LATENCY!!!

Has anyone else been getting dropped repeatedly? I've been disconnected 4 times tonight :/
 
At my office in town, we have 10mb connected to Leeusig 3, using MTN Bandwidth unshaped. Get 13ms on speedtest.net to local server.
 
zolly said:
Has anyone else been getting dropped repeatedly? I've been disconnected 4 times tonight :/
Click to expand...

Na Zol, but my line has hung for a about 2-4 mins on a couple of occasions tonight, just no activity but doesn't drop. I think my router is so old its managed to mutate past dropping though.

This could be because I'm on VPN to office in Claremont though.
 
Well, well, well.

Ping is back to 18ms and download speed are up to 5 meg. Maybe Telkom is applying some kind of throttling? Tomorrow night I'm going to check the difference between 11:59 and 12:01.
 
zolly said:
Well, well, well.

Ping is back to 18ms and download speed are up to 5 meg. Maybe Telkom is applying some kind of throttling? Tomorrow night I'm going to check the difference between 11:59 and 12:01.
Click to expand...

No it's probably just that the faulty link is uncongested at the moment.
 
zolly said:
Well, well, well.

Ping is back to 18ms and download speed are up to 5 meg. Maybe Telkom is applying some kind of throttling? Tomorrow night I'm going to check the difference between 11:59 and 12:01.
Click to expand...

Its a school night, people go to bed :)
 
Very low pings this morning...

Pinging www.saix.net [196.25.1.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=250
Reply from 196.25.1.200: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=250

Ping statistics for 196.25.1.200:
Packets: Sent = 16, Received = 16, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms
 
zolly said:
Well, well, well.

Ping is back to 18ms and download speed are up to 5 meg. Maybe Telkom is applying some kind of throttling? Tomorrow night I'm going to check the difference between 11:59 and 12:01.
Click to expand...

Keep looking at the overall network activity on the CINX traffic graph. By midnight it is down considerably, so congestion vanishes, as others have suggested:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/

Edit: I was just thinking (@jpmonster), surely Telkom (boasting about Next Generation Network?) planned that exchanges such as Clareinch that upgraded to 10Mbps were connected via Metro Ethernet (1-10 Gbps). It seems now the exchanges have been upgraded, but a fault somewhere in the Southern Suburbs backhaul is not able to handle the traffic!?
 
Last edited:
Im sure if this is happening in CT, it will start happening all over SA, ISPs need to throttle uncapped accounts even more or Telkom need an upgrade of Equipment.

I dont see telkom spending millions to upgrade equipment any time soon, so either we stuck with this issue, or ISPs can maybe do something about it.
 
Dammit guys, my conspiracy theories make more sense when I've only had 4 hours of sleep the night before!

The thing that is weird though, is that it doesn't really make sense that it's "download" traffic. If it was P2P or something similar, people would just leave it on overnight. What seems to be the major factor is the actually amount of people simply using the network to surf the web, since speeds return to normal at the time people go to bed.
 
I logged a fault both on-line and telephonically.
Received a call from a Telkom agent this morning telling me rather proudly that my fault had been resolved.....they decided to downgrade me from 8mb to 4mb.
Gee thanks!!
 
ajules said:
I logged a fault both on-line and telephonically.
Received a call from a Telkom agent this morning telling me rather proudly that my fault had been resolved.....they decided to downgrade me from 8mb to 4mb.
Gee thanks!!
Click to expand...

wahahahhahhahaaaa shame man - that was just a warning shot over the bow. Complain again and they will take away that last 4MB.
 
Maybe we should start a boycott 8ta campaign until Telkom starts taking their existing customers and fix-line business seriously :-(
 
My rough guess is that once the CINX traffic graph exceeds 250Mbps, then the Southern Suburbs starts to experience increased latency:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/
I am in no position to figure out where the traffic comes from or goes to, it just seems to be a rough correlation.

There must be a router somewhere that gets saturated once it reaches some number (100Mbps or 1Gbps?), and then causes the backlog through the area.
 
Gordon_R said:
My rough guess is that once the CINX traffic graph exceeds 250Mbps, then the Southern Suburbs starts to experience increased latency:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/
I am in no position to figure out where the traffic comes from or goes to, it just seems to be a rough correlation.

There must be a router somewhere that gets saturated once it reaches some number (100Mbps or 1Gbps?), and then causes the backlog through the area.
Click to expand...

It would be interesting to see the correlation between CINX traffic and ADSL traffic. I would sort of expected CINX to carry a lot of business and web-traffic, but no so much streaming media (ala youtube) and peer-to-peer traffic (because local bandwidth is expensive and most servers/high bandwidth seeders use cheap international hosting/bandwidth) . But funny enough, CINX does not drop off after 17:00, so a significant chunk of bandwidth is used by home users. Unfortunately it is not possible to see individual port stats, so it is difficult to determine the nature of the traffic!
 
I have to say it is funny watching some of you guys get excited that its all fixed every morning until the realisation dawns that its the same pattern every day :D
 
I find it funny that people are complaining like there's no tomorrow and its only been going on for ...what....couple of weeks ?
You've got something coming that you're not prepared for.....years......before this is fixed. Good luck and enjoy lagging dialup internet quality for some time to come still. Others have been experiencing this BS for years with no success in getting it resolved.

If it gets fixed quickly (and I really hope it does get fixed quickly) then I'm really happy for you guys.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X