Speeds returned?

well it seems my IP has changed from a 66.18 to a 196.34 range.. anyone else get this also speeds are at around 50% here.. mm.. strange..

Regards
Cerberus
 
AAAARG!!! Here we go again. This week began very promising and look...we're back to 3KB\s. Tower 126 Brixton 12% Signal.
 
By the look of it, it seems that Sentech are moving to another provider(away from infosat) we probably caught them half though I don't know which backbone or service provide the IP blongs to(apperantly only maintained ty ARIN whoever that is) but the uploads are very fast.. downloads are iffy at best getting on bandwidth around 70-80kbits/s give it till tomorrow and we'll see what there is to see about this new structure. oh pings to the USA are sweet Google(around 350ms-380ms) and Yahoo.com(434ms-458ms)

Regards
Cerberus
 
Hehee .. just did a speed test you your server 16kbs I believe ... gotta looove our friends ;-)

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Traceroute's indicate that nothing has changed. They're still peering at Internet Solutions and the IP's being dished out are still 66.18.x.x (for me at least).

By the way, Infosat is owned by Sentech. They won't ever "get rid of it". Cerberus, are you sure about the 196.x IP you're getting? Which tower?

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PPP adapter sentech:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 196.34.xxx.xxx
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 196.34.xxx.xxx

I got this to SunningDale Tower in DBN it might just be for DBN to seperate JHB,PTA from our traffic.I dunno I'm as clueless on the changes as you guys I'm just taking a few guesses in the dark.

Regards
Cerberus
 
Sigh, I've shown them this before:

1. 66.18.87.50 0% 52 53 503 101 424 2120
2. 66.18.65.105 0% 52 52 446 82 399 2021
<b>
3. gige-0-0-102.rtr-core5-stp.infosat.net 2% 50 52 107 90 400 1965
4. gige-0-0-6.rtr-core4-stp.infosat.net 4% 49 52 747 106 443 1948
5. gige-0-0-21.rtr-bdr1-rbn.infosat.net 8% 47 52 110 110 467 1897
6. 168.209.18.61 10% 46 52 635 121 446 1849
</b>
7. core2b-rba.nmszone.is.co.za 8% 47 52 580 128 458 1794
8. 168.209.0.86 4% 48 51 524 340 677 1926
9. 168.209.100.29 4% 48 51 468 395 707 1932
10. 168.209.246.3 2% 49 51 412 412 687 1876
11. s5-1-yar1.lnt.cw.net 0% 50 51 914 429 724 1824
12. ge-2-1-0-zcr1.lnt.cw.net 4% 48 51 856 413 673 1759
13. 206.24.168.121 0% 50 51 807 432 736 1839
14. so-0-0-0-ycr2-DUB.cw.net 8% 46 51 791 425 797 1803
15. ae0-ycr1.DUB.cw.net 8% 46 51 735 456 771 1727
16. google.DUB.cw.net 6% 47 51 680 440 821 2662
17. 216.239.49.117 6% 47 51 623 475 858 2605
18. 216.239.59.99 10% 45 51 733 437 896 2733

Pretty obvious where there problems are starting, isn't it? This time, it's not the backlinks between the towers causing problems either.

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well I got this trace routing to a site(couldn't get to the end but that doesn't matter) :)
1 124 ms 399 ms 119 ms 66.18.xxx.xxx
2 96 ms 120 ms 118 ms 66.18.65.105
3 116 ms 119 ms 99 ms gige-0-0-102.rtr-core5-stp.infosat.net [66.
.106]
4 117 ms 119 ms 119 ms gige-0-0-6.rtr-core4-stp.infosat.net [66.18
54]
5 116 ms 119 ms 120 ms gige-0-0-21.rtr-bdr1-rbn.infosat.net [66.18
09]
6 118 ms 118 ms 120 ms 168.209.18.61
7 438 ms 119 ms 119 ms core2b-rba.nmszone.is.co.za [196.26.0.9]
8 356 ms 359 ms 401 ms 168.209.0.86
9 379 ms 379 ms 401 ms core1b-ny.nmszone.is.co.za [168.209.244.3]
10 380 ms 379 ms 379 ms POS1-2.IG2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [208.192.177.205]
11 378 ms 379 ms 379 ms 589.at-5-0-0.XR4.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.
12 378 ms 359 ms 359 ms 0.so-2-0-0.XL2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.29
13 376 ms 380 ms 378 ms 0.so-1-1-0.XL2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.21.18
14 359 ms 357 ms 461 ms POS7-0.BR2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.19.49]
15 361 ms 459 ms 378 ms 204.255.173.22
16 376 ms 359 ms 399 ms jfk-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.30.17]
17 358 ms 379 ms 659 ms ewr-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.245]
18 397 ms 359 ms 359 ms ewr-edge-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.17.14]
19 377 ms 364 ms 350 ms 65.115.225.214
20 348 ms 379 ms 379 ms 169.132.117.39

The strange thing is the 1st jump is still to a 66.18.xxx.xxx address I'm assuming that is the Sunningdale tower. but my IP is 196.34.xxx.xxx, I dunno. and the trace roots look okay to me?

Oh also wanted to add on Rodents test I scored a nice 169Kbtis/s ??

Regards
Cerberus
 
http://www.radb.net/cgi-bin/radb/whois.cgi?obj=196.34.112.xxx

That appears to be an Internet Solutions IP range. Perhaps Sentech are leasing a few IP's from them. They may have run out?

Yeah their PPP servers route like crazy. They don't mind routing the 10.x.x.x stuff either. The first hops don't seem to care too much about modem user subnets.

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Rodent - it seems [email protected] is no longer serviced ... according the the call centre message you need to send a mail to [email protected] ...

At least the [email protected] account gives delivery notification ;-(

I've had enough of this fscking crap .

R

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Well I have finally received my modem. Im not happy with the speeds at all. Averaged 3.2KB/s on a download from Tucows (SAIX). On the modem itself it shows full signal, ie four lights but the signal strength is only 16%. Is there anyway other than the MySignal prog from ProAsm to measure signal strength. I get com port errors when running that prog and it wont connect.

I dont know if a slow but permanant internet connection is worth R649 X 24. There must be throughput issues with Sentech. This is the only explanation that could affect the entire country but it seems that most users simply put up with this crap and dont follow Rodents advice to log a call and get a ticket. Maybe just the users on this forum should stage a coordinated e-mail complaint to the support desk, maybe we would get some response...surely. But overall, nahhhhhh, im VERY disappointed after being kept waiting for so long. I cant believe that ADSL and MyWireless is the best internet connections that South Africa can offer the common public. so much for development.

Cape Town 128K 16% Tower 22(Salt River)
 
see http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3445&whichpage=1
Proasm was on the 196.35 range yesterday, Cerberus, are you on the 512K package?
the other similarity between you and Pro, is the Durban thing, like, whatever!
 
It seemed to have been a progressive change Dorris.. I have the 256k package... Proasm was the 1st to spot it. Just figured back then it was just for the 512k package it seems they are moving everyone over to IS's IP for some reason.. Who knows.

Regards
Cerberus
 
Yes, CT does suck just as badly. I will offer whatever support the "fellowship of the ping" may need. This is crap and it simply wont do.

My speeds had seemed to improve this morning. I was downloading 3 files from Kazaa at 5KB/s average each. Maybe the tower got up and moved?

Cape Town 128K 16% Tower 22(Salt River)
 
Hi All

For us not on MW yet the feedback on this site is great. I'm actually considering 128 ISDN until Sentech sorts themselves out. A quick question for those on 64k / 128k ISDN, if your connection is idle for say more than 30 minutes...will the modem drop the connection if it finds no activity on the line? Maybe TheRoDent knows?

Thx
Guz
 
Hi Rodent,

How are you able to do a tracert? If I do it gets to the 3rd hop then time out, I thought perhaps sentech blocks tracert ?
 
Guztro

I have a 128k Imaginet connection and nope you don't need to do a thing to keep it alive it'll stay connected unless the server your dialing resets or kicks you off(doesn't happen alot)

Regards
Cerberus
 
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