SAIX Problems - ADSL users please read!

Random connectivity

Area: Cape Town - Gardens
ISP: Axxess
Line: 512

Connection disconnects randomly since last night. Right now I can't access yahoo messenger or googletalk, but can see some international sites. Speed has varied.
 
Area: Cape Town - Melkbos
ISP: Axxess
Line: 512

All non-http traffic ground to halt.
 
also live in kuils river from thursday our line was not working, only went back online on wednesday, but its flippen slow occasionally.
apparently according to the call centre kuils river had a lot of adsl users and the exchange could not handle the amount of concurrent users.
well lets just wait... and wait... and a bit more waiting...
 
Damn seems everyone is slowly getting killed on p2p traffic ie. non-http traffic. If this is the case, have a look at our FreeVPN solution, it may be what your looking for during these times.

Specificly users finding non-http traffic dead.
 
Have been having a fight with telkom and axxess about the hassles we have been having, it's all http traffic!!!! our mail is hosted internationally and this does not work for most of the day.

JHB
Fourways
Telkomdsl 512, could not even do a tracrt this morning to saix.
 
Area: Johannesburg - Parktown
ISP: WebAfrica
Line: 384

p2p uploads fine, downloads DEAD.
No connections to MSN Messenger or Googletalk.
Cannot get into GMail
Most other websites seem to be working fine.

Man, I hate this so much.
 
Area: Johannesburg - Olivedale
ISP: @lantic
Line: 384

Huge packet loss, 30% to 50%. No MSN, slow to non-existent HTTP. Strangely... Americas Army keeps state, but with spikes in lag. Can't do anything but AA :P
 
Area: Richardsbay
ISP: Various ADSL ISP's
Time: 2005-10-12 Evening and 2005-10-13 morning

Very bad ADSL connection - local and international. Tracert showed good first 2 hops (telkomadsl hops) but further the packets got lost. Sounded like router problems somewhere in the country.

Hope the problem will be sorted out by tonight...
 
Area: Centurion
ISP: Webafrica
Connection: 192

This morning was fine. I was getting very good rates on everything (http, torrent), but everything started to slow down at around 10:00. Currently I am crawling along.

Clipse, not even your FreeVPN is doing anything anymore. I was just about to post some kind of complaint. Is there really nothing we can do about the poor ADSL service?
 
Area: Cape Town/Table View
ISP: WebAfrica
PROBLEMS:
__Speed: fine.
__P2P: 'fine'.
__INtl, local http: fine.
__VoIP: NOT FINE!!! Scype and MyWebCalls disconnect upon connection, unusable. Degraded slowly over the last 3 weeks, but now dead!
 
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Is there anyway to connect to the internet besides usgin telkom entirely ?
E.g Utilizing a callback service for your p.c `s internet. use an overseas isp or sumtin ...
Please assist ,need decent internet connection. SNO is gona take v.long to get established...
 
ADSL connectivity problems

Area : Durban
ISP : Storm and SAIX
 
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Area : Durban (Durban North)
ISP : DataPRO via TELKOM 512 ADSL
Problems : Some days good (yesterday morning +-400ms in WoW, later in the day +-15000ms)
 
Area : Harteespoort
IPS : Axxess
Problems : The last 2 weeks keep losing connections every 5 min for 1 min. Extreamly frustrating!
 
Durban
SAIX
International so slow it might as well not be there. Usually web browsing is fine and just my EQ patching is a problem. Now it's all a waste of time. Can I use bad service as a reason to break my 2 year Telkom contract?
 
Centurion
IS
*** international speeds for I don't know how long now and the account is uncapped.
 
Milnerton Cape Town

International connections painfully slow with bursts in between. I Can't run a business like this...
 
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