Paarl ADSL problems

[Cassady]

Paarl

021 863 xxx

Packet loss - download speed only slightly faster than photosynthesis (all things being relative):

http://capetown.spdtst.saix.net/
Download Speed: 861 kbps (107.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 431 kbps (53.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 18 ms
10/8/2013 17:34:04

ADSL 4mbps, TI Uncapped

Tracing Route report:

traceroute to www.telkom.co.za (165.143.158.8), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 ti-224-180-01.telkomadsl.co.za (105.224.180.1) 67.959 ms 6.273 ms 6.751 ms
2 ti-226-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za (105.226.0.6) 10.519 ms 7.425 ms 7.759 ms
3 ti-226-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za (105.226.0.13) 7.582 ms 8.000 ms 7.025 ms
4 165.165.214.213 (165.165.214.213) 8.065 ms 7.671 ms 8.025 ms
5 196.43.51.78 (196.43.51.78) 33.487 ms 33.643 ms 34.980 ms
6 telkom-sa-tienet-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.25.54.62) 35.955 ms 36.071 ms 32.938 ms
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Trace complete.

 

[Cassady]

And all sorted at about 20:00. Which suggests throttling/congestion was the problem here... [spit]

 

[Cassady]

And then not so much. Appears to happening every evening now, between certain hours. Joy.

 

[Cassady]

Same old same old. Worse stats than above currently.

Joy.

 

[Cassady]

This can be closed. Think I might have been to blame my side as well! All cruising at steady 3,5mb speeds now. Thanks TI!

 

[aktor]

Not to necro the thread, but I'm curious - are you still cruising along nicely, or are you having issues now and then?
Got some major congestion on the Wellington exchange here, although TelkomZA did mention they are busy working on a broken fibre path in the area while also upgrading the exchanges.

 

[Cassady]

Not to necro the thread, but I'm curious - are you still cruising along nicely, or are you having issues now and then?
Got some major congestion on the Wellington exchange here, although TelkomZA did mention they are busy working on a broken fibre path in the area while also upgrading the exchanges.

Slow-downs here and there, always in the evenings (presumably due to congestion) have been the exception, not the rule, over several months so far.

By and large been very happy. When all is as it should be - speeds very consistent, with low ping.

Hope that helps. Good luck your side!

[Edit:] At the risk of having a conversation with myself - Speedtest.net results this morning, have just seen new highs...

Don't want to get too excited - but Downloads topping out at just under 5mbps - which is about 1mbps higher than usual. I've always consistently been around 3,45mbps - so if this is as a result of the recent upgrades, then I'm smiling...

4mb uncapped package.

 

[aktor]

Slow-downs here and there, always in the evenings (presumably due to congestion) have been the exception, not the rule, over several months so far.

By and large been very happy. When all is as it should be - speeds very consistent, with low ping.

Hope that helps. Good luck your side!

Awesome, glad to hear!
And thanks - hope it's sooner rather than later, evening congestion is insane.

 

[Cassady]

Ah - glad I could help. See my post above again - just edited it, and popped up some new developments!

 

[atomcrusher]

Here in Swellendam WC my pings & speeds have been pretty poor. I have a 2Mbps connection with Telkom as the ISP. I've been doing speedtests over the past few days, which are pretty poor.

Below images show the problem .. now to find the solution The latency @ 660ms is the worst I have ever seen it