 29 ms telkomadsl.co.za
2 29 ms 30 ms 31 ms wblv-ip-cat-1-vlan-913.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.4
3.35.38]
3 31 ms 27 ms 29 ms wblv-ip-esr-3-gig-6-1-0-914.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.35.33]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 45 ms 48 ms 48 ms 196.43.10.130
6 51 ms 49 ms 48 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-2-0-0-201.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.33.5]
7 428 ms 435 ms 422 ms 196.43.9.54
8 255 ms 257 ms 250 ms 93-126-245-83.packetexchange.net [83.245.126.93]

9 * * * Request timed out.
10 245 ms 249 ms 247 ms ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
11 248 ms 252 ms 244 ms 132.185.255.60
12 251 ms 252 ms 245 ms 212.58.241.131

I ran it multiple times in-case it was a ping spike.

Ping in Dota 2 is sitting about ~400 ms a-posed to the regular 250ms

 

[ichigo]

Still cant play diablo 3 with the lag but everything else is running flawlessly

Using Telkom here wish they fix it fast so I can play again

 

[J_S]

Dear IS Client

UPDATE:
Upstream Vendor performing maintenance on submarine cable system till 02.07.12.
IMPACT: MPLS and Priority Access clients may experiance minor degregation in services. Major Increased latency and Packet Loss on all other services.
ATTENDING: Upstream service provider
STATUS: Maintenance

 

[abandonallhope]

Am cruising on my Telkom line....

#justsaying...

Some people use their lines for more than email and facebook, and trust me telkom ISP accounts are also affected by this.

Also, every single soul in SA on ADSL has a "Telkom line"

 

[Ripykin]

i think i read a post somewhere earlier about Mweb all running as normal is this true?

 

[DeSLAM]

Lost packets to Europe 100% on any IS backbone.

So did someone shoot down the satellite ? Or was it taken out of the SA redundancy loop. And yes all DSL users are reliant on Telkom no matter what ISP you are with.

 

[MickeyD]

Some people use their lines for more than email and facebook, and trust me telkom ISP accounts are also affected by this.

Also, every single soul in SA on ADSL has a "Telkom line"

I'm working from home... linked back to office. No outage even on international links to US or Asia.

#justsaying...

 

[Lordbal]

Still getting nowhere on Afrihost.

Tracing route to google.com [173.194.41.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 36 ms 15 ms 10 ms 196.215.194.1
3 42 ms 59 ms 40 ms cas2-blm-1.dial-up.net [196.38.72.193]
4 63 ms 97 ms 36 ms 196.35.115.136
5 38 ms 31 ms 37 ms core2a-ctn-gi0-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.6.6]
6 60 ms 52 ms 29 ms 168.209.6.131
7 * 292 ms 282 ms 168.209.100.222
8 304 ms * 369 ms 209.85.248.226
9 322 ms 290 ms 283 ms 209.85.252.44
10 * 286 ms * 209.85.253.92
11 323 ms 405 ms 309 ms 209.85.253.95
12 317 ms 294 ms 336 ms 72.14.238.55
13 338 ms * * lhr08s03-in-f0.1e100.net [173.194.41.128]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * 288 ms 298 ms lhr08s03-in-f0.1e100.net [173.194.41.128]

Trace complete.

 

[DeSLAM]

I'm working from home... linked back to office. No outage even on international links to US or Asia.

#justsaying...

That means the Telkom link between your home and your office works. From there, it depends how your office connects to the rest of the world.

 

[MickeyD]

That means the Telkom link between your home and your office works. From there, it depends how your office connects to the rest of the world.

I posted my results http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...ational-Slow?p=8490143&viewfull=1#post8490143

and that's my home link...

 

[abandonallhope]

I'm working from home... linked back to office. No outage even on international links to US or Asia.

#justsaying...

Linked back ?

Anyway it's all about the intl latency, so you can forget about playing diablo3, WoW et al, even on your telkom account.

Because the connection to your office is local, you won't notice the slightest difference.

 

[Fayera]

So no gaming this weekend...awesome

 

[Necuno]

So no gaming this weekend...awesome

Time to go outside