Langenhoven Park and Universitas Rift (LHP exchange) - Bloemfontein - ADSL Problems

[Praeses]

Just posting this thread for future issues.

Here's some ping and tracert results to give you a general idea of what is "normal". This was performed with an Afrihost account and I'm situated in Langenhoven Park with a 2Mbps line:

C:\>ping www.mybroadband.co.za

Ping statistics for 41.203.21.137:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 17ms

C:\>ping www.hellopeter.co.za

Ping statistics for 197.242.72.148:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 17ms

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
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C:\>tracert www.mybroadband.co.za

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 105-236-8-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.
1]
2 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms ipc-recieve-jh-2a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.17]
3 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
4 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
5 18 ms 19 ms 17 ms jh-cr-2.za--jh-dca-2.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.0.22
4]
6 17 ms 19 ms 17 ms 196.44.31.99
7 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms 196.30.1.39
8 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms tengigabitethernet1-1.gw21.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.n
et [196.31.220.21]
9 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms tengigabitethernet5-2.hr9.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.ne
t [196.31.63.150]
10 22 ms 22 ms 24 ms core-router1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.30.213.108]
11 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms core-access-switch1-vlan1001.jnb.host-h.net [41.
72.136.53]
12 16 ms 19 ms 16 ms mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\praes_000>tracert www.telkom.co.za

Tracing route to www.telkom.co.za [165.143.158.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 6 ms 8 ms 7 ms 105-236-8-1-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.
1]
2 22 ms 21 ms 22 ms ipc-recieve-jh-2a.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.178
.17]
3 19 ms 17 ms 16 ms qux-jh-dca-2.za-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.165
.115]
4 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms jh-dca-2.za--qux-b.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.16
5.114]
5 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms 41.181.139.109
6 21 ms 20 ms 24 ms rrba-ip-se-2-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.58.1
7]
7 24 ms 18 ms 17 ms 196.43.25.137
8 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms nbsc-ip-er-1-pos-8-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.4
3.25.146]
9 telkom-sa-tienet-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.54.62] reports: Destination
net unreachable.

Trace complete.


Line Stats:

Modulation: ADSL2 PLUS

Annex Mode: ANNEX_A

Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin:
34.0 18.3 db

Line Attenuation:
34.6 17.5 db

Data Rate:
2033 507 kbps

Max Rate:
17408 1156 kbps

CRC:
0 0

I'm quite far from the exchange (> 1.5km as the crow flies), yet I can get up to 17 Mbps