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fantastic news! thx for putting in all the efforts TH :love:

I'm on 021 919 41** which is WBLX03 I believe..

we're a household of gamers so hopefully we will see improvements soon!
 
You sir are a saint, thanks for helping these guys out. Its news like this and effort that makes being on this forum feel so damn good :).

Glad to see progress for all of you in that area :D.

How could i forget, +REP

techead said:
hi guys

right, this is gonna make a lot of people happy. We all know that this exchange is screwed, but not for much longer.

the short version is that this exchange still runs on ATM technology, which is obviously quite limiting. ATM typically has throughput of about 155mbit with overhead of about 18% for the protocol. Bandwidth is peaking at this 155mbit during busy periods, and this is causing the issue. Its already been tweaked and stretched into oblivion. Alternate measures now need to be taken.

How do you fix it? "Simple" Get Metro Ethernet up and running, that's about 10gbit. But that is a long term project, and obviously takes a while to get done. It IS in the pipeline though, and has been flagged. In the meantime, however, I have spoken to him and there is a short/medium term solution which we are looking at which will keep everyone at Bellville North going for a good couple of months. Perhaps the rest of the year, hard to tell.

There are two ATM channels at Bellville North. ATM 1 has DSLAM's 1-4 connected (about 5000 people), and ATM 2 has DSLAM's 5-6 connected (about 1800 people). They gonna move DSLAM 4 (about 1200 people) across to ATM 2. This will alleviate the pressure on the ATM 1 pipe.

Its gonna take about 2 weeks to get this done, after which we should all see a serious improvement.

I hope I have brightened your Tuesday evening somewhat ;)

TH
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Thanks for the rep! I still have a grey block, I wonder how much bloody rep
one needs to make it go green!!?? :(
 
techead said:
hi guys

right, this is gonna make a lot of people happy. We all know that this exchange is screwed, but not for much longer.

the short version is that this exchange still runs on ATM technology, which is obviously quite limiting. ATM typically has throughput of about 155mbit with overhead of about 18% for the protocol. Bandwidth is peaking at this 155mbit during busy periods, and this is causing the issue. Its already been tweaked and stretched into oblivion. Alternate measures now need to be taken.

How do you fix it? "Simple" Get Metro Ethernet up and running, that's about 10gbit. But that is a long term project, and obviously takes a while to get done. It IS in the pipeline though, and has been flagged. In the meantime, however, I have spoken to him and there is a short/medium term solution which we are looking at which will keep everyone at Bellville North going for a good couple of months. Perhaps the rest of the year, hard to tell.

There are two ATM channels at Bellville North. ATM 1 has DSLAM's 1-4 connected (about 5000 people), and ATM 2 has DSLAM's 5-6 connected (about 1800 people). They gonna move DSLAM 4 (about 1200 people) across to ATM 2. This will alleviate the pressure on the ATM 1 pipe.

Its gonna take about 2 weeks to get this done, after which we should all see a serious improvement.

I hope I have brightened your Tuesday evening somewhat ;)

TH
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Hi Techead
Sent you a mail to your gmail, thanks for the effort .
Definitely rep worthy , and hence you are now green ;)
 
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Zyraz said:
Hi Techead
Sent you a mail to your gmail, thanks for the effort .
Definitely rep worthy , and hence you are now green ;)
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Hey man. Yeah thanks for the email saw that this morning!

I wonder how much rep one actually needs to turn that block green? :confused:
 
+Rep'd you as well. Good work. But I was quite desperate about a week ago and have already put plans in place to skip the exchange completely.
 
techead said:
Hey man. Yeah thanks for the email saw that this morning!

I wonder how much rep one actually needs to turn that block green? :confused:
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Could you see if Im on the same exchange based upon the phone number i gave you ?
 
Any way to have a look at LINDEN (RLDN) exchange?
Its getting worse and worse every day to a point where even browsing is impossible...

Thx in advance.
 
Just when you think things are getting a little better you get hit by a day of 500ms + local latency :\

Had a few days of close to normal pings...
 
abandonallhope said:
Just when you think things are getting a little better you get hit by a day of 500ms + local latency :\

Had a few days of close to normal pings...
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it will always be up and down based on usage on the first ATM uplink

once the dslam gets moved, it will be fine. Its only been one week, you need to give it some more time.

I will follow up tomorrow

be patient :)
 
Basically as I typed the above I start seeing 20 - 30% packet loss.

Imagine paying almost a R1000 p/m and actually enjoying a normally functioning 4mbps ADSL line. I can't remember what that's like.
 
abandonallhope said:
Basically as I typed the above I start seeing 20 - 30% packet loss.

Imagine paying almost a R1000 p/m and actually enjoying a normally functioning 4mbps ADSL line. I can't remember what that's like.
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I know exactly what its like. Chin up we will get you sorted :)
 
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