IS international - down or not?

Globetrotter said:
Thanks.
I can't load any intl sites though.

Are you in capetown? afaik alot of servers including exchanges went down today because of the Western Cape power failure.

Things should be online now.
 
Telkom's ADSL network downtime today

Clipse said:
Are you in capetown? afaik alot of servers including exchanges went down today because of the Western Cape power failure.

Things should be online now.

Telkom's ADSL network's just come online now after being down for 14 hours 13 minutes+ :(

I'm starting to think that shock Telkom's CEO needs to go in for shock therapy as well as Charl and Craig from Telkom SAIX's useless helpdesk. When Craig answered the phone this evening he tells me that there is nothing wrong with their network, similar to the story Charl spun to me this morning and I explained to them that there was a power failure in the Western Cape and their equipment was offline :(

Anyway I dial-up to SAIX's super slow POP and have 30+ minutes online of super slow access:

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [196.7.147.165]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 143 ms 131 ms 131 ms wwg-ip-nas-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [155.239.145.254]
2 * 1154 ms 1176 ms wbs-ip-esr-1-atm-5-0-1-5.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.12.61]
3 1229 ms * 1271 ms wbs-ip-er-1-fe-4-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.23.14]
4 * 1178 ms * rrba-ip-er-1-ge-9-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.10.150]
5 * 1174 ms * atm6-0sub1.br1.jnb6.alter.net [196.31.39.54] 6 1204 ms 1247 ms 1166 ms srp5-0-0.cr5.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.9]
7 * 1277 ms 1288 ms atm1-1-0sub1.cr2.cpt1.alter.net [196.31.39.37]
8 1181 ms 1169 ms 1079 ms srp1-0-0.gw1.cpt1.alter.net [196.31.249.66]
9 1239 ms 1169 ms * vlan10.hr1.cpt1.alter.net [196.30.176.36]
10 * 1249 ms 1270 ms cpt.h-gw.net [196.7.5.134]
11 1403 ms 1277 ms 1151 ms dedi65a.your-server.co.za [196.7.147.165]

Seems that there are also issues with Telkom's leased-lines to their POP's :(

When will Telkom ever learn to engineer their network for redundancy?
 
Connecting to ftp.up.ac.za[137.215.98.34]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==>CWD /mirrors/gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz ... done.

[ <=> ] 2,677,000 1.46K/s
_________________________

Now, this is local. WTF? (I got an average of 45K/sec over the weekend.)
 
IS has stopped working!

My connection to IS stopped working and i disconnected/reconnected, it said invalid username password.

thank the lord for my saix account, else i'd be stuffed.

anybody else in cpt with this is problem?
 
i have experienced browsing today to be a little slower than usual but downloads (torrents) are flying .... Everythings seems to be flying with IS
 
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