Sat-3 Maintenance

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This is depressing...I guess the one cool thing is that I'm supposed to be getting a 4meg line once Telkom decides to upgrade it :) But who knows what use that is gonna be with all these issues...
 
There is probably more damage to this than they expected, hence the "going back again" part of it. They have SLA's in place as well with their provider in terms of latency and deliverances, and all this crap latencies and speeds we are getting will effect them too. It's in their best interest to get this fixed ASAP.
 
Come ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How long is this going to last?????

How incompetent can telkom be?????

This high late is KILLING meeeeeeeeeeeeeee and not softly I might add.
 
Tonight has been the worst so far.

So far it has been somewhat "manageable" with latency just being at a constant 600-800ms. Tonight however, 800ms spiking frequently to 2k, then massive packet loss lasting 10-15 seconds.
 
lol maybe we should all march to Telkom and offer to go and fix the problem ourselves. Will probably do a better job at it...

TELKOM, IF YOU ARE READING THIS. PLEEEASE GIVE US AN UPDATE OR SOMETHING??
 
Last night was the first night it really seemed to bite. I kept getting drop offs while downloading where my connection would go from 420KB/s to 200KB/s and do that every 20-30 seconds. A real pain in the ass for what we pay for unlimited internet so sort it out ASAP Tekom!
 
where can one go or phone to get an update?

not even MTNBusiness knows what's happening !
 
this is from MTNBusiness on the SAT3 cable fault
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Update: Thulani Mhlanga
Date: 9 Feb 2010 2:48:19 PM
Additional Information: Maintenance window for Thursday 11 Feb 2010 is
00:01 to 06:00 (UTC). No downtime expected as all our links are on restoration.
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they are doing main tonight from midnight....so this could be going on all month :(
 
sigh...Well I sincerely hope they manage to solve this in some reasonable time period. Cause it bites...Big time. Why can't Telkom have a live update page on their website giving people information on what is happening? Guess they have so many faults to deal with it will probably crash their server...
 
Question, would it be all the maintenace that is causing such a discrepency in my speedtest results? For the CT server I am getting about 3.39Mbps down and 0.42Mbps with ping of 12. But if I change the server to Europe the down drops to about 1.9 and the USA I had 0.4...The pings international are mostly all over 400...Sorry this is off topic I know..
 
Doesn't seem like it, still higher than usual latency. I reckon they waited till the Sat 3 completely broke, and now they're scrambling about trying to do a 3 month job in 2 weeks. Wait, it has been more than 2 weeks?
 
This could take a few months, the power station that blew up in Abidjan will only be in operation again from April. The process of rerouting SAT3 past Ivory Coast will take equally as long. Looks like theyve settled for using the Eassy backup link until the problem in Abidjan has been resolved. This means that SEACOM is going to be the only decent link out of SA for the next while (this is also the perfect time for SEACOM to advertise its redundancy, something like this will never happen on the SEACOM), luckily there are quite a few ISP's offering SEACOM packages now.
 
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