SEACOM bandwidth testing

PsyWulf said:
Axxess has been integrating seacom into its testing,my gaming pings intl. have been dropping steadily for the last 2 months,the 384line had 700ms,now at around 350ms ;)
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I think they are just relaxing shaping habits on those normal lines as my pings have always been sub 300 on an un-shaped account. Or they are switching from satellite to Seacom.

However my 3G (vodacom) speeds on video services have degraded terribly. I get great download speeds but terribly slow video throughput.

Even on so called un-shaped ADSL account they still shape traffic like video streaming.

I honestly think that all shaping should be abolished in the regulations as it is just a way to cheat and steal from us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Does anyone know what cables they are laying next to the N2 in CT?
Seems to start at the R300 and at the moment it is as far as the Engen outside Somerset West.
I will try get a pic later.
 
Toilet_Duck said:
Does anyone know what cables they are laying next to the N2 in CT?
Seems to start at the R300 and at the moment it is as far as the Engen outside Somerset West.
I will try get a pic later.
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Might be for the new Traffic Management System. They are all over the N1 laying cable & putting cameras on traffic signage.
 
Stellenbosch has also been seeing increased internet speeds the past while.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/545544961.png

While that is local speed, the int is following. Can't wait till the integration is complete. Too bad YouTube and Facebook gets throttled to death :(

BTW we pay R0.01 per MB between 02:00 and 07:59. Hope they extend those times if BW gets cheaper.
 
Catal said:
"Good news for students and lecturers is that all TENET institutions will receive SEACOM bandwidth"

Blah blah blah, we'll talk about good news when The University Of Pretoria's IT Department stop charging students a ridiculous R1 / MB and give the students real internet, not just port HTTP.

UP's internet is such a joke that communication engineering students actually have to get internet from other sources to properly conduct projects and research.
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This is a stupid question, cause it is slightly ridiculous, but how much data actually gets used for projects vs. 'not so essential crap' to put it lightly

purejimcn said:
iv been capped my UCT since the 15th of the month... have to buy my own vodacom 3g... hope TENET comes through soon...
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What is your cap size for intrest sake? Not that it means anything, cause when you have assignments to do, where does one put the limit?
 
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ingeon said:
This is a stupid question, cause it is slightly ridiculous, but how much data actually gets used for projects vs. 'not so essential crap' to put it lightly



What is your cap size for intrest sake? Not that it means anything, cause when you have assignments to do where does one put the limit
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I have to aggree. They give students cheap access to internet. Only some of that data gets used for Education.
Most are just download of tv shows movies and games.
 
I am no longer a student but I am all for giving uncapped connection to universities, I don't really care whats being done with the bandwidth, all I know is my friend couldn't send a modeling data of a amino acid or some protein thing over the internet to the USA for verification because the UP link is slow and very very very capped, and those files are over 100MB each.

As with everyone riding the high price wave, I am not so sure, most ISPs have not been making loads of profit except telkom, now how long is LLU still going to be????? can we not ask for a definite date on that?
 
Hi All,

A bit of an update since the article was written.

On saturday we took our first institution 100% completely live on Seacom. The institution in question saw more than a 10 fold increase in bandwidth usage when I looked at stats this morning.

The international bandwidth allocations (keep in mind this is in *speed* terms, NOT volume terms, as TENET does NOT work on volumes, bandwidth on TENET is bought in megabits/second/month) will be doubled to all institutions within the next 2 weeks. (Starting with the SANReN connected institutions and TENET DSL Clients who will have their international bandwidth allocations doubled from 1am tonight). Keep in mind that doubling the international bandwidth speed allocation though will not necessarily have a noticeable effect on institutions until their backbone access circuits are increased (which may or may not happen before the 1st of October)

Our testing is now complete, and delivery is starting. By the 1st of October we expect to be delivering around 800mbit/second of International bandwidth, which is more than 3 fold increase on what we are currently delivering. It's not quite into the gigabit levels yet, but it will move in that direction once the SANReN backbone is completely implemented by December.

Things are moving, it just takes a bit of time :)
 
Good news for students and lecturers is that all TENET institutions will receive SEACOM bandwidth via the Sharkhead Gateway at a cost-recovering unit charge that is around 5% of the present one.
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Sharkhead Gateway
http://monitor.net.tenet.ac.za/cacti/graph.php?action=view&local_graph_id=823&rra_id=all

Looks like in Week 32, their was some testing done with a burst to 800Mb/s

Well done Tenet, you are making history in SA & thanks for the regular updates Andrew, nice to let the general public know whats hapening at
Tenet and the new Seacom cable unlike IS, Neotel,Vodacom, MTN

Data Circuit Costs:
A call center in the Knysna required 512Kb/s TDIS circuit to Cape Town cost R10k/month (not sure if it was silver/gold) when I see the size of the Tenet's circuits they must have a :eek:to Neotel and/or Telkom

Further good news to consumers is that smaller Internet Service Providers are starting to get access to SEACOM bandwidth, a development which is likely to have an impact on ADSL pricing from ISPs making use of Telkom’s IP Connect product.
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Would be great to get regular responses like what Tenet CTO publishes on MyBB, which smaller ISP's and larger ISP are on Seacom, but its all a big fat secret.
 
Garyvdh said:
Nothing is 100% positive in SA... esp. in this industry. But don't worry... I am fairly sure this is going to happen... It has been confirmed from several sources.
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I have got to agree.

We have been skeptical for a long time. However, my one brain cell, overworked as it may be, thinks that the ISP's will be getting edgy and might all be looking to make the first move.

It is all about who is going to blink first ;)
 
T3rminator said:
Stellenbosch has also been seeing increased internet speeds the past while.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/545544961.png

While that is local speed, the int is following. Can't wait till the integration is complete. Too bad YouTube and Facebook gets throttled to death :(

BTW we pay R0.01 per MB between 02:00 and 07:59. Hope they extend those times if BW gets cheaper.
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nice speed!

only MTN still in the stoneage, i got this slow speed on 3G
http://www.speedtest.net/result/557150814.png :sick:
 
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