Local upgraded to 4Mbit, Intl. still 512kbit

[Deckert]

Hi,

We've recently upgraded our 512kbit to a 1Mbit link (so we're running at 4MBit). The syncrate also indicates that the upgrade took place. Locally (within SA), downloads really fly (400kBytes/sec to local sites are not uncommon, ditto for Telkom's speed test).

However, our international transfer rates are still topping out at a very steady 55kBytes/sec, indicating to me that our international portion is still limited to 512kbits/sec somewhere.

We applied for the upgrade to 1MBit about 3 weeks ago. Has anybody seen similar results? If I'm correct (and I believe that I am), we should be getting at least 100kBytes/sec on the 1MBit upgrade alone - not to mention the 4MBit upgrade.

Could it be that they only flipped the switch to up the syncrate, but forgot to increase the shaping setting?

--deckert

 

[Wisemansa]

Hi,

We've recently upgraded our 512kbit to a 1Mbit link (so we're running at 4MBit). The syncrate also indicates that the upgrade took place. Locally (within SA), downloads really fly (400kBytes/sec to local sites are not uncommon, ditto for Telkom's speed test).

However, our international transfer rates are still topping out at a very steady 55kBytes/sec, indicating to me that our international portion is still limited to 512kbits/sec somewhere.

We applied for the upgrade to 1MBit about 3 weeks ago. Has anybody seen similar results? If I'm correct (and I believe that I am), we should be getting at least 100kBytes/sec on the 1MBit upgrade alone - not to mention the 4MBit upgrade.

Could it be that they only flipped the switch to up the syncrate, but forgot to increase the shaping setting?

--deckert

most ppl with the 4mbps are getting bad international speeds.......i cant tell you exactly how fast its going since i finished my international cap....

for me even local that used to go at 400kbps is not going as fast anymore....

its telkom-anything is possible

 

[dabouncer]

Doubt it, depends on current network stability and the server ur are downloading from. Go onto the m/s site and download something. If u have a saix account u should get full speed, some international servers are *** slow for us down here for some reason. Shaping is playing a small factor tho...

 

[Deckert]

Doubt it, depends on current network stability and the server ur are downloading from.

Any server, anywhere outside of SA. Tested to really high-bandwidth sites like kernel.org (multiple Gigabit uplinks), ThePlanet, one of our US-hosted servers which easily serves up content at 7Mbits/sec to a locally hosted server.

Also, the slow speed is just way too steady - not jumping around like it would in a situation where there is insufficient bandwidth. It goes up to 55kBytes/sec and sits there, regardless of the site or size of file I download. So no, no doubt at all that Telkom is shaping the traffic upstream.

--deckert