ISP least affected by DDOS attacks

So what do we know about these DDoS attacks? Does someone have a theory? I just don't understand why. Seeing as most ISP's are getting hit now, that sort of rules out the shady ISP attacking its competitors?
 
in theory the big boys like MTN, Vodacom and Telkom should have the ability to absorb these quite a bit better. they have much more bandwidth available and more money to throw at these problems.
 
I've been with Home connect since the beginning of November and haven't had any issues so far, flying along at full line speed.
 
I am on Vox, and I am largely unaffected by these issues.
However, finding out why this is happening is like waiting to find out why the universe is created the way it is. Its a state secret, they won't tell you.
 
AfricanTech said:
With the spate of DDOS attacks on most major South African ISP's, what are the alternatives available to the SA consumer?

Is this something that we simply have to live with (like loadshedding which can at least be mitigated somewhat via inverters, batteries, etc) or are there specific ISP's that

a. appear to be able to avoid being DDOS'd or
b. have superior mitigation in place for when DDOS attacks do take place.
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I haven't noticed any DDOS. Telkom on openserve
 
Anyone have an ISP recommendation for a vumatel line in the Melrose, JHB area? I can't deal with CI anymore.
 
xefor said:
DDOS attacks are an industry problem and it has become more frequent. Any ISP can be simply overwhelmed.
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The problem is not from the ISPs, but it's caused by users with lax security and cheap devices that is the source of the problem as their devices have been compromised and used in these attacks. Can you count the number of cheap chinese security/web-cameras? not to mention cheap routers with buggy firmware or the plethora of old and insecure Android devices (where people can't afford iPhones). So that is the source of the problems: cheap devices

Back to the original poster's question:

Thus far WebSquad (and my secondary line's) Vanilla haven't seen the same type of dDoS impacts, other than me being classified as a DDoSer with a single rsync+ssh stream's ACK packets that triggered the one provider's mitigator as the packets were asymmetrically routed from the remote source.

That said: it does cost money to mitigate, thus the prices for the connections grows.... consider to pressure VumaTel for secondary ISP/lines to help mitigate it... ie. have a backup line(s) in place, as it's not a question of whether an ISP will be affected, but rather *when* they'll be affected
 
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