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LATENCY!!!
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Is it not possible for at least some of the traffic to be routed away from the Rondebosch exchange? Like telling certain types of data to "take the scenic route"?
But I'm guessing if this was possible, someone would have done it by now.
But I'm guessing if this was possible, someone would have done it by now.
WAJeff
Web Africa Representative
Hi zolly,
I'm sure this is possible, as Telkom do sometimes do this when a major exchange or link goes offline and requires a few days of repair time. However doing this, simply puts a lot more load on other exchanges as well as creates more hops.
This is an assumption, but having a congested exchange is probably better than having traffic re-routed to different exchanges.
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I like your old school attitude
i liked it better when telkom didnt try to sell something they cannot supply.
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still playing quake hey - rem we were supposed to have a lan many years ago that never materialised, guess you were lucky avoiding that ass whipping
still playing quake hey - rem we were supposed to have a lan many years ago that never materialised, guess you were lucky avoiding that ass whipping
I miss Q2 while we were studying
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Gordon_R
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Awesome graphs! (A picture is worth a thousand verbal complaints.)
It feels a bit like the Chile miners, counting the days until the problem gets resolved ;-)
WAJeff
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I like your old school attitude
Perhaps an inter-ISP Quake tournament? Mweb vs. WA
On a slightly more serious note though, are there any Web Africa customers still experienced poor latency from this morning? Our call, ticket and forum activity has been the quietest in a long time.
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lol true - what was that Java chicks name - tight body, cant remember - think that was more than likely the downfall of my OO knowledge...
Perhaps an inter-ISP Quake tournament? Mweb vs. WA
On a slightly more serious note though, are there any Web Africa customers still experienced poor latency from this morning? Our call, ticket and forum activity has been the quietest in a long time.
While better than usual, probably just because it is still early, it isn't fixed:
Pinging games.saix.net [196.43.22.222] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.43.22.222: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=246
Reply from 196.43.22.222: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=246
Reply from 196.43.22.222: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=246
Reply from 196.43.22.222: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=246
WAJeff
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raVid - By no means completely resolved no. As per my response yesterday afternoon we'll need to run (at the maximum) two weeks of proper testing as well as wait on Telkom to resolve the the congestion issues on the Rondebosch Exchange.
I think most of the guys have given up tbh.
Last Night on Axxess uncapped my speedtest read 0.34 down/ 0.11 up and I have a 4mb line. On WA it read 1.2mb down and 0.3 up and latency was 190ms, this was around 9pm.
I think after you guys made the announcement, everyone is waiting a bit as they know that nothing can be done immediately.
Gordon_R
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It's quiter at the moment, but definitely not fixed!
One of the ISP's has been routing some traffic via CINX-JINX, as you can see from the sudden jumps in the graphs:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/
I'm not a gamer, but I'm also waiting. Local latency gets added to international latency, so pings of 400ms to the UK, and 500ms to the US, don't make for pleasant browsing experiences...
One of the ISP's has been routing some traffic via CINX-JINX, as you can see from the sudden jumps in the graphs:
http://stats.cinx.net.za/
I'm not a gamer, but I'm also waiting. Local latency gets added to international latency, so pings of 400ms to the UK, and 500ms to the US, don't make for pleasant browsing experiences...