Telkom Internet Softcap Feedback

[Big Bean]

My first day back with Telkom Internet after 4 years and TiTracker is down.

Getting ready for Night Surfer. Seriously hope it gets calculated correctly.

No, it is working fine.

 

[Totempole]

No, it is working fine.

Great, thanks, working for me now as well.

 

[Totempole]

Somewhat disappointed in the Telkom Night surfer. Seems to be quite heavily shaped. My line is set to be upgraded from 2Mb to 4Mb over the next few days, so hopefully things will be better.

P2P is working at 80-140KB/s during Night Surfer hours for me. Didn't test any of the other protocols, but I would assume HTTP and POP is prioritised.

 

[MickZA]

Somewhat disappointed in the Telkom Night surfer. Seems to be quite heavily shaped. My line is set to be upgraded from 2Mb to 4Mb over the next few days, so hopefully things will be better.

P2P is working at 80-140KB/s during Night Surfer hours for me. Didn't test any of the other protocols, but I would assume HTTP and POP is prioritised.

There seems to be a problem with nightsurfer currently, ranger's not sure what going on but PE & Cape Town could be affected. You can follow the discussion in the TI uncapped thread starting here - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/596707-Telkom-Internet-Uncapped-User-Feedback-(Pt2)?p=14260389&viewfull=1#post14260389

 

[cavedog]

Well my night surfer time is like completely unshaped for any torrents. Must be a cpt ipc issue since Durban IPC is fine.

 

[ponder]

Well my night surfer time is like completely unshaped for any torrents. Must be a cpt ipc issue since Durban IPC is fine.

I also had a major issue but come 1 Jan all came right.

 

[Totempole]

This is what I get when I run Glasnost test for P2P. It's totally borked here.

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic
Results for your host (south.dsl.telkomsa.net).
Are certain ports blocked for all traffic?

2 out of 3 BitTorrent transfers on port 6881 failed to upload any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading BitTorrent traffic on port 6881 to our test server.

1 out of 3 control flow transfers on port 6881 failed to upload any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading control flow traffic on port 6881 to our test server.

2 out of 3 BitTorrent transfers on port 57879 failed to upload any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading BitTorrent traffic on port 57879 to our test server.

2 out of 3 control flow transfers on port 57879 failed to upload any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading control flow traffic on port 57879 to our test server.

3 out of 3 BitTorrent transfers on port 6881 failed to download any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from downloading BitTorrent traffic on port 6881 to our test server.

1 out of 3 control flow transfers on port 6881 failed to download any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from downloading control flow traffic on port 6881 to our test server.

2 out of 3 BitTorrent transfers on port 57879 failed to download any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from downloading BitTorrent traffic on port 57879 to our test server.

1 out of 3 control flow transfers on port 57879 failed to download any data. It seems like your ISP hinders you from downloading control flow traffic on port 57879 to our test server.
Is your upload traffic rate limited?

The measurement data is too noisy to detect whether your ISP rate limits your upload traffic. Re-running the test while ensuring that no other downloads or uploads are running in the background might fix this problem.
Is your download traffic rate limited?

The measurement data is too noisy to detect whether your ISP rate limits your download traffic. Re-running the test while ensuring that no other downloads or uploads are running in the background might fix this problem.

 

[cavedog]

Something wrong with Durban IPC it is not even moving that's how slow it is. 500ms on the UK hop. It is SLOW. I'm using a 50GB softcap account with only 12% of my softcap used so far.

 

[Yuu]

I can concur with cavedog, something gone poof so switched temporary to alternative provider.

Another thing @cavedog, is the bolt-on for PSN/steam working properly now?

 

[Totempole]

I can barely browse currently. P2P hasn't worked all day. This account hasn't worked properly since I got it on Saturday.

Afrihost and WA work beautifully.

Makes me want to punch someone.

I cancelled my uncapped account, upgraded my line and switched to TK Internet specifically for Night Surfer.

 

[brogan]

Agree Durban IPC and Int high latency

Something wrong with Durban IPC it is not even moving that's how slow it is. 500ms on the UK hop. It is SLOW. I'm using a 50GB softcap account with only 12% of my softcap used so far.

tracert www.mweb.co.za

2 34 ms 31 ms 30 ms ndn-ip-esr-3.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.224.12.1]
3 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms ipc-1-up.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.229.0.6]
4 33 ms 32 ms 31 ms ipc-aggr-1.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.229.0.29]
5 301 ms 301 ms 301 ms dbn-pr-02-be200-vl1.net.telkosma.net [105.229.0.33]
6 48 ms 46 ms 46 ms telkom-internet.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.241]
7 49 ms 47 ms 47 ms mweb.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.145]
8 322 ms 323 ms 321 ms tengig-0-7-0-3-vic-p-2.mweb.co.za [197.80.7.98]
9 305 ms 296 ms 291 ms tengig-0-0-0-0-cpt-p-1.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.34]
10 281 ms 285 ms 300 ms vl-11-cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [197.84.5.238]
11 377 ms 307 ms 309 ms 196.28.178.66
12 305 ms 318 ms 307 ms cte-core-sw2.vwol.net [196.41.144.35]
13 309 ms 311 ms 311 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com [46.228.47.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:


2 34 ms 31 ms 30 ms ndn-ip-esr-3.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.224.12.1]
3 296 ms 291 ms 287 ms ipc-1-up.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.229.0.22]
4 284 ms 280 ms 276 ms ipc-aggr-2.east.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.229.0.13]
5 431 ms 423 ms 428 ms ndn-ip-hsll-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [165.165.233.249]
6 610 ms 592 ms 605 ms lon-ip-hsll-1-gig-0-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.46]
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[cavedog]

I can concur with cavedog, something gone poof so switched temporary to alternative provider.

Another thing @cavedog, is the bolt-on for PSN/steam working properly now?

Have not tested it since because of the extra data we got in December and me doing my downloading during Night Surfer times.

 

[brogan]

Speedtest results for 10Mbps account
Date ascending IP Address Download Upload Latency Server Distance
1/6/2015 4:53 PM GMT 105.229.7.229 2.03 Mb/s 0.49 Mb/s 426 ms Cape Town ~ 800 mi

 

[brogan]

Speedtest results for 10Mbps account
Date ascending IP Address Download Upload Latency Server Distance
1/6/2015 4:53 PM GMT 105.229.7.229 2.03 Mb/s 0.49 Mb/s 426 ms Cape Town ~ 800 mi

MyBB INT speedtest

 

[cavedog]

Speedtest results for 10Mbps account
Date ascending IP Address Download Upload Latency Server Distance
1/6/2015 4:53 PM GMT 105.229.7.229 2.03 Mb/s 0.49 Mb/s 426 ms Cape Town ~ 800 mi

+1 Yeah saying it's slow is a understatement. Durban IPC is not even moving. Can't load ANYTHING. I'm using my vox account now to go onto the net. Also on 10Mbps

 

[brogan]

Happy to report the issue has been resolved

 

[Totempole]

Happy to report the issue has been resolved

Lucky you.

 

[Yuu]

Have not tested it since because of the extra data we got in December and me doing my downloading during Night Surfer times.

Ah okay, thanks. Will take the plunge and see what it does .

Will test Ti later to see if things are good.

 

[cavedog]

Telkom has been so good that I actually don't use Vox account anymore. I have cancelled it now but I am considering the following.

50GB softcap current VS 10MBps uncapped?

I am getting a decent amount discount for the 12 month retentions discount so the upgrade to 10Mbps won't be that much price difference but I am wondering in terms of speed what will be shaped more when I change to uncapped?

@ranger mentioned that p2p is shaped to the same extent on both softcap and uncapped accounts which was a shock to me but okay I don't use p2p much. So what else would be shaped more on uncapped? I use about 100GB on a heavy month maybe less but seldom more than that. Would I see a significant increase in shaping when I switch to 10Mbps uncapped from 50GB softcap?

 

[Totempole]

Telkom has been so good that I actually don't use Vox account anymore. I have cancelled it now but I am considering the following.

50GB softcap current VS 10MBps uncapped?

I am getting a decent amount discount for the 12 month retentions discount so the upgrade to 10Mbps won't be that much price difference but I am wondering in terms of speed what will be shaped more when I change to uncapped?

@ranger mentioned that p2p is shaped to the same extent on both softcap and uncapped accounts which was a shock to me but okay I don't use p2p much. So what else would be shaped more on uncapped? I use about 100GB on a heavy month maybe less but seldom more than that. Would I see a significant increase in shaping when I switch to 10Mbps uncapped from 50GB softcap?

P2P seems to be the only protocol they choke on Soft Cap accounts, everything else is mostly full speed most of the time... but you probably already knew that.

The problem is I use P2P for EVERYTHING.