Line problem or ISP?

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lordneon

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Have the strangest issue. My 384k adsl was working fine until 2days ago when I noticed local downloads where slow and international as well. I cant seem to get over 10kb per second downloads. Now on 384 your suppose to get at least 38-48k download speeds. I called ISP they say its not them. I called Telkom they reset my ports etc. Still the same.

And I also do ping tests and though packet loss is not constant I do get dropped packets every 10 or so pings. This is really annoying.

Any idea what this could be? Any help will be greatly appreciated :)
 
I am having exactly the same problem on a 384kb line. Used to be able to get a solid 41/43Kb throughput but last few days my download speeds jump around like a crazy march hair. If I go to speedtest.net my speed tops out at 316kbs but during the test it goes up and down constantly. Apparently they have changed my dslam ports with no difference. Tried various isp's Telkom, imaginet, mweb no real difference between them. Tried a bilion router in place of my netgear and still nothing.
 
i logged a request with telkom they called me and said that they fixed it will check it when I get home tonight
 
radicool said:
I always ask them to replace my DSLAM when I have problems like what you are describing. Have a look at my post from a few weeks ago...

Once my DSLAM was replaced, everything was fine again.
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lol.

I *highly* doubt they replaced the DSLAM. The most they would do is move you over to a new port or replace a line card on the DSLAM. The only time a DSLAM will get replaced is if the backplane is fooked.
 
The physical integrity of the copper between you and the dslam is suspect in this scenario. Have the telkom techs tested that? Is your voice line crackly, noisy? Bad / corroded connections in junction boxes are classic line faults.
 
This is highly strange. I am at a client with a 4MB adsl line. This line has always been the fastest and most stable line out there for me. I started a download of the ubuntu-9.04RC via normal http from my hosted server in the US. This is using Windows XP SP3 and winwget which is wget for windows a downloader. 23/30Kb download speeds the worst I have ever gotten at the client Leave the download running in the backround for an hour or so - no change. Have to leave the client but as the ubuntu is for them decided to let it continue downloading on their server. Copy the file to the server which is running ubuntu 8.04 server and start the download their using wget for linux - speed is immediately 120/200Kb per second exactly what I expected. So maybe its something on my laptop so I rebooted into ubuntu 8.10 desktop on the laptop and tried it again - 120/200 Kb per second max again! So i tried it on someone else's desktop running XP Pro SP3 same problem 25/30Kb per seconds max on the windows machine, got back to my laptop running ubuntu 120/200Kb per second for the same download from the same server on the same line within seconds of each other. So has Telkom changed something on the adsl backbone the discriminates against the XP IP stack?
 
Line speeds back to normal. Rather surpised Telkom resolved this in less then a weeks time. Ill find out from them what exactly the problem was and post it as soon as I know :)
 
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