List of congested exchanges?

ive made zero progress...

called telkom technical now, they say a technician has been assigned to the "fault". I told him there isnt a fault you stupid dumbass, so he put the phone down in my ear...

lol ;)
 
Maybe you should just do the same I did. Order a 2nd line, if its fine while the 1st isnt, cancel the 1st and keep the 2nd one.

The installation department seems to get things done 400% faster than the tech dep solving current or ongoing issues.
 
ranger said:
Consumer1: Give us uncapped
Telkom: It isn't sustainable at present
Consumer1: We don't care
MWEB: Here is uncapped
Telkom: This isn't going to work out so well ....
Consumer1: WIN!
Consumer2: Fail, I can't get any traffic
Telkom: Backhaul is congested
Consumer1: Fix it then
Telkom: That will take time


Business cases of this size take more than a few months to be approved. I doubt Telkom has received sufficient demand forecasting from MWEB to have been able to prevent the current problems.
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Telkom: Ok, Fck it, lets launch an uncapped service to...
 
Bothasig is starting to look better 200ms response times to telkom now...
 
ranger said:
Consumer1: Give us uncapped
Telkom: It isn't sustainable at present
Consumer1: We don't care
MWEB: Here is uncapped
Telkom: This isn't going to work out so well ....
Consumer1: WIN!
Consumer2: Fail, I can't get any traffic
Telkom: Backhaul is congested
Consumer1: Fix it then
Telkom: That will take time

Business cases of this size take more than a few months to be approved. I doubt Telkom has received sufficient demand forecasting from MWEB to have been able to prevent the current problems.
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Uncapped ADSL is now sustainable says Telkom

Telkom just shot themselves in the foot with that comment!
 
Hi Techead, where did you see this? - "This dslams backhaul has been increased slightly during this week. "

Thanks!
 
pietmuis said:
Hi Techead, where did you see this? - "This dslams backhaul has been increased slightly during this week. "

Thanks!
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I cant say, but there is some **** going down about all this... apparently all the way to the top ie. pinky is involved

maybe something to do with the email I sent pinky last week, raging about the exchange that is failing

oh, and it would appear that "on the fly increase" hasnt really helped. Last night I had 900ms ping to bbc....
 
I've noticed some better changes over the weekend, was still a bit spikey with anything between 10-300ms locally, but still better than having 600+ms constant.

Glad that they are at least working on it.
 
The La Rochelle exchange, which I believe might be the bellville north exchange, seems to be fine for us at home now. Latency to saix has been ~10ms for some time now, and once again downloading at around 400 - 420 KB/sec.

But like Tinuva and Pornolio our ADSL line was also dead for all practical purposes. A telkom techie phoned me after I logged a fault and of course painted a very rosy picture about how they are upgrading our exchange and rolling out 3 mini exchanges, just to get me off his back no doubt, but there is still a small part of me that believes that there is an ounce of truth in what he said.
 
h0ll0w said:
The La Rochelle exchange, which I believe might be the bellville north exchange, seems to be fine for us at home now. Latency to saix has been ~10ms for some time now, and once again downloading at around 400 - 420 KB/sec.

But like Tinuva and Pornolio our ADSL line was also dead for all practical purposes. A telkom techie phoned me after I logged a fault and of course painted a very rosy picture about how they are upgrading our exchange and rolling out 3 mini exchanges, just to get me off his back no doubt, but there is still a small part of me that believes that there is an ounce of truth in what he said.
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Actually he is pretty clued up. Your exchange is part of the MSAN pilot rollout (20/40 Mbps) currently under way. The 3 "mini-exchanges" will be fed with optic fibre cable and the copper network from there to your house will be overhauled. This is the FTTc project that RPM did an article about last month.
 
techead said:
get the 10mbps roll-out working first :wtf:
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Why bother? The hassle of giving everyone 10Mbps on old technology and then replacing it in a year or two's time is not worth it. Identify the high, or potentially high, revenue generating exchanges and upgrade them with the latest technology immediately.
 
MickeyD said:
Why bother? The hassle of giving everyone 10Mbps on old technology and then replacing it in a year or two's time is not worth it. Identify the high, or potentially high, revenue generating exchanges and upgrade them with the latest technology immediately.
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you joking right???
 
Very encouraging news that they are in the process of upgrading our exchange !

The last 2 weeks we seem to be back to normal as hollow mentioned. 10 ms to our first ISP hop and thats pretty good.
Thanks for the update MickeyD :-) Sounds like you have some inside information about the happenings at telkom side.
 
MickeyD said:
Actually he is pretty clued up. Your exchange is part of the MSAN pilot rollout (20/40 Mbps) currently under way. The 3 "mini-exchanges" will be fed with optic fibre cable and the copper network from there to your house will be overhauled. This is the FTTc project that RPM did an article about last month.
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I really do want to believe you, but forgive me if I have become somewhat cynical when it comes to the promises made by telkom.

Also apart from the multicoloured pipes, which apparently are actually empty and get fibre blown through them later, which they trenched in along suikerbossie road and the bakkie they dispatched a week after the municipality tore out the whole of La Rochelle's internet and telephony along with some tree roots from some sewerage or something, I haven't seen any telkom vans doing any significant work in the area :(
 
Just when i thought things were sorted out... Bellville North / La Rochelle is starting to show problems again last night...
580 ms just to get through to my ISP... Its not as bad as it was 3 weeks ago, but its normally around 10ms... so it looks like users in that area will start to notice problems again...
 
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