Slow ADSL at end of October

[krycor]

yah ? i dunno.. maybe they trying to prevent people raping their 4MB ADSL lines in combo with a Telkom ADSL 3GB account

Ping statistics for 63.166.155.222:
Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 7, Lost = 18 (72% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3727ms, Maximum = 4315ms, Average = 3956ms

 

[plugger123]

yah ? i dunno.. maybe they trying to prevent people raping their 4MB ADSL lines in combo with a Telkom ADSL 3GB account

It's like having a ferrari. Only difference is that it uses special petrol. the kind that costs R100 per litre.

 

[krycor]

huh? I meant the 3GB over run ones.. you know where you can go as far as u want but get threatend with a blacklisting

 

[savage]

This isn't a end-of-month thing... My 4MB has been crap slow for months now. Local ain't a problem, HTTP ain't a problem, anything else International, I simply do NOT get more than about 500kb

Telkom upped their shaping, or something is seriously wrong

 

[|tera|]

This isn't a end-of-month thing... My 4MB has been crap slow for months now. Local ain't a problem, HTTP ain't a problem, anything else International, I simply do NOT get more than about 500kb

Telkom upped their shaping, or something is seriously wrong

I agree I'm on 512 and for the past few days international is dog slow, it's pathetic really, definitely not broadband speeds.

Telscum, get your act together please!

 

[clive18]

My international adsl speed is slow like a dial-up today.

I wonder which Telkom sparky is fiddling with the wires again

 

[UnUnOctium]

according to what i have gathered from the other posts on this forum, my guess is that telkom is probably implementing transparent proxies, so now they can be the same f.u.c.k.s. as iBurst which I left. So now we REALLY have no choice but to stick with this ****. :\

 

[Rinkhals]

My international adsl speed is slow like a dial-up today.

I wonder which Telkom sparky is fiddling with the wires again

You're lucky.

I have to switch to my dialup to even get a connection.

Most sites won't connect until I use the dialup.

This really is a substandard service, the sort of sharp practice behavior you might see from the Russian mafia.

 

[chrismiller1985]

this is some bull**** , getting 12kb/sec , might as well be on a dial-up

anyone phone telkom to see if there is an actual problem??

 

[netstrider]

In general speeds are OK. As soon as I download torrents the WHOLE internet gets slow and I mean damn slow...browsing, HTTP and FTP downloads and I even lag on IRC! What the hell is it with that!? Google takes ages to open as soon as I start with a torrent. Reboot and everything's OK. Torrents in Linux work wonderful and even faster than normal downloads...not MS Win tho..

 

[plenty]

Octium Telkom has always run transparent-proxy's on the adsl network, unless you are unshaped.

See my post 2 days ago on this issue : transparent-cache

according to what i have gathered from the other posts on this forum, my guess is that telkom is probably implementing transparent proxies, so now they can be the same f.u.c.k.s. as iBurst which I left. So now we REALLY have no choice but to stick with this ****. :\

 

[Paul_S]

Octium Telkom has always run transparent-proxy's on the adsl network, unless you are unshaped.

On everything as far as I know.
When I was on ISDN (SAIX account) it also went through a transparent proxy.

 

[UnUnOctium]

thing is, i have a friend with unshaped, he also gets pushed through it. But what really bothers me is that international torrents have died. before this crap i used to max out my connection, now im lucky if i get 20KB/s

 

[plenty]

The trans-cache should not effect torrent traffic, that could and probably is being caught by the other packet prioritisation thingum's they have running.

If using Azureus [or others], try turning on data encryption and changing to some really arbitrary communication ports, this should render the general traffic shaping useless or atleast help a bit... Reason being is that the encrypted data cannot be sniffed for it's TCP headers as easily... and therefore is not shaped according to the class of packet. (I stand corrected on this).

 

[UnUnOctium]

lol, tried it since the beginning of this crap but no luck /: