Well they have to buy it. Telkom hands it over at Teraco so from there ISP's handle the traffic. Maybe @PBCool can explain in more details but as far as I know the ISP buys 10Gbps for example and if traffic exceed 10Gbps Openserve only feeds 10Gbps to the ISP at the hand over. That is how I understand IPC but of course it's like a secret due to non disclosure.
IPC is complicated, historically if you wanted to pickup IPC at the respective Teracos you would need to purchase 1Gbps interface intervals.
each isp has there own ipc.
each isp has their own private ipc to openserve afaik.
Mailed my application to Macrolan a few minutes ago. Will see what they say tomorrow.
that's how i understand it.
Also depends, for instance previously WA would have simply paid IS for a "service" they wouldn't have their own IPC. Whereas now they do in theory through Echo. But the design of IPC allows for multiple ISPs to use the same physical interfaces. IE Echo could have common IPC interfaces for all ISPs, or seperate.
So what happens when IPC gets saturated? Packet loss or just slow varying speeds for the end users and I'm guessing upload counts towards whatever capacity the ISP has on the IPC if that makes sense.
Yes it's symmetrical, but obviously if one is saturated it can affect the other. All the usual symptoms of saturation, increased latency and packet loss.
Homeconnect charged me R1500 for that 1 day if that makes you feel any better.
MTN: that latency is totally normal
Yeah that is hectic
Exactly and they work at MTN Business.... The fluctuation in speed and latency is CLEARLY congestion related and how they aren't seeing it I don't know. Surely their traffic graphs should show them and if not then no one else on Openserve is complaining? My line is perfect there is no packetloss and just imagine 400ms to google DNS.....
i find using pingplotter has a more dramatic effect than winmtr, maybe supersonic support prefer looking at pictures lol.Yeah that is hectic
Exactly and they work at MTN Business.... The fluctuation in speed and latency is CLEARLY congestion related and how they aren't seeing it I don't know. Surely their traffic graphs should show them and if not then no one else on Openserve is complaining? My line is perfect there is no packetloss and just imagine 400ms to google DNS.....
Just counting the last few days with Supersonic. They have a great network but the way the IPC is set up for them is NOT working so the people on Vumatel is enjoying Supersonic but on Openserve at these times it's congested. From 11pm until 3pm tomorrow it will be line speed again then from 3pm until 11pm is will start to deteriorate speed wise then 8pm increased latency.
Rinse and repeat. Been complaining since 2 June....
The invoices are never slow though.
Telkom LTE-A is giving me 15ms to google DNS and 149Mbps download and 11Mbps upload. Sad Supersonic very sad.
yeah, i actually second this, you have to think on their level you know. like when they see the color red and orange it might have a more dramatic effect than just numbers all over the place. we are talking about MTN here after all >_>
