No International Access?

[Glipsie]

I'm currently at a clients office and cannot access any international sites.
Vodacom speed test:
Down: 1179
Up: 909

Speedtest.net:
Times out

Pinging www.myadsl.co.za [41.203.21.136] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 41.203.21.136: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=49
Reply from 41.203.21.136: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=49
Reply from 41.203.21.136: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=49
Reply from 41.203.21.136: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=49

Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.227.105] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Any resolution forthecoming? Not sure what the area is called, but its a stones throw away from Gold Reef City

 

[Glipsie]

Managed to get to speed.io:

 

[rossleethomas]

Hi Glipsie,

Could you send a traceroute/tracert?
How are you connecting to the net?
Could it be a isdsl soft cap problem?

 

[Glipsie]

Hi Glipsie,

Could you send a traceroute/tracert?
How are you connecting to the net?
Could it be a isdsl soft cap problem?

I would hope that Vodacom are not using ADSL to provide their HSDPA!

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.227.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms Laptop [0.0.0.0]
2 87 ms 89 ms 78 ms 10.113.160.170
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.

Carries on like that.

Very strange issue. I seem to be able to access half the internet from here. Wikipedia doesn't work, slashdot does, xkcd does, securityfocus does, speedtest doesn't, none of googles services work ...

 

[rossleethomas]

lol my bad
that does seem strange.
interested to see if a local traceroute goes out no problem.
seems like it could be a routing issue? it seems to not know where to go after the gateway.

 

[vodaslave]

Same problem here on my contract package using embedded 3G on my LG laptop with Ericson software.

Machine 5 meters away with Vodafone E220, Vodafone software and pre-paid sim has no problems at all.

155 tells met to flush my DNS etc etc.

I've done that 15 times since the weekend and I'm getting quite g*tvol!

When this contract expires there will be MTN pre-paid all round...