Right now I cannot stream DSTV or a home movie from openload without buffering yet my 10Mbps speedtest suggests I shouldn't have issues, seems strange right?
To test my hunch I setup my own speedtest server using this using this code from Github on a dev server at Hetzner with a 100Mbps breakout.
I first tested my speedtest server from my office which has a 300Mbps connection, it managed to do 90Mbps down which is close to the bandwidth limit on Hetzner's side for their truserv packages. The only purpose of this test is to prove that my makeshift speedtest server has enough bandwidth for the tests below
Next I tested CellC against speedtest.net, results were pretty much in line with what I was getting off my phone on wifi, 15Mbps down, 17Mbps up. That should be a enough for DSTV Now or a random video off the internet yet none of them are working right now...
Next I tested CellC against my speedtest server and I think the results speak for themselves, < 1Mbps seems a whole lot less than the speedtest.net results.
A pretty reasonable explanation for my speedtest server showing such poor speeds when testing from CellC fixed LTE is that IS might have a peering issue with Heztner right now so to be safe I tested my speedtest server from IS's Randview DC, results confirm that IS can definitely connect to Hetzner just fine.
Pretty frustrating that major speedtest services like mybroand and speedtest always show high speeds yet when trying to stream video from DSTV now or download random data from my hetzner server the throughput never comes close to this.
If you are a CellC fixed LTE subscriber please share your feedback?
PS Would love to see MyBB do some actual journalism and investigate ISPs unshapping speedtest.net and speedtest.mybroadband.co.za to skew the regular results posted on here but I am not holding my breath...
To test my hunch I setup my own speedtest server using this using this code from Github on a dev server at Hetzner with a 100Mbps breakout.
I first tested my speedtest server from my office which has a 300Mbps connection, it managed to do 90Mbps down which is close to the bandwidth limit on Hetzner's side for their truserv packages. The only purpose of this test is to prove that my makeshift speedtest server has enough bandwidth for the tests below
Next I tested CellC against speedtest.net, results were pretty much in line with what I was getting off my phone on wifi, 15Mbps down, 17Mbps up. That should be a enough for DSTV Now or a random video off the internet yet none of them are working right now...
Next I tested CellC against my speedtest server and I think the results speak for themselves, < 1Mbps seems a whole lot less than the speedtest.net results.
A pretty reasonable explanation for my speedtest server showing such poor speeds when testing from CellC fixed LTE is that IS might have a peering issue with Heztner right now so to be safe I tested my speedtest server from IS's Randview DC, results confirm that IS can definitely connect to Hetzner just fine.
Pretty frustrating that major speedtest services like mybroand and speedtest always show high speeds yet when trying to stream video from DSTV now or download random data from my hetzner server the throughput never comes close to this.
If you are a CellC fixed LTE subscriber please share your feedback?
PS Would love to see MyBB do some actual journalism and investigate ISPs unshapping speedtest.net and speedtest.mybroadband.co.za to skew the regular results posted on here but I am not holding my breath...