Mandela memorial bandwidth

daveza

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A lot of our clients are complaining about slow internet - and also that they can't stream the memorial on YouTube...

Seeing as it's being streamed to the world I would guess our networks are all under stress ?
 
It seems the whole net is slow at the moment .
 
I'm watching the stream on youtube. It's using about 1-2Mbps, and dropping to 0 once it's buffered enough.
 
We also had a few of those calls to allow YouTube through the firewall followed by complaints of slow Internet...
 
I can usually stream 480/720 content fine, memorial I can't even stream 240 without buffering.
 
I've been experiencing unbearably slow Internet speeds today across different exchanges and ISPs on ADSL, and on 3G with MTN. I reckon it's from the memorial service - check these stats from JINX, it looks like the peak is almost 3Gb/s higher than usual!
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I've been experiencing unbearably slow Internet speeds today across different exchanges and ISPs on ADSL, and on 3G with MTN. I reckon it's from the memorial service - check these stats from JINX, it looks like the peak is almost 3Gb/s higher than usual!
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It is sooo slow because Shower Head is busy making his speech, reading from A4 pages.
He only reads fourty words per page, I counted them:wtf:
 
I've been experiencing unbearably slow Internet speeds today across different exchanges and ISPs on ADSL, and on 3G with MTN. I reckon it's from the memorial service - check these stats from JINX, it looks like the peak is almost 3Gb/s higher than usual!
View attachment 87553

Were did you get those stats?
 
A lot of our clients are complaining about slow internet - and also that they can't stream the memorial on YouTube...

Seeing as it's being streamed to the world I would guess our networks are all under stress ?
Not only streaming but transmission links for broadcasters as well...

Heard that Telkom brought forward their freeze period and are not allowing any new refs to be registered. Only existing refs can be executed. This will not impact on us normal users... unless you required major infrastructure build to get a link!
 
It is sooo slow because Shower Head is busy making his speech, reading from A4 pages.
He only reads fourty words per page, I counted them:wtf:
I'm astounded he can even manage that. In fact I'm surprised he can read at all. And I bet the words are all spelled phonetically.
 
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