Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

All seems fine here - it goes to **** when it leaves the Telkom network.


tracert www.google.co.za

Tracing route to www.google.co.za [173.194.116.247] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms wbs-ip-hsll-2-gi4-0-0-vl102.telkom-ipnet.co.za [105.226.0.21]
4 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms ipc-4-up.south.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.226.0.30]
5 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms ipc-aggr-2.south.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.226.0.57]
6 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms jb1-pr-02-te0-1-0.net.telkomsa.net [105.187.249.2]
7 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms jb1-pr-02-te0-1-0.net.telkomsa.net [105.187.249.2]
8 48 ms 48 ms 48 ms jb1-google-gw.net.telkomsa.net [105.187.249.22]
9 207 ms 207 ms 208 ms 216.239.54.57
10 213 ms 213 ms 213 ms 209.85.253.10
11 222 ms 222 ms 222 ms 216.239.58.10
12 215 ms 217 ms 215 ms 216.239.57.134
13 226 ms 225 ms 225 ms 216.239.56.94
14 231 ms 231 ms 232 ms 209.85.246.93
15 231 ms 231 ms 231 ms prg02s11-in-f23.1e100.net [173.194.116.247]

Trace complete.
 
MickZA said:
Hmm, are you using Telkoms DNS or something else?

Code: 
[mick@house ~]$ ping -qc 10 google.co.za
PING google.co.za (105.187.242.42) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- google.co.za ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9010ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 68.689/69.913/73.157/1.220 ms
[mick@house ~]$
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Telkom
 
My traceroute:

Code: 
[mick@house ~]$ mtr -rc 10 google.co.za
Start: Mon Feb 15 17:07:11 2016
HOST: house.mickza                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- mickcop                    0.0%    10    3.3   3.3   3.3   3.4   0.0
  2.|-- ???                       100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  3.|-- wbs-ip-hsll-2-gi4-0-0-vl1  0.0%    10   42.1  41.5  40.6  42.3   0.0
  4.|-- ipc-4-up.south.dsl.telkom  0.0%    10   41.1  41.6  41.1  42.6   0.3
  5.|-- ipc-aggr-2.south.dsl.telk  0.0%    10   41.4  42.5  41.4  44.1   0.6
  6.|-- jb1-ti-pr-02-te1-3-0.net.  0.0%    10   63.3  63.7  62.6  64.6   0.0
  7.|-- jb1-ti-pr-02-te1-3-0.net.  0.0%    10   72.5  64.3  62.3  72.5   2.9
  8.|-- jb1-google-gw.net.telkoms  0.0%    10   70.5  71.5  69.4  86.6   5.3
  9.|-- 72.14.239.129              0.0%    10   64.9  63.4  62.7  64.9   0.6
 10.|-- jnb01s08-in-f35.1e100.net  0.0%    10   65.0  63.5  62.9  65.0   0.7
[mick@house ~]$

Primary DNS: 196.43.54.190
Secondary DNS: 196.43.38.190
 
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Do any of you guys here maybe know why the latency in international gaming is always higher on Telkom Internet than other isp's? When I am using Mweb I get 175ms, and when i'm on Telkom Internet, I get 250ms. The servers are in EUW. Local latency seems fine tho.
 
SuperMario said:
Do any of you guys here maybe know why the latency in international gaming is always higher on Telkom Internet than other isp's? When I am using Mweb I get 175ms, and when i'm on Telkom Internet, I get 250ms. The servers are in EUW. Local latency seems fine tho.
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They are probably using Seacom to carry that traffic in question. The value of your international latency, assuming all other conditions are relatively ideal, is largely determined by the length/route of the cable -- conversely, the cable being used can typically be identified by these latency values
 
fragtion said:
They are probably using Seacom to carry that traffic in question. The value of your international latency, assuming all other conditions are relatively ideal, is largely determined by the length/route of the cable -- conversely, the cable being used can typically be identified by these latency values
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Telkom don't use seacom.
 
Just spotted a nice little addition to the saix user stats page - it now displays GB on the end. When did this appear I wonder?
snapshot1.png
 
MickeyD said:
Why so many sessions there, 'timer?

View attachment 343249
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Well, fellow oldtimer, it's like this: I'd let a client use my account this month as a favour 'cos hers had been cancelled prematurely by someone at telkom. I think her line is a bit poor as well and was tending to disconnect a couple of times a day. So no big mystery!
 
Grouter said:
Well, fellow oldtimer, it's like this: I'd let a client use my account this month as a favour 'cos hers had been cancelled prematurely by someone at telkom. I think her line is a bit poor as well and was tending to disconnect a couple of times a day. So no big mystery!
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hehehehe, you're a good man.
 
Grouter said:
Good question...
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Well its pretty simple from a computer point of view. The number of bytes is not done on a 1000 boundary like everything else in the world, it works on a 1024 boundary.

So a KB is 1024 bytes, a MB is 1024*104 bytes and a GB is 1024*1024*1024 bytes.

Now you may be asking where the 1024 comes from, well that's because in computers everything runs off of an 8bit enviroment. I'm still not sure why they chose 8bits instead of 10bits but hey-ho thats how things work in the wonderful world of computers. :) I'm sure it will be on wikipedia or something.
 
LomWoss said:
Well its pretty simple from a computer point of view. The number of bytes is not done on a 1000 boundary like everything else in the world, it works on a 1024 boundary.

So a KB is 1024 bytes, a MB is 1024*104 bytes and a GB is 1024*1024*1024 bytes.

Now you may be asking where the 1024 comes from, well that's because in computers everything runs off of an 8bit enviroment. I'm still not sure why they chose 8bits instead of 10bits but hey-ho thats how things work in the wonderful world of computers. :) I'm sure it will be on wikipedia or something.
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yep
58 810 661 550 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 54.77169673GB
 
Has anyone else there been having issues with their download speeds after midnight till 7am? The reason I ask is that for the last week or so, my download speeds have been sitting at about half my line speed during those times, then as soon as 7am rolls around it jumps back up to full line speed. I try to set all my downloads during this time but I now find myself having to pull during the day now as I can't get them done during those hours anymore.
 
LomWoss said:
Has anyone else there been having issues with their download speeds after midnight till 7am? The reason I ask is that for the last week or so, my download speeds have been sitting at about half my line speed during those times, then as soon as 7am rolls around it jumps back up to full line speed. I try to set all my downloads during this time but I now find myself having to pull during the day now as I can't get them done during those hours anymore.
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Nope, full speed here. Voet innie hoek!
 
LomWoss said:
Now you may be asking where the 1024 comes from, well that's because in computers everything runs off of an 8bit enviroment. I'm still not sure why they chose 8bits instead of 10bits but hey-ho thats how things work in the wonderful world of computers. :) I'm sure it will be on wikipedia or something.
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Because it's a binary (base-2) system, 2^1=2, 2^2=4, 2^3=8, 2^4=16, 2^5=32, 2^6=64, that's why you've had 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 bit computers. It's just how digital systems work as transistors have 2 states, on(1) & off(0).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number
 
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