So lets try something new today in helping MrBEEP & Co see where the issue is

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First off when posting about bad speeds post your location eg: Cape Town, Durban, JHB you get the drift. Second do the tracert to find out which network you are on, so if you are on IS which we all suspect to be the problem run the IS speedtest:
http://speedtest-rba.isdsl.net/ and post your results. My suspicion is that you will see sub 56k speeds on that speedtest hence indicating a big issue. Now whenever I phone Telkom to get my line checked they have me run their own speedtest:
http://capetown.spdtst.saix.net/ and give them the results. Now 9 times out of 10 when I have done this with my OW account the IS network is dead while the Telkom speedtest shows full line speed, therefore indicating the issue is not with my Telkom line.
If we can all do this maybe we can prove once & for all that the issue is with IS/OW & not our Telkom landline?
/if this did not make sense my apologies gotta run off to work...
Hi!
OK, so first tracert to Openweb showing I am on IS:
Tracing route to
www.openweb.co.za [41.72.150.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms *.*.*.*.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [*.*.*.*]
3 22 ms 24 ms 22 ms 196.38.73.85
4 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms cdsl2-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.9]
5 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 196.26.0.61
6 24 ms 23 ms 22 ms ar2-rba-gi0-0.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.33]
7 22 ms 24 ms 22 ms mi-za-rba-gsrpe2-gi1-1-0.ip.isnet.net [168.209.8
6.250]
8 23 ms 25 ms 22 ms 197.96.148.74
9 24 ms 26 ms 23 ms CORE.GP-CN-HET-MEE-1.TO.GP-MR-VOD-MEE-1.DFA.P2P.
10G.za.africainx.net [41.84.12.151]
10 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 41-66-132-242-f2.HET001-CPE-1-to-GP-CN-HET-MEE-1
.africainx.net [41.66.132.242]
11 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms core-access-switch1.jnb1.host-h.net [197.189.193
.1]
12 29 ms 28 ms 24 ms row-access-switch1-row7-8.jnb1.host-h.net [197.1
89.193.39]
13 26 ms 24 ms 23 ms 41.203.24.42
14 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms mail.openweb.co.za [41.72.150.7]
Trace complete.
Then Telkom Speedtest to Rosebank:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 3478 kbps (434.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 422 kbps (52.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 32 ms
08 January 2014 12:08:14 PM
IS test:
Start Time: 12:08:46
End time: 12:08:49
IP Address: 196.215.76.248
Download Size: 409600 bytes
Time Delta: 3.4547390937805 seconds
Download Speed: 116 KBytes/s
Line Speed: 928 kbits/s
My experience at the moment is as it should be, i.e. normal browsing and email, Youtube runs well at 720p and even Hulu is working fine on HD and the same was the case yesterday. That certainly raises doubts about the IS speedtest's accuracy and usefulness. SO why would my account work well and others not? I am on 4Mbps Gamers king, with a 4Mbps line in Welkom. It shows that despite what some might think, not all Openweb customers are unhappy.