International Slow

Not sure of the UK suppliers...Could just be a coincidence, or the entire WWW is crumbling...

Afrihost is down for me (international). Local is cruising.

Edit: 8ta is working perfectly with Youtube running fine.
 
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Not too bad for daytime speeds... TI 1024 uncapped account:

Local

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International

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We are aware of the slow speeds and limited international access at the moment. We've got all our tech gurus working on this as our highest priority. We'll let you know when we have more info.
 
AfriMan said:
We are aware of the slow speeds and limited international access at the moment. We've got all our tech gurus working on this as our highest priority. We'll let you know when we have more info.
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Good luck guys :)
Hope we can get things sorted ASAP. Not the kind of thing we want happening on a Friday eh :p
 
I'm seeing nasty congestion on IS and SAIX from ZA to Europe.

It doesn't seem to be the whole SAT-3 cable though, so possibly an isolated Telkom failure. My SAT-3 circuit is still humming. :)
 
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ambo said:
I'm seeing nasty congestion on IS and SAIX from ZA to Europe.

It doesn't seem to be the whole SAT-3 cable though, so possibly and isolated Telkom failure. My SAT-3 circuit is still humming. :)
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As far as I know, we still haven't located the source of the issue, there are several possibilities being explored. We're working with all the concerned companies to get a result as soon as possible.

That's business speak for "We're doing our best to fix it" ;)
 
And here I am, thinking I could share some vital information by showing you the Afrihost status report ...

/me kicks copypasted message in the bin :(

Oh how do you guys even get to speedtest.net? When I tried to conduct a test, just 2 minutes ago the site didn't even load properly. :mad:
 
We're on Altech TC at the office right now and we're doing okay (4Mbps "Fastest" ADSL):

Local:

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International:

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great idea to download movies during the day in the middle of a major cable out, doing your bit.
 
HermanTheGerman said:
And here I am, thinking I could share some vital information by showing you the Afrihost status report ...

/me kicks copypasted message in the bin :(

Oh how do you guys even get to speedtest.net? When I tried to conduct a test, just 2 minutes ago the site didn't even load properly. :mad:
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Speedtest would probably be affected by the issue we're experiencing.
 
Obviously this may come across as a bit of a rant, because i'm frustrated when things like this happen. Now I don't know a lot about the complexities of the telecoms industry in SA, but can someone please explain to me why, in the year 2012, while we have the Sat-3, Safe, Seacom, Eassy and WACS cable systems, one little break somewhere shuts the whole country down? What is wrong with the backup/fail-over systems? Is it just a cost issue?

Perhaps the major ISPs could form a partnership to share the costs of redundant capacity, for times like these. They could call it the "Annual Quarterly Cable Break Failover Redundancy (Pty) Ltd" or something. Then each ISP could take out capacity on say Eassy, WACS and Seacom independently and share the costs. This is how the scenario plays out in my head.

Webafrica: "Whisky Tango Foxtrot. We have a cable break in the North Atlantic, over."

MWEB: "Roger that. We have a 1600ms ping to London via Eassy. Someone check how Telkom and Afrihost is doing."

Telkom: "Wait... what time is it?"

Axxess: "Yo Afrihost, we have major packet loss on SAT3, how's Seacom treating you?"

Afrihost: "Guys, i'm sweet. We have backhaul capacity on WACS, why don't you join me?".

And then all the ISP's share capacity on WACS while the "engineers" as they love to call them, sort out the break on SAT3.

Is it really more complicated than that?
 
sgreg said:
Obviously this may come across as a bit of a rant, because i'm frustrated when things like this happen. Now I don't know a lot about the complexities of the telecoms industry in SA, but can someone please explain to me why, in the year 2012, while we have the Sat-3, Safe, Seacom, Eassy and WACS cable systems, one little break somewhere shuts the whole country down? What is wrong with the backup/fail-over systems? Is it just a cost issue?

Perhaps the major ISPs could form a partnership to share the costs of redundant capacity, for times like these. They could call it the "Annual Quarterly Cable Break Failover Redundancy (Pty) Ltd" or something. Then each ISP could take out capacity on say Eassy, WACS and Seacom independently and share the costs. This is how the scenario plays out in my head.

Webafrica: "Whisky Tango Foxtrot. We have a cable break in the North Atlantic, over."

MWEB: "Roger that. We have a 1600ms ping to London via Eassy. Someone check how Telkom and Afrihost is doing."

Telkom: "Wait... what time is it?"

Axxess: "Yo Afrihost, we have major packet loss on SAT3, how's Seacom treating you?"

Afrihost: "Guys, i'm sweet. We have backhaul capacity on WACS, why don't you join me?".

And then all the ISP's share capacity on WACS while the "engineers" as they love to call them, sort out the break on SAT3.

Is it really more complicated than that?
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Am cruising on my Telkom line....

#justsaying...
 
sgreg said:
Is it really more complicated than that?
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Unfortunately it is. No one can afford to have lots of spare capacity lying around for a rainy day. The cable operators typically charge full price for 5 or so years regardless of whether its in use or not. No one is willing to pay even 10% more for their Internet but is ready to start complaining the moment there is a blip.
 
ambo said:
Unfortunately it is. No one can afford to have lots of spare capacity lying around for a rainy day. The cable operators typically charge full price for 5 or so years regardless of whether its in use or not. No one is willing to pay even 10% more for their Internet but is ready to start complaining the moment there is a blip.
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I knew there had to be a catch somewhere to this "abundance" of cables linking us to the rest of the world!
 
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