Slow Network on ADSL

[Pizzaman]

Anybody else experiencing slow connectivity on ADSL the last couple of days?

Pinging www.ibiblio.org [152.2.210.81] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=501ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=551ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=481ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=521ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 152.2.210.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 481ms, Maximum = 551ms, Average = 513ms


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PING FROM SAIX ROUTER to same DEST:

Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 152.2.210.81, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 260/271/284 ms

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I have been experiencing slow connectivity to a couple of sites and some of them don't even resolve on Telkom-IPnet dns servers, while they do on IS's dns.

 

[Syzygy78]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Clinton>ping 152.2.210.81 -n 10

Pinging 152.2.210.81 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=427ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=462ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=465ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=488ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=474ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=472ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=487ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=490ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=462ms TTL=47
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=461ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 152.2.210.81:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 427ms, Maximum = 490ms, Average = 468ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Clinton>

Remember, this is a shaped service where your traffic is not seen as priority [esp. intl traffic]! I could be wrong, but since the beginning of the month... it seems as if all intl traffic has been shaped so it doesnt exceed 64Kilobits per second. None of my downloads exceed 8KB's per second to intl sites...

When browsing, occassionally a page downloads quickly, but this is an irregular occurrence.

 

[kaspaas]

I'm also experiencing that the ADSL service is degrading.

Seems as if Telkom is increasing the contention ratio as MyWireless is going down the dumps.

So MyWi: Get going, us ADSL users need you - if not to swop ADSL for MyWi, then to give Telkom reason to deliver service of excellence!




South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.

 

[BTTB]

Pinging www.ibiblio.org [152.2.210.81] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=505ms TTL=45
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=493ms TTL=45
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=496ms TTL=45
Reply from 152.2.210.81: bytes=32 time=524ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 152.2.210.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 493ms, Maximum = 524ms, Average = 504ms

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">

 

[Pizzaman]

8kb/s?? You're lucky, I only manage 300bytes-4kb/s to the USA and I'm not capped.

Don't bother logging calls either!

Welcome to Hellkom where we never return your phonecalls. Wiff your eRef!!!
[!][!]

 

[James]

May sound like the strangest explanation ever but there is a problem with sat-3 in spain. that is causeing huge latency problems with international traffic. There is nothing about it on the Saix notice board though. One of my mates at IS told me that that was the problem.

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[sybawoods]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Pr13sT</i>
<br />May sound like the strangest explanation ever but there is a problem with sat-3 in spain. that is causeing huge latency problems with international traffic. There is nothing about it on the Saix notice board though. One of my mates at IS told me that that was the problem.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Aaah, thanks for that piece of news. Even on my unshaped account, latency has deteriorated over the last few days. I tried to convince the support guys (including the supervisor), with traces from a few weeks back compared to now, insisting that "something is not right"... and I got back the following reply:

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">From: Lawxxx Heixx (LJ) [mailto:xxxxxxx@telkom.co.za]
Sent: 11 August 2004 02:29 PM
To: xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Ref FQ2xxxx

Dear xxxxxx

We have escalated this and the network staff have advised that your roundtrip response times to be excellent.

They also made mention that ADSL is a best effort service and no guarantee is offered.

If there are any other queries please don't hesitate to contact us<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

response times "excellent" my a**!! It's at least 150-200ms slower than it was last week [!]. I'd have felt better if they at least acknowledged (are they even aware??) that there's a problem somewhere on the cable.

 

[Pizzaman]

yay! 13Aug 00:26, Transfers seem to be going quickly again... Maybe it's just because everybody's sleeping Or they just bought a bigger drive for the transparent proxy [] ... Touch wood.

 

[joema]

nah - must have been linked to the SAT-3 cable break in Spain yesterday.
I -think- the Telkom "backup" line is a satellite connection, so the pings will increase, also with an outage of that magnitude, us DSLers have to contend with all the other SAIX users for available bandwidth.