Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

Subways81 said:
Went to our local Telkom shop on Friday, the lady there said I could use their phone to cancel, geez it was quick, I think I was on the phone for a total of 15 minutes.

And today, right now, my ADSL its flying. Downloading LoadOut from Steam at a solid 500KB/s and browsing and streaming it great. Wish it would stay like this.

EDIT

Loadout downloading at 600KB/s on my 4Mb TI service. Awww fanks TI. ;)
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:mad:Lucky you. I went to Telkom Shop Friday morning to downgrade from uncapped to 10 Gb capped. Lady says she is unable to do this and puts me on their direct line. What a farce, 40 min and waiting. Came home and put my phone on speaker whilst having my lunch. 45 min later all done and dusted. Signed up with AH for 4 Meg Uncapped. What a pleasure, this is the way to conduct a business.:)Now.
 
ponder said:
Woke up this morning, no adsl, no dial tone. Call 10210 and it sucks my airtime dry, drive to telkom at the mall, entire area (more than one exchange) is completely dead. Only came back up after lunch :rolleyes:
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This is odd in that my ADSL at home never went off BUT the phone line that it is connected to could not dial out or rang if dialed into. This is a separate line from the main house line which was dead. Wonder what happened O_O.

Just glad so far that internet is working. :) 153GB since Friday so not too bad :p.
 
I don't know how you guys are using torrents during the day. I've used 105GB this month, about 50% during the free downloading hours, and I'm already being "managed". Do you guys just ignore those throttling threats entirely?

2Mb, and I've confirmed with TelkomZA that I'm on the right profile.
 
Here's my algorithm:

"She-who-must-be-obeyed" and I can only manage to watch 1 hour of tv content a day, sometimes 2 if we can manage to keep our eyes open after 9 pm. The rest of the time we work, socialise, eat and sleep. So that's 30 to 60 hours of content a month, and if you count that all as HD 720p at about 1 to 1.5 Gigs per hour of content, it can run anything from 45 to 90 gigs a month. We have Telkom 4 meg uncapped, and my usage for the month is currently sitting on 60 gigs. Sickbeard and SABNZBd run on a dedicated download pc that's on 24/7.

I carefully avoid offering to download for friends or family. When they ask, I say "get your own uncapped, and go google 'how to download series and movies with the usenet and torrents' and see how you get on. I learnt how to do it, so can you. Or just get DSTV and stop grumbling.

In the years I was with Mweb, before their @#$% started, I pulled all the old classic films and series I wanted, filling a couple of HDD's in the process. So now it's just a case of telling sickbeard to get whatever I want that aired last night on UK TV.

So, yeah, when once upon a time I sometimes felt like I really was "downloading the internet", hitting 300 and sometimes 400 gigs a month, I was just building a collection. Nowadays I'm just topping it up. And my telkom 4 meg works a treat for that.

I saw that an old (1927) film came up on the torrent sites, so that was what I was attempting to download. First torrent I've tried in weeks. It sat dead for ages, but now seems to be coming to life a bit at half my line speed.
 
eremos said:
I don't know how you guys are using torrents during the day. I've used 105GB this month, about 50% during the free downloading hours, and I'm already being "managed". Do you guys just ignore those throttling threats entirely?

2Mb, and I've confirmed with TelkomZA that I'm on the right profile.
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Probably using a faster account. I've never been "managed" (i.e practically the same thing as local cap...) on my 10mbps account. The threshold is much higher.


Earlier today, I was streaming Source quality Twitch.tv. It was truly magnificent. Now everything's back to crap...
Code: 
Local Tracert 

Tracing route to afrihost.co.za [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     *        2 ms  10.0.0.2 
  2     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  ti-224-164-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.164.1] 
  3    41 ms    38 ms    37 ms  ti-224-0-50.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.50] 
  4    22 ms    22 ms    21 ms  ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13] 
  5    22 ms    21 ms    22 ms  165.165.216.221 
  6    31 ms    32 ms    32 ms  rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-3-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.134] 
  7    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  196.43.25.138 
  8    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  mtn-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.58.18] 
  9    34 ms    33 ms    34 ms  41.181.139.108 
 10    34 ms    35 ms    34 ms  196.44.31.97 
 11    34 ms    45 ms    33 ms  ge10-1-9sub0.te3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.220.12] 
 12    26 ms    25 ms    25 ms  tengigabitethernet9-1.gw21.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.220.27] 
 13    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  tengigabitethernet5-2.hr15.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.63.194] 
 14    34 ms    34 ms    33 ms  cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102] 

Trace complete.
  
International Tracert 

Tracing route to thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.2 
  2    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms  ti-224-164-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.164.1] 
  3    55 ms   171 ms    32 ms  ti-224-0-50.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.50] 
  4    24 ms    23 ms    22 ms  ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13] 
  5    24 ms    23 ms    26 ms  rrba-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.39.37] 
  6   193 ms   193 ms   192 ms  lon-ip-hsll-1-gig-0-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.46] 
  7   397 ms   378 ms   226 ms  te3-7.ccr01.lon09.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.98.73] 
  8   218 ms   219 ms   218 ms  abovenet.lon09.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14.182] 
  9   208 ms   208 ms   208 ms  94.31.40.154.IPYX-080002-001-ZYO.above.net [94.31.40.154] 
 10   213 ms   214 ms   213 ms  gi1-24-10-star1.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.9] 
 11   215 ms   220 ms   221 ms  www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] 

Trace complete.
  
International Speedtest 
Downloaded 10.0 megabytes in 31 seconds. (326.22 KB/s)
  
Local Speedtest 
Downloaded 8000.0 kilobytes in 19 seconds. (418.89 KB/s)
  
  
Speedtest.net Results (Ignore ping - it is often inaccurate. Please refer to trace routes above) 
Hosted by iSPACE (Umhlanga) [92.07 km]: 0.0 ms
Download: 3.82 Mbit/s
Upload: 0.53 Mbit/s
Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3310252010.png
  
  
Test End Timestamp 
16/02/2014 18:17:48.48

I think hop3 has some serious problems
 
Noticed a few times today that pausing a slow download, restarting my router and then resuming the download maxes out the line speed. I assume this means my router is failing?
 
Thought I'd fire up the TI account to check how streaming is going... Quite pathetic.
 
Seems like TI flicked a switch at 8pm, all was going very nicely, 8pm came and now even local browsing is dog slow.
 
Tracing route to www.esquire-shop.co.za [41.86.105.160]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ti-224-8-01.telkomadsl.co.za \
3 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms ti-224-0-38.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.38]
4 38 ms 23 ms 21 ms ti-228-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.228.0.13]
5 30 ms 23 ms 22 ms rndf-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.39.41]
6 22 ms 21 ms 22 ms 196.43.52.42
7 23 ms 26 ms 22 ms 196.43.25.138
8 * 36 ms * gigabitethernet1-1-2.vic-pr-1.mweb.co.za [197.80.4.118]
9 38 ms 36 ms 40 ms tengig0-0-0-3.vic-p-1.mweb.co.za [197.80.7.1]
10 34 ms 36 ms 33 ms vl-12.vic-hscore-2.mweb.co.za [197.80.5.254]
11 * * 41 ms 197-80-96-58.jhb.mweb.co.za [197.80.96.58]
12 * 36 ms 38 ms 197-81-229-4.jhb.mweb.co.za [197.81.229.4]
13 38 ms * * 197-81-229-11.jhb.mweb.co.za [197.81.229.11]
14 * 40 ms 37 ms 41-86-105-160.mweb.co.za [41.86.105.160]
 
Looks like my exchange is borked:

Code: 
Tracing route to mybroadband.co.za [197.242.89.170]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.2
  2   354 ms   343 ms   361 ms  ti-224-32-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.32.1]
  3   326 ms   327 ms   332 ms  ti-224-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.6]
  4   351 ms   332 ms   310 ms  ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13]
  5   315 ms   355 ms   328 ms  165.165.216.221
  6   326 ms   318 ms   345 ms  rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-3-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.134]
  7   314 ms   333 ms   339 ms  196.43.25.138
  8   319 ms   371 ms   308 ms  internet-solutions-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.46.90]
  9   297 ms   315 ms   324 ms  ar2-rba-gi0-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.172]
 10   306 ms   292 ms   292 ms  mi-za-rba-gsrpe2-gi1-1-0.ip.isnet.net [168.209.86.250]
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12   389 ms   393 ms   392 ms  CORE.GP-CN-HET-MEE-1.TO.GP-MR-VOD-MEE-1.DFA.P2P.10G.za.africainx.net [41.84.12.151]
 13   366 ms   347 ms   321 ms  41-66-132-242-f2.HET001-CPE-1-to-GP-CN-HET-MEE-1.africainx.net [41.66.132.242]
 14   320 ms   324 ms   321 ms  core-access-switch1.jnb1.host-h.net [197.189.193.1]
 15   384 ms   365 ms   368 ms  row-access-switch1-row7-8.jnb1.host-h.net [197.189.193.39]
 16   393 ms   415 ms   434 ms  41.203.24.42
 17   395 ms   402 ms   385 ms  197.242.89.170

Trace complete.
 
Fine this morning. But we'll see. after 9pm it always ****s on me. I work from home this has been the case for the last 2 months
 
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