Stellenbosch ADSL congestion?

[alternate]

I think it was to do with the free WiFi project. The actual fiber they are laying is just a small few strands.
We need to some how get ahold of Bashier Sallie.

 

[Pada]

Hmm. My latency over the past 6 hours has been fine in Stellenbosch (Krigeville suburb).

Here's my current traceroute to www.mweb.co.za:

root@hpserver:~# mtr www.mweb.co.za --report --report-wide
HOST: hpserver                         Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- mikrotik.tuis.local               0.0%    10    1.0   0.9   0.8   1.1   0.1
  2.|-- 41-133-108-1.dsl.mweb.co.za       0.0%    10   10.3  10.3   9.7  10.8   0.3
  3.|-- te1-1-0.502.cpt-ipc-1.mweb.co.za  0.0%    10   11.5  11.6  10.8  14.6   1.1
  4.|-- 197-84-2-2.cpt.mweb.co.za         0.0%    10   11.2  11.4  10.9  11.9   0.4
  5.|-- 196.28.178.66                     0.0%    10   10.9  11.4  10.9  11.8   0.3
  6.|-- cte-core-sw2.vwol.net             0.0%    10   11.5  11.5  11.0  11.9   0.3
  7.|-- www.mweb.co.za                   10.0%    10   12.3  14.9  11.4  22.4   3.8

 

[Strange]

Pada, most of the time my latency is fine, but I am only getting around 1.5Mbps. Again, this is like clockwork and my line stats are stable. alternate, Who is Bashier Sallie?

EDIT: nm, google helped.

 

[alternate]

Please pm me some trace routes and or speed tests that I can send to Telkom.

EDIT: if you are daring you can include your ADSL line number aswell which will help.

 

[Strange]

Who do you want to send it to?

 

[Strange]

Latency is now fine, but speed is ****.

 

[Pada]

My latency is still fine, but my speed is half of what it should be again:

C:\Users\Chris-Desktop>tracert www.mweb.co.za

Tracing route to www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  mikrotik.tuis.local [192.168.11.1]
  2    10 ms    10 ms     *     41-133-108-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.133.108.1]
  3    11 ms    12 ms    11 ms  te1-1-0.502.cpt-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.166]
  4    12 ms    12 ms    11 ms  197-84-2-2.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.2.2]
  5    12 ms    11 ms    11 ms  196.28.178.66
  6    12 ms    13 ms    11 ms  cte-core-sw2.vwol.net [196.41.144.35]
  7    13 ms    12 ms    12 ms  www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

Trace complete.

 

[mountain_lion]

4 Mbps line in Onder-Papegaaiberg. Line stats are fine and line syncs at 4Mbps no problem.

However, performance has been worse than a 1 Mbps line for months, although not all the time, goes back to 3.6Mbps every now and again, but getting worse with time. Classic congestion symptoms.

Very bad tonight:

Your Latest Results (local test via MyBB):
Test conducted on 25 February 2013 21:52:19
Download Speed: 561 kbps (70.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 284 kbps (35.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 369 ms

This is on WebAfrica, same on Afrihost.

Exchange here started showing signs of congestion September 2012.
Logged several calls via WebAfrica (my line is with them) - standard Telkom response: we are planning the upgrade...
Been in the planning stage for many months now

02/25/13 21:48:21 Fast traceroute 8.8.8.8

 1 192.168.21.1      0ms    0ms    0ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 2 41.185.189.1    187ms  117ms  240ms  TTL:  0  (dsl-185-189-1.dynamic.wa.co.za ok)
 3 196.220.59.238  201ms  130ms  233ms  TTL:  0  (wnls-ipc1-vl-108.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 4 41.185.0.67     186ms  141ms  217ms  TTL:  0  (wnls-cr1-vl-801.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 5 41.185.1.81     313ms  312ms  413ms  TTL:  0  (gateway-international.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 6 63.218.34.13    301ms  353ms  371ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 7 63.218.34.13    267ms  323ms  377ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 8 63.218.34.34    268ms  328ms  360ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 9 209.85.255.78   260ms  365ms  356ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
10 209.85.253.90   277ms  336ms  354ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
11 209.85.240.28   262ms  412ms  363ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
12 216.239.49.36   261ms  442ms  489ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
13   No Response      *      *      *                 
14 8.8.8.8         197ms  409ms  399ms TTL: 45 (google-public-dns-a.google.com ok)

 

[mountain_lion]

A bit later in the evening; much better now...

Your Latest Results: (local test on MyBB)

Test conducted on 25 February 2013 23:42:00
Download Speed: 3289 kbps (411.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 422 kbps (52.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 96 ms

02/25/13 23:47:06 Fast traceroute 8.8.8.8

 1 192.168.21.1      0ms    0ms    0ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 2 41.185.189.1     12ms   12ms   11ms  TTL:  0  (dsl-185-189-1.dynamic.wa.co.za ok)
 3 196.220.59.250   14ms   13ms   14ms  TTL:  0  (wnls-ipc1-vl-105.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 4 41.185.0.67      13ms   13ms   14ms  TTL:  0  (wnls-cr1-vl-801.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 5 41.185.1.81     165ms  191ms  164ms  TTL:  0  (gateway-international.wa.co.za probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
 6 63.218.34.13    164ms  164ms  200ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 7 63.218.34.13    165ms  164ms  163ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 8 63.218.34.34    168ms  176ms  165ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
 9 209.85.255.78   189ms  164ms  164ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
10 209.85.253.90   165ms  191ms  165ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
11 209.85.240.28   171ms  169ms  170ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
12 216.239.49.36   173ms  194ms  173ms  TTL:  0  (No rDNS)
13   No Response      *      *      *                 
14 8.8.8.8         174ms  174ms  174ms  TTL: 45  (google-public-dns-a.google.com ok)

adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 0
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 512 Kbps, Downstream rate = 4096 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode:                   G.DMT
Channel:                Fast
Trellis:                ON
Line Status:            No Defect
Training Status:        Showtime
                Down            Up
SNR (dB):       21.0            14.0
Attn(dB):       7.0             3.5
Pwr(dBm):       -3.7            4.3
Max(Kbps):      10720           1132
Rate (Kbps):    4096            512

 

[Strange]

Students must still be sleeping:

Test conducted on 26 February 2013 07:13:19 AM

Download Speed: 3359 kbps (419.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 368 kbps (46 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 59 ms

 

[mountain_lion]

What ever the problem was last night, it seems to have been resolved for now...

Your Latest Results (local test via MyBB):

Test conducted on 26 February 2013 09:36:49
Download Speed: 3522 kbps (440.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 417 kbps (52.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 88 ms

 

[Strange]

It is always fine during the mornings. Try again at 8pm.

 

[Strange]

Telkom seems to respond quite quickly on their @TelkomZA twitter account. I suggest we hammer that a bit. Problem is we need critical mass, we need 50 of us, not just 5.

 

[Strange]

Test conducted on 26 February 2013 04:44:12 PM

Download Speed: 2241 kbps (280.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 366 kbps (45.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 58 ms

 

[Strange]

Seems we are having a good night, only 50% line speed tonight:

Test conducted on 26 February 2013 08:11:40 PM

Download Speed: 1698 kbps (212.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 347 kbps (43.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 57 ms

 

[Strange]

And here we are again, same as every evening:

Test conducted on 26 February 2013 09:20:48 PM

Download Speed: 993 kbps (124.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 307 kbps (38.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 60 ms

 

[Strange]

This is getting ridiculous now, even at 6:30 I am getting around 2mbps on my 4M line. Other Stellenbosch users: are you experiencing a gradual reduction in throughput?

 

[Pada]

On my 2Mbps uncapped I was limited to 1Mbps until about 23:30 and from there on I had 2Mbps speeds.

 

[Strange]

I ease into 2M speeds around then as well, only reaching 4M speeds around 2am.

 

[Strange]

From @TelkomZA:

Good day, Mr xxxx. Our network team is investigating suspected congestion on an edge service router. Awaiting progress. ^TL