SAIX ADLS network falling over? June 2009

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Just want to know - For the past few days Telkom/Saix ADSL network has been very erratic, then it works, then it doesn't propagate....

I am in The Cape Town area, anyone else having the same issues, this is driving me nuts...:mad:

I can't access my sites in Europe, have spoken to my hosting company -all checks out. Then I can send e-mails and then I cant....

tracert also shows huge latency...:mad:
 
my ADSL at home is running great, but our 4 mbps at the office is running at around 40 KB/s.
 
1ms to the router.....and then bottlenecking at 196.43.35.57 :mad:
 
Been having the exact same problem. Its totally random.

Internet and mail works fine for an hour or two then its just dead slow again.
 
Got the same complaints from clients using the same ISP network.... not as much as a piep from their side admitting anything...must be aliens.:)
 
FFS problems here with Telkom whole day!
 
The chaos theory and incipient collapse of the network

Looks to me like the whole network is in a state of incipient collapse - randomly of course as one would expect from a country where the "chaos theory" rules most things, particularly those where government has a hand!

In Randburg I have had similar problems for the past 10 days off and on - mostly on - with my Telkom ADSL connection. Just can't browse most sites although mail and FTP works.

If I change to my Axxess connection, voila - perfect! How do you like that?

On Monday I will be calling my ISP which is Telkom to cancel the service and change to Axxess - cheaper too!

I object strongly to being robbed and defrauded by Telkom who appear to be unable to deliver anything approaching a decent service lately - I am certain this is all to do with square pegs in round holes, the direct result of affirmative action.
 
well I have been having all sorts of problems with both SAIX and IS accounts, slow speeds, yahoo mail wont load, emails wont send, driving me nuts!
 
Most sites seem to work now, still having problems with sending mail most of time though.

Well at least its getting better now.
 
Shocking speed problems

I am in Cape Town and for the past week or so my speed has ranged from pretty poor to almost grinding to a halt.

I am on a 4mb line and usually enjoy decent speed but both local and international pings often timeout.

Mweb claim all is well their side.

I can no longer use You Tube or listen to any radio programmes at all, even on a good day, due to the serious buffering/timeouts.

It has taken me almost an hour to navigate to this forum.
 
No problems on my side, both at the office and at home (Somerset West)
 
It's the DNS servers acting up. Had the same thing a few days ago. You are served by 7 DNS servers in SA, if they lose synchronization with each other it usually means that you have a 1 (or more) out of 7 chance of not finding the domain name and this might be causing the lag (timeouts waiting for DNS servers to respond that might be offline or out of sync)

The sites you have hosted in the UK is probably .co.za based right?
 
I am getting erratic adsl speeds again... unworkable for brief periods and then OK again.. I am using Opendns so not a local dns issue... international seems worse.. have had this going on since the weekend.. could it be major reconfig of the SAIX network underway?
 
Hobbit said:
I am getting erratic adsl speeds again... unworkable for brief periods and then OK again.. I am using Opendns so not a local dns issue... international seems worse.. have had this going on since the weekend.. could it be major reconfig of the SAIX network underway?
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Could just be that you're in Yzerfontein :D You guys have telephone exchanges out there?
 
adsl

I reported a fault on my ADSL line last week Thursday and it is still not working. When i called 0800 375 375 they said that there is a problem in the Cape Town area and it should be sorted out today!!!! (Well at least i hope so....)
 
I'm getting incredibly slow speeds in Pretoria, most of the international sites just time out. Any feedback on this issue?
 
Try using http proxy

For the past few days it seems that the all traffic which doesn't pass through the SAIX cache is very erratic, working just like my car's indicator lights. You can improve things a lot by setting your web browser to point to the SAIX cache engine: dsl-cache.saix.net:8080
 
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