Observatory,CT ADSL problems

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Observatory ADSL problems

I play BF3 in the DGL and I am having packet loss issues which are affecting game play.
I have been having the problem for the passed week or so and since I work during the day I cant sit on the phone to Telkom.

--At around 5pm the problem really starts to become noticeable. My ping jumps to 80 where it is usually 20-30.
I get around 30ms jitter and and start losing packets.

I am on the SOUTRIVIER (WSRR)
Exchange

--021448xxxx

--2mbps

--Afrihost but have tested with other ISP's

--5-10pm. I work till 5 and cant test during the day.


--The line syncs at just over 2mbps
 
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Can confirm. During the day its hit and miss OP. I study from home (student). The only time where internet is good is after 00:00.

My ping to the 1st tracert hop is around 150ms during the day and around 50ms during the night. I play dota 2 and get ~90ms on local servers.

I am on the SOUTRIVIER (WSRR)
Exchange

--021448xxxx

--2mbps

--Afrihost (Business Uncapped) formerly on MWEB premium. Afrihost Business is definately better

--Line syncs at 8mbps though. on ADSL_G.dmt not ADSL 2
 
Hi

I am based in the Walmer Estate area Salt river exchange which is probably the same one you using.

There is an open issue logged there for extreme congestion, only feedback given is that it could take upto 6 months to resolve ( which I feel is utter BS)
 
I'm running a 4mb uncapped account, syncing at 8mb ( was using 8mb account previously ) and get an immaculate connection.
My exchange obviously is also Soutrivier.

I removed myself from Afrihost however almost immediately after having my line installed, as my connection with them was utter rubbish.

My ISP is Webafrica, and have had nothing but a perfect connection.

Unfortunately my telephone line is dead as of yesterday afternoon, no voice.. no data. Have logged two faults with Telkom.
 
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I'm around the corner from you guys in Mowbray, on the Rondebosch exchange. Line is terribly slow. Could the congestion issue in Obz knock-on to RDB?
 
I'm near Hartleyvale and pay for a 10Mbps line, but could only get it to sync at 7Mbps, but it was very very unstable. So I got it downgraded to sync at 4Mbps. The line is pretty stable, but the stats are as follows.

Attenuation 47db/14.5db (Down/Up)
Noise Margin 3db/12db (Down/Up)

It's pretty marginal and I resent paying for 10Mbps when the line quality is so poor that I only see 40% of that speed.

zb.
 
Pinelands here - 021 531...

Terrible time connecting. Better at 7am. I hope this posts. Most pings and traceroutes don't work. None successful to telkom.co.za. I used google instead.

~ $ ping -c 10 www.google.com
PING www.google.com (173.194.41.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=1 ttl=52 time=1152 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.41.148: icmp_req=2 ttl=52 time=1142 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=3 ttl=52 time=1090 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=4 ttl=52 time=1150 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=5 ttl=52 time=1143 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=6 ttl=52 time=1114 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.41.148: icmp_req=7 ttl=52 time=1156 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=8 ttl=52 time=1180 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=9 ttl=52 time=1139 ms
64 bytes from lhr08s03-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.41.148): icmp_req=10 ttl=52 time=1180 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 50401ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1090.605/1145.096/1180.362/25.827 ms, pipe 2


~ $ traceroute www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (173.194.41.144), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.418 ms 1.867 ms 2.354 ms
2 105-236-5-65-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za (105.236.5.65) 1015.239 ms 1015.678 ms 1017.081 ms
3 41.181.53.214 (41.181.53.214) 1021.384 ms 1023.733 ms 1025.611 ms
4 tb-dca-2.za--qux-c.za.mtnbusiness.net (41.181.198.188) 1029.166 ms 1030.548 ms 1032.473 ms
5 compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net (196.44.18.2) 1035.662 ms 1037.519 ms 1040.133 ms
6 196.44.31.113 (196.44.31.113) 1194.808 ms 1152.202 ms 1183.599 ms
7 196.44.31.183 (196.44.31.183) 1203.078 ms 1205.924 ms 1210.235 ms
8 209.212.111.141 (209.212.111.141) 1211.286 ms 1214.823 ms 1218.316 ms
9 195.69.145.100 (195.69.145.100) 1222.899 ms 1227.621 ms 1230.892 ms
10 209.85.254.95 (209.85.254.95) 1234.433 ms 1237.775 ms 1240.689 ms
11 209.85.253.247 (209.85.253.247) 1245.810 ms 1250.789 ms 1254.709 ms
12 209.85.246.153 (209.85.246.153) 1232.345 ms 209.85.243.32 (209.85.243.32) 1270.526 ms 209.85.246.155 (209.85.246.155) 1258.536 ms
13 209.85.253.95 (209.85.253.95) 1261.363 ms 209.85.245.3 (209.85.245.3) 1265.280 ms 209.85.253.95 (209.85.253.95) 1276.228 ms
14 72.14.238.55 (72.14.238.55) 1274.350 ms 1278.157 ms 1282.099 ms
15 173.194.41.144 (173.194.41.144) 1285.438 ms 1289.756 ms 1293.662 ms
 
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