No international access

[rebel]

I haven't been able to surf any international sites today. Anyone have an idea of what's going on? Local seems fine now after disconnecting & reconnecting 5 times.

 

[craigsa]

i seem to be having just normal slow but can get international

 

[nocilah]

local on my side is crappy.... even this forum failed to load a few times... seems to be stuck between 2K and 20K and behaving rather erratically... however international is pretty solid

 

[DaveBuchanan1337]

dude your signal must seriously suck from mars ;-)

 

[rudids]

SAIX (South African Internet Exchange) went down last night. Came back up this morning but has been extremely slow. So it's not iBurst's fault. Everyone is experiencing this.

 

[nocilah]

makes sense... thanks rudids and i was about to phone wbs helpdesk... actually very interetsed to see what they say... probably something as grand as... oh no there is nothing wrong with the system and you are the only one... ha ha ha

and they complain bcuz wbs treats them like ****.... ha ha ha

 

[rebel]

dude your signal must seriously suck from mars ;-)

It's actually excellent from here.

Thx rudids.

 

[nocilah]

makes no sense... apple trailer coming in at about 100KB/s but telkom speed test only gives 20KB max...

the wonderful world of iburst... we have to appreciate that iburst offers a surprise offer each day though... it's like russian roulette each day. will it be good or crud... heh heh... anyway rumour has it network should be solid by the afternoon... and why do these things always happen on the weekend?

 

[Bjorn]

makes no sense... apple trailer coming in at about 100KB/s but telkom speed test only gives 20KB max...

the wonderful world of iburst... we have to appreciate that iburst offers a surprise offer each day though... it's like russian roulette each day. will it be good or crud... heh heh... anyway rumour has it network should be solid by the afternoon... and why do these things always happen on the weekend?

Are you downloading the trailer and doing the speed test at the same time?
They do it on the weekend as to not interfere with business. its standard practice

 

[nocilah]

no i am not downloading a trailer and doing a speed test...
and yeah makes sense that they would do it on the weekend...

shame poor wbs helpdeskers...

 

[Bjorn]

you right it makes no sense then.. were you multithreading the trailer?

 

[SupaMonkey]

My international / local speed is fine...

 

[Mercury]

Well, mine is not.

International:

----195.92.95.5 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 93% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 2110/2172/2210

Local:

----196.4.160.2 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 50/80/210

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 50/91/310

The international problem seems to be with WBS's feed. The Telkom outage report on http://www.uunet.co.za/_service/networknotices/default.asp?n=910 has not been closed yet.

 

[SupaMonkey]

Pinging 195.92.95.5 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.92.95.5: bytes=32 time=258ms TTL=51
Reply from 195.92.95.5: bytes=32 time=262ms TTL=51
Reply from 195.92.95.5: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=51
Reply from 195.92.95.5: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 195.92.95.5:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 233ms, Maximum = 348ms, Average = 275ms


I feel sorry for you guys!