It's aliiiiiiive (Screamer Uncapped @ 384k)

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I've sent through a request to cancel, yes, less than 5 hours of having the account. Do not be fooled. Don't use Screamer. It's not really ADSL, with no public IP address, it's nothing more than an ADSL connection into their worthless wireless network setup. It's not unshaped. Torrents never reach more than 6kb/s, read my other posts and see why. And before anyone claims I know nothing about what I'm talking about **** you, I know more than you ever will

So after a few hiccups it appears to be living and breathing.

World of Warcraft ping seemed a bit high for an unshaped line (550-600ms but staying sub-600ms at least)

Then I did a tracert to one of my servers in the UK:

Code: 
  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    24 ms    21 ms    23 ms  10.216.148.1
  3    53 ms    49 ms    50 ms  196.25.27.166
  4    49 ms    49 ms    49 ms  196.15.204.82
  5    50 ms    51 ms    50 ms  196.15.204.81
  6    53 ms    56 ms    48 ms  tpr-ip-esr-3-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.54.1
3]
  7   278 ms   308 ms   304 ms  196.43.9.54
  8   278 ms   290 ms   309 ms  213.161.92.181
  9   370 ms   330 ms   256 ms  213-152-232-123.available.lhr.above.net [213.152
.232.123]
 10   237 ms   238 ms   242 ms  vl901.core1.lon.rackspace.net [83.138.138.35]
 11   421 ms   434 ms   411 ms  vl911.core6a.lon3.rackspace.net [92.52.76.204]
 12   236 ms   244 ms   255 ms  aggr321a-2-core6a.lon3.rackspace.net [92.52.77.1
9]
 13     *      236 ms   259 ms  78.136.56.74

And mybroadband.co.za

Code: 
  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2   106 ms    22 ms    22 ms  10.216.148.1
  3    48 ms    49 ms    50 ms  196.25.27.166
  4    49 ms    49 ms    46 ms  196.15.204.82
  5    49 ms    52 ms    50 ms  196.15.204.81
  6    46 ms    46 ms    50 ms  tpr-ip-esr-3-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.54.1
3]
  7    55 ms    52 ms    50 ms  rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
43.8.198]
  8    47 ms    61 ms    47 ms  196.43.25.138
  9    75 ms    82 ms    65 ms  ge0-2.br1.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.16.181
]
 10    57 ms    70 ms    59 ms  ge11-0-0.gw2.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.1.2
2]
 11    54 ms    56 ms    53 ms  vlan9.hr3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.156.13
6]
 12    86 ms    75 ms   117 ms  196.30.213.108
 13    70 ms    96 ms   109 ms  firewall1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.7.216.173]
 14    81 ms    89 ms   108 ms  mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.136]

Pings to mybb differ a bit, from 68ms average to 320ms average.

Pings to international seems a bit more "stable" at an average of 250ms to the site mentioned above in the UK.

Google ping is around 520ms with a dropped packet every 2nd ping (I only ping for the normal default duration of a ping). Which is kind of dissapointing.

Above doesn't really show me that they're using Seacom bandwidth though, unless someone can say they are? I can understand that locally they're not using Seacom, but the telkom-ipnet in the first tracert doesn't sit coshure with me.

Ah well, at least it's uncapped.... I know they're using both SAIX and Seacom bandwidth, but give me unshaped seacom bandwidth! Afrihost pings in WoW after hours is like 250-320ms on my line...

anyone else connected yet? want to ping/tracert a few stuff with me?
 
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What the flying feck? You have an RFC-1918 IP on ADSL???
 
Mier said:
Uh. The tracert were done from a pc on his private lan behind the ADSL router.
Click to expand...

2 24 ms 21 ms 23 ms 10.216.148.1

^^ look at the latency path... and the RFC-1918 at the end of it.
 
cda said:
What the flying feck? You have an RFC-1918 IP on ADSL???
Click to expand...

You mean a Private IP Address??

Nope it's not.

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 - router / WAP - Private IP
2 24 ms 21 ms 23 ms 10.216.148.1 - firewall / Gateway / DMZ - Private IP
3 53 ms 49 ms 50 ms 196.25.27.166 - ADSL modem - Public IP
4 49 ms 49 ms 49 ms 196.15.204.82
Click to expand...

I'm guessing that the 1st line is the IP address of his router, which he has direct access to. The router is then connected to his gateway server / firewall / DMZ (such as Smoothwall, IPCop, iShield, etc), which in turn is connected to an ADSL modem.

Am I right?
 
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Could you please traceroute:

4.68.95.11
64.235.225.51

And average ping, if possible :)
 
Mier said:
Uh. The tracert were done from a pc on his private lan behind the ADSL router.
Click to expand...
I think cda is referring to this:
Code: 
2    24 ms    21 ms    23 ms  10.216.148.1

Unless AcidRaZor is using 2 routers with a number of km of cable between them - that IP is on the Screamer network :sick:
 
cda said:
2 24 ms 21 ms 23 ms 10.216.148.1

^^ look at the latency path... and the RFC-1918 at the end of it.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I only looked at the first line.

Curious indeed. If this is true, these account have a major problem.
 
Surely they can't assign those IPs to their network? I thought it was illegal.

Anyway, how's about a speed test?
 
hop 8 doesn't seem to be an interroute IP, so I wonder if they're really using Seacom... hmmmm
 
Telkom provide the private blocks with the ipc if you do not have your own public blocks.
 
Doesn't matter, its internal routing.. Technically, screamer should reject udp traceroutes on those IP's so people like us don't question there network skills.
 
Acid, can you do a traceroute from your UK server to your ADSL IP?

Be interesting to see the route it takes
 
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