Slow international DL speed

[Preacher]

What the heck. Can anyone please explain.

I am in JHB with a 4mg line, using telkom as my ISP. My best friend stays in CT, with a 4mg line using webafrica as his ISP. We both download locally at round about the same speed (+/- 420kB/s). Tonight we downloaded a mappack from the same international site, except my speed was 40kB/s and his was a blisteringly fast 550kB/s.... what the heck. How? What? This is not the first time. It seems that he gets awesome international DL speeds, while myself, using TELKOM, get crap speeds. I am lost for words...

 

[Tinuva]

Maybe add a traceroute to the site you 2 were downloading from, could help, show packet loss and the route the packets probably took.

 

[daveza]

I'm in Cape Town and suddenly get 40 kbps downloads when usually around 400 kbps.

 

[onelargeprawn]

I'm in Cape Town and suddenly get 40 kbps downloads when usually around 400 kbps.

Have you got this sorted out? I'm having the same issue today.

 

[Gixxa]

<-- EL also have dload sppeds of ~50 kb/s with a 4 meg.

 

[Sting]

Unually high traffic due to Elections and IPL causing a bottleneck???

 

[DerpiesFreud]

yeah im in polokwane and mine is a bit slow too

 

[Stormer12]

ai very slow on my side too, using openweb IS local

 

[CrazyMadMan]

VERY SLOW! I am with Openweb, the uncapped special.

 

[PokerKing]

@Preacher, why are you double posting this thread..
A few nights ago you posted this exact post, i remember reading it

 

[Kwerty]

"There is currently a Telkom SAIX outage between Hongkong and Rosebank.
All ADSL users, Dialup users, SpaceStream users, Leased Line users, WiMax users, WiFi users may experience slow international browsing.
Telkom's international provider is investigating into the matter." -- Webafrica

 

[Gaz{M}]

Thanks, mine was dead slow too on browsing, but funnily enough video was reasonable.

 

[CrazyMadMan]

Still slow here...

 

[Mahado]

me too, I'm timing out on most intl pages, have an upto 4MBps line. can't use normal gmail page with the chat thingy which i usually use for work. I've not been able to send my work over since it's a largish file, over 20 MB and pages like yousendit keep timing out. video does not work at all. I am with Webafrica and they say this issue is resolved under the alerts page but doesn't look that way

 

[CrazyMadMan]

Still slow

 

[Preacher]

@Preacher, why are you double posting this thread..
A few nights ago you posted this exact post, i remember reading it

Um... I haven't posted on these forums since last year... when I was using HSDPA. This is a recent issue I have noticed.... dont know who it was otherwise, but not me :/

 

[PokerKing]

Ok sorry my apologies..
Im sure that was a copy+paste of a previous post...