List of congested exchanges?

Freak_c said:
Sidenote: My wife is at home all day and she said that the line has been "normal" (general browsing and downloading of documents) but just after 5 it got a lot slower.
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Exactly what we were experiencing, during business hours everything is fine, but around 17:00 -18:00 it slowly goes up to 500 - 700ms local latency.

And once again, I am trying not to get my hopes up too soon, but yesterday the latencies were fine the whole evening.
 
abandonallhope said:
Exactly what we were experiencing, during business hours everything is fine, but around 17:00 -18:00 it slowly goes up to 500 - 700ms local latency.

And once again, I am trying not to get my hopes up too soon, but yesterday the latencies were fine the whole evening.
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I cant keep track of all you okes... :(

Can you remind me what exchange you on please?
 
He is on the same exchange as me : BELLVILLE NORTH (WBLX03)
I am on the verge of organising a ANCYL braai at that building... hopefully they can break the place down and force telkom to start fixing up this place.
 
Pornolio said:
He is on the same exchange as me : BELLVILLE NORTH (WBLX03)
I am on the verge of organising a ANCYL braai at that building... hopefully they can break the place down and force telkom to start fixing up this place.
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hey man

so I assume that things are no better? Last night how were the pings?
 
Last night I only got home pretty late, but Monday night at 6PM... latency and overal network performance was bad.... really really bad... 1560 ms just to get through my exchange.

Personally I dont see any improvement ... but if anything, one thing I did notice was latency is not consistant on a certain level... after 6PM it jumps sporadically anything from 1500 ms to 700 ms to 900ms. Early mornings and before 5 PM its rock solid on 7ms. Once people get home after 6PM it all falls apart.... I have mailed / logged another call with telkom with screenshots, but I havent heard anything from them yet. (not that I expect to get any results from that useless company)
 
Actually Techead, as pornolio said, we're on the same exchange - WBLX03 - and our line has been performing like a absolute peach all day, even now 9ms to www.saix.net on a WebAfrica account. Was like that last night as well on the fwe occasions that I checked. The highest it has peaked since this morning 7:00am is 197ms.

So tell them they need to keep doing what they are doing so we can all be smiling.

Also I can only hope that our line doesn't go for a ball of **** again tomorrow night, this is Telkom after all :S
 
abandonallhope said:
Actually Techead, as pornolio said, we're on the same exchange - WBLX03 - and our line has been performing like a absolute peach all day, even now 9ms to www.saix.net on a WebAfrica account. Was like that last night as well on the fwe occasions that I checked. The highest it has peaked since this morning 7:00am is 197ms.

So tell them they need to keep doing what they are doing so we can all be smiling.

Also I can only hope that our line doesn't go for a ball of **** again tomorrow night, this is Telkom after all :S
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so right now, your congestion is gone?
 
what on earth is a 3x3 switch ?

Anyway, more or less at the time of pornolio's post our line was also going into the 50-100ms regions.
 
abandonallhope said:
It's better, but not optimal.
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100ms at peak time is significantly better but its still "broken" and unacceptable by any fixed line standards (except Telkom's of course). It should be 10-12ms to a local site, prior to the Bellville exchange getting congested, that was what I used to get.

Progress is progress however and it's good to see things becoming usable again. I would like to have my cake and it eat though, considering how much Telkom extorts out of us for a pretty crappy fixed line offering.
 
I am guessing you guys with 50-100ms are the guys on the DSLAMs who wasn't moved to the 2nd ATM link. At least I can say for now the 2nd ATM link is still doing ok, 1st hop is still 7ms as it should be.
 
Well, something seems planned for Bellville North 4:

Basic issue: Link - To perform Planned Maintenance on the Telkom Network at Tygervalley SW01 E10

Time Down: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0200

Full Problem Description

Ref: NN0007913Category Planned Work Type: Planned Work Status: New
TimeDown: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0200 ETTR: 8 Hours
Areas affected: DSLAM Affected: BELLVILLE NORTH 4DSLAM Affected: SANTAM - TYG05DSLAM Affected: TYGERVALLEY 1DSLAM Affected: TYGERVALLEY 2DSLAM Affected: TYGERVALLEY 3
Progress:
 
Not sure if this is going to be maintenance on the WBLX03 exchange in Bellville North, but last night I checked my connection again, and it was around 400 / 500 ms through WBLX03. I have one more avenue to try before I completely give up and go via the same route as Tinuva to order a second line.

Seems this is the only option, but damn I really, really hope they dont patch my second ADSL line into WBLX03. Otherwise I am going to sit in a situation where I order / cancel ADSL lines until I hit a jackpot exchange. Not ideal, but its the only viable solution left.

Now with Diablo 3 coming... the pressure is building :twisted:
 
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