Screamer ADSL

Same problem here. Seems very sluggish.(Nothing else running)
Torrents going at 38K - 40K per second though.
my download speeds are downloading at the same as yours (38-40kbps) but I am running a 4mb line! don't know why this is happening?
 
WTF - Screamer is just a a very faint whisper on the winds today!!! Seems International links are farked again... :mad: :mad: @Howzit seriously you need to look at why there is almost no difference between the 512 and 384 speeds, plus sort out international!

NY on my 384 line...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672242996.png

NY On 512
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672251331.png

CPT on 384
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672244385.png

CPT on 512
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672247566.png

JHB on 512
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672252017.png

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.129.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms MY IP (Internal)
2 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms 10.216.68.1
3 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms 196.25.27.166
4 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms atm.screamer.co.za [196.15.204.82]
5 31 ms 32 ms 29 ms 172.17.0.144
6 29 ms 28 ms 29 ms 41.77.239.254
7 39 ms 34 ms 38 ms 196.44.239.6
8 * 637 ms 653 ms 196.44.239.5
9 563 ms * * 195.14.66.13
10 662 ms * 673 ms 195.66.224.125
11 * 802 ms * 64.233.175.25
12 715 ms 665 ms 683 ms 209.85.248.80
13 662 ms 669 ms 667 ms 209.85.250.141
14 652 ms * * 72.14.232.201
15 * 670 ms 637 ms 72.14.239.170
16 653 ms 648 ms 669 ms fk-in-f147.1e100.net [209.85.129.147]

Trace complete. - Take note of the jump from 7 to 8!
 
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how has your guys download speeds being wih screamer, last night and today im getting dowload speeds of an outstanding 8kb/s. it only took me 45min to download my e.mail.
please tell me it gets better than this.
 
Support?

Internet connection is terrible. I get ping replies for about 5 seconds, then "destination unreachable" or time-outs for 10 mins.
Have been trying to phone supprt from 7am, it is now 8am. No answer on any of the support numbers and I can't even leave a message as the user's mailbox is full.

Screamer service is OK when it is working, however I experience way too many days of bad/interupted/sporadic connections.
 
how has your guys download speeds being wih screamer, last night and today im getting dowload speeds of an outstanding 8kb/s. it only took me 45min to download my e.mail.
please tell me it gets better than this.

same problem here. browsing slow. no access to news server.
 
same problem here. browsing slow. no access to news server.

my speeds are fluctuating wildly now from 0 KB to 10KB? What is happening?
I see from the Digichilli thread that their users are experiencing issues as well. Seacom issue?
 
On my tracert as you can see in my posts above, there seems to be a major hiccup at hop 8. Who is on that just says it belongs to Afrinic.... hmmm. We are never going to have decent internet when we have one half arsed company relying on another half arsed company who also relies on a third or fourth or fifth half arsed company to relay bandwidth....

How do we get ours?

1 Telkom - Line to dial to Screamer
2 Screamer - Nat through Wimax product
3 Telkom or BCSnet ??
4 Neotel - to Seacom ?
eish ... I dunno
 
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hmm same problem, all international is now timing out, using my hellkom account now....
 
On my tracert as you can see in my posts above, there seems to be a major hiccup at hop 8. Who is on that just says it belongs to Afrinic.... hmmm

inetnum: 196.44.224.0 - 196.44.239.255
netname: BCSNET-01
descr: BCSNet

In your traceroute hops 7 and 8 are probably BCSNet's border gateways, judging by the IP's on either side of them.
 
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inetnum: 196.44.224.0 - 196.44.239.255
netname: BCSNET-01
descr: BCSNet

Yah I'm damn sure Digichilli has had BCSnet issues too!

As for Screamer Tech help - FAIL

If u can get through, you cant understand the dumbarse on the other end! Screamer - get help line techies that can speak clearly pls and also invest in better quality mics that dont sound like they been shoved down the techies asophagus.... (on route to his arse - what most of the gibirish sounds like - gastro intestinal movements)

/rant over :)
 
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Yah I'm damn sure Digichilli has had BCSnet issues too!

As for Screamer Tech help - FAIL

If u can get through, you cant understand the dumbarse on the other end! Screamer - get help line techies that can speak clearly pls and also invest in better quality mics that dont sound like they been shoved down the techies asophagus.... (on route to his arse - what most of the gibirish sounds like - gastro intestinal movements)

/rant over :)

LOL
 
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.129.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms amontpellier-257-1-113-1.w90-0.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.0.0.1]

This is completely braindead... if I'm reading that right they are utilizing 90/8 and natting it. This will effectively cut their customers off from accessing legitimate IP space owned by the following people:

France Telecom
Opentransit
Orange France
Tele2
UNet NL
Lice Telecomunicaciones (France Telecomms spanish operations)

And a whole bunch of others, these are the major ones I spotted at a first glance

Seriously... wth?!

Andrew
 
Why are you not using RFC1918 addresses on your local lan?? :wtf:

just to be different ... :D

nah, whats the diffs anyways, its not a public IP, easier to type too ;) damn ...

@Andrew ... the 90.0.0. range is just my internal stuff... nothing to do with external...

shhhh
 
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@Andrew ... the 90.0.0. range is just my internal stuff... nothing to do with external...
Then you misunderstand how IP works. If you are squating on public IP space then your users won't be able to access any of the hosts that live in that IP space.
 
Then you misunderstand how IP works. If you are squating on public IP space then your users won't be able to access any of the hosts that live in that IP space.


Users... its just me... One PC!! But anyway I changed it.... normal 192.168.0.
K ... Besides I don't know jack bout IP's in all reality... Not my thing. Something that was set by another oke many moons ago... But thanx for the insight... and man I hate squatters:D!!

still get this
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.129.103]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms 10.216.68.1
3 26 ms 26 ms 28 ms 196.25.27.166
4 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atm.screamer.co.za [196.15.204.82]
5 31 ms 33 ms 31 ms 172.17.0.144
6 29 ms 29 ms 28 ms 41.77.239.254
7 37 ms 38 ms 36 ms 196.44.239.6
8 673 ms 605 ms * 196.44.239.5
9 * * 687 ms 196.44.239.5
10 681 ms 679 ms 728 ms 195.14.66.13
11 706 ms 671 ms 675 ms 195.66.224.125
12 * 681 ms 669 ms 64.233.175.27
13 688 ms 699 ms * 72.14.233.63
14 690 ms * * 72.14.232.203
15 * * 684 ms 72.14.239.174
16 * 692 ms * 72.14.239.174
17 692 ms 685 ms 680 ms fk-in-f103.1e100.net [209.85.129.103]

Trace complete.
 
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Aahhh ok :)

In that case I apologise, thank you for clarifying this for us! Cause haha, I was reminded of another case of this a while back with a company called Fastweb (Go back to the nanog lists and you'll be able to find it)
 
RapidShare Premium Stuff

Does anybody have insight into why technically RapidShare Premium stuff wont work on Screamer ADSL Uncapped Account... Even when Screamer is up and working??....

Will this be solved by Public IP's?

It connects and starts and then drops it and looks like it keeps timing out??

Anybody else have similiar experience...
 
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