MWEB Uncapped Subscribers Feedback

[Gordon_R]

Good grief HTTP downloads are so slow at the moment. WTF is going on tonight?

If you are referring to international sites, seems to be a lot of congestion at the London end of SEACOM (latency > 500ms on some routes). Tracert to the destination site will tell you a lot...

 

[bradrap]

My only concern is not being able to connect to Steam atm and play my games :<

 

[mister]

Good grief HTTP downloads are so slow at the moment. WTF is going on tonight?

the same thing as last night! and they are ignoring my complaint emails so I sent them another one asking about their cancellation policy.

 

[MazerZA]

My only concern is not being able to connect to Steam atm and play my games :<

I'm busy downloading the free Portal and it's taking aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages....

 

[hambone]

I have MWEB Technical doing a full investigation into my latency issues (not just any 'ol guy either). They smell a rat, a really smelly "next generation" one. I shall post their conclusions when they're forthcoming. To illustrate my point:

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.136]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     2 ms     4 ms  . [192.168.2.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3   437 ms   240 ms   155 ms  tengig-0-0-0-100.vic-ipc-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
3.206]
  4   191 ms   239 ms   238 ms  vl-92.vic-hscore-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.189.3]
  5   210 ms   456 ms   312 ms  tengig-0-0-0-0-12.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.241]
  6   145 ms   147 ms   198 ms  rrba-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.8.
249]
  7   291 ms   605 ms   619 ms  rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
43.8.198]
  8   102 ms   227 ms   160 ms  196.43.25.138
  9   177 ms   236 ms   210 ms  ge0-2.br1.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.16.181
]
 10   237 ms   353 ms   252 ms  196.30.1.21
 11   384 ms   511 ms   655 ms  vlan9.hr3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.156.13
6]
 12   461 ms   416 ms   583 ms  196.30.213.108
 13   554 ms   539 ms   647 ms  firewall1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.7.216.173]
 14   447 ms   459 ms   513 ms  www.mygaming.co.za [41.203.21.136]

Trace complete.

 

[Gordon_R]

I have MWEB Technical doing a full investigation into my latency issues (not just any 'ol guy either). They smell a rat, a really smelly "next generation" one. I shall post their conclusions when they're forthcoming. To illustrate my point:

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.136]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     2 ms     4 ms  . [192.168.2.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3   437 ms   240 ms   155 ms  tengig-0-0-0-100.vic-ipc-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.163.206]

<<snip>>

Trace complete.

OK, thats really bad for a local site, even before you get to MWeb backbone!? Thanks for the detail, although it seems an issue is specific to your line/exchange/area/etc. I'm getting 30ms pings (sorry ;-)

 

[hambone]

Ironically, Mr Murphey came to play during my diagnostic and it was fine.... perhaps it'll stay like that? Once can only hope. *awkward turtle, leaves with tail between legs*

 

[DJNgoma]

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.136]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    19 ms    28 ms     1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    51 ms    25 ms    21 ms  41-132-52-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.52.1]
  3    24 ms    39 ms    47 ms  tengig-0-0-0-100.vic-ipc-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
3.206]
  4    60 ms    24 ms    10 ms  vl-92.vic-hscore-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.189.3]
  5   102 ms    83 ms    91 ms  tengig-0-0-0-0-12.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.241]
  6    11 ms    13 ms     9 ms  rrba-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.8.
249]
  7    20 ms    11 ms    18 ms  rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
43.8.198]
  8    32 ms    25 ms    35 ms  196.43.25.138
  9    29 ms    13 ms    12 ms  ge0-2.br1.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.16.181
]
 10    28 ms    49 ms    39 ms  196.30.1.21
 11    39 ms    10 ms    11 ms  vlan9.hr3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.156.13
6]
 12    63 ms    49 ms    11 ms  196.30.213.108
 13    16 ms    38 ms    35 ms  firewall1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.7.216.173]
 14    23 ms    11 ms    11 ms  mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.136]

Trace complete.

What I'm getting, might be because everybody is sleeping lol.

 

[gbyleveldt]

Actually, the conversion from byte to bit is divide by 10, not 8. While you do get 8 bits in a byte you need to take into account parity bits and other overheads so the conversions is normally just to divide bits per second by 10 to get bytes per second.

Ehm, no. There's 8 bits in a byte. Not 10, 8. Parities are protocol related overheads and a function of a specific implementation.

 

[bradlesliect]

Is the internet broken? Who did broke it? Was Malema here too with his tendencies?

Come on...this is ridiculous! Telscum, ISPs - WTF? is this what we paying for? 14.4 -28.8 speeds on a 384 and up ADSL service? What's the excuse now? Even downloading via HTTP is bad, limewire shows "no internet connection" and nothing downloads!

Pathetic I tell you... PATHETIC! Wonder what's going to happen when SWC starts next month, remember all those ads telscum were screening? Suddenly Neotel is looking very attractive...

 

[xrapidx]

Sorry - my HD movie just finished downloading- net speed should increase... please try again

 

[Lino]

I wonder what the heck is going on?

 

[Sensou]

I hope the mweb rep sheds a little light for us,

something is definetly not right atm, browsing has gotten slower, international is unstable (have to hit refresh 3 times just to open an international page on occasions) and HTTP downloads also slower

 

[Rouxenator]

Are you running uTorrent by any chance? It has the habit of doing just that at times. The only way I got past it was to get a decent ADSL Modem and make my Linksys WRT54 do the connection. Before that I had the same problems when uTorrent was open.

 

[Rosaudio]

 

[milomak]

my astra downloads are coming down at 300kB/s. so i would think if i were to download form an http source it is likely i would get full speed (server depending).

 

[supersunbird]

Its flying I tells ya, flying!

 

[sand_man]

That it is...

 

[Valerion]

Torrents running between 350 and 400 kB/s ATM using uTorrent 2.0.2 (uTP disabled). Downloaded CentOS 5.5 x86_64 (4.49GB) in 3h 45m.

 

[sand_man]

Just pulled a 88mb file in 3min 38sec... Average speed must have been around 440kB/s... Lovely...