MrWeeks
New Member
Hello all MyBB users!
I am an avid online gamer and have been using Telkom's ADSL (The only ADSL line provider) in conjunction with Afrihost as my ISP. Recently (about 3 weeks ago) I started experiencing some very irritating issues on my ADSL line. My ping and packet loss on international games would go from a respectable 180ms, 0% loss and shoot up to figures of ~900ms and up to 50% loss.
I had a friend in the area about 2 weeks ago who was using the ADSL at his friend's house in Somerset West and while we were gaming and talking on Teamspeak with a bunch of our other friends, we would get disconnected at exactly the same time for no reason, we figured that they were working on the exchange (it was late, about 11PM) so we figured what the hell and continued playing when the connection resumed.
But recently I have been having connection issues again. Now, data throughput is not a problem (which is why I suspect that Telkom aren't getting very many reports of faulty ADSL in. But when the exchange starts getting a bit congested ping and packet loss goes ballistic. The problem only really happens between 5 and 11 PM (when everybody gets home... duh)
What I'd like for those of you who are connected to the 021 851 exchange to do for me please is to run a traceroute and a pingtest to telkom.co.za for me during the course of the evening tomorrow (if it crosses your mind) and please post results here so that I can present them to Telkom as definitive proof that the problem is not isolated to me and that the exchange's bandwidth allocation needs to be increased or some other action needs to be taken.
I'm at my wits end here, it is extremely frustrating for me not being able to do what I enjoy all the while I am still paying for it.
Hope to get results and solutions soon!
Regards
I am an avid online gamer and have been using Telkom's ADSL (The only ADSL line provider) in conjunction with Afrihost as my ISP. Recently (about 3 weeks ago) I started experiencing some very irritating issues on my ADSL line. My ping and packet loss on international games would go from a respectable 180ms, 0% loss and shoot up to figures of ~900ms and up to 50% loss.
I had a friend in the area about 2 weeks ago who was using the ADSL at his friend's house in Somerset West and while we were gaming and talking on Teamspeak with a bunch of our other friends, we would get disconnected at exactly the same time for no reason, we figured that they were working on the exchange (it was late, about 11PM) so we figured what the hell and continued playing when the connection resumed.
But recently I have been having connection issues again. Now, data throughput is not a problem (which is why I suspect that Telkom aren't getting very many reports of faulty ADSL in. But when the exchange starts getting a bit congested ping and packet loss goes ballistic. The problem only really happens between 5 and 11 PM (when everybody gets home... duh)
What I'd like for those of you who are connected to the 021 851 exchange to do for me please is to run a traceroute and a pingtest to telkom.co.za for me during the course of the evening tomorrow (if it crosses your mind) and please post results here so that I can present them to Telkom as definitive proof that the problem is not isolated to me and that the exchange's bandwidth allocation needs to be increased or some other action needs to be taken.
I'm at my wits end here, it is extremely frustrating for me not being able to do what I enjoy all the while I am still paying for it.
Hope to get results and solutions soon!
Regards