Is Telkom using more Seacom bandwidth than we thought?

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wpswart006

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With the Seacom cable being down and all, is there another reason for my horrible International browsing experience?
 
Same here. :mad:
I have already raised complaint with ICASA regarding general ADSL saturation at my exchange... and this doesn't help at all.
ADSL has deteriorated massively... with all these uncapped accounts exchanges appear completely saturated.... and unless there's a hardware upgrade we're doomed to poor speeds.
*Sigh*
 
Could just be that SAT3/SAFE is just alot more congested due to ISP's moving their load over to them. I can't get any international with MWEB.
 
steel_dog said:
Same here. :mad:
I have already raised complaint with ICASA regarding general ADSL saturation at my exchange... and this doesn't help at all.
ADSL has deteriorated massively... with all these uncapped accounts exchanges appear completely saturated.... and unless there's a hardware upgrade we're doomed to poor speeds.
*Sigh*
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So lets see you do a speed test and that instantly tells you your exchange is over populated, so you have access to the exchange network traffic? :) Be careful what you claim to think to know using speedtest as a definitive guide is ill advised, considering it could be international links and peering on the way to the test site that causes issues.
 
semaphore said:
So lets see you do a speed test and that instantly tells you your exchange is over populated, so you have access to the exchange network traffic? :) Be careful what you claim to think to know using speedtest as a definitive guide is ill advised, considering it could be international links and peering on the way to the test site that causes issues.
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Nah dude the speedtest was a single simple example to confirm that I saw the same as the original poster - i.e.: there appeared to an issue with Telkoms international link. In terms of the over saturation of the exchange - different issue - which has been confirmed by twice by Telkom when the techs involved checked the exchange logs. Problem is... they simply haven't resolved the issue... it's been 5-months now.
 
steel_dog said:
Nah dude the speedtest was a single simple example to confirm that I saw the same as the original poster - i.e.: there appeared to an issue with Telkoms international link. In terms of the over saturation of the exchange - different issue - which has been confirmed by twice by Telkom when the techs involved checked the exchange logs. Problem is... they simply haven't resolved the issue... it's been 5-months now.
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What techies were these? The same ones that came out in their bakkies to your premises? If yes, then they were feeding you BS as they don't have access to those records.
 
moggie said:
What techies were these? The same ones that came out in their bakkies to your premises? If yes, then they were feeding you BS as they don't have access to those records.
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Nope... the one's who never seem to sort out problems :whistle: ;)
The guys I dealt with did have access to the logs and stepping through the times I reported slow down they did acknowledge significant utilization. Anyhow - let's see what Telkom have to say. ICASA have requested an update from them... it's been 2-months since they tried to correct the problem... and failed.
 
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